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Heath Ledger won Best Supporting Actor!

This is 1 of 4 pieces I did for Daniel Krall's Illustration 2 class. Our assignment was to pick from this year's top 6 Oscar winners and illustrate them in a strange 8x3 format, with an extra inch above and below left free for text (which I opted to overlap into). I knew a lot of my classmates would end up creating a scene that looked like a movie still due to the format, and I wanted to avoid that. I also wanted to avoid any kind of cartooning because it isn't exactly my forte at the moment and getting a good likeness was essential. At the time the only 2009 Oscar winner I'd seen was The Dark Knight, which I loved. When I thought on Heath Ledger's performance, specific scenes came to mind, certain expressions and body language and interactions he had with other characters. I decided that the best way for me to capture the feel of his and the other actor's performances would be to screencap all of these scenes and draw directly from them. It's something I would normally avoid, but in this case it just seemed to make sense.

This meant that I had to actually see the other top movies, (including Vicky Cristina Barcelona, though I didn't end up drawing for it), taking notes of the scenes I felt were most important, then either finding caps online or making my own. After I collected all the caps I printed them out and made line drawings from them with the aid of my mini light table. This made getting proportions down a lot easier and faster than otherwise but it didn't help much in the areas of likeness and line width which is why some places are kind of wonky. Overall I think I did a pretty good job, though. I did a lot of drawings.

After I did as many drawings for each character as I could, I scanned them all in and aligned them all in Photoshop. This was the fastest part. It took about 16 hours straight through - unfortunately the night before it was due. The pieces I'm showing you now have been edited somewhat since I had them printed and presented them in class.

All of the drawings were done with marker, a mixture of crayola, rose-art, random off-brands and some skinny felt tips from the school store. Nothing fancy.

The Joker is so badass!
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Mood: Pride ~GIRL-INBLACK Mar 23, 2011
I think its verry good because it dont look like the most pictures, it's somethink different and new. Well done.
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~samurailatoya Feb 14, 2011
your overlapping sketches are awesome
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Mood: Wow! ~HopeStorm Jan 8, 2011
amazing!

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~LaurenAllOver Nov 22, 2010
Wow i thought your other one was amazing, this is magnificent :| !

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Mood: Love ~Skittlelover666 Nov 15, 2010
This is amazing I love all the different colours you have used did you get marked on it
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~DaveDavids Jan 1, 2010
Great Work,
this is Pimp
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~GreenWhimsy Apr 8, 2010
Lol! Thanks a lot ^^!
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*Muchacha10 Nov 18, 2009
im so jealous of your class assignments! anyway, i love heath ledger, and this movie was earth shattering! i really like the overlapping, i've sorta tried it because i like the look of art that seems to be one huge line, you know--? but im too weenie to cover my stuff up--but that makes it look so cool! so yay. in my long and confusing rant, i just mean to say that i love it :)

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~GreenWhimsy Apr 8, 2010
Thanks so much! Yeah, covering things up can be a little scary but also a lot of fun.
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*Muchacha10 Apr 8, 2010
haha yes! taking chances pays off!

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"Be gone with you! I have had enough of your nonsense from your smelly mouth...filled with...corn!"

"But I haven't been eating corn."

"LIAR!"
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