Imaginism Workshop day 20: Finishing Timmin

Today marks the end of Hell week at the Workshop for me. I just finished the last of the revisions on my character, Timmin, and I feel great.

One of the secret fears I harboured coming here was that I'd go through the whole program and remain un-changed. It would be an opportunity wasted.

With the completion of this piece, I think I can safely say that this is not the case. My painting skills, my competency in photoshop, and my understanding of form and light have all really improved! It's really motivating to know that this is all a repeatable process. There's no mystical secret or elusive muse necessary for making appealing pieces.

Here's a sample of my work before I came here.

I'm not sure why, but the jpeg is turning neon on blogger. It's Bizarre.

Here is the final version on Timmin. After the training.

Definitely going in the portfolio.

The best thing is that I still have another week here. Thierry has plans for us to work in acrylic, but I'm going to try and knock out another character or two with this level of completion while I'm here.

My art book for today is for Mulan, which is my very favourite Disney movie. This book is incredible. First off, it weighs like 30 lbs and it's bigger than any other movie "art of" book here. 

One thing that this volume does well is that it delves deeply into the shape vocabulary and the composition of of the movies shots. Apparently, Disney was having trouble with their movie before Mulan came out. They we over rending because they could. However, this sucked the life out of their projects. With Mulan, they took a step back and did a serious study of classical Chinese art to simplify things in a pleasing way. The book even goes in depth about the style guide that the artists used. This is the same style guide that I posted earlier. It's very cool stuff. This is another book that I plan to add to my collection.