I've decided. I'm going to be posting essays on this blog and making a video essay version to upload to youtube. I just need to find a way to decently record the video segments... I'll find a way. I already have a topic outline of the essay. I might have it by next week but the video part might be awhile from now. Such is life....
New horizons!
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Sunday, September 23, 2018
Sketches of My Studies and a Refinement of My Style
I believe that my style has evolved once more. I have no idea how to describe it but it seems to have become more unified and "internally consistent" in its form.
It's different somehow, but it's for the better. It is here that you can also see some sketches of mine where I was consciously and forcing myself to draw in a more Mignola-esque style. The reference is in Hellboy: The Conqueror Worm, bottom left panel. That's one of the particular images from Mike Mignola's canon of art that has always struck me and has burned itself in the depths of my imagination. I should probably make a series on that one day, "Artwork That Has Struck Me". That would be a good idea.
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It's different somehow, but it's for the better. It is here that you can also see some sketches of mine where I was consciously and forcing myself to draw in a more Mignola-esque style. The reference is in Hellboy: The Conqueror Worm, bottom left panel. That's one of the particular images from Mike Mignola's canon of art that has always struck me and has burned itself in the depths of my imagination. I should probably make a series on that one day, "Artwork That Has Struck Me". That would be a good idea.
Here are some other sketches where I actively emulate Mignola, but no as hard as with the last sketch, and play around with some mild cartooning.
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Lazy Week, Lazy Doodling
Sorry I didn't make the post yesterday, I was doing something. I'm back again for whoever finds this interesting, the scant one or two people out there, assuming there are even that many. No, I'm not bitter or anything, this stuff takes time to build up and I'm not surprised or angry no one is noticing me or anything. This is more of a personal exercise for me anyway, see how long I can sustain this kind of a project. Doing okay so far. I want to sustain this.
Oh yes, my secret Public Domain novel adaptation project is going well too. I had just recently finished writing it in its rough "script" form, if you can call it a script, and the thumbnails are not too far off themselves, those too are rough. I can start refining them further, soon enough. It's standing at twenty-eight pages so far. I wonder how long I need to finish drawing all of it.
Anyway, have some drawings.
There was another but it was stubborn and wouldn't upload for some weird reason. I wanted to talk about that one a lot too. Sad.
Oh yes, my secret Public Domain novel adaptation project is going well too. I had just recently finished writing it in its rough "script" form, if you can call it a script, and the thumbnails are not too far off themselves, those too are rough. I can start refining them further, soon enough. It's standing at twenty-eight pages so far. I wonder how long I need to finish drawing all of it.
Anyway, have some drawings.
There was another but it was stubborn and wouldn't upload for some weird reason. I wanted to talk about that one a lot too. Sad.
More lettering practice. I think I"m getting better at this.
Sunday, September 2, 2018
Reaching into my Inner Mignola-clone and Other Things
I got my order for an Ames Lettering Guide, it's from Alvin (the brand and not some person named Alvin). I've been wanting this for awhile now, now that I do have it I absolutely love it.
I dove in and set it to the often quoted 3 1/2 setting from Todd Klein's blog, letterer extraordinaire, and I got somewhat confused.... Do you see what I see?
The paper, as you can see, is standard US Letter size. The setting Todd Klein uses is quite small, very much proportional to the general measurement of the very same lettering on reproduced art, that is the final product that you see in floppies, in trade paperbacks, in omnibuses, and other sorts of comics. Thus, the setting that Todd Klein says that you should use matches the size for the art once scaled down since the reproduced art is half the size or less of that which you see in what is offered to the usual comic book reading public, those who buy original art aside. Once scaled up to the usual size that the original art has, that is around 10X15", 11X17, or A3, to be proportional the lettering setting should also be scaled up to at least the 7 setting. Reproduced art is just half of that or less than that. Anyway, with this realization which might not even be true at all and I'm just going off on some weird logic, I set my own Lettering Guide to 8 and played around with 6 and went off with that. here's how it went. (I remember seeing some letterers working on reproduced art and Klein working on overlays over the original art, so I don't really know. It might just be something particular to the letterer and there isn't a set standard.)
Most of these are with the 3 1/2 setting.
Also, here's some doodles.
The paper, as you can see, is standard US Letter size. The setting Todd Klein uses is quite small, very much proportional to the general measurement of the very same lettering on reproduced art, that is the final product that you see in floppies, in trade paperbacks, in omnibuses, and other sorts of comics. Thus, the setting that Todd Klein says that you should use matches the size for the art once scaled down since the reproduced art is half the size or less of that which you see in what is offered to the usual comic book reading public, those who buy original art aside. Once scaled up to the usual size that the original art has, that is around 10X15", 11X17, or A3, to be proportional the lettering setting should also be scaled up to at least the 7 setting. Reproduced art is just half of that or less than that. Anyway, with this realization which might not even be true at all and I'm just going off on some weird logic, I set my own Lettering Guide to 8 and played around with 6 and went off with that. here's how it went. (I remember seeing some letterers working on reproduced art and Klein working on overlays over the original art, so I don't really know. It might just be something particular to the letterer and there isn't a set standard.)
Also, here's some doodles.
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| These were in the last couple days. |
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| Some sketches. |
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| Me calling on my inner Mike Mignola. |
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