Beth Bristow Illustrations

06/21/2022

Learn the foundations of storyboarding with storyboard artist Sergio Paez. Available FREE for a limited time.

04/05/2022

When you draw a character, it’s not enough to have a stiff block shape as a placeholder. This might be fine for your initial rough, but in the end, you want to “push” and exaggerate the pose more than you imagine it in your mind.

Most of the time, beginner artists do not push their drawings far enough. If your character is in action, make the body lean off-balance even more than you think is necessary. If the expression calls for anger, push those eyebrows down even more.

If you think you’ve gone too far, you’re probably still only 90% there.

It’s more important to communicate a clear emotion than to get an accurate, photo-realistic drawing. If you draw the “feeling” you want the viewer to have, you’re on track to creating a strong story sketch.

Want to learn more about drawing and technique? Veteran director, story artist, and StoryboardArt founder Sergio Paez will be streaming live this Wednesday to chat and take questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtpDwF2J25c

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11/07/2021

Hello and welcome. I wanted to create a new environment just for my work and hopefully promote myself. So bare with me while I start to get this page together. I'm going to be posting a lot of stuff from my mentorship program that I am in through Storyboard Art (www.Storyboardart.org). Pleas do check out their site if you are interested in learning about storyboarding yourself. Cheers to this wild adventure!!

Dear Mentor (Sergio), I wanted to let you know last week I posted some of my work on LinkedIn and guess what, today I have received a storyboard contract from a French company for a 90 sec advertising project. I'm stoked as this is my first advert project ever. Thanks and a great day to you.