The 20 week Program

Hello !

The books are amazing I LOVE the ASK (Animation Survavil Kit) a gold mine !

I want to get better in drawing because it's the very key of animation when thumbnailing. The more you can communicate force, weight, action, acting and appeal on a pose in your thumbnail, the best your animation will be.
A friend of mine gave me a very important tool to improve my drawing skill. It's a program, called "the 20 week program" create from the famous character designer Stephen Silver (Kim Possible, Dany Phantom, Clerks, etc.).

It's a simple program to work out just on basics. Every couple of week you have to work on a specific basic. And in 20 weeks, when you reach the end of the program, you go back from the beginning until you think it's enough (but it's never enough !! ...). But there's a very important rule : "At least full a page of drawing every day". That's what I do, and two times a month I'll show a bunch of my best drawings on the two weeks. For the first couple of weeks it was basic contruction of figures. Just stick figures showing the essential of an action. Week 29/30 will be "Basic construction of animals"...