For my final project I decided to film myself drawing a fashion illustration, and then speed it up. Before I started making this movie I thought it would be interesting to see the process I go through to create something. I thought it would also be interesting to see a blank piece of white paper transformed into something.
While making it I kept forgetting I was filming so their are parts of the video where I am drawing, but it is cut off. It was also quite difficult to hold the camera and draw with one hand. I did not think it would be since you would think the hand with the pencil would be all you need. However, drawing a figure is a very involved process for me- more so then I realized.
After I finished filming and attempted to start editing. I noticed how much erasing I do. I had no idea; I also noticed that I really think about every line, there is a lot of hesitation with my hand before I actually put it to the paper and draw something. I also thought this drawing took me around 15 minutes, when it actually took over 27 minutes. I get so wrapped up in what I am doing that I have no idea how much time has passed. I tried editing the movie in imovie and taking out all the hesitations and pauses of my process, but imovie would not let me convert my files to be able to speed up the time. I ended up using Adobe After Effects to edit my project. The fastest I could make it be was 5:00 minutes, and I gave it the cartoon effect because I thought it brought out the colors and the light better.
