I'm Learning

 

 

I've done printouts of some of my stories and made them into book signatures.  Being able to hold the pages in my hand as physical objects has affected my view of them.  I can see now that as a book, there are too many full-page, full-color drawings one after another.  The eye needs some variety and some relief as one pages through a book.  So I've started doing little minimal drawings that will fall between the longer, more elaborately drawn stories.  And I'm working on some very short, limited-color sequences as well to give the reader  visual "breathing room".

 

Oh, and Marty, since our discussion about picture size some weeks back, I'm trying something different.  I have enlarged the picture on the page, reducing the white space as compared to the printout you saw at my house.

Chalk one up

Smeared about

Line drawing versions on Tumblr

 My big experiment wasn't rocket science. I kept the original from above at the ready to paint back into the painting as I experimented with various mask layers.

 I started by cropping a bit. And then Thinking I should crop it to the proportion of a magazine. And you see the result.

Tonight and Tomorrow

Did this for a guy in the Okie Comic Creators. He didn't ask me to. He's a huge Aquaman fan.

Also working at refining the pose on Rocket Raccoon that Marty said he liked.

(UPDATE from Marty:)
THIS one, Elz:

(...it feels very personal modifying someone else's post...invasive, even. My apologies....)

Inhuman-sized Printer

UPDATE: More Inhumanity (I can't help myself):

My new scanner/printer arrived yesterday.

The Epsom WF (for "workforce," not W(T)F??) 7610. Under $200, it has a scanner-bed that's 12" x 17" (tho' it scans a little under that), and can print up to 13" x 19". THose are two 8.5" x 11" sheets on there--scanned simultaneously. I'm impressed.

It was a breeze to set-up. And now I'm not only printing and scanning large-format style--I'm doing it wireless-ly. Wow, the future.

I celebrated with a Kirby Inhumans study. They never get old.

Kirby Leprechaun story- Creepiest part

I think it's who Kirby had in mind.

His art is absolutely at its peak with that strip that Marty linked to in the

comments to his 60s model sketch.

HEY
 -Weezner alert!

I just approved a comment of his. Should be related to the previous Vectorman discussion.

Almost Midnight

I tried.

Must post or it won't be Tuesday in Oklahoma

 better measure. I wanted to return to it and make sure I still had chops at recording. As Marty said on his post, the temptation to do correction in photoshop is pretty strong. Here I've done just a little smudge erasure.

Experiments In Sketching (1960's edition)

Yesterday morning I was looking for something to sketch for a warm up, and this vintage ad caught my eye...I didn't think the original particularly racy--it was the late 60's/early 70's vibe that appealed, and the models themselves (they looked so perfectly period!). But dang, the drawing made it look like I was doing school girl porn!

It came out looking like a bad attempt at faux good girl art. So weird...maybe it's just the blue pencil affecting my judgment, but to me the rendering has that contemporary comics style I've never wanted to emulate--and yet, apparently it's how I sketch now!

 

I'm tempted to take my usual PhoSho pass at correcting all the little things that bug me, and compare THAT one as well...but mainly I just wanted to share this to show the (amusing) differences between what I thought I was drawing and the real thing. Always instructive to see

 the things you miss, and the things you change without noticing....

Hey,  I was really trying to be accurate!