Behind
Exploring Drawing for Animation:
I’ve
been a professional artist and mostly unprofessional writer
for many years, and it was a tremendous thrill and opportunity
to be able to put those skills to use in creating a textbook
dedicated to subject matter that is of great personal and
professional interest to me. I also feel that we (Steve
Missal and I), as authors, are documenting important information
for animation artists that has not been broached in such
a cohesive manner until now: the direct relationship between
observational drawing and drawing skills for 2D animation.
As an educator, I find it exciting to be able to share
knowledge and expertise with people who are interested in
animation and drawing. Writing this book has been a concerted
effort to transcribe many of the thoughts and experiences
that the authors have had with animation and drawing into
a unified source of information that can hopefully provide
learners and instructors with information in a subject area
that is not always easy to research.
I’m excited about the illustrations that were created
and collected for and implemented in our textbook. It was
demanding work, but we were aided by a combined portfolio
of years of illustration and sketchbook work. I kept my
life drawing skills while drawing many new images to be
included in our voluminous grimoire.
My favorite part of writing this book was the chance to
use the word ‘antediluvian’ in a sentence.
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