Hi #VisibleWomen I'm Natalie - I storyboard & direct for animation and I create comics. I love taking inspiration from people I see in real life, and exaggerating people when I draw them. I love what I do, but I'm always trying to get better! ♡
I love trying to sketch a sequence of events / a train of a character's thought via gestures.
Got this casual compliment at work last month. I don't think they knew how much it meant to me. People will try to convince you that feeling things is a weakness, but it's not.
Last night I dreamed that I was trying to convince Noah to let the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles onto the arc. "There's nothing like them in the world! I'm not sure they can reproduce, but I think we should save them!"
I love drawing how things FEEL, not exactly what they look like in real life.
This couple's body language was so dramatic...! What were they talking about?? He was leaning so far in, putting his feet and hand on her chair, and she was leaning so far back. Nashville TN
A lot of the time, art teachers try to get us to draw larger, because it helps when studying anatomy and drawing the whole figure. But I think for studying simplification/caricature, it helps a lot to draw SMALL on the page!
People asked to see my storyboard thumbnails/sketches vs clean-ups, so here are some examples from the sequence I'm currently boarding for Stephanie Stine's class! ✍️
My cartooning HERO is ❤️ Aude Picault ❤️ Read absolutely everything by her!!
This one broke ?