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Hey! To anyyone watching, I've decided to extend my break from Deviantart to work on a 12 page short for The Silent Manga Audition. The contest ends in March, so I'm gonna be working like mad to get it done. However, since the new phone I recently bought is not a piece of crap, I've created an Instagram for pictures of my sketches, which is WAY less time-consuming than having to scan everything in and post it to Deviantart. So, for the time being that's where I'll be. I also need to loosen up my sketches and become less addicted to showing every little thing I do, which is kinda contradictory, but with Instagram I can experiment without showing the whole page. I want to put some of the fun back into my art which I've been lacking a lot of lately.
Will Terrell discusses that here:
www.pencilkings.com/will-terre…
I want to try styles from some out-of-the-box creators and properties like:
Maddie C. @ verticalart.tumblr.com
Daisuke Nakayama @ Ugat.tumblr.com
James Harvey
Jamie Hewlett
Alexandre "Zedig" Diboine
Ulysses Malasagne (KAIROS)
Kim Jung Gi
FLCL
Tengen Toppa
Kill La Kill
Revolution Girl Utena & other 90's anime
HannakDraws
Nate Simpson
S.A.M Xiao Shang
American cartoonists:
Tyson Hesse, Creature Box, Ryan Ottley
And a whole bunch of french artists
Olivier Coipel
And of course, Moebius.
In short, I just want to kind of break away from this manga style for a while, study and dissect different kinds of art, then come back with something new to add to my manga style. Something that would make it more textured, or flavored if you will. 'Cause a major problem I see with a lot anime-influenced american comic artists, new or old, is that manga/anime seems to be their predominating influence. Which isn't a bad thing... until backgrounds are concerned. It's just that those who diversify, become much more well-rounded over time. I feel it's really a matter of storytelling influences, but that's another topic for another journal.
Anyway you can find me here:
comicsink.tumblr.com/
instagram.com/comiken/
twitter.com/TheComiKen
See ya later!
Will Terrell discusses that here:
www.pencilkings.com/will-terre…
I want to try styles from some out-of-the-box creators and properties like:
Maddie C. @ verticalart.tumblr.com
Daisuke Nakayama @ Ugat.tumblr.com
James Harvey
Jamie Hewlett
Alexandre "Zedig" Diboine
Ulysses Malasagne (KAIROS)
Kim Jung Gi
FLCL
Tengen Toppa
Kill La Kill
Revolution Girl Utena & other 90's anime
HannakDraws
Nate Simpson
S.A.M Xiao Shang
American cartoonists:
Tyson Hesse, Creature Box, Ryan Ottley
And a whole bunch of french artists
Olivier Coipel
And of course, Moebius.
In short, I just want to kind of break away from this manga style for a while, study and dissect different kinds of art, then come back with something new to add to my manga style. Something that would make it more textured, or flavored if you will. 'Cause a major problem I see with a lot anime-influenced american comic artists, new or old, is that manga/anime seems to be their predominating influence. Which isn't a bad thing... until backgrounds are concerned. It's just that those who diversify, become much more well-rounded over time. I feel it's really a matter of storytelling influences, but that's another topic for another journal.
Anyway you can find me here:
comicsink.tumblr.com/
instagram.com/comiken/
twitter.com/TheComiKen
See ya later!
The 10-Minute Drawing WARMUP
I've been doing videos for a while now!
Check this one out for a BADASS drawing warmup.
Pareto Principle In Art study
It's an oft-heard of idea in business, but I'd say that Pareto's 80/20 principle would also apply well to art study.
The Pareto principle is the idea that 20% of the work gets you 80% of the results (may be oversimplified here, but you get the general idea.).
To illustrate, say you have 10 categories of art study:
Perspective
Facial ExpressionInkingColor TheoryLight and ShadeFigure DrawingBackgroundsCompositionRenderingPaintingWhich TWO would you pick to get you the MAJORITY of initial results when making comics?
In comics, or illustration in general, wouldn't you say that if 20 percent of all that you learn is perspective and figu
Is it more effective to craft your style?
Just a quick question to get you thinking about something that's been on my mind for a while now.
Is it more effective to craft your style?
As opposed to sort of just letting it happen naturally over time?
I feel like most people do a mixture of both as they progress, so it's not really a binary, one-or-the-other type decision, or really much to think about :T
But I've spent the week writing an "article" about this idea, until just now deciding to truncate it to get the idea across. If you want to see what I had so far, the link to the unfinished doc with notes is here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQHOlrro2oeGP1xwRt89Diy
Retreading
After such a long break, getting back into the swing of things is pretty hard. It's like re-watching a movie you didn't finish the first time; trudging through the beginning to get to the parts you haven't seen yet. That's what it feels like to return to drawing and improving. But I haven't gotten to the improving part yet, lol. I'm still just retreading old ground and re-establishing my old skills, which unmistakably diminished (somewhat -_-).
But I came back with a new understanding of life in general that's basically guiding this whole process. Whereas before, I could easily burn myself out by being too tunnel-visioned on my own conceptua
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