Saturday, April 9, 2011

Ball-penning: Creating a new style of speed drawing


Comics illustration established the show on the canvass while animation is created with continues action to evade apathetic mode of the scene, animation is to blend the drawings to create action and established the strokes and position of the object, a bit congruent principle applied in illustration. In illustration, the action is established in the canvass with fine strokes, in animation there is a clean up process that would calculate the motion and anticipation of movements that will match the camera movement. I would rather watch an indie artist/illustrator to play around with his canvass using the speed drawing movements.This display the artist motor skills matching his/her right and left side of the brain to eke his ability to produce a compelling strokes.Look, speed drawings quench the thirst of the artist to deliver the beyond imagination of his being to communicate on the canvass, the more he thinks of a beautiful ideas the more it is hoarded to his brain and its like a spring of fountain that will burst out,time and space should not be the issue if he can spur the drawings in his canvass.

This jargon "Ball-penning" is a pilot to coined a new style of speed drawing, I will consider the seconder principle of Shamus COlhane, indeed the speed drawing principle could be an sharp tool to reach the end point of animation and illustration. One of the key is the inclination and focus to the craft. I am starting this as a formula to create an online gaming and perhaps a campaign for speed drawing using the "Ball-penning" approach.

A short information about "Ball-penning"

1. Using a Ball-pen or Ink only,(color pencil coloring only)
2. Speed lines application
3. No Penciling, a direct attack of ink to the canvass
4. Defying time and space to deliver a quick output.
5. Applicable to Graphic Novel, comic book, comic and ANIMATION

So far, these are the bullet ideas that I can formulate.