| Blind Leading the Blind- A Long Demonstration |
[Feb. 26th, 2007|07:52 pm] |
I already posted all this on my website and due to circumstances I only now have time to post it here. Circumstances being report cards which are now nearly done. More on that later, though. For now- art!
More specifically, fan art of Maida Kilwa courtesy of Caroline Parkinson. I miss Maida. I should do more stuff with her.
Also, I finished my next tutorial- which is in fact not a tutorial so much as a demo of my rather lengthy comic making process.
And good news! If everything goes well, I should be able to start updating Lords of Death and Life again starting on the 11th! |
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| Blind Leading the Blind- Using Photo Reference |
[Jan. 3rd, 2007|08:50 pm] |
I saw Supersize Me the other day. It made me hungry. Is- is that wrong?
*ahem* Anyways, it's high time I do another tutorial.
Using Photo Reference
I use photo reference for all kinds of things in my comics. Artists should be able to draw lots of things without having to look them up (especially people!) but no one can be expected to have memorized how, for example, a squirrel looks as it is about to grab hold of one tree after having leaped out of another tree. Or what the entrance to the Sydney Opera House looks like. This is when photo reference comes in handy.
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| Blind Leading the Blind- Keeping Characters Consistent |
[Nov. 22nd, 2006|11:00 pm] |
For a while now I've been threatening to make up some comics tutorial type things. I was all set to start when Scott McCloud's book Making Comics came out and pretty much beat anything I could do hands down. Seriously, buy that book. But anyways I'm back on my pro-tutorial kick, so, here's the first. I'm going to call them "Blind Leading the Blind," 'cause, well, I'm not really such a hot shot comicker, but I do love the teaching. I mean if I can teach PE I can teach this, right?
Keeping Characters Consistent
One of the most important things in drawing a comic is making sure your readers don't get confused about which character they're looking at. Superhero comics do it the easy way- they stick everyone in an easily identifiable spandex outfit. Batman always looks like Batman because of the cape and cowl, regardless of who's drawing him. Those of us doing non-spandex comics need to be able to draw faces that look the same regardless of angle, zoom, or emotion. Of course it helps if you dress them the same all the time, or never change their hair, but depending on the story you might not be able to use those tricks either. So it comes down to faces.
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