#a: chris oatley

[artofdisneyfairies]

Tinker Bell - Visual Development by Chris Oatley

- ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ʀᴇᴍᴏᴠᴇ ᴄʀᴇᴅɪᴛ -

[ladygoofus]

I'm so heckin' excited that Chris Oatley is releasing podcasts again!! His old podcasts & his online art school (The Oatley Academy) taught me so much of what I know about art and storytelling, and this interview is fantastic.

[chrisoatley]

ImagineFX Magazine's "Rising Stars" of 2D and 3D Art (Part 2)

My interviews with the ImagineFX “Rising Stars” continue! Today, in Part 2: Finding motivation in frustration and choosing an art career that fits your personality. PLUS: Why two of them switched from painting to 3D!

In part one, Chris Oatley interviewed four of his nine mentees who were recently named the “Rising Stars” of 2D & 3D Art in ImagineFX magazine.  Now, in part two, the interviews continue… Illustrator Andrea Ivetic Vicai begins the episode with a positive spin on the more frustrating aspects of illustration. Next, animation artist Lucy Ledsam talks about finding an art career that matches your…

[ergoshwampy]

First version of this piece was done back in 2020 during Painting Drama mentorship at Oatley Academy. After finishing this piece I reviewed it with my mentor Chris Oatley who had fantastic feedback. I knew it was worth it to go back and redo the illustration and include the feedback I got. It took me a bit of time to finish, life you know.... but finally, now that I am satisfied with it, I am ready to share with the world.

[mariocki]

Doctor Who: The Woman Who Fell To Earth (11.1, BBC, 2018)

"These legs definitely used to be longer."

[interestingcontent]

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[barnlarn]

May I ask an art question? How do you study anatomy and practice? I'm always awestruck when you post a pegasus piece because it's so detailed yet simple, plus you draw horses with no problem so I'm very inspired and afraid of your power.

Hello!

Ahhh thank you!!

Art theory incoming! Brace yoursellllves!

There are 3 main things that I've found work best for me in practicing anatomy/composition/drawing in general:

Timed studies and drawings

Asking "What do I want to say with this drawing?"

Drawing every day

The single most influential thing I was taught about art is that it's not about the drawing or the draftsmanship - it's about the communication.

If you can successfully make someone feel something, or ask a question when looking at your drawing, you've done well.

Draftsmanship does help with that, so I do timed studies (10 min or less) of master paintings, concept art I like, or just photos of interesting animal/human poses to force myself to make decisions more quickly. And, the more you draw, the more you see and can apply. So I try to practice as often as possible.

Doing that has helped me narrow down what's important in each drawing. If you can give an answer to the question "What is your drawing about?" you're halfway there. Then you just have to be judicial about using composition and pose to communicate what the About is.

I'm not always very good at it, and I'm always learning, but that's my general thought process.

I mostly learned that stuff from Chris Oatley, Loish, and Pascal Campion. Those are artists who're extremely effective, and their pieces are full of life and emotion. Other artists who I've studied are Norman Rockwell, J.S. Sargent, and Bill Watterson. They do a FANTASTIC job of selective detail and visual communication.

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As far as reference goes, I have sort of large Pinterest board for horse reference. It also helps that I own a horse, and have been riding for over 20 years, so I'm pretty familiar with their physical mechanics. I keep one for people, too.

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My Pinterest boards

Horse Ref

Human Ref

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Sorry for the rambling!

- Lauren

[zachsgotyourback]

Art dumpo of some schoolwork and doodles for funzies 

[annychristine831]

These All New Podcasts Are A Designer’s Best Mates

In a world full of smart TVs, let’s be someone’s reason to plug in the earphones. Podcasts help you with precisely the same. For the listeners, it is a fantastic medium to escape the world and step in the land of knowledge and entertainment. For the hosts, it is a profitable business strategy that helps in building their personal branding. The podcasts are a way of showcasing the views and opinions of the host in front of the listeners. This helps them create a robust and unique bond between the listeners and the podcast holder. The following are some fantastic podcasts that every enthusiastic creator and listener swears by. Check out the list.

Shop Talk

UX is the newest trend in town. Shop Talk understood this, and presented a show each week. Dave and Chris come up with their usual energy and bring to you a session attended by various guests and talk about insights on web design and UX.

Beyond Pixels

Kyle Adams and Cody Keisler are here to talk about design and technology, where are you? These talks are much loved by the tech-savvies and are a great entertainment package to combat the lockdown blues.

Chris Oatley’s ArtCast

Want to know the secrets behind the success of Disney? Well, Christ Oatley is here to answer all your questions. Dig deep into the world of character designing, animation, and much more.

Sitepoint Podcast

If you are a budding web developer, then this one will provide you with all the knowledge you need. From news to freshly brewed thoughts to soft and hard opinions, this one will give you access to everything that’s buzzing in town.

Adventures In Design

If you chit chat a lot about graphic design in your college canteens, then you must join Adventures in Design. Mark Brickey and Billy Baumann present their own views on everything in the graphic design industry.

Rookie Designer

This is a special one. It is loved by not one but many budding photographers and creators who want guidance through their journey ahead. It provides every tip and trick that will make one stand out from the crowd of designers. Get to know a lot about business, practices, techniques, graphics, photography concepts of the tech world.

Design Guy

If you don’t understand the technical steps easily, but you still aim to be a designer, the design guy will guide you. With its simple teachings, the podcast has helped many designers in kickstarting the design career.

The Industry

Adam Stacoviak, Jared Erodu, and Drew Wilson are here to spill the beans of the tricks applied by startups to get at the top. Enjoy the goldmine of knowledge and widen your horizons of knowledge.

The Big Web Show

Here comes the superstar. Jeffrey Zeldman is all set to chit- chat with some beautiful experts and guests who talk about art direction, content strategy, and what-not. This one is not an award-winning show for anything. Many listen to this one on repeat.

Source: These All New Podcasts Are A Designer’s Best Mates

[artofdisneyfairies]

The Great Fairy Rescue - Visual Development by Chris Oatley and Fred Warter

- ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ʀᴇᴍᴏᴠᴇ ᴄʀᴇᴅɪᴛ -

[jennaschererwrites]

‘Doctor Who’: Long Live the First Female Doctor! – Rolling Stone

In its five decades careening through the cosmos and the popular imagination, Doctor Who has given us plenty of philosophies to choose from: “Go forward in all your beliefs.” “There is no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes.” “We’re all stories in the end.” “Bananas are good.” But on yesterday’s Season 11 premiere, the latest incarnation of the time-traveling, galaxy-hopping, species-saving, face-changing Time Lord gave voice to what is perhaps the show’s most enduring philosophy: “We’re all capable of the most incredible change.”

As surely as the Doctor has two hearts, change is built into this show’s DNA. It has a lot to do with Doctor Who‘s enduring message of hope and progress, and even more to do with practicality: A show can go on indefinitely if its lead can change bodies whenever an actor decides to call it quits. In its 54-year history, 12 blokes have stepped into the role — four of them in the past 13 years alone, since the series’ 2005 resurrection. But no change has been more monumental, more timestream-shattering, than the decision to have the Doctor regenerate as a woman.

As with any major news about a beloved franchise, last year’s announcement that our hero would be transforming from Peter Capaldi into Jodie Whittaker (along with a new showrunner, Broadchurch scribe Chris Chibnall) was met with equal parts euphoria and derision. But the proof is in the pudding, and Whittaker’s long-anticipated debut, “The Woman Who Fell to Earth,” is an episode rooted solidly in the Who tradition while also offering something deliriously new.

After six seasons under showrunner Steven Moffat — who delighted in the kind of “timey-wimey” plotting that would leave your head spinning — the character’s mythos had become so convoluted as to be indecipherable to new or casual viewers. The latest series mercifully hacks through that jungle of backstory to bring us a fresh start. New to this universe? No worries — so is the Doctor.

Freshly regenerated and separated from her TARDIS (that’s the blue police box that can travel through time and space and is bigger on the inside, for those just joining us), Whittaker’s Who crash-lands on Earth clad in the tattered, oversized clothes of her predecessor. She’s a bit confused and still cooking, brand-new-body–wise. “Why are you calling me madam?” she asks one of the first humans she meets. When she find out it’s because she’s a woman, she widens her eyes in surprise and delight. “Am I? Does it suit me?”

But never mind that, because the lady has got extraterrestrial bad guys to fight ASAP — in this case, an electrified tentacle-y creature and a goth Power Ranger-looking dude menacing greater Sheffield. It wouldn’t be Doctor Who without some jerks threatening Great Britain, or without a scrappy, endearing human or four to join the Time Lord in her heroics.

The new crop of companions breaks the usual mold of “plucky young woman looking to have an adventure.” This time, it’s a quartet: local teen Ryan Sinclair (Tosin Cole); policewoman-in-training Yasmin Khan (Mandip Gill); Ryan’s nan, Grace (Sharon D. Clarke); and her husband, Graham (Bradley Walsh). Together, they help the addled but very game Doctor find her bearings, craft a shiny new sonic screwdriver, and take down the threat of the week. (It’s a testament to the new series’ spirit of inclusivity that this group includes three actors of color.)

Fittingly, said villain is toxic masculinity personified: a gravelly-voiced alien (Samuel Oatley) who hails from a planet where they hunt and kill random innocents for sport in order to rise up the ranks; as a fun, gross bonus, the guy wears the teeth of his victims as face jewelry. When the Doctor wins the day and turns his own DNA-melting weapons against him, she tells him: “You had a choice. You did this to yourself. Go home.”

It’s one of several lines in the episode that function both within the plot and as a message to skeptics and haters. “Don’t be scared. All of this is new to you, and new can be scary,” she tells Graham, and later, in a crane-top showdown: “We can evolve while still staying true to who we are. We can honor who we’ve been and choose who we want to be next.” It’s all a bit on the nose, sure, but you could argue that this is a moment — in a show whose occasional heavy-handedness is part of its charm — when everyone’s noses need a good poking.

Because, well, let’s get personal here: As a Who fan ever since Christopher Eccleston first grabbed Billie Piper’s hand and shouted, “Run!” back in 2005, I’ve been enamored of the Doctor’s particular brand of heroics. You know the drill: brains over brawn, godlike powers married to self-deprecating wit, searing curiosity, hidden darkness, endless wonder and a determined compassion for even the most monstrous of creatures.

Through its many incarnations, the show has imagined a universe of infinite possibility, so it seemed nuts that the Doctor would be limited to resurrecting as a series of white guys. Not that the 12 men who’ve captained the TARDIS haven’t been frequently brilliant, but like many other women who love Doctor Who, I’ve been waiting for the day when that Time Lord regeneration glow would fade to reveal a different sort of face than the ones we were used to.

It’s a truth multiversally acknowledged that the Doctor is always the smartest, most capable person in any given room. And the value of seeing a woman in that position, after five decades of alien mansplaining, cannot be understated. The real world is miles behind, but as far as speculative fiction is considered, we have the sci-fi equivalent of a female president.

Whittaker (who’s best known for her previous work with Chibnall on Broadchurch) absolutely owns the part from moment she leaps into the frame. Like every Doctor, she’s a ball of frantic energy and one-liners, commanding the room by thoroughly flustering and out-talking everyone else in it. But she also brings something else to the table that sets her apart from her male antecedents: emotional availability. Take the way she describes the experience of regeneration: “There’s this moment when you’re sure you’re about to die. And then … you’re born! It’s terrifying.” Previous incarnations drew power from shoving their true feelings down deep; Whittaker’s version airs them in the open, and is no less formidable for it.

There comes a moment in every Doctor’s first episode when they take a stand against the bad guy, square their shoulders and declare: “I’m the Doctor.” It’s formulaic, but it’s thrilling; the mantra is both the establishment of a moniker and a mission statement, a superheroic call to fight injustice across time and space. And when Whittaker says it — wind-whipped and majestic in the charred remnants of a black coat tailored to an old body that no longer suited her — it sent a shiver up my spine. For the first time in half a century, women aren’t just in the passenger’s seat of the TARDIS. We’re the goddamn lords of time and space.

[thetruthampere]

do you have any tips for writhing scripts for comics?

I don’t really have much experience with writing comics.  What I can advise on is making what words you do have appear in the comic count along with balancing when more words are needed versus less.

This website also has a how to write comic book scripts by Chris Oatley, probably worth a good read.

TTH

[shinondraws]

Hey! I was just wondering what kind of art podcasts you've been listening to as I love listening to them whilst I work and im slowly running out 😭 Thank you!

Oh man, I listen to so many that I don't think I can list them all from the top of my head but I'll list the ones I listen to the most. Idk whether they all classify as podcasts but they're all good talks nevertheless.

One Fantastic Week

Art Side of Life

Bobby Chiu

Gimmie Babel

Dark Art Society Podcast

Chris Oatley

I'm also open for any suggestions because I'm running low on things to listen to as well!

[jasbaklonbri]

New synopsis, new episode titles, NEW GUEST ACTORS AND CHARACTERS

Full article on digitalspy.com

Episode 1: The woman who fell to Earth

Written by Chris Chibnall

Directed by Jamie Childs

Guest starring Sharon D. Clarke, Johnny Dixon and Samuel Oatley.

(Radiotimes.com has also revealed Sharon D. Clarke’s charcter to be named Grace)

Episode 2: The Ghost Monument

Written by Chris Chibnall

Directed by Mark Tonderai

Guest starring Shaun Dooley, Art Malik and Susan Lynch

Gotta say that’s a cool fucking title for episode 2 😄 hell thats a cool fucking name for a planet! DESOLATION 💀

October 7th man! I’m ready!

[ergoshwampy]

Back in 2020 while doing a mentroship course at The Oatley Academy (https://oatleyacademy.com/) I wanted to paint a scene from the classic story of Hercules. The first variation was a black and white painting, and although I wasn't completely satisfied with it, I think it had a lo of protentional. I took some time away from it, and continued to learn about painting. After two years of painting study and taking into consideration my mentor's feedback (thanks Chris, you're the best), I decided to take another whack at it. Hence the new version with a much better story.

[gotham-at-nightfall]

Doctor Who: Series 11 poster and episode details for 11x01 and 11x02!

Episode 1: The Woman Who Fell To Earth

We don’t get aliens in Sheffield. In a South Yorkshire city, Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin Khan and Graham O’Brien are about to have their lives changed forever, as a mysterious woman, unable to remember her own name, falls from the night sky. Can they believe a word she says? And can she help solve the strange events taking place across the city?

Guest starring: Sharon D Clarke, Jonny Dixon and Samuel Oatley. Written by Chris Chibnall and Directed by Jamie Childs.

Episode 2: The Ghost Monument

Still reeling from their first encounter, can the Doctor and her new friends stay alive long enough, in a hostile alien environment, to solve the mystery of Desolation? And just who are Angstrom and Epzo?

Guest starring: Shaun Dooley, Susan Lynch and Art Malik. Written by Chris Chibnall and Directed by Mark Tonderai.