My Idea On Making A Christian Movie

 

It's been quite a while since I last posted mainly my artwork on my exploration blog, but this is a specific topic I wanted to cover ever since I explored through people's own tastes on particular movies centering what we work mainly for our Lord + biblical themes of forgiveness, obedience and faith.

I'm considered to be a spiritual person, to my personal beliefs and experience, it's really challenging for me to focus on anything but religious study, I always felt more blended in just trusting and gaining the amount of wisdom of what I'm being truly taught by. 

Hebrews 11:1 says that "Faith assures us of things we expect and convinces us of the existence of things we cannot see."

I have extremely alot of amounts of faith because somewhere deep in my mind that whatever I do, I should be doing it with love and respect. I know I cannot see my inner vision opened to Jesus, but I know he's there.

I also have to explain why I'm more spiritual than religious. No offense.  Judging the Bible is like judging how I behaved in 10th grade. You may not agree with all of it, at least in my personal opinion, but you can't just be harsh about what happened during that time. I for one felt like parts of what the true treasure The Bible taught me, gave me the chills, but that's just minor nitpicks. I used to state my favorite talents as idols before knowing what the word "idol" actually meant, and simply never said it again, and art in particular. God made everything including art, he knows that everyone should have a sense of skill to push through the test. It was having the ability of courage and strength but I always wanted to draw as well. The genius to come up with characters you can create with your superb imagination and come up with your own stories that can relate to audiences, and think and feel around them, is amazing. I gotta give credit to my cinema heroes, Walt Disney, Powell & Pressburger, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones and Gene Kelly. 

With films being a major obsession of mine, I think it's time for me to show you what I actually came up with.

A project called Protection Of The Lamb. A film about The Lamb of God and The Lion of Judah.

This is one of the main antagonists, Samson II directly based off Samson, one of the last judges of Israel. Both have strength, but switch roles as Samson II a Lion wants to viciously cut off people's hands and is confident enough to know that what he's about to do next is his worse responsibility.

I loved drawing the heck out of Samson II as I like the fuzzy, messy hairstyle alot in movies, and his color palette + lightning bolt clearly represents his strength but dull dark and cruel nature.

Next I wanted to create The Lion Of Judah, when it came to drawing a more friendly design and not stolen stock animal images, I wanted to keep the bare minimum for his facial features. He's just your normal lion look. If there's anything that I could not take for animation critique, it would be the blandness of design. I personally have alot to say about critiques, as they honestly helped myself to become a better storyteller, better at dialogue, it actually made me like the more serious, deep and captivating pace of movies than 8 minute cartoons, or a musical with endless amount of happy faces but call it fluff. Now both of those elements in films I still enjoy to this day, but it felt like there needed to be more to the skill I'm destined to create in the near feature. Anyways back on track with character design, the lion design on the middle right is by far my favorite out of the bunch and still continuing to use that version of Judah furthermore.

Lamb was by far the hardest for me to come up with because it's kinda hard to basically draw a Lamb and ends up looking completely like a sheep almost like telling if something is supposed to look like a rabbit or a bunny or an alligator and a crocodile. WHO AND WHAT IS IT ANYWAY? It's honestly kinda easier to tell the difference to draw a cartoon lamb and a sheep. Sheep have less wool on their bodies while Lamb's are more muscular and have ton of wool on them, so this is the best I can come up with below. Maybe needs a little bit more construction and personality but seemingly passable enough on it's own. 

I always loved talking about people visioning what Jesus is like to them. The Lord Of Lords, King Of Kings. No matter what you view him as, his love and peace is in you, and still inspires millions to this day. I imagine him as part of The Holy Spirit, the truth and the life but also a nurturing guide who offers truth. 

Here's some of the sketches. 

I want to show you some pictures that helped me learn how to illustrate more bolder colors and textures.

This is such an absolutely BEAUTIFUL painting by Ladislav Záborský of a sinner reaching out to Jesus. Love the limited color palette, and clearly resembles Jesus in a modern perspective in my opinion. 

Followed up by what I mentioned earlier about Disney, his movies have some gorgeous shots at times. In my opinion, even if they aren't one of my favorite Disney movies of all time, I always loved the style to Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Bambi, The Lion King and Pocahontas. Heck I'm giving a re-watch on half of their entire catalog. 

But this shot from Bambi is just outstanding, big huge fan of the realistic construction of these animal designs and the forest/mountain setting is my favorite in all of cinema. 

Something I would use in my project are more natural and logical colors to the environment.

Here's insight of great color scheming in old movies. Gone With The Wind being a favorite of mine in terms of it's scenes like this. 

I try to gift these characters flavor of emotion and body language. Disney in particular used alot of study on drawing real animals like actual dalmatian puppies in 101 Dalmatians and real deer for Bambi.

Here's the cast of characters full information so you can get to learn more about them.

I feel like this project is off to a decent start so far. When it comes to filmmakers wanting to create spiritual themed content, it's mostly related to what the people have a belief in. It's true that there are other religions besides Christianity and everyone has a subjective taste on what they are interested in, and this isn't meant to exploit anyone who isn't considered a Christian to make a film mostly surrounding elements of characters who are holy, whatever you choose to believe in, it's an honest critque that you should respect who your aiming for and try to blend in stuff that does relate to your personal perspective in faith-based media while also understanding where other people are coming from. 

Hope you enjoyed this post, and God Bless. ❤️

Alfred Hitchcock Storyboards

 

Previously I looked into a comic and in that post I mentioned something about storyboards and how they can be useful for making a cohesive and inventive product. Animation mostly uses storyboards unless if live action movies use them for it's setting. Also most of the old movies whether it's their script or behind-the-scenes footage is rare to find. 

You know who you didn't expect had a storyboard art crew? Alfred Hitchcock, who made some of the most iconic, well thought-out creative movies of all time. 

The Birds (1963) I first experienced watching on DVD, there was sorta of a scrapped ending that wasn't in the final product. The film became a Hitchcock staple, it had a ton of storyboard art. It's incredible. I researched into comparisons of each scene.

I like the addition of arrows with the scenes of Melanie so that it's easy to understand her reaction by distinctive shots. 

 One of the latest Hitchcock movies I seen was Vertigo (1958). Was easy for me to appreciate this film, since I respect Stewart's work. It looked so gorgeous with incredible effects. The scene above is the famous church scene with the staircase. 

Scottie is so cute in these drawings. The sketches of the camera angles are also very pleasent and detailed.

I researched into Pyscho and while I haven't watched it yet, it definitely has more explicit moments that isn't suitable for all audiences. Anyways just great drawings by Saul Bass. He's also well known for creating iconic movie posters like West Side Story and The Shining.

Here's one I'm definitely familiar with. Strangers On A Train. Such a fantastic movie, this gives me back recent memories of the amusement park scene. 

These were more rare to find as I looked into a video. I just always loved when Hitchcock could almost do the impossible like when Cary Grant would climb onto Mount Rushmore. Seriously one of the coolest scenes in movie history, and similarly back in 1942, Saboteur had an intense climax of the characters atop of The Statue of Liberty. Okay, I need to look more into this film immediately.

I absolutely appreciate alot of these since I like creating stuff myself and directors like Hitchcock give me an inspiration to make something exicting and passionate. Sure I'm not only focusing on his work. Some of my favorite movies are from other great movie directors.

I like these close-up shots. Melanie's bleeding. I like blood in B&W, it's sorta dramatic than how it's realistic portrayed in Technicolor but I still thought they did it artistically well in the actual movie. I also like how more cartoony she looks, like the face, now I need an animated version of this!

Sometimes the storyboards aren't always drawn as in the final product or aren't as detailed and stunning as in his later works, but I still like them. I like how in this scene from Notorious (1946), informs how many times a certain amount of people should kiss Alicia's hand. 

I'm starting my own storyboards myself. I know that they don't look fully detailed and cinematic yet but with the addition of words and narration? See for yourself.

Willing to buy the book very soon. I can't wait to look more into these whenever I get the chance.

New Drawings

 

After Thanksgiving was over, I think it was a good time to get into the holiday spirit, listening to old Christmas music, making the tree, and of course drew this.

Here's a random but fun drawing I made of a wild jungle boy laughing.

I sometimes use drafts for the poses. Also, I had to draw my own fist in order to make this sketch work. 

I'm sure in previous drawing posts you've seen this character before. This is Eduardo Gmidgets.

Above is some Wise Ol' Owl drawings, a character I enjoy drawing nowadays, and below is another character I enjoy drawing is Cauliflower.

I've been watching the first few episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force lately. It's fine but I always liked the distinctive designs of the three main characters. I would've imagined what would happen if this trio was aimed at a suitable audience. There would be more of that likeable action and mystery involved. 

I liked this Bugs Bunny drawing I made.

I was designing dogs lately and one of the dogs would've worked perfectly as a parody of 12 Angry Men called 12 Angry Dogs. I really liked the original 1957 movie, so this was fun and inventive to create.

I actually had to look into more of the characters, because it's funny that they don't have real names mentioned in the film.

Credits to Medium.

Here's more of my Donald Duck drawings in a vintage commercial art style. It's inspired by my favorite version of the character from a 1954 cartoon Donald's Diary. Also no hard feelings to Donald Duck's original actors but I seemingly like him in a more sophisticated voice.

Alright, this is the last drawing for now. Have nothing to say, just a guy. 

Owls

 

Owls are one of the most interesting types of birds. I love them myself, they're classified as being morally analytical, and solitary. I recently created a new edition to the Art-Mania Villain crew. This is The Wise Ol' Owl, he believes in the willpower of wisdom, but he can be very deceitful, and tries treacherous methods to change people's minds from becoming completely normal to geniuses of his teachings.

This is what he looks like, notice that smug, yet wicked facial expression in the middle of the sketches. This is a true glance of his devious personality.

This idea started off as I was watching the extras selection of the 2005 Bambi DVD, it's becoming one of my all-time favorite movies, and Friend Owl in particular is a very expressive character, so it's a very useful example of studying specific owls.

They actually showed live-action owls, but these are images I searched on the internet, mostly for key reference. The narrow eyes show off suspicion.

This owl is flying mid-air, owls themselves don't usually walk on ground, so it's useful that they use their feathers.

Now Wise Ol' Owl may be a little more anthropomorphic, but he still decides to act traditionally anyway.

An owl is shocked, or maybe even surprised. Their eyes are more wide open, in a cautious sort of way.

Mr. Owl isn't particularly that shocked. The film theory is that the heroes are particularly more confident at handling challenging situations than villains often do. 

There's not a bunch of owls in animation. They're fun to draw, in fact my high school mascot is an owl. Last year, I designed and promoted virtue art until I graduated.

Recent November Drawings 2

 

Just by looking into the title, it's definitely better than a movie sequel at least. 

I don't have anything to say, but enjoy the drawings.