Mentorship

Location	Date	Hours	Instructor	What I did	Total Hours
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena	10/6/2012	3 hours	Ron Llanos ·         Illustrator/artist ·         B.F.A. with honors from  Art Center College of Design	After entering the class I received several handouts that were all about designing characters, both human and non-human. Had examples of characters concepts for Diego from Ice Age and Remy from Ratatouille. Shown silhouettes of well-known cartoon characters and then did an exercise in which you draw your own silhouette (it’s supposed to be spontaneous, it’s not supposed to be based off of anything), then trace the outline of the silhouette onto tracing paper and make a character out of it (even if the character doesn’t seem to make much sense). Later I had to practice drawing a human head with realistic proportions. I received homework in which I have to draw two busts of my own characters from four different views. He explained how drawing is a crucial starting point for all animators.	13 hours 15 minutes
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena	10/13/2012	3 hours	Ron Llanos ·         Illustrator/artist ·         B.F.A. with honors from  Art Center College of Design	At start of class I received new handouts, about facial and body expressions. After a short drawing exercise (had to draw Thumper from Bambi), the instructor showed a few clips classic cartoons such as Tom and Jerry and Looney Toons and to show the behind-the-scenes drawings of the characters animation sequences used for the episodes. Then, in celebration of Halloween, I had to draw a witch character and come up with a background story for it.	16 hours 15 minutes
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena	10/20/2012	3 hours	Ron Llanos ·         Illustrator/artist B.F.A. with honors from  Art Center College of Design	Received new handouts at the beginning of class, this time about skeletal structure, proportions, and action poses. Got to visit campus library and look through reference books regarding different movies such as Bolt, Avengers, and even Kiki’s Delivery Service (which was written in Japanese). The books contained character designs, backgrounds for different scenes, and bits of the storyboard involved. After that, headed back to the classroom. Studied proportions of men and women and learned how to determine the height of a character by the number of heads (7 heads tall - realistic height; 8 heads tall - idealistic height; 81/2 to 9 heads tall- superhuman). Received a homework assignment in which I have to come up with two characters, a male and a female, who are both eight heads tall and need to be portrayed in 4 different action poses.	19 hours 15 minutes
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena	10/27/2012	3 hours	Ron Llanos ·         Illustrator/artist B.F.A. with honors from  Art Center College of Design	I turned in my homework from last week. I was required to draw two of my characters, a male and a female both eight heads tall, in 4 different poses that conveyed action. Received a new handout, this time about different character styles. Some of the styles included comic book design (like in a graphic novel), manga, video game, feature film, and CGI. The instructor then explained the differences in the appearance of the character’s body, size, and facial features that all help determine that character’s age and gave us a handout that depicted a caricatured human like this.  I was required to do a drawing exercise in which I drew one of my characters, a dragon, in different stages of development, starting with a baby, then going on to child, teenager, adult, and senior.  After it was completed, I was required to explain each stage. At the end of class I was given a new homework assignment in which I was required to draw six action poses of the character I created in one of his stages of age.	22 hours 15 minutes