Florian Satzinger: Guides

Drawing those green guides (you can use any colour you want, of course) on the characters effect automatically a better understanding of the volume or form. Which is important for the whole process related to placing shadows, accenting weight etc.

Florian Satzinger: Process Breakdowns Plus Work In Progress Film Clip

Please find the a short clip of the drawing process of this rough test design right below. This huge small-headed bird character was quasi the preliminary draft to the character at the end of this post. BTW, I had some sort of a bushy Christmas tree in mind (and a wee bit Seinfeld's Newman) in connection with the shape of the characters.

Work In Progress 5 from Florian Satzinger on Vimeo.

Here's the final version of the character plus the process breakdown sheet:

For a larger version of the breakdown sheet JUST CLICK HERE

Wouter Tulp : Weight

Florian Satzinger: Rough Process

Update: There was a question about the zoom level I'm using:
33,3%-50% for the blue rough sketch

100% for the clean-up line work:

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This was entirely done in Photoshop with an Intuos4. I did this piece btw in parallel with the motor suit I posted here earlier.

Florian Satzinger: Toon Gravity

To give my characters better balance and weight I developed a tiny motorpunkish machine and placed it safely underground right under their feet.


All jesting aside, it's a kind of "meta-help" to me. Like an invisible marionette puppet master who's drawing down the characters. The machine illustrates the gravitational pull. The characters get more contact with the ground and stand (to my mind) like trees do. This here is not actually a proper drawing technique but more a "meta-thinking" thing. Technique is not everything - good drawing is also a matter of "meta-control" and playing a little I guess. Have I confused you enough already?

By the by, there is a brilliant post about "thinking around the form" over at Drawn!: CLICK HERE (opens in new window)

Before I forget... shall I post the drawing and colouring process of this fat motorsuit here as well before I archive this piece? Interested?

Update: Here's the entire process from start to finish...

And this is where the inspiration and colours came from:

Source: Modern Mechanix Blog