Read 'em and watch 'em over and over until you can see through the plot and into the thinking and mechanics and construction of the work. Read John K's blog and the ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive blog every day (visit the Archive if you're in Southern California! ). If you don't have a mentor or teacher to help you out, just study as much Roy Crane, Harvey Kurtzman, Dan Gordon, Jack Kirby, Hank Ketcham, Osamu Tezuka, Hayao Miyazaki, Billy Wilder, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Laurel & Hardy as you can get your hands on. I certainly didn't come up with this stuff on my own.it's really a distillation of many of the things other people (Joe Kubert, Bob Camp, Bill Wray, Tuck Tucker, Jay Lender, Larry Leichliter, Dan Povenmire, Derek Drymon, Steve Hillenburg, etc.) taught me as I was learning how to draw comics and storyboards. See how far you can push it! click on any of the images below to see a nice BIG high-resolution page of SpongeBob Drawing Tips Draw through the forms to emphasize roundness and depth Backgrounds: Use asymmetry and angles to create depth and interesting compositions Background Staging - Avoid Flatness! Use Angles, asymmetry, overlapping and silhouettes to add depth if you missed the first post in this series, you can find it HERE How to Draw SpongeBob Tip Sheets David Nethery at and datter at both pointed out what I should have mentioned at the beginning of the first post: These drawing tips go way beyond SpongeBob.the reason I'm posting them here is that these principles can be applied to all kinds of different drawing and staging applications. Thanks to Daniel, 'datter,' Helmy and Julian for their comments on the last post! click on any of the images below to see a nice BIG high-resolution page of SpongeBob Drawing Tips LIFE and movement have angles and curves Go on - Push your poses. More Spongebob Drawing Tips: Push Those Poses and Avoid Flat Stagingįor those of you who enjoyed the first batch of SpongeBob Drawing Tips, here is the second half of the handouts I created a few years ago for the drawing and staging class at Nickelodeon.

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