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Whilst sitting in a pub in Hythe I picked up a local paper.....and saw this.....we have a famous published TP member
 
Cool :)
I'll tag him in the post so he gets a notification :)

@Ian D J
Clever talented b****r :thumbs:
 
Haha. Indeed, that's my own work - I've been doing this Great Doodle feature for the Herald on a weekly basis in the best part of six months now and loving it. Of course I don't get paid for it (yes, I know I should do but it was my own idea and it'll look good on the ol' CV if it needs be, etc) but there that satisfaction of seeing your own stuff printed on actual paper.
Ever since I became a home carer for an elderly mother, I'm trying to keep myself occupied mentally but I am now taking a short break from my doodlings as well as my Cloud Master weather forecasting service for about a month, I usually do that at this time of the year while the weather is being nice and see if I can get back into my own photography.

If you want to see my past doodles, then you are welcome to check out my ongoing blog: http://thegreatdoodle.blogspot.co.uk/
 
@Ian D J - Checked out [and bookmarked] the blog! (y) So get back to it soon 'cos I'll want to see more! ;)

Enjoy your [and Jet's] holiday in the meantime, mate! :)
 
I do like his work. I've spotted some on a couple of sites, with or without his permission I do not know but I could tell they were Ian's drawings straight away.

Keep them coming.
 
Cheers for the lovely comments. But yes, since I've drawn and shown literally thousands of doodles over the years, it's only natural for a couple of those to go astray. Hopefully, like you said, Paul, my trademark style and the IDJ media stamp may lead back to me. :D
 
Ian, which at package do you use? Illustrator? Or do you do them the old fashioned way?
 
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Ian, which at package do you use? Illustrator? Or do you do them the old fashioned way?
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A good question. It's a mixture of old and new.

I do a rough draft sketch using pencils on paper and then using an A3 LED light board, I place a blank sheet on top of the draft and then trace the outline using a black fine-tipped pen.
Then I scan it as a greyscale TIFF file and just simply "colour fill" in using Paint Shop Pro X3 and then add a bit of "Clarity" to give it that "shade" effect and save it as a JPEG file. And that's it.
Apparently that's how the pros at The Beano do it. I did try to use a drawing tablet but I just could not get the feel of it at all so that got left to one side untouched.

Artdemole, you'll have to job my memory as I've done so many doodles over the years I've totally lost track of it all.
 
To further my last post, here's an old cartoon as an example . . .

The rough outline . . .

photographerpolicesmallpencil.jpg


The traced over outline using a fine felt tipped pen . . .

photographerpolicesmalloutline.jpg


And then I get the PC to do the colouring in using Paint Shop Pro, along with captions . . .

Photographerpolicecartoonsmallfinal.jpg


The whole procedure usually takes me about an hour, from the draft to saving the doodle as a JPG file for internet show.
 
That's really cool to see the process Ian, I had wondered too! :)


Sent from Button Moon.....
 
Cg_Girl said:
That's really cool to see the process Ian, I had wondered too! :)


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:D Now you know. I also tried the "layering" process (using the PC to trace the black line over the draft) but I just couldn't do it, I seem to miss the tactile feel of having an ordinary pen or pencil in hand.
 
Ian have you every tried your hand at making cartoons with stop motion? 24pictures per second though so I'd imagine it would take some time lol. It took long enough when I did a p*** take of Timmy Time with teddies and that was without drawing each picture.
 
CaveDweller said:
Ian have you every tried your hand at making cartoons with stop motion? 24 pictures per second
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We all know Ian's good, but I don't think even he could draw that quick :D
 
Cobra said:
We all know Ian's good, but I don't think even he could draw that quick :D
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Didn't even know my 550d could shoot that fast either when I tried my hand at Timmy Time...but it happened :D
 
CaveDweller said:
Ian have you every tried your hand at making cartoons with stop motion? 24pictures per second though so I'd imagine it would take some time lol. It took long enough when I did a p*** take of Timmy Time with teddies and that was without drawing each picture.
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I think we need to see you p take timmy time :D


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CaveDweller said:
Ian have you every tried your hand at making cartoons with stop motion? 24pictures per second though so I'd imagine it would take some time lol. It took long enough when I did a p*** take of Timmy Time with teddies and that was without drawing each picture.
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Cobra said:
We all know Ian's good, but I don't think even he could draw that quick :D
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Haha. The thought had occurred to me but it really does sound like an awful lot of hard work. Maybe one day I will break my animation cherry, especially if I have a good little story line to make it work.

Actually, I did do a crude take on it, where I hung a webcam above a piece of paper and drew lines and then the colour step by step by hand and then you can see a face appear quickly but that isn't really classed as an actual animation, more like a time lapse thing.
 
Who was it that used to do that?
(Apart from the disgraced Aussie of course)
Tony Hart springs to mind?
 
Cobra said:
Who was it that used to do that?
(Apart from the disgraced Aussie of course)
Tony Hart springs to mind?
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Yeah didn't he do those with morph?


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Cobra said:
Who was it that used to do that?
(Apart from the disgraced Aussie of course)
Tony Hart springs to mind?
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Indeed, it was Tony Hart, first in Vision On and then Take Hart where he used to do those huge drawings on a field or large concrete area using paints or objects. I think a similar thing was done in Art Attack by Neil Buchanan, but Tony took it one step further and made the whole thing came alive. Having thought about it, I still don't know how he did that as that was well before the age of computer generated graphics. That must have taken ages.
 
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Its like, the premise behind South Park is quite simple, it involves different shaped paper and were moved/replaced bit by bit whereas the Simpsons and the Family Guy use Gel-based animation - and probably some CGI later on down the line.

Then there is Nick Park who used clay or plasticine.
 
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Ian D J said:
Indeed, it was Tony Hart, first in Vision On and then Take Hart where he used to do those huge drawings on a field or large concrete area using paints or objects. I think a similar thing was done in Art Attack by Neil Buchanan, but Tony took it ones step further and made the whole thing came alive. Having thought about it, I still don't know how he did that as that was well before the age of computer generated graphics. That must have taken ages.
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Art attack was pretty clever I must admit, but I agree Tony was the master :)
And of course, Vision on / take Hart (y)
 
Cg_Girl said:
Yeah didn't he do those with morph?
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I believe he did do "Morph"
But it was his drawings, that I remember, probably before you time?

Sent from the Great gate of Kiev...........
 
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