Damian’s TumblrAh, panel layouts. Whacha gonna do? Certainly not the same old rows and rows of talking heads. Designing a panel is like cinematography and direction: it controls the mood, focus, and context of the scene by controlling the viewer’s access to your world, so the real trick is figuring out what…
A Ride Through Town - Process Video (by alexfamilytree)
See how silkscreened this poster was designed and drawn.
Creating manual separations of this file was somewhat of a nightmare. For the first time, I worked almost totally digitally on this piece (aside from an early sketch) and my Photoshop file had over 300 layers. Cutting and merging all those layers properly took about 8 hours… and that was on top of the 20+ hours of illustration.
Chuck Jones shows how to draw Bugs Bunny (by SpacedCobraIII)
(Via Jason Kottke)
Stuart Immonen tweeted something this morning that I didn’t understand:
I’ve got this terrible fucking habit of contiguous tangents in abutting panels. Some hilarious ones in FI. You’d think I’d notice by now!
I (rather sheepishly, alas) confessed my ignorance; I wasn’t familiar with the term “tangent” used in an art context.
He was kind enough to explain:
basically you get two images which are separated by a border but they read as one image. So you get a head on a wrong body etc
Ah ha! This is a thing I’ve seen, but I wasn’t aware there was a term for it. So, yay — gettin’ educated.
Felipe Sobreiro also chimed in with the link to Schweizer’s guide that points out several other tangents to avoid.
Good stuff.
As a writer and fan of comic books, I love reading thoughts from writers and artists I admire about how they do things. Thanks for sharing, KS!
see the fun thing about red base sketches is I make them disappear in photoshop
and no one ever has to know
If you’re not making mistakes, man, you’re not pushing yourself hard enough.
Chris Johns, editor, National Geographic Magazine
I’ve bookmarked this interview to read all the way through later, but this line jumped out and beat me on the head with a clue club and I needed that very much
(via bigbigtruck)
Sometimes I flip between panels like animation sheets to make sure a transition works.
Music is “Counter Culture” by Third Eye Foundation.
i kept reaching up to change the music, also brett comes along and boops TJ’s nose at one point
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Creative Solutions for Artists Who Can’t Draw Hands by Grant Snider
So a while back, I asked users here to email me illustrations they just could not finish due to their own personal weaknesses, or to send me any illustrations for general critique on areas that could use improvement. So that maybe I could find a common thread in all of our inabilities. And it dawned on me. All of our problems could be solved with one simple technique: …
