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Oct 19, 2020 · How to draw a portrait in Tim Burton’s character style! ...more.
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Oct 6, 2021 · I love Tim Burton !!! His Characters are sooo AWESOME:) Join us and create your own portrait in his style and Follow Us Every wk with New Vids Click Below -...
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Sep 13, 2021 · Follow along with this step-by-step tutorial to create a portrait in the style of Tim Burton art. (lesson idea from ArtWithMrsE.com)
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- The Start of Tim Burton’s Art Career
- Filmography
- Exhibitions
- Tim Burton’s Art Style
Tim Burton was born in California in 1958. As a young teenager, he would make short films in his backyard. He made his first stop-motion animation at the mere age of 13. Stop motion is an animated filmmaking technique where objects are moved in small increments. Each tiny movement is photographed. Once all the photographed frames are played rapidly...
After leaving Disney he directed films and started to achieve success. He is known for his gothic fantasy films such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and Sweeny Todd. Burton also directed the superhero films such as Batman and Batman Returns, the sci-fi film Planet of the Apes, the fantasy-drama Big Fish, the musical adventure film Charlie and ...
Burton exhibits his artworks and illustrations in museums worldwide. In 2009 Burton had a retrospective exhibition at the MoMA in New York. A retrospective is when an accomplished artist is celebrated by a gallery for his or her accomplishment over a few decades spanning over their entire career. The exhibition consisted of over 700 drawings, paint...
Character design
When you compare a Tim Burton character to a realistic portrait you will notice some major differences. Tim Burton’s art is not realistic but stylized. The eyes are exaggerated and are the main feature of the head. The iris lacks detail and simply consists of little black dots. The bodies are skinny and elongated. This contrast is exaggerated with large heads placed in thin long necks. Typically Tim Burton Characters have small noses and tiny mouths.
Use of colour
Tim Burton’s art shares an overall collective feeling. The consistency over all his projects is the way he uses colour. He favours a dark muted colour palette, known as desaturated colours. This colour scheme lends itself to his notorious gothic feeling. Overall he favours greys and blues. The colours Burton uses look pale in comparison to typical shades and may have a greyish tint.
Shape language
Shape Language is a concept used in art and animation to communicate meaning based on shapes we are familiar with. When used in character, object, and background design, shapes can tell a story, show personality, and elicit an emotional response in the viewer without using any words. When you look at these simple shapes, what do you feel? Circles are usually seen as soft, squishy, harmless, approachable and changeable. Squares are seen as solid, sturdy, strong, supportive, reliable and inflex...
Over 1000 illustrations and 430 pages plus foldouts. is the definitive compilation of forty years of Tim Burton's artistry, including film concepts and hundreds of illustrations from his personal archives, edited under the creative guidance of Burton himself.
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