i'm working on finding this out by searching forums etc. on the net but just in case anyone can help me here (please! ^^; )

i'm planning on drawing my neo comp entry out on B4 paper then reducing it to A4 size to enter it. so i have 2 questions:

1. are B4 and A4 in the same ratio? (i.e. if i drew a safe area equally measured from each edge of my B4 paper, will this reduce to A4 without needing to be squashed horizontally to fit?)

2. how big a margin should i leave from the edges of my B4 paper for trim/bleed? on A4 i've heard its about 1-1.5 cm, so should i use about 1.5-2cm?

hopefully i'll be able to find answers to these questions online, but it would be really helpful if anyone who knows would comment, as i've never used B4 before ^^;

i'm really excited! i've been thumnailing my neo entry during the week so i'll be ready to sketch soon yay!! (gotta get it out of the way so i can work on my RSoM entry o.O; )

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aroundabout now, i am: worried

...maybe not in that order tho ^^

here are some more figure sketches from the last couple of days. trying to work on gesture with these so most of them are 1-2 min sketches. i'm trying to express the pose in just a short time, to practice studying the lines and angles of the body...



as usual some have worked better than others - i never seem to be able to tell whether a certain sketch will work or not until its done ^^;; i'm liking some of the curvy lines of the girls, none of the blokes have come out that well on these i don't think o.O;

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today has been almost a perfect day! been practicing dance mat stuff - i'm liking the japanese tracks, somehow they work better with DDR than the western ones...altho our dance mat game comes with a ha's 'take on me' (plus video!) which is cool XD ...altho doing dance mat today along with gym, belting down half way to town to view a flat with wren and spending 40 mins failing to find the little tescos in our area yesterday means my legs are kinda painful now ^^;

wren also brought the soundtrack to rocky horror back from town with her so we had a good ol boogie round the room to that! XD i really wanna go see the show - we were planning what costumes we would wear :D (hehe...and trying to get banemoo going in either fishnets or tineh gold pants XD ...yeah never going to happen lol! )

banemoo n i sat down today and did some figure drawing together - i got some good pointers and have an image from it that i think really shows how i studied that figure...i'll post it up sometime when i'm not so tired -_-

also been working on more of our neo entry - man do i love this 5-pager! seriously i don't even care if it doesn't win, i just want this comic done for my portfolio! <3

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and last but not least wren was watching a few lemon jelly vids today and i just had to post this one as its just beautiful! it must have been pretty hard to animate i think? i'm gonna watch it again now!

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aroundabout now, i am: inspired