Thief - Next Five

Another Next Five.This one was based on the picture below; London in 1899 by Léonard Misonne. 

Goodbye Isabella - Next 5

Another Next 5 inspired by a pic chosen by Lissa Treiman. The original picture can be found here. I always start these things on paper, doing a quick thumbnail to see how I'm gonna approach it. You can see the sketch for this one below.

Digital drawings with Sketchbook Pro and Photoshop.

Storm - Next 5

Another Next 5 I did. This one was based on this photo from this blogpost by Lissa Treiman. Check-out her site, if you don't know her work yet, she rocks!

These exercises are a great way to practice new tricks and techniques. I do think that maybe I'm still being a bit too careful with my ideas. They tend to be a bit conservative. Next time I'd really like to do something a bit more out there. 

My previous Next 5 exercises can be found here and here.

Heist - Another Next 5 Board

I did another Next 5 story exercise. Based on this photo.

As you might noticed I cheated slightly, panel 4 and 5 are actually the same shot. I'm having a lot of fun with these things, more to come!

Drawn digtial with SketchBook Pro and Photoshop.

Siren - Next Five

 

The Next Five story exercise was created by Emma Coats, former story artist at Pixar. (You might know her from her awesome list of 22 story basics.) In this exercise you take a random photo (usually from flickr) that you draw as your first shot. The challenge is to draw the next five shots, creating a miniature storyboard.

Every now and then Emma will post a picture on her blog that you can use for this exercise and every time I save it with the intention of doing one of those next fives myself. For some reason they never got finshed, until now!

It took me some time to get to it (Emma posted this picture about a month ago) but here it is. Drawn digital with Sketcbook Pro, this was one great training. Even though I have been drawing digital for quite some time now, I still struggle to get to a level of control that is similar to working on paper (I work on a Wacom Intuos, I wish I had the money to buy a Cintiq) Of course there are always things you wish you'd done different when you finish something like this, but I had fun and learned something so there's that...