Man vs. Art Demo #4 How to draw The Incredible Hulk.
By Raul | July 22, 2010
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Minions! Last time I showed you guys how I draw a pretty pin up girl. This time I’m going the opposite direction and showing you how to draw a big ugly Incredible Hulk! Most of the principles are the same, just the proportions of the anatomy are a wee bit different. Well, more than a wee bit. More like a tad!
Now I’m not saying this is the right way, or the only way to sketch the Hulk. This is just my way. The Man vs. Art way. I am using a Wacom Graphire 3 Tablet and Autodesk Sketchbook Pro.
Again just like the last Demo, this is by no means a finished piece. Just a quick sketch with only the pencil tool and eraser tool. No fancy tools or filters or whatever. Just plain good old fashioned drawing and my thought process behind it. Enjoy!
- Quick Wacom tablet Sketch of Hulk.
1938 WALT DISNEY STUDIOS EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK!
I came a cross this old 18 PAGE Disney Studios Employee Handbook from 1938! It’s a brief outline of the Studio’s principal departments and an explanation to artists of its employment policies! The drawings are all production drawings!
CLICK THE PIC FOR A PDF OF THE BOOKLET!
Get a load of the beautiful pencil sketches! Look at the appeal and solid draftsmanship! The characters look alive and fun to draw don’t they!
I love this Mickey model! Right before they changed the proportions and eyes to look more “human”. To me this was the pinnacle of Mickey’s awesomeness!
Awesome with Awesome sauce!
This Goofy blows me away! Everything in each drawing says dork! Look at how the hat follows the line of action!
The ultimate Goofy!
This is some very nice cartooning kids! Inside the PDF of the booklet you’ll find mostly Snow White stuff and few pieces from their shorts and Silly Symphonies! This is a great little collection of animation drawings from the Golden Age of Disney Animation! I suggest you guys practice drawing these pics, and learn from them!
The last page is a flowchart that shows the pecking order at the studio and just how important Walt was to everyday operations! This is unreal!
If you’re hungry for more cartoon knowledge…..
Check out the right hand column under the blue Che’s Recommended Books button for the official Man vs. Art must have book list! If you don’t have these books, you NEED to get them.
Ciao!
Raul
Man vs. Art Episode 26! Art and Animation School Confidential.
By Raul | July 18, 2010
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Rowland Animation Circa 1994
One of the most important lessons I ever learned in life was back in my animation school days at Rowland Animation in Rowland Heights California. The teacher Dave Master ran it more like a production than a class.
Dave Master by Chuck Jones
He has always been well connected with all the major studios, which got us a lot of nice perks!. We had people like Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, Chuck Jones and Tom Sito come by and lecture us.
Tom Sito came by and took us to school. L to R Raul Aguirre Jr, unknown,Tom Sito, Joseph Caro
Hanging with two legends….
Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas, and a petite Raul Aguirre Jr. at the Rowland Animation Open House 1994
All of the equipment was donated by Dave’s connections at the studios. The best part was that the class was inexpensive and fun as hell. IT was great! The only catch was that you needed to work your ass off. Laziness was not tolerated, either you produced or you were gone.
Every year we would dust off everything and decorate the class/studio for an open house. Parents and families and more importantly Animation industry professionals and recruiters would come by and check out our spread. The 1994 Rowland Animation Open House was most memorable and that’s where I learned my lesson on what working in a collaborative studio environment was all about.
The Open House and Project from Hell.
That year the theme of the open house was Villains of Animation. So the Entire place was decorated with every single villain from cartoon history you could think of! Every student was assigned a section of the huge Rowland Studio to decorate following the design of the brilliant John Ramirez. I ended up getting a crappy assignment shoved in a corner on top of a massive obstacle. Get this, I had to build a copy of Captain Hook’s pirate ship from Peter Pan wrecked on some rocks. I had to cover up a big ugly wooden cabinet to boot only using cardboard, paper mache and paint!!
Everyone teased me that I would never finish, and that it would be impossible. Or worse, that whatever I did would turn out like crap. I sucked it up like a man and got to work with only a fat little freshman kid I nicknamed “Spanky” to help me.
Lemonade from Lemons
Within a week I had a skeleton up and it was coming along nicely, and then something cool happened. Luis Escobar’s cousin Hugo Soriano and George Benavidez jumped from the projects they were working on to help me! I guess they sensed something cool was going on in my corner! George helped me sculpt the rocks and cannon out of paper mache and Hugo helped me with the ornate skull and bones decor on the ship’s back! We sanded and sculpted foam to form the shapes and Hugo busted out a paint sprayer and went to town! Meanwhile I had Spanky going on covert missions to jack any “supplies” we needed. Tape, brushes, paint, whatever. He may have been chubby, but Spanky was stealth!
I set up lights in the cabin, and using a child’s toy I rigged a light behind the sail to spin around. It looked like Tinkerbell flying around! I even cut out a cardboard silhouette of Peter Pan and placed a spotlight behind it so it would cast his shadow on the sail! It looked AWESOME! Plus I had finished two weeks ahead of everyone! So I was like “Great! now I can kick back and work on portfolio! So long Suckers!”
Captain Hook's ship by Raul Aguirre Jr, Hugo Soriano, George Benavidez, and Spanky.
L to R Crocodile, George Benavidez, Raul Aguirre Jr, Hugo Soriano. Not pictured "Spanky"
Dave Master said, “Not so fast Raul you’re not going anywhere!” He then called a mandatory emergency meeting. Dave ordered the tearing down of a majority of the other projects because they were crap compared to my ship. He announced that my ship had raised the bar of the entire open house and was now the new standard by which everyone else’s project had to measure up to.
For the next two weeks I was assigned to take the doomed Fern Gully The Last Rain forest room and save it, plus help out others along the way! I gathered my team and believe it or not got the job done! Turns out I’m a pretty good leader and problem solver!
This open house opened up the opportunity for many Rowland students to hook up gigs in the Animation Biz! 10 of us went to Disney, (yours truly included) others went to Film Roman, Warner Bros and just about every studio out there! You can’t walk into a professional animation studio without finding at least one Rowland Alumni! A true testament to the power of the program!
I gotta say, that group of people at Rowland was the hardest working most dedicated group of artists I ever had the pleasure of working with! Bless them all! Everyone involved turned out the most amazingly fantastic exhibit ever! Rowland Animation Forever!
Capering with my creation.
And the Moral of the Story is….
Dave Master had prepared me (as well as everyone else!) for a career working in animation studios! He taught me leadership, humility, and the dire importance of teamwork. But most importantly Dave had taught me to be a Pro! Not every job would be enjoyable or cool. Sometimes I would have to work on stuff that was lame, or boring, and I had to shut up and get to work!
Thank you Dave and all the Rowland Animation Knuckleheads too!
Sherm Cohen from cartoonsnap.com sent me an article from cartoonist Hugh Mcleod’s brilliant blog gapingvoid.com that sums up what we artists all do for each other. We inspire each other!
click here and get it directly from Hugh. And for crying out loud sign up for the gapingvoid.com mailing list!
Man Vs. Art Pin-up Girl Drawing Demo! Vampirella
By Raul | July 12, 2010
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Pin-up Girl Sketching DEMO!
Hola Minions! Welcome to a hopefully new feature of Man vs. Art. I am resurrecting the drawing demonstrations and hope to post one every other week in between podcasts! IF you guys like this sort of stuff, I’ll do more. If you would like to suggest something you want me to draw send me an email to manvsart@manvsart.com!
First up is a pin up girl demo featuring Vampirella. Now I’m not saying this is the right way, or the only way to sketch a pretty girl. This is just my way. The Man vs. Art way. I am using a Wacom Graphire 3 Tablet and Autodesk Sketchbook Pro.
This is by no means a finished piece. Just a quick sketch with only the pencil tool and eraser tool. No fancy tools or filters or whatever. Just plain good old fashioned drawing and my thought process behind it. Enjoy!
quick wacom tablet sketch of a pin up girl
