Toad02 Kurosawa-San minus Movies
Kurosawa-san's reason for thinking his Autobiography is almost superflous.
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This is #2 post in the series of Drawings1 I am posting (weekly) on Akira Kurosawa’s Autobiography. For more information on this, see this post(link).
Today’s drawing will also be on the Preface of Kurosawa-san’s book - and a phrase I was particularly struck by! Hope you enjoy!
Kurosawa’s Life is his work
While Starting his autobiogaphy, Kurosawa-san says he doesn’t quite know what to say about his life. That he has poured all his life - and more importantly all he had to say into his Movies.
That whatever he could communicate is in there. He finishes up that argument with this quote:
Kurosawa minus movies is Zero.
That is a phenomenal statement to make - really, life is nothing but work? But thinking about it a little more made it seem less that, and more of “Everything I have had to say to the World, I have said through my movies(work) - I have thought about it, deliberated and Edited it and present it to you, as my work”.
That made more sense.
And then I read more, where he spoke of two of his favourite directors or role models so to say - not mentors, mind. That I will post in the upcoming post in a bit more detail.
Kurosawa cites Directors Jean Renoir (French) and John Ford (American) - incidentally, as I recall, Jean is the French version of the name John (English) - or vice versa. Renoir
The Drawing / Illustration.
When I started, I thought it was simple, just draw a stick figure, then add in the camera drawing and finally show a zero. Well, In the mind, everything happens at warpspeed, I got all the stuff done naturally and it looked Great, sorta.
So naturally, some considersations didnt need to be taken in.
Naturally, the ‘material’ realm, was a slightly different. Drew in the Director, and realised, “Hello, we dont have space for the Video Camera or the Zero, let alone the maths-signs!”. So then I learned how to “reposition” the Director’s stick-figure and then somehow fit the rest of the stuff in.
I hope it conveys the meaning.
Learning:
Pay attention to how much space you might need, before you go full into drawing one of the objects that make up the illustration. Spacing is imporant!
What do you think? What can I do to make it better? Lemme know! Did you see something interesting this week, perhaps?
See you in the next one!
Mr Noob!
PS: The Next post in this series, Toad03 is here (link)
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Good observations! Another way to approach this would be iteration with your drawings, so you would explore a mix of elements at different size relationships across say 3-5 versions, then settle on the one you like best.