Drawing Story-boarding and Concept art Catch-Up

For the past few weeks I have been taught a few drawing techniques for concept art and storyboards, some of them have stuck but most have not, a main reason for this is that we mostly use digital programs rather than physical paper and pencils. I don't have those programs so I have no way of practising these techniques.

Other points that we went over are using many different shadows to tell a concept of the story of a image or storyboard. How to order a storyboard to add extra concepts into a scene.

This is an image of Mr Greedy from the child stories of 'Mr Men'.  This was created by using the pen tool in Illustrator, drawing lines and curves around an background image of Mr Greedy.

Most recently, we were creating silhouette images by going into Photoshop, using the lasso tool and scribbling on the page filling in the blanks and with black and editing the scribble to create some form of an image, these images were my results.

The reason for this exercise was to let lose imagination, most concept art you complete is done by first researching what you want to draw but without it you create what you think can look good, because it is a silhouette you can use your imagination to fill in the blanks of what you think the image is.

Finally, the image at the end of the post is an attempt of using elements of film making shots into an image. The idea of the image was to re-imagine the plot little of red ridding hood. The idea that the group came up with is to use sci-fi (it not like it's been overdone or anything), even though the image is very sloppy in detail the premise for the image is that it is a stand off between the alien (wolf stand in) and little red. The main feature of the image is the shadow on the alien. The reason for that is for the audience to put together what the alien can look like, with an idea given the eyes. The reason you can see the body in the image is that the other option was to use black and that just look stupid for a drawing considering it would take up almost half of the image.

The final point was, we were asked to create a game idea with a storyboard about a news story online. It was to see if we understand basic components of creating art. With certain perspectives and what attracts the viewers attention.

The point of the image was to demonstrate if you can have a narrative in one image. If you have elements of mystery and suspense into an image it makes it much better. The image is meant to look like a stand off between a relatable human and an unknown entity.