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I feel like the most helpful warmup for me was the pen cubes. It really helped me get used to a few different pen techniques before I applied them in my art. It also helped me practice the different shades from light to dark. Composition is what individual things are in a piece and how everything is laid out or put together. Value is the lightness or darkness in tones and colours. The lightest value is white, while the darkest value is black. Pro's and Con's of Different Art StylesCharcoal Drawings Pros:
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Ainslie Henderson is an amazing artist with very unique ideas. He works mostly on stop motion, one being the well known "Moving On" music video(1st picture). He also helped work on the Pigeon series, little animated pigeons around real life areas, with Will Anderson(2nd picture). He was born on the 28th of January, 1979 in Scotland. He was chosen to be on Fame Academy, but got voted off at number 4. He also won a BAFTA(British Academy of Film and Television Arts) award in 2013 for co-writing and animating the film "The Making of Longbird". Henderson has a twitter account where he uploads some of his animations, including the Pigeon series. One of the things that inspires me the most about Henderson is his ability to show deeper meaning in simple things. In his stop-motion "Moving On" he shows yarn people interacting in different ways. One is laying in a bed portrayed as sick and dying, another next to him is caring for him. There is a string attached to the sick one, that leads to a dancing woman. As she dances and pulls on the string, it pulls apart the sick one. As she does so, it also creates a new yarn baby as the caretaker tries to keep the sick one together, holding him in his arms. It shows that for every death, a new life is born, and you must move on from that person.
Another thing that inspires me is his humor in his animations. His pigeon series is very abstract and funny, much different then the stop-motion I mentioned before. I love how he has more then one art style and portrayal of that art. |
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