This week i attended the Framed talk – Creating Screen Characters: From Fiction to Docos at Digital Harbour
what makes a good character?
create detail in your character.
character who are failures are more interesting e.g. Sea Change
what is your characters weakness - that is more interesting.
Oz drama often takes a complex character and divides those traits up between several characters.
ABC's Australian story - shows everyone as a success.
Doco film maker proposed a film about multicultural football team. The team lost against the Italians and others.
The commissioning editor didn't want a film about losers.
A character carries on an internal monologue with himself - rats in the ranks
Film maker Robert connelley calls this Self-Rhetoric.
You want to convey the story - what are the best characters to do that.
writing the treatment forces you to focus on what the documentary is about.
don't bore your audience
a doco is the relationship between you and your subject.
we are full of contradictions - as a doco filmmaker you must reveal that.
On Wednesday 29 Oct I attended life drawing at Jika Jika Community Centre close to Westgarth station.
Attened opening of Under $500 exhibition at Art Associates in Richmond. My painting "The Betrayal" is part of this show.
October 31, 2008
October 24, 2008
Bernie Fuchs

I’m basically an illustrator,” Bernie Fuchs says up front. “That’s what I wanted to be, and I’m very happy with it.”
Interview with Bernie Fuchs on myamericanartist.com
October 16, 2008
Matt Dixon's book

Fantasy Artist's Figure Drawing Bible: Ready-to-Draw Characters and Step-by-Step Rendering Techniques by Matt Dixon.
Amazon link
October 15, 2008
October 11, 2008
October 9, 2008
October 8, 2008
October 3, 2008
comic book proportions
US printed live area size of a comicbook page is W6" x H9" (W15.2cm x H22.9cm). This is a 2:3 ratio.
Create the original art at 150% of reproduction size.
To do this multiply the dimensions by 1.5 making the live area W9" x H13.5"(W22.9cm x H34.3cm)
Then reduce the original art W9" x H13.5" by 67% to fit into W6" x H9" live area.
measurement convertor
http://www.manuelsweb.com/in_cm.htm
online proportion wheel
http://www.copyitmailit.com/p.htm
Create the original art at 150% of reproduction size.
To do this multiply the dimensions by 1.5 making the live area W9" x H13.5"(W22.9cm x H34.3cm)
Then reduce the original art W9" x H13.5" by 67% to fit into W6" x H9" live area.
measurement convertor
http://www.manuelsweb.com/in_cm.htm
online proportion wheel
http://www.copyitmailit.com/p.htm
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