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purch

Dragon Ball Z :eek:

We drove for 2 days from New Orleans to San Antonio on the i10, and all the boys did was watch this stupid video all the way..................I knew it word for word by the time we'd passed Houston :mad:

purch

...they are really good drawings by the way.

I didn't see much of what the boys were watching, as I was sitting in the front, but from memory they are extremely accurate :T

SingleSue

vivatifosi wrote: »

Sue, I really like the drawings!

If that is something that he is interested in, libraries have books on drawing manga and so forth. Can't speak for your local authority, but chances are that if youngest is classed as disabled, he'll get reservations free.

One book that I really like is Drawn to Life by Walt Stanchfield:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Drawn-Life-Classes-Stanchfield-Lectures/dp/0240810961

He taught the animators at Disney, and the two volumes of this book are his lectures. The one thing I took away from it is that most traditional formal portraits stress the noun (the Duke of such and such or the princess of xxx), whereas animation stresses movement. So he says to focus on the action or the emotion. So when you are drawing animation, you are using verbs not nouns. When you've mastered verbs, you then move onto adverbs. So, for example, now you can draw running competently, how would running bravely look compared to running scared? How do posture and facial expressions differ.

I worked for an animation studio in my younger days (not as an animator - not talented!) and DH is ex Disney so its something we are both interested in.

So in the case of his characters, rather than focusing on Vegeta (the noun), you would focus on the action (eg Vegeta shouting, Vegeta running).

Thanks everyone.

I'm stepping carefully with him at the moment with regards to his drawings and trying not to put any pressure on him as he stopped completely for 5 years because of something that happened at school (he still hasn't opened up and said what it was).

So at the moment I am letting it flow until he has regained some confidence in his ability but I will (very carefully ) pass on the suggestions made... when he is in the right mood to receive them, I really don't want to scare him off again.

At the moment he is drawing using normal (writing) pencils, not art ones, he got rid of those years ago but until he asks, I will not be buying all the equipment again as one thing he did say was he felt overwhelmed when people bought him those things before and felt pressured...so it is definitely a case of slowly, slowly does it.

StevieJ

I can't believe that is will soon be 6 years since the Economics/Houses board had to go under cover. Wow time passes so quickly:(

purch

Who said that :eek:

Percy1983

StevieJ wrote: »

I can't believe that is will soon be 6 years since the Economics/Houses board had to go under cover. Wow time passes so quickly:(

This is true, I will say I have stopped commenting on many points as it would just be the same comments to the same problems witht he same disagreements.

Still nice for the human side in this thread but I am more frequent in small business and families boards these days.

Generali

StevieJ wrote: »

I can't believe that is will soon be 6 years since the Economics/Houses board had to go under cover. Wow time passes so quickly:(

It was getting a bit silly on the main houses thread. Every time someone asked a question about conveyancing a HPC refugee would jump on the thread and guarantee to the OP that they would be bankrupt, their kids in the workhouse and the wife working as a streetwalker if they bought a 2 bed terrace in Doncaster for £60,000.

6 years. I remember the conversation about whether the board should be split. I was earning good money at Goldman Sachs at the time and had automated a large part of my job, about 3 hours a day. As a result I could spend loads of time on here and still do more work than my predecessors.

Nikkster

I hope Chewy, his missus and the chewettes are all doing well. Been thinking of them all morning.

GDB2222

Nikkster wrote: »

I hope Chewy, his missus and the chewettes are all doing well. Been thinking of them all morning.

He's probably just waking up from the anaesthetic.

zagubov

Nikkster wrote: »

I hope Chewy, his missus and the chewettes are all doing well. Been thinking of them all morning.

Just walked past the maternity dept and kept eye out in the car park for his much-mentioned car (then remembered he'd probably sold it and bought another).

purch wrote: »

Dragon Ball Z :eek:

We drove for 2 days from New Orleans to San Antonio on the i10, and all the boys did was watch this stupid video all the way..................I knew it word for word by the time we'd passed Houston :mad:

New Orleans is my (second) favourite US city. Been there a lot but not since the big flood.