How to Make Your Drawings Cinematic

This video is intended to help you improve your drawing's composition by studying stills from movies.

MOVIES REFERENCED:
300
Lord of The Rings
Pirates of the Carribean
Spiderman Homecoming
John Wick
MidSommar
Hereditary

[snoot]

Recommendation: a good movie to study cinematic composition and amazing staging is Akira Kurosawa's High and Low, he even sneaks in key plot points and spoiler details in how he arranged his scenes

[spartanghost_]

Please do more of these. This is an area most artists skip. I would love to learn more about cinematic composition

[AndrewTpot]

This is why I love moderndayjames. He comes up with videos on topics that people don't really talk about but are super cool and I love it, it's like he's reading my mind without me know what I want. This video is exactly what I needed to reference for a project I'm working on

[lyxemin]

the fact that this is available for free is a blessing. tysm

[alexluna]

I'm here just to say that I loved those stormlight archive draws!

[mads_]

This is amazing, thank you!! I've been looking for help with composition and making my pieces more dynamic, this is exactly what I needed right now 🖤

[estebanr]

I am so glad you are making art for my favorite book series of all time

[afiifa]

I am honestly FRICKING PISSED WHY ARE YOU SO UNDERRATED

[tharchandran]

This is amazingly informative, I've been looking to make my illustrations more alive. Thank you so much for making this tutorial!

[pebblescarpetcat]

Seeing the name Gavilar Kholin was a real surprise o.o since I got recommended here randomly.
Had to do a double take on those scenes.
Also, very well articulated tips and clean presentation. I shall reference this for future projects >:D

[valasafantastic]

Re-watching and taking written notes. Great stuff. This is part of my focus lately too!

[maxchaos]

First of, great video. Second, I did not expected the Stormlight references at the beginning.

[FiliaArte]

your videos are well didactic, I'm learning a lot.

[ChrisMason_]

I learned so much in only 10 minutes🙀Thank you thank you thank you for posting this! Gonna try and work in these concepts into my storyboards💯

[curlyhair]

Will there still be a video on lighting? Your lighting is sooo masterful. I would love to learn from you on this!

[rjanimations]

Thank you James! as always you put in a lot of golden nuggets in your videos!

[FJRamosArt]

Thanks. Great video and perfect length to help one brush up on the visual principles.

[GeoCreepypasta]

Dude, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR! JUST... HOW?! Coincidence or not, Imma absorb all the things you talk about in this video! Thank you!

[Rodutchi]

Finally a tutorial and not livestreams 😵

[alanqs]

Excellent analysis. I loved it, very educational.