Art Timelapse

BEHIND THE SCENES

TIL: with Krita 5.2.0 & higher, users will have to use the MP4 openh264 preset for timelapse recordings/video encoding.😳 Krita 5.2 is released! - #70 by freyalupen

ART SUPPLIES

• Hardware: Alienware x14 laptop & Huion Inspiroy H610PRO V2 pen tablet
• Software: Krita (art & timelapse recording)
• Brushes: (Dig.) Sketching Brush [my custom brush, new version]

2023-11-26 Jenny mid-shot

(Sorry, coming up with good artwork titles doesn’t come naturally to me.😥)

From Nov. 26, 2023 1:16 - 2:20 pm

Bangs’s outline thicken: Nov 27. 2023 10:59 - 11:02 am

Right side of mouth finish: … 2:28 - 2:32 pm

Quick sketch of Jenny. Started off as me seeing if I could use brushes with pressure- & tilt-controlled size in the Freehand Vector Tool. It wasn't possible, but my scratches warmed me up to a new idea for a sketch.

As for the newer sketch, I went with trying to make her look like someone off-screen is about to tell her something that will be difficult for her to emotionally take.

MINI JOURNAL

As stiff as the pose was to me, I didn’t want to fiddle too much. Wanted to keep it quick, so stuck with only thickening the outline of her bangs & lining the other side of the mouth.

BEHIND THE SCENES

Drawing quality/draftsmanship: While still stiff-looking, I wanted the draftsmanship/drawing quality to be close to what would be a quick storyboard panel from me (at least, in Krita).

Matte method: Also, I did a test of doing a matte manually vs. doing it with Krita’s Colorize Mask.

Between the broad blocks of color & the cleaning up of each matte, the manual fill was the quickest.

Time length:

• Manual fill: 8 minutes --- 2023-11-26 1:35pm - 1:42pm
• Colorize Mask: 27 minutes --- 2023-11-26 1:43pm - 1:53pm & 2:00pm - 2:17pm

However, it wasn’t due to processing power (the most it would load was about 1 second, and that only happened about 3-5 times). 

One reason was related to the aforementioned drawing-quality/draftsmanship-related advantage for the manual fill: some of my drawing’s lines were not being closed.

Another was a composition/posing advantage: a character in a simple pose like this, with not too many small gaps of negative space, was likely simple enough to manually matte in.

I’d still love to use the Colorize Mask as a close alternative to using (on all layers) the Contiguous Selection Tool, so I’ll likely restrict it to closed, large areas. 

SELF CRITIQUES

• (+) Love how you were able to capture the intended subtle expression with the mouth
• (-) Torso possibly too upright & stiff
• (+) Linework starting to get closer to loose but readable

ART SUPPLIES

Hardware: Alienware x14 & Huion Inspiroy H610PRO V2 pen tablet

Software: Krita (art & timelapse)

• Brushes: (Dig.) Clean-Up Lines (Aliased) - linework & manual fills. my custom brush.
• Tools: Colorize Mask - white matte (Colorize Mask method)

Iirc, around summer 2022, I was able to control the gap-related parameters of the Colorize Mask. However, I forgot how I did it; that was the last time I used it, since that was back when I didn’t make art weekly/bi-weekly.😥

EDIT: It was the Colorize Mask Tool in the toolbar (the paintbrush surrounded by arrows).😅🤦‍♀️ Found it in this Colorize Mask tutorial.

(OLD ART) Jenny poses & animation ideas

From Oct 10, 2022. iirc, across several months.

You might’ve missed out on my rough storyboard sketches in my storyboarding sketchbook.🙂

Atm, It has both my old storyboards & my thumbnail sketches for my newer boards. Coincidentally, my newest art response is a small page of traditionally-done thumbnail sketches.😄

As for my preferred media (each list going from most preferred to least):

My thumbnailing go-to media:

1. Traditional — Mechanical pencil/clutch pencil/Fude pen & sketchbook/sheet of paper/sticky notes
2. Mobile digital (distant 2nd) — Adobe Fresco, iPad mini 5, & Apple pencil 1st Gen
3. Less mobile digital (Far last) — Krita, Alienware x14 laptop, & Huion pen tablet

My post-thumbnailing storyboarding & art go-to media 

1. Mobile digital
2. Less mobile digital
3. Traditional

Also, while digital may beat traditional in terms of quickly & cleanly making huge drawing changes—when it comes to sudden/quick ideas, nothing beats the quick pick-up time of traditional.🙂 I still keep an analog pocket sketchbook. My experience: great for middle-of the-night/sudden ideas.

My biggest motivation was under point 1. Speed in this StoryboardArt article. https://storyboardart.org/using-sketchbooks/ (Btw, they’re a great feature/TV storyboarding resource. Highly recommend their webinars, articles, & Intro to Storyboarding course.😊👍)

(Sorry for the belated response.🙇‍♀️ I wanted it to be quality over quantity.)

Here's the last pic, plus my obligatory (including for my sake😳) descriptions

Art Timelapse

Both standalone doodles/sketches & animation ideas. Tried to get used to Jenny/XJ-9. I remember really struggling to grasp drawing Jenny.

Tbh, due to mainly being exposed to MLaaTR from season 1 clips, I didn't like how stiff her shape language felt at first.😳 However, as someone who's seen a more even spread of chunks across the series: shape language of Jenny season 2 onwards----*chef's kiss*👌.

*Sorry I didn't post for a while in December. Had the 'rona, then a post-viral cough.😷

NOTE TRANSCRIPTIONS

1:

(*) move L pigtail up

2:

[Right middle pose] (*) try to redraw smaller (& w/ foreshortening, if possible)

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[Bottom poses:]

[Left bottom] (replacement) bottom maybe

[Middle bottom] [Top L note, pointing] top (our) R, [Top R note, pointing] top front, exaggerate fists inwards

[Right bottom] [pointing] yawn

[Right bottom] [pointing] yawn

3:

[Top right poses] (*) have hands be further down, to add more depth

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[Bottom poses, left to right] Animator Pencil 2016

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(1) landing from flying, preparing to run

(*) [pointing at legs] make more parallelogram like, or shrink L leg’s upper leg

[Smaller gesture in b/w bigger sketches] in-b/w [in-between. landing & pushing off to run]

[Also in b/w the sketches] [arrow pointing to the left pose. meant to note the 2 as keys]

ART SUPPLIES

• Pencil [Fresco’s default]
• Animator’s Pencil 2016 + my Tilt [& irc spacing] tweaks - pg3’s bottom, blue sketches

(OLD ART) 2023-03-02 Gesture drawings/quick sketches & journal (wow, from ~last year😮)

* Across both pages: journal on having the then-recently read "Farewell Sailor Moon" (WARNING: 18+) Ikuhara zine on the mind.

NOTE TRANSCRIPTION

Pg1: 2023-03-02 afternoon sketches

[Left sketch] ~4:19pm Gesture draw of girl carrying backpack [On the spot, iirc]

[Right sketch] 4:23-4:26pm Person (not sure if was guy or girl) quickly going by on electric scooter. [another, fuller sketch from memory]

My mind jokingly compared them to Kunihiko Ikuhara! 😄

I’ve got Ikuhara on the mind, since I just finished using Google Translate on the rest of the scans (~[pg] 9 onwards) of that “Farewell Sailor Moon” Comiket booklet Hideako Anno helped make on Ikuhara. After I reorganized the translated text, I read through it.

According to the anime industry figures & Kuma-chan, he really is an entertaining figure! As Kuma put it (well, possibly) he’s like a real-life anime character!

But yeah, it’s a first, having an artistic guy be this fun to research!

Oh, and I guess the person on the scooter’s hair reminded me of Ikuhara because they had similarly long hair.😄[End written time: 4:38pm]

Pg2:

2023-03-07 2:09-2:11pm [boy & girl on the spot & from memory]

2023-03-09 8:59am-9:05am [cat sketches]

ART SUPPLIES

• -Faber Castell TK9400 Clutch pencil & Uni Mitsubishi 2mm lead - F
• -Pentalic Traveller’s Sketchbook (Pocket)

(OLD ART) 2023-02-9 - 11 Geometric cat OC doodles & memory sketch.

Did the 1st cat doodle quickly from class. Iirc, I either stopped in a study area, or moved to the side of a pathway.

Memory sketches done after I got home from college. Used more shape-based technique for them.

NOTE TRANSCRIPTION

2/9/23

~10:31 - 10:34am [1st cat OC doodle]

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~9:18 - 9:22pm Draw of walking couple from memory

[Bottom draw]

girl’s head → [triangular-styled head]

hand → [v-line]

2/11/23

~9:11 - 9:46pm Gettin’ ready to run/jump [main bottom-middle doodle]

9:14 - 9:16pm [Eyebrows down]

9:16 - 9:19pm [R finger/hand line darken]

9:20 - 9:21pm Whisker placement ideas

(*) [Correct head shape]

ART SUPPLIES

• -Faber Castell TK9400 Clutch pencil & Uni Mitsubishi 2mm lead - F
• -Pentalic Traveler Artist Sketchbook - 4”x 6” (recycled paper)