The $100,000 dollar animation drawing course - lesson 6

Ok, this is the big mouth post! focusing mainly on the head because it is a strange shape, not all a circle and no way in hell is it a square. Essentially it is a post on overlapping which is when one item falls over another creating the illusion that it one item falls over another. In my copies I tried to illustrate it and I'll try to explain it too in this my native language , Lingua Franca to the world, English. Just as soon as my internet comes back up. Get up you traitor!!

The entire lesson in basic is overlapping shapes so that they look like they cover each other even though they really don't.

1) The two-part illustration explains the logic of overlapping. In example A, the complete form (1) is the forward and near one; the partial form (2) is behind and farther away. In example B, we see an array of forms as each from ovelaps the other- starting with a complete form (1) as the first - the interposing effect produces an illusion of depth -in- space sequence; the overlapping form can actually be given numerical positions (1,2,3,4, etc.) in spactial recession.

(2) Here is an illustration of the opposite of the preceding proposition.In this case, all the forms in the group are shown complete. None overlap. Note how each form seems to hold to the front of the pictur plane, and not one can be felt to recede into depth.

I can tell you all the receding and the forward forms but I can let you find them, it's easier that way.