Hey, it's Albrecht Dürer's 650th birthday today! Celebrate by basking in the radiance of his drawing of Jesus doing communion with pirates
I've done next to nothing but this Trigger Keaton fightin' story for the Skybound X anthology for the past couple weeks or thereabouts. But it's done!
I'm currently drawing page after page after page after page of sidekicks fighting stuntmen and I'm having a real good time.
Just saw a thing about learning perspective, and it reminded me how invaluable I found slim-and-to-the-point PAT QUINN's BASIC PERSPECTIVE FOR COMICS & ILLUSTRATION when I was learning it. None of the other books clicked for me but man alive, Pat's was exactly what I needed.
Thought I'd share my approach to placing figures in an environment, which I use a lot in wider shots that establish the location of a given scene and the spatial relationships of the characters to it, and to each other.
Thought I'd share my approach to placing figures in an environment, which I use a lot in wider shots that establish the location of a given scene and the spatial relationships of the characters to it, and to each other.
Today's Charles Schulz's 100th birthday. Peanuts means a lot to me and my family, but there's one factor of his work that I've thought about an awful lot, and which I wrote about in a (comics) essay for a Peanuts tribute book some years back. 1/2
My favorite prequel-era thing was when they had Obi-Wan go full Jedi KNIGHT, armor and all.
A quick thread comparing the ages of the characters in Alexander Dumas's THE THREE MUSKETEERS and the ages of the actors playing them in adaptations: 1/
Tightened pencils!
I got an ipad so that i can work not-at-the-desk sometimes (I've gotten to the point where I almost exclusively do my pencils digitally, so to do anything other than fool around I needed something screeny). First sketch on it that I'm pretty happy with (about ten sketches in):
Commission for a Patreon backer, from the HOLLOW KNIGHT game
Me and & @TheKyleStarks's newest, from @Skybound/@ImageComics: 6 SIDEKICKS OF TRIGGER KEATON When the worst man in Hollywood is murdered, his 6 former supporting actors (whose careers he tanked) have to fight stuntpeople, ninjas, bikers, & more if they want to solve the crime.