Molly Fuller

In our lesson today with Kathy, she showed us what tonal drawings are, and we did some examples with her. They are drawings where you only focus on the tonal values in the picture, ignoring details or hues, which is why charcoal is a good medium to use. She also told us about the website animationbackgrounds.blogspot.co.uk where we can see the many backgrounds from big animation companies like disney, all put together by the blog's creator.  We were tasked with doing more tonal drawings based on the backgrounds found on that blog, which I really enjoyed doing so it'll be fun to do more. We also looked at naturalistic painters and now have to pick one to focus on next week and continuously through this term for styling our background shot task. The artists from the list that I like are:  Edgar Payne, John Atkinson Grimshaw, James Naughton, Edward Potthast, Marc Bohne,  Stepan Fedorovic Kolesnikov However I need to reduce it down to just ...

I did these in my TVPaint lesson, where we learnt how to do textures and use masks to draw in only selected areas, and also about the importance of RGB, including for designing characters and needing to have consistent colours throughout the design process, as well as animating:

 Unfinished drawing of the thirteenth doctor: