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Negative Pencil Drawing

JustinSpace — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:02:37 +0000

Back when i started working as a concept designer in the late 90’s this particular company i was at didn’t think i needed a computer, so i did all my rendering by hand. But renderings on black material often didn’t reproduce well (the light would go through the pigment and be absorbed by the dark substrate, as opposed to a rendering on white materials where the light bounces back from behind the pigments). And you couldn’t use markers on black paper obviously – which was a preferred method of coloring.

The solution i found was to illustrate in negative color and then make color copies using the “negative” setting. This resulted in super-dark blacks and great saturated color. To help, i made an inverse color guide showing what each Prismacolor lead would look like when reversed. But boy using photoshop would have been a lot easier.

Also, this is probably my last post.

Old Mickey Illustration

JustinSpace — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:04:31 +0000

http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=2159

Defrosted: a life of Walt Disney at Postmasters

JustinSpace — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:59:22 +0000

Postmasters 25 years.

Weird Imagineering Desk Thing

JustinSpace — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:55:58 +0000

I never got one of these when i was there – but I did pick it up in a thrift store for 2.99

Mickey And The Moth

JustinSpace — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:14:21 +0000

Twisted Vintage: Mickey And The Moth.

Jane Hotel In NYC Is Very Tower Of Terror

JustinSpace — Sun, 30 May 2010 01:45:42 +0000

It’s where I’m staying now. Built in 1908 as a lodging house for sailors, it later housed survivors from the Titanic (who held a memorial here). The standard room is 50 sq ft (as they were when they were built) @ $100 a night with shared bathrooms. Larger rooms are available. The location is great – on the water – 2 blocks from the high line park. Great bar and restaurant in the building. And free wifi. AND it’s creepy and chic.

UPDATE: Now with more dead people. Just 7 months ago a tenant died in (probably) the room next to mine. Hard to tell in the photo if it’s 542 or 342. I would think 342 because they’re be more likely to book the lower floor rooms first – and it was October, the off season when this happened. That would explain why the area around my door, 340, REEKED of air fresheners.

Oh Disney And Your Gender Issues

JustinSpace — Fri, 21 May 2010 22:45:28 +0000

Obviously Disney felt it would be too gay to push Tinkerbell and the fairies on boys – so they invented “Sparrow Men” – yes – that solves everything.

Via Ned Hugar.

The Fallas – Very OMG WOW! Sculptures From Spain

JustinSpace — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:50:03 +0000

It’s part of an annual celebration involving a whole bunch of stuff but I’m most impressed by the quality of the design, sculpt, and paint job of these constructions – that will all (except for one chosen to be saved by vote) be destroyed as part of the festival.

The themes take jabs at events of the past year and often feature political figures (that us Americans have no clue about) – and much to the horror of corporate IP lawyers – also freely use cartoon and movie characters in decidedly not-approved poses. They’re also bawdy, lewd, and fairly racist. Altogether WAY more exciting than our corporate-sponsored, often bland and poorly sculpted, Rose Bowl Parade floats. Tons more on flickr here. Also here and here.

TRON Legacy Interiors

JustinSpace — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:29:13 +0000

New trailer here in MAXI GIANT SIZE

Harper Goff Mystery Illustration (Update: Mystery Solved)

JustinSpace — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:09:53 +0000

I have this 34 x 11.5″ gauche painting by Harper but I can’t figure out what it was for. Harper worked as a set designer for Warner Brothers in the 40’s then worked on several Disney projects including Art Directing 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (which won an Oscar for the design), and later, after Disney, the famous Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and The Fantastic Voyage. If you have any clue what film had a scene like this set in North Africa or someplace with moorish ruins occupied by British? soldiers – let me know. I can’t find anything.

UPDATE: As the commenter below noted it MIGHT be from the 1936 Charge of the Light Brigade – watching the trailer suggests the same costumes and the same settings. But Harper would have been about 25 at the time, and would they have rendered color illustrations for a B/W film?

UPDATE: NOT from “Charge of the Light Brigade”. I watched it. BUT, based on suggestions, I did watch “Ten Tall Men” (1951) – and I’m certain this was a set design for that film. There’s also a scene that seems to be the inspiration to the begging prisoners scene from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.