ART RAMBLINGS (aka I’m back!)
While I’m not quick to throw a tutorial out there for anyone, I get asked to show some semblance of process with my comic/illustration work. I’m usually hesitant to for silly reasons but will be quick to point out how awesome it is to see the energy on other fellow artists’ work.
My fellow “Dong-seng” (동생 ) Mackenzi Ko sort of challenged me to cut the silliness out and show some stuff, so that’s what I’m doing. We inspire each other enough to push our work as far as we can within the limits of a dayjob, so I figure this challenge will be fun too.
If anything, I’m hoping to show that any art really comes from some bit of careful planning and that no piece starts out looking neat and tight. No one person draws exactly the same as we all reach our conclusions based on our own visual language but one thing is for sure.
Hopefully this inspires someone to work through the muddiness that art can be sometimes…just like your favorite animator, illustrator, or comic artist does.
For my own visual clarity, I don’t always start with a blank (white) file. I used to and after a while it just didn’t work out for me. I sketch with brighter colors for this same reason, blocking in masses with white since it works within the medium I’m creating. This also helps me understand how blocks of negative and active space work out in a page or an illustration, compositionally.
While all of my notes aren’t present here, there’s a lot of problem-solving that happens with any image in comics or animation. Expressing what you need and want in these early stages prevents needless frustration with the end result. It’s the kind of patience that really didn’t grow on me until I worked digitally.
I can’t express this more but just remember that everyone is different. Sometimes, once I get the basic understanding of where I want things to be I start finalizing. The power of digital is what it is, since I can easily attack a noticeable issue without too much consequence. Normally, I wait and actually do all parts of the process in order with each panel. With this page, I wasn’t with the shits, I guess.
I wanted to get right to it. Again, That’s the power of Ctrl+Z.
Anyways, I hope this was somewhat helpful to someone and at the very least I’m showing what I consider to be a look into my somewhat organized yet chaotic process of how I make things.
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