Damian Gascoine.
Damian Gascoine is a illustrator animator, he studied illustration at Kingston University and currently teaches animation at the University.
His lecture was set into 4 sections research but he mostly spoke about his research methods and how he views the world and specified that he wasn't going talk about his commercial work because he wanted to talk about his work and ideas and the thought process he uses to create the work he does for himself because when working for a client you get an outcome that they want.
I really like his work and the style of his drawing, he has a very sketchy Biro pen drawing style to his illustrations and all his characters seem like that ll have story's too them and they have not just been drawn, they all have a look like they have a back story and have more thought that just how they look put into them, and when they are translated into animations they don't just look like a static 2d images that are now moving the character look like they have come to life and this makes his work really nice too watch.
His lecture was full of really useful statements and pieces of advice that i found i could completely relate to and just take on board straight away and live by in my own thought process and way i want to go about my own process for working, one thing he said was that "computers enable professional work, but don't help come up with ideas" and this is something i find myself thinking about more and more, the fact that we spend so much time on computers and forget about drawing and just sitting down with a sketchbook because we have technology that is so easily accessible and produce great looking work straight away and we completely skip experimenting and trying to find some inspiration by taking the time too look around and this is where his lecture was the strongest and was probably the most inspiring talks about researching i had ever heard he said " somethings happening everywhere, all the time" "always draw, always doodle, always sketch, be nosy" and this is something i found myself doing straight away after his lecture i found myself looking at everything around me and noticing things that i hadn't before, looking at the people around me differently seeing the different characteristics in people whether its the way they talk or move, the way that someone is dressed or there physical presence and appearance seeing ways in which characters could be created form those people and just wishing that i had sketch book there to draw and take notes before forgetting about them completely wondering if they that certain person could have been a part of some work i might find myself doing one day, other than drawing he talked about taking photographs and how he would not only sit in one spot for hours and just draw people around him noticing things about people, he would take note of obscure little things he would notice when he was out like a scrunched up piece if rubbish that looked like a face and how he would just take a quick photo, one of the photos he showed was of a cup with a face drawn onto it that had been thrown away but was slightly hanging out of a bin which to anyone else is no more than rubbish but to him it was another character, a little man trying to climb out of the bin, he talked about a time where he watched and photographed a couple sitting in a restaurant and began to imagine and create a conversation between the two and imagined what kind of people they were from how they were dressed or how they moved and its little things like that i found to be really interesting, that we can see things differently we can see a story or a character in something that most people will never even notice in the first place,and this is something i plan on doing from now in to try and write down my ideas no matter how stupid they seem at the time or if they have no relevance to anything i am doing at that time because one day they might be completely relevant, and finally to pay more attention to the world around me and not just sit at a computer screen.
His lecture was set into 4 sections research but he mostly spoke about his research methods and how he views the world and specified that he wasn't going talk about his commercial work because he wanted to talk about his work and ideas and the thought process he uses to create the work he does for himself because when working for a client you get an outcome that they want.
I really like his work and the style of his drawing, he has a very sketchy Biro pen drawing style to his illustrations and all his characters seem like that ll have story's too them and they have not just been drawn, they all have a look like they have a back story and have more thought that just how they look put into them, and when they are translated into animations they don't just look like a static 2d images that are now moving the character look like they have come to life and this makes his work really nice too watch.
His lecture was full of really useful statements and pieces of advice that i found i could completely relate to and just take on board straight away and live by in my own thought process and way i want to go about my own process for working, one thing he said was that "computers enable professional work, but don't help come up with ideas" and this is something i find myself thinking about more and more, the fact that we spend so much time on computers and forget about drawing and just sitting down with a sketchbook because we have technology that is so easily accessible and produce great looking work straight away and we completely skip experimenting and trying to find some inspiration by taking the time too look around and this is where his lecture was the strongest and was probably the most inspiring talks about researching i had ever heard he said " somethings happening everywhere, all the time" "always draw, always doodle, always sketch, be nosy" and this is something i found myself doing straight away after his lecture i found myself looking at everything around me and noticing things that i hadn't before, looking at the people around me differently seeing the different characteristics in people whether its the way they talk or move, the way that someone is dressed or there physical presence and appearance seeing ways in which characters could be created form those people and just wishing that i had sketch book there to draw and take notes before forgetting about them completely wondering if they that certain person could have been a part of some work i might find myself doing one day, other than drawing he talked about taking photographs and how he would not only sit in one spot for hours and just draw people around him noticing things about people, he would take note of obscure little things he would notice when he was out like a scrunched up piece if rubbish that looked like a face and how he would just take a quick photo, one of the photos he showed was of a cup with a face drawn onto it that had been thrown away but was slightly hanging out of a bin which to anyone else is no more than rubbish but to him it was another character, a little man trying to climb out of the bin, he talked about a time where he watched and photographed a couple sitting in a restaurant and began to imagine and create a conversation between the two and imagined what kind of people they were from how they were dressed or how they moved and its little things like that i found to be really interesting, that we can see things differently we can see a story or a character in something that most people will never even notice in the first place,and this is something i plan on doing from now in to try and write down my ideas no matter how stupid they seem at the time or if they have no relevance to anything i am doing at that time because one day they might be completely relevant, and finally to pay more attention to the world around me and not just sit at a computer screen.
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