denise

What form the assignment where you surprised by when doing it?
For example, did the difficulty/ease of results surprise you , what about your creative process did you find interesting?

24 hr comic

I got really surprised at the end of the day when I scanned my 24 hr drawings and they actually told the story of my day, how they represented my activities and without text they could tell anyone how my day was. I also realized that when you are calmed and relax, for example when I was at Union Square drawing one of my frames, I attracted people and they came closer to me.

Sometimes it was stressful to just stop whatever I was doing to draw a frame, but I guess at the end it was a great exercise.

16 frame movie

At first I couldn’t make up my mind, because I found really difficult to remember 16 important frames in chronological order of a movie I liked, the only ones I could remember pretty well where the Pixar animations, I didn’t want to watch a movie all over again, so I picked one of my favorite ones of Pixar called Finding Nemo.

I am an illustrator so I found it pretty relaxing, I wrote on a blank page the ideas of my 16 frames, and the way I wanted to display them, then I searched for references of the characters and draw the frames. Sometimes like 3 or 4 times, I eliminated one frame for another until I got the result I wanted. Then I asked my roommate of what movie I was talking about and she guessed, maybe for the illustrations it all became easier, but I think the narrative was also very specific.

The most difficult part was drawing Nemo and his father because I didn’t want to confuse people by their fishy similarity.