Storytelling and Art

So in order to get a better foot in writing my script i've been doing some research in opinions and such on storytelling/writing and i've found a few interesting things :

“…We as humans try to find the relevance, the connections between.
And so, story telling is what a story teller does. He will take pieces of information and then control the delivery of that. So they withhold some information, reveal some others.” 

“… every writer should define that by themselves. Ofcourse, the audience sometimes defins what a story is. Depending on what medium the story is for, for example, film, is it for children or for adults…” 

“and I think the best storywriters understand what the audience want. Like what pieces they are trying to connect and what work they are doing, so that not everything is laid out. But they leave these strategic gaps so that we are almost forced to dive deeper into the story to find those connections.”

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Structure change – Orality to Literacy

17^th/18^th century – 

• more introverted,
• more individualistic

(becomes more interwoven with the person – even the fictional stories)

Writing started out as a ‘group’. Meaning the story was about our history, the country as a whole.
now its becoming more and more about the individual ‘I am a writer and this is my story’.

In the 19^th century it was more about quantity

20^th century it was about destruction of the structure.
With thins like Nouveau Roman (literature) and Nouvelle Vague (film)

And we are only now coming back to more biographical stories

Epic Oral Telling -> Literace/ Writing -> Letterpress / Book Printing -> Film (lumer brothers) -> Tv/Radio -> Digital Data/ Computers -> Youtube. 

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 In other news, the drawing i was working on : 

I'm not sure that i'm happy with it =/
Until next time =P ~ Ariane 

Improvement ~

So I'm starting to push myself to really improve and understand the human body. To make it easier for me to animate and concept characters.

Here is a sneak peak for the drawing I'm currently working on =) 

it's taking a lot longer then i originally planned because i'm pushing myself to try and be better (and I'm busy) 

I've been drawing every single day that i get the chance, rather then once a week (because it's easier to get into a habit if it's "whenever I can" rather then "every now and again")

Here are some pieces i've been doing since the last update ~

Going from Newest to Oldest ~    

1 min -

2 min - 

5 min - 

And lastly, I've started (just today) to practice drawing my hand.... 

It's really hard..... 

This hand-drawing exercise is definitely the thing i want to see most improvement from. 

I've already realise that i make my hands too stubby and not long enough ~ slender and elegant i guess ~ and instead I'm making them too short

Drawing~

So  I've started shading in this piece ~ i might bring it up to be a proper finished piece of art =P 

Also, I've tried a life sketching again today.
Just a quick one though (19min all up), and i feel completely out of swing with this.
I've gotten to comfortable going slowly and perfecting it. Which, obviously, is just not possible with life sketching.

Oh well, I'll get back into swing soon. Everyone's got to start somewhere =P


A few 2 min pieces  and one 5 min piece ~

And lastly,

I've realised that recently images seem to be appearing on the corner of my pages ~
perhaps it's time to start another hat adventure ~ =D animation idea time =P

 

That's all for now, 

Until next time
~ Ariane

Website

Just a quick blog entry this time ~

I've completely re-done my webpage =D
 So if you have some time, please take a look. It was a lot of work =P ~ www.apicsstudio.com 

Thats all for now =D
until next time,
~ Ariane

Animation Art and new Showreel

Hey everyone,

I've 're-vamped' my showreel =D

I've just recently done a drawing for a rising musician known as "vigour and vibe"
This is what it looks like ~

You can listen to his music here:
https://soundcloud.com/vigourandvibe


In other news ~ i finished that animation :

That's all for now ~
Until next time ~

~ Ariane ~

Website: www.apicsstudio.com
DA : http://arianetorelli.deviantart.com/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ApicsStudio

The Past few Weeks ~

Hey world ~

I've done a bit of animation ~ although, it is still only a rough ~  i haven't gone through and refined it just yet ~

So i was planing to post a fully finished drawing each week ~
but as life is ~ it got in the way ~ so i only have sketches of the past few weeks ~ ill explain the themes and the drawings so that they make more sense for everyone.


This first one was week 3's drawing ~ the theme was 'steam'
It's suppose to be a steam powered penny farthing
I plan to finish this one

 This next one was week 4's drawing ~ the theme was 'swords, knives and pointy things' ~
I wasn't to sure what to do for this one

This last one was this week's drawing, the theme was 'magic/mystery' ~

I think this one is pretty self-explanatory =) ~ she's a witch/magician 

Thats all for this week,
until next time ~

~ Ariane

Week 2 ~

Hey guys,
sorry for updating the week 2 drawing when the week 3 drawing is almost due xD

For some reason, i've been applying to lots of places for work and always getting no's and just this week everything has hit at once so i've been very busy.

Anyways, this week (or last week) the themes where :

Umbrella,
Familiar face,
into the dark,
has a horn; and
rebirth.

The ones i chose was umbrella and has a horn, and here it is ~

It was a quick one this time, because i didn't have much time, so it hasn't come out as good as i would've liked. But you know, the point is practice ~ and being time restrained is a good thing because you get to see how far you can go in a limited amount of time.

anyways, i will hopefully be posting week 3 soon. 

Until then,

Ariane