Happy Thanksgiving
Storyboard Art
Storyboards by K Sean Sullivan. Great way to plan, to rehearse, to prepare for a great film.
FINDING A FREELANCE STORYBOARD ARTIST
For me, as a freelance storyboard artist, I have received contacts through my website and other social media at times, but for the most part it is by word of mouth. This helps ensure that the client is finding someone like me with experience. I have to adapt my work, the style, the technique, the level of finish, to the needs of each client. It’s a service, and the more I can be helpful, the better. That leads to more referrals by word of mouth.
Hey, let’s try to sell a movie idea!
I love to be a part of making a movie, and usually what that means for me is sitting in a room by myself and drawing stuff. Here are some things that I have done to help Kieth Merrill, and Ryan Little among others, try to get film projects up and running. I do lots of storyboards, for sure, but these kinds of things are representative of the effort to attract financial backing for independent films.
PAPER PROPS
Recent work (since last posting).
Animation class
Material for 2D animation DESAN 262.
Drawing well is essential for 2D animation. The ability to control the tip of the pencil and make meaningful marks to describe an object is called draftsmanship. The ability to design the drawing in a way that suggests a three-dimensional form is called solid drawing. For animation, the artist needs to be able to “draw through”. This means that he should be able to draw the basic landmarks not only on the front side where they would naturally be visible, but also on the back side.
It is very helpful to be able to build the drawing from the ground up using basic shapes that can easily be controlled and positioned in whatever way is required. Basic shapes can be critical in helping to figure out oblique angles and extreme foreshortening.
Update-June
Here is a good look at an art print that came out this year.
This is a depiction of the charge on the Belgian town of Foy in January 1945. It marked the beginning of the counter attack against, and the reversal of the German offensive called the “Battle of the Bulge”. Foy sits just outside of Bastogne. The men depicted here are members of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. They are lead by Lt. Ronald Speirs. This event was depicted in the film “Band of Brothers”.
Here are actual photos of Spears.
The others in the painting are not intended to portray any specific individuals. Prints of the painting are sold by Valor Studios, who commissioned me to do the painting.
Faces
Faces have always fascinated me. They have always challenged me as well. It is amazing how a minute change can make such a difference in expression, or the capture of a likeness. I have also realized that the face has such a powerful capacity to emote that it can still do so, even when a great deal of it is obscured, by shadow for example.
I like to draw from life, from photo ref, and from my imagination. The first image I share here is using a photo for reference, but not copying it directly, the next three are from life, the last four are from imagination.
Practice makes perfect. I need to keep practicing.
