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.
"Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton is is both incredibly funny and... a fabulous example of how to keep pen and paper action sequences just as dynamic as they are on a moving screen." From this @Polygon's comics spotlight (by @NerdGerhl): https://t.co/YbwOA6Yevi
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.