Laying Down a Challenge

[thepenmonster]

This is Wally Wood's 22 Panels. Wood was one of the best to ever put ink to paper and these panels are tools every comic artist needs to add to their toolbox.

That's the challenge I'm laying down: Prove your mettle and draw your own take.

Here's an example I made near two decades ago in Photoshop CS2. (Ah the glory days of piracy!)

[jwabeasley]

Sounds like fun but I definitely don't have time for another comic page on top of my current workload!

[ThunderChicken]

I'm just here for Ms Titsbig

[thepenmonster]

[dayworks]

Challenge accepted. Here's the last page i drew. It's the hand drawn part before I add, greytones, textures and word balloons in photoshop. The challenges in this page fit's Wally Wood's almost exactly. The writer has a bunch of characters just yappin' at each (ok one monkey throws a sweaty shirt at a main character but that's still not a lot of action. Since I'm the writer I don't have much cause to complain but I do anyway) In any case I tried to correlate the Wally Wood panels to what I did. I have a copy of this same piece on my computer but by now I incorporate these kinds of moves by instinct.

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[thepenmonster]

Quite excellent work.

[dayworks]

Thank you very much sir.

[drewdoniger]

This is actually gonna be really helpful for me, because in the chapter I am working on, there is a big, BIG speech that an employer is giving to his workers. Although, I know I wouldn't be able to do some of these, because he is set to be on a canopy, and the workers down below

[RED-VELVET-CUPCAKE]

This was a fun drawing exercise! And that's a very helpful reference on how to make different panels, I'm gonna put it in my folder with my other drawing references.




For the last page, I included two things I like: when comic artists practically use the panel as a suggestion. They use the panel to convey emotion that fits the scene. Like jagged lines for an action scene! Instead of square, the panels are triangular, or zig-zag, or even with wavy lines like a splash! And I like when characters or objects reach beyond the panel like they can't be contained.

[thepenmonster]

This is what I'm talking about.

[lizardlullabye]

I remember redrawing them for helpful notes awhile back:

[thepenmonster]

Even 20 years ago we had to look up "benday" because the term was already decades out of date.

[dayworks]

I just looked it up - when I was young it was often referred to a zip-a-tone.