Lesson 4 'Another World' Inspired by: Tim Burton 1
Lesson 4 TIM BURTON Everybody who is following my work for a longer time, hears me say at some point again and again: I am a huge Tim Burton fan. I think Beetle Juice was the very first Burton movie I ever saw. When you now see it is certainly not his best, but I was still a teenager when I saw it, probably 15 or so, and I had never seen anything like it before. Next came Edward Scissorhands and a fan was born. And then came all of his other movies. I think Corps Bride is my favorite of the animation movies. Big Fish I often name as my all time favorite movie. Tim Burton is one of us: he is an art journaler and a notorious doodler. He doodles on everything. His attic and office were so full with sketches that someone came with the wonderful idea to make them into a book (The art of Tim Burton) and an exhibition (The World of Tim Burton.) I am glad that they did that, because it is our chance to get a glimpse of the world inside his mind. Whenever I turn the pages of this book I feel a bit overwhelmed by Burton's huge productivity. There are a billion sketches and drawings inside, as if that is the only thing he ever does. But Burton also makes awesome movies either directing or producing them. In order to be able to make this amount of drawings, he must be sketching pretty much all of the time... Many know Tim Burton as a director and producer of his dark, humorous movies. But he also is an artist who is incessantly painting, photographing, drawing and doodling, exploring his unique imagination. Burton was born in 1958 and grew up in Burbank, California, where he always felt a bit of an outsider. Tim Burton began his film making career with the short animation film Vincent, an ode to one of his most influential inspiration sources, the actor Vincent Price. 2
MAKE DOODLING A HABIT! If you weren't doing so already after lesson 1, I really believe that the secret of developing your own style, your own voice is to make sketching, drawing and painting a habit. Or maybe even more than a habit. Use it as a form of communication. Communication with yourself, or even to communicate your idea's with others, like Tim Burton does. Burton often uses fine liners to sketch, but you will also see color pencils, designer markers, water colors, water color pencils, color pencils, crayons, inks, paint. Just anything that he can easily carry around! 3
ANOTHER WORLD I have called this lesson 'another world', because it seems that Tim Burton has designed himself a new world, fascinated by the dark, by outcasts, by anything creepy and peculiar. Isn't it an interesting idea that you could actually design your own imaginary world, inside your own mind? A world to visit and to make visual? I think that we are all able to design such a imaginary world of our own. In my art journals you won't see monsters or creepy stuff like in the sketchbooks of Tim Burton, because that is not "my" world. I think I'm probably still in the process of designing that world because I don't really know yet what it looks like, what is there. But wouldn't your inspiration be endless if you have this list of "rules" to follow from what is possible in your imagination? For example, if you happen to love birds, your rule could be: "Anything can fly". Or what if there was "No gravity " in your world, what would that world look like? There are a few simple rules in the world of Tim Burton: 1. Anything can come alive. 2. Good things can become evil. 3. Anything can melt, shrink, crawl, grow, curl up, be opened or sewn together. 4. Anything with teeth, arms or tentacles is able to grab you. 5. The darker, the better. 4
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My result doodling while watching A nightmare before Christmas. 6
1. Draw a figure with pencil. 2. Trace with a black fine liner. Keep the lines playful 3. Add black stripes and shading with black ink. 4. Make blood stains with red acrylic paint and the tip of your finger. 7
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1. Draw a room with pencil. 2. Graphical black and white patterns are awesome! 3. "Color" the image with black, white and blue mixtures. 4. When the paint is dry, add line work with a black fine liner. 9
5. Add a spider web... 6. Grey swirls with pencil as a wall paper pattern. 7. Add more shading in the corners with diluted ink. 8. Tiny details with a white acrylic marker. 10
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