Pastel Pencil Drawing And Its Original Sketch Concept

Pastel Pencil Drawing And Its Original Sketch Concept

Today, I'll share a pastel pencil cartoon I did using a "new" sketchbook that is larger and has a paper with more tooth than the type I've been using for quite a while.

I'd actually purchased the large sketchbook years ago when I was taking art classes, but just hadn't ever used it before for some reason.

Jerry Employs The Ol' Footwedge - Copyright 2019 - Jephyr! - All Rights Reserved

^ ^ ^  After I sketched the original character concept for this one in my usual sketchbook, I decided I wanted to have more space to work in to add the background etc—so I dug around and found the larger sketchbook which is 14 x 17 inches.

My normsl "go-to" sketchbook has very smooth paper and is 11 x 14 inches—while this large one's paper is textured with way more "tooth."

Article On Understanding Paper Tooth

I'm really happy I tried this one out because the paper works a lot better with the pastel pencils I use.

Below you'll find the original sketch—which I redrew in the larger sketchbook, colored, and added an appropriate golf course background.

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BTW—If you're a golfer you'll no doubt get this one's title:

"Jerry Employs The Ol' Footwedge."

If not, here's my brief explanation.

When I was young my dad was an AVID golfer and I took it up just to be around him.  He used to tell me to use the "footwedge" when I was learning—which meant moving the golf ball to a better position for your next shot.  It's not proper etiquette once you've learned the game—but I was a just a kid, ya know.  ☺

https://www.liveabout.com/what-is-the-foot-wedge-1564148

Jerry Employs The Ol' Footwedge (Sketch)
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Excellent Video: The Making Of The Animation "TheTale"

Over on my Awesome-Stuff blog—I just posted an excellent video/animation, The Tale, from France's GOBELINS, "School of the Image."

(all links in this post open new windows)

After a bit of snooping I found the director Guillaume Arantes' Vimeo channel, where he uploaded a "Making Of The Tale" video—showing behind the scenes footage of musicians creating the music track, story-boards, character designs, rough animation passes and refinements, backgrounds, 3D visualizations, compositing, and more—and you'll find that video embedded below.

Screen Grabs — Scenes From The "Making Of The Tale"

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If you're into art and animation like I am—I'm betting you'll enjoy this video too.
 




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Two New Sketchbook Pastel Pencils

Lately, I've been feeling pretty inspired, and much of that has come from seeing a lot of excellent 2d and 3d animations—and some amazing DIY craft tutorials put online by people who are tremendously creative.

Hopefully, I'll be posting some of my efforts based on ideas I got from them on down the road.

Until then, I'll share some more recent pastel pencil work from my sketchbook.

"Strato" - Copyright 2019 - Jephyr! - All Rights Reserved

^ ^ ^ On October 30th I posted an anime-style animation/video here called X-STORY.

https://artmusicpoliticsfaithhopeandlove.blogspot.com/2019/10/outstanding-short-animation-x-story.html

As I wrote then, I thought it was fantastic and the next time I sat down to draw, "Strato" jumped outa my cranium onto a page of my sketchbook—influenced in a large part by seeing that animation.

(Although his face reminds me a little of the old film actor James Dean)

Once I had the pencil sketch done—I whipped out the pastel pencils started in with them.

As mentioned in other posts—they're a bit hard to control and after a few layers it becomes more and more difficult to change things—but even with that concession—I was kinda happy with the final result.

I'll call this a "study" though because I might either digitally or "real-world" paint this in the future.

"Motherships" - Copyright 2019 - Jephyr! - All Rights Reserved

 

^ ^ ^  Someone uploaded a heavy-metal mashup with a Celine Dion song—and while I thought it was kinda interesting—there was a still photo of Dion used a backdrop for the video and I mused about how long her neck looked.

After scrolling through the comments, I found I wasn't the only one who noticed.

So I took a screen shot of pic and printed it out, planning to see if I could caricature her—and of course thinking that her neck would be a featured aspect.  ☺

IMHO, Dion has grown weirder through the years as well—so after I had the basic caricature—I added some other elements to represent that.

Again, this one was done with those pesky pastel pencils.

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