Entry 9- Painting Sketch

This lesson I started drawing the important painting that I wanted in the animation. As shown in my storyboard, this painting would gradually turn ugly when the girl’s mask falls off. It’d be like a trigger source, and a idea to make the audiences understand that the monster is the girl from the diary. 

First, I started off by searching images of Victorian dresses that I wanted to draw. I didn’t want it to be too fancy, as I needed to physically make the dress as well. After finding the dress I wanted, I saved it onto my phone for reference. 

The app that I wanted to use for my painting was, “Medibang Paint.” This app is my all time favourite, as it has the same properties as Photoshop CS6, but on an ipad. I used a simple pencil tool in a purple colour to sketch out the girl. As usual, I started out with a circle for the head and then drew a jawline on it. Since the face didn’t turn out as the face shape I wanted, I used free deform to manipulate it into the shape that I wanted. This helped me get the desired base face shape. After that, I drew the right eye, selected it, copied it and then pasted it. When pasting, this app creates another layer, which is pretty helpful in a sense. I then flipped that layer and then moved it to the position where I wanted my left eye to be. One again, I used the free deform tool to make the eyes seem more natural in their positions. I curved the corners of her eyes upwards,to make her seem cold and fierce. I drew the lips and then the nose. That’s my face done. 

I then just sketched out the dress that I wanted. I changed the design a lot more than I anticipated. The dress that I finished didn’t even look like the dress that I started with. I added sleeves to my design, as I didn’t think anyone would wear a sleeveless dress to a masquerade party during the 1800s and also added a silky long vest on top. The dress turned out more like a traditional korean dress from the story, “나무꾼과 선녀”, but I kept it because I really liked the design. I got rid of the ribbon, and instead added a choker. 

For the hair, I got a thick watercolour brush, and just drew some strokes to add bangs and a ruffled ball on top of her head as a “bun”. I didn’t have to draw the eyebrows, as the bangs covered it. 

That’s all that I did this lesson.