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DELETED SCENE: Just Design What’s Right For The Story

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Don’t waste your time worrying about what people think of your work, just do the best you can.

– Ovi Nedelcu

Ovi Nedelcu is an animation visual development artist and character designer (Warner Bros., Laika) and a picture book creator.

In this deleted scene from Stories Unbound #5, Ovi and Shawna discuss the importance of sketching and behind the scenes development of an illustration.

We discuss the very planned and calculated process of Norman Rockwell versus Mo Willems’ simpler style, and why there is a need for both types of storytelling.
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The Gustav Klimt Drawings: Inside The Mind Of A Master Draftsman

I could tell by the look in her eyes that she was up to no good.

Her expression, eternal, enticing and vile has, for centuries, lured many men to suffer many, awful consequences.

Fortunately, a grumpy docent intervened and saved me from a similar fate. Closing time.

He kicked me out and locked the beautiful, deadly spirit-girl inside.

I wonder if I’ll ever see her again…

Yesterday, I visited The Getty Center Museum (one of my favorite places in Los Angeles) for the special exhibit: Gustav Klimt: The Magic Of Line. 

It was a collection of one hundred Klimt drawings, sketches, studies, thumbnails and the most elaborate color comps I’ve ever seen.

I almost had to leave half-way through.

…and not because I was trying to escape the tempting gaze of that ancient femme fatale The Getty curators call ‘Lasciviousness.’ I hadn’t even met her yet.

The awesomeness was just completely overwhelming.

In this post, we’ll go inside the mind of Gustav Klimt, The Master Draftsman and gather four lessons that will supercharge your sketchbook…

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