Ironscarf
Ironscarf
I like all kinds of colours, especially tasty oranges.
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I do my layouts on typing paper - old printer paper - back of an envelope, then use Clip Paint Studio for the finished pencils, inking and colours once scanned. This is now done using Frenden brushes, which are the best I've tried. All my lettering and panels borders are added in a vector program, I…
Exactly. That critic probably didn't even know he was adapting panels from existing comics (without given credit to the artists, naturally).
Wow, you have 191 subscribers! Last week I threw a party for finally breaking 20 subs - but I'm a glass half full kind of person! My advice would be to say "sorry everyone, I had an episode" and keep uploading here for the appreciative 191 while you search for other venues. I can recommend The Duck …
This reminds me of a serious art critic's review of a Roy Lichtenstein (the guy who did the pop art comic art based paintings) retrospective I read. Towards the end he says Lichtenstein would obviously have been an amazing comic artist if he hadn't become a serious painter. I can't think of any co…
I'd like to say Atlas Shrugged, but I only read a few paragraphs. Still, they were the most laughably bad paragraphs I ever read in a printed text.
Playing guitar and/or ukulele are more than just a hobby for me, they keep me sane and have been since my early teens. If it wasn't for those little boxes with strings on - well I don't even want to think about where I would be now. I became obsessed with comics of all sorts from as early as I can…
The worse thing you can do is sit around waiting for inspiration to arrive. Get up and take a long walk, the longer the better. The further you walk, the more ideas will come bursting forth. Better take a notepad. Showers are good too, but don't take the notepad.
I know a quite a few people, myself included, who pour their heart and soul into a comic which is never going to have mass appeal. We do it because we love it and getting a few appreciative readers is a bonus. It's not about fairness or quality - nobody is owed an audience, especially if you're do…
I would go with "If the idea of joint ownership isn’t comfortable with you, please don’t feel obligated to apply."
I agree with joe_galindez. It's not just about how long it takes to make a page IMHO, but the reading experience. If you give the reader to much information, it can be a bit daunting. Great for covers, but when you're pacing a story sometimes less is more. It gives readers a chance to fill in the de…
My rough pencils have balloons sketched in, but that's mostly guesswork. The first thing I do is scan in the rough pencils, then take a copy of that to the vector program I use for lettering - Inkscape (people who can afford it use Illustrator!). Creating the dialogue, captions and sound effects bef…
Put him in a situation where he has to make a choice: to act, to take a stand or to walk away. If he takes a stand to help someone else lets say, but thinks he will fail, then his lack of confidence makes him more a hero than someone who knows they will win. He then finds the strength to act in futu…
It does seem very popular here, so I guess you can't have too much of a good thing?! I hadn't thought about the lack of guys doing GL until now. As a male creator, I would much rather do a GL story than straight porn, because porn doesn't have much in the way of character or plot development. e: j…
I've used #webcomics and #indiecomics. I also read somewhere that using more than a couple of hashtags on Twitter is considered bad form or amateurish, while it's ok to use as many as you can on Instagram. I don't know if that's true, or why.
Really liking the second version. The vibrant colours harmonise well to my eyes, while the first version clashes a bit more. The pink and orange combination is particularly juicy! The only change I would make would be to alter those lighter blue outlines towards the bottom to a darker shade.
I have to agree with shazzbaa - it's definitely me. If I stopped and thought about potential audience, I would change almost everything about my current comic. It would be something completely different, less of what I wanted to make and there's still no guarantee anyone would read it. You just neve…
Large gin and tonic with a squeeze of fresh lime, though I write best when I'm taking a long walk or a shower and neither of those are great with gin and tonic.
I read an interview with Bruce Timm, who said Alex Ross could do amazing stuff if a more animated style (they showed examples to prove it), but Timm couldn't talk him out of taking reference photos of his friends for everything and It all ended up looking like a bunch of cosplayers. So Bruce Timm de…
You mean where the art looks like it's all traced from photo refs, or rotoscoped from some 3D program? That leaves me cold too! Oddly, I prefer actual photocomics to that, maybe because of the romance photo strips that used to run in British girls comics. They were usually skillfully done - that exa…
I don't know, I've seen comics drawn in a cartoonish style which were stiff and lifeless instead of expressive and fluid. Likewise I've seen anatomically correct, realistic art that was bursting with life and expression. I think it's all down to the skill of the artist and the readers personal taste…
Barking opinions at people never changed anyone's mind, all it can do is cut down your audience to those who already agree with you. The things we believe in are going to come out in our work one way or another anyway and that's a far better way to engage with others than trying to tell them what to…
I showed some stuff to a pro once, who complained I'd drawn a filing cabinet, but there was no coffee cup sitting on top of it. He said if there weren't enough visual cliches you're not doing it right! It's all those little cliches that set the scene, without really being noticed.
Absolutely not! They roughly know I draw comics but have no interest whatsoever. The only comments I ever get from them are "Why don't you do some nice landscapes?" or "I heard of a person who did greetings cards" or some other artistic avenue they believe will generate loads of income. When you're…
It has to be Vocalese! That's where singers took famous jazz instrumental solos and put lyrics to them. Like this: and this:
I would love to read the folds book! These old books seems really dated at first but when you get into them, there's a lot of detail you don't really get now. That chance meeting with Dynamic Figure Drawing was probably one of the best things to ever happen to me!
You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't feel like that at some point on every single page. How good people are at sidestepping those feelings is the only real difference. For me, just forcing myself to sit down and do it is the hardest part when I'm in that frame of mind. Once the pen is in…
As a kid, my friend pulled a copy of Dynamic Figure Drawing by Byrne Hogarth from the local library and I learned a lot, so I can recommend that. It's a great book and I keep meaning to check out some of the others he did. There's also the Andrew Loomis stuff which you can download. Later on I went…
I would say the right leg gives the impression of someone leaping into the air, while the left is planted firmly on the ground. I would bring the upper half of the right leg forward a bit and create more of a bend at the knee, then judge how far back the lower leg should go to give the right balance…
It's usually 2am and I just want to sleep, so ongoing cups of strong tea are a must. I clear away everything other family family members have left piled aroung the desktop, plug in my old Intuos 3 and try to set my chair to a comfortable position. Not too comfortable though, or the intuos will soon …
I did post a thanks image to my subscribers, thinking it would be a nice gesture. After reading this topic, I'm considering following it up with a "Sorry I cluttered up your wall" image.