Initial Gif brief response

New Brief

DIFFICULT

I think it is a really nice and unusual stimulus to have to be inspired by a song. The songs I was given were:
The Body - The night knows no dawn
DMX Krew- Supperdish
New Order- Age of Consent
J Dilla- Fuck the Police (Instrumental)

They are a varied mix of songs...

To begin this task I listened to the songs and wrote a list of immediate images which sprang to mind whilst listening to the song- short scenarios which could transfer well into Giffs.

I began with 'The Body - The night knows no dawn'
This is a horrible piece of music which basically is reverb and gain and noise. Throughout this piece I imagined...

• Evil person lighting a bomb
• Guy with a skinhead beating up someone
• Letting a guard dog loose
• A possessed person
• Vampire rising out of a coffin
• Warewolf transformation
• Someone being torched
• Murderer chasing in a dark forrest
• Ghosts attacking someone curled up in a ball

Then listened to 'DMX Krew- Supperdish'

I liked this song, it is the style of music my friends next door listen to aaaaallll the time.

• Someone driving through a tunnel in a swanky car
• Old man dancing very woodenly
• Dodgy sunbathing guy
• Suited man walking with 2 babes
• Afro man dancing at disco

Then 'New Order- Age of Consent'

I really like New Order and have practically grown up on it. It reminds me of a Romcom and lot of silent happy scenes

• Teenage boy running after lover
• Teenagers hanging out in the summer (beach/daisy chains)
• After a buys first kiss
• Dancing down the street
• On a happy mission
• Doing make up before a pool party
• Rushing to the airport to stop a girl getting away
• Lying on bed thinking happy thoughts

I really cannot draw characters. I can also only draw things from reference and observation. I can picture these scenareos so clearly in my mind and it is so frustrating that I cant just draw them onto paper! Until I came to uni I also have not been a cartoon watcher. I am up to series 5 of the Simpsons now as I have just never watched them so maybe I have missed out on that as a subconscious influence when growing up. I just always like things to look realistic and I know that this is something I need to change so that I can become diverse and expand what I can do. However I also know that it is hard and I am going to have to work very hard to achieve this.

I decided to try and draw out some of the scenes... As simply as I could...

These were drawings from reference...

These were drawings from my imagination. I don't feel that I have a strong grasp on proportion of bodies. I normally draw thing from reference so I am copying the body proportions but I am realising that as soon as I need to imagine how someone would be walking or standing I do not have the skills to just edit their body language. 

I then started drawing my friend sitting there with a glass of wine. I thought maybe a good way to acheive character desgin would be to do continuous line drawings as they always distort the face and arent life like. I want to find a way of drawing characters that isnt realistic but I still want to like it. I was also trying out different media to figure out what would work well...

Then another friend had lots of head shots taken at short intervals so I thought these would be good reference to try and figure out a facial expressions simply. I have decided that I like the aesthetic of the coloured pencils and that it works well to fill in the hair as block colours. The aim for this was to create a character for the teenage guy that wants to skate down the road after the gal he likes.