Comic Student

22 y/o Billy here, a blog of my learning

[teaganwhite]

“At The Still Hour Of Midnight The Graves Shall Open And A Vast Multitude Shall Rise”, 12"x16", gouache & watercolor on paper. This piece is sold but you can still visit the original at Nucleus Portland until June 22nd!

Wondering about these weird long titles on my pieces? Well, they’re all modified excerpts from a spooky book called “The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer” (published in 1899) which I pulled randomly off a shelf in the occult section of a used book store in Vancouver a couple weeks ago; the Brahan Seer was allegedly the invention of the author as no other record of him exists, but lines from the book are so metal I couldn’t resist using them as inspiration for the titles of a body of work about mystical animal revenge 🌸

[birdsong217]

Isaiah West Taber

Loïe Fuller dancing, 1897.

[parkerandloulou]

Loie Fuller

[comicstudent]

Jody Sperling’s Re-imagining of Loie Fuller's Ballet of Light

[lazulies]

Female artists in their studios

1. Helen Frankenthaler 2. Louise Bourgeois 3. Alice Neel 4. Joan Mitchell 5. Frida Kahlo 6. Georgia O'Keeffe

[thebristolboard]

Gallery from the Silver Surfer Annual #4, published by Marvel Comics, 1991. Pin-ups by: 

1. Joe Brozowski (including original) 

2. Kevin Maguire and Bob Wiacek

3. Klaus Janson

4. John Romita Jr. and Al Williamson

5. Joe Jusko

6. Denys Cowan

7. Mike Zeck

[dappledwithshadow]

Irises

Hokusai, c.1820

Van Gogh, 1890

[iamjapanese]

Mo Xiaosong（莫晓松 Chinese, b.1964）

via

[vjeranski]

Wan Jin GIM

willeys_art

[anagalvandrawings]

Planning and structuring the pages of my long comic

#workinprogress #sketch #pencils http://ift.tt/2kQd4as

[comicstudent]

‘Loving Vincent’. 

I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited for a film. 

[artist-kirchner]

Head of a Woman in Front of Sunflowers by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

[anyaisdead-deactivated20220908]

Hello again! I was wondering if you had any thoughts on the power of colour in comics, your work features a lot of very bright bold colouring to the point that it becomes a major aspect of your signature style, what do you think the effects of colour bring to comics as opposed to black and white / monochrome comics?

Commicstudent do you have any idea how much I love you?! Your questions are so awesome, and I am so impressed with your dedication to investigating all aspects of the medium. Also, I often find this stuff hard to articulate but I think writing about it helps me understand my own work better. 

To answer your question: My go-to guys (and gals, since I think it was mostly women working as colorists in the pre-code era, most notably Marie Severin) for color inspiration are the colorists from classic EC horror and war comics. They used lots of non-local color and their aim was more to create drama than to represent things as they are.

Here’s an example:

http://raggedclaws.com/tag/fantagraphics/page/3/

I use black-spotting in my work, but I don’t use it to create volume with light and shadow the way that living gods like the Hernandez brothers or Charles burns do. Their work doesn’t need color because all the volume is there in the blacks. I’m more influenced by “funnies” artists like Milt Gross and John Stanley in that respect. I use wackier, more basic lines to create movement, and then the color helps provide depth-it hopefully helps the reader to understand the space a little better. My goal is to make the work easy to read and eye-popping.

Here’s some beautiful John Stanley for you:

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/comics/john-stanley-20563.html

Okay we’ll I’d better get back to work but PLEASE keep up the fantastic work and hit me up whenever you like <3<3<3

[comicstudent]

Hi Anya,

Thank you so much for replying again and giving your answer so much thought and consideration! Your comments on volume really helped me to articulate my analysis of ‘Black Hole’, and you definitely made me consider colour and composition from a different angle after considering your strips in relation to Kurtzman‘s ‘Dying City’ in the above link. 

My dissertation has now been finished and handed in so I’m really grateful for the insight you gave me into the comics medium from an artist’s perspective as it has made me appreciate all the work that goes into the creation of comics a lot more! Also, my essay ended up focusing on ‘Black Hole’ by Charles Burns and ‘Gaylord Phoenix’ by Edie Fake, the latter I would not have come across if you had not suggested it, so your help really was crucial to shaping my finished essay!

So yeah, just a really big thank you!

[alyssa-berg]

ALPENGLOW

by Alyssa Berg

Comics Workbook 2015 Composition Competition

[sebastianxtan]

[comicstudent]

How to catch a Thor: lie about the Tube Map.

See one way to do it would be to take the Northern Line, change at Waterloo and get the Jubilee to Canary Wharf then take the Docklands Light Railway to Greenwich, unless of course you want North Greenwich in which case the Jubilee can just take you right there.

[comicstudent]

Embodiment and Empathy and my sprawling ideas...

So somehow my thesis on explaining how comics is an inherently empathetic medium has descended into an interdisciplinary dissertation that encompasses the fields of neuroscience and cognitive processing, medical humanities, disability studies, art therapy and the theory of art. The application of these theories seeks to analyse the embodied aspect of comics, but I feel like my tutors will be surprised when they read it given that it is the final piece of coursework towards my Masters in Literature.

Also, you can tell I've got a high word count, because I'm talking like this. ^

[oh-glasgow]

In the news today; a man doesn’t sing the national anthem. Never mind the ongoing refugee crisis, or the child tax credits cut though, yeah?

[comicstudent]

I guess you haven’t heard the news that David Cameron face-fucked a pig.