Not My Style

Alyssa Zelman

MDIA 1020

March 30th, 2014

Section 3

Not My Style

For this project I decided to use Timmy Turner from The Fairly Odd Parents. Butch Hartman was the creator, so i'll refer to The Fairly Odd Parents style as his. Hartman's style is characterized by thick, angular outlines and geometric character designs. His characters are almost always outlined in black, their eyes are round as the standard with derivations for special characters, his mouths tend to extend as far up as the middle of the eye for certain expressions, and, at least in The Fairly Odd Parents, unless shoes are being emphasized as part of character design, there is no boundary between shoes and pants. Characters from The Fairly Odd Parents have four fingered hands, however this is not a rule for all his cartoons as evidenced by Danny Phantom. I messed up on Timmy's eyes, as they aren't supposed to be outlined in black. His colors are a bit off, because I did not have the proper markers at my disposal.

For the second drawing, I tried to emanate director and animator Tim Burton. He is known for gaunt, spooky characters. If they have eyes, they are often bulging and definitely have dark circles under them, making every character look a bit mad and sleep deprived. Although his characters have a wide range of body types, he seems to be best known for tall, wiry characters with skinny/slender limbs and heads with pointed chins. Most of his artwork is done with pen and watercolor, and I was lucky enough to have water colors to use. His penmanship is messy and loose, and his colors flow outside the lines. His characters are pale, and as brightly colored as they can be, they are almost always desaturated.

For the third style I tried my hand at a variation of my own cartoony style. I prefer to work in colored pencils. My drawings have colored outlines, large shiny eyes, and hair that gets it texture from its lines rather than its shading. Timmy Turner is characterized by his buck teeth, slightly angular face, cowlick hair, thick eyebrows, and pink baseball cap. I think i've made him recognizable but distinctly mine in style.