Studying from Film

by KATZNAMA

Cinematography in film is like a gold mine for artists. The people, body language, expressions, props, clothes, scenery, colours, compositions, angles AND editing are all curated by a team full of experts in their fields. One still image from a film can tell us a thousand words.

This project involves studying and redrawing different film scenes of interest in order to experiment with and improve my colours, techniques, and story telling. Spoilers ahead!

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This is a scene from The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson. It is of Agatha and Zero at their wedding standing with The Society of the Crossed Keys and Gustave.

If you know of Wes Anderson and have seen this film, you would know how creative and clever his world building and characters are. I enjoyed this film and I felt that this scene captures his style of playful colours, composition, and eccentric characters.

I'm happy with the outcome of this piece and I enjoyed the process too. I kept the colours playful and soft by leaving out the use of black lines. The brushes I used are textural and unrefined which I think help emphasise the eccentricity of the subject matter. I chose to use a thick white outline to prevent the figures from blending into the background. To me, this outline kind of resembles a set of stickers which is super cute and enhances the novelty of Wes Anderson's work.

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There are plenty of other screencaps from Wes Anderson's films I plan on redrawing.

Here are a few I have been considering...