Oct 4, 2014
Speaking as a comic maker, any thoughts on Moebius?
haven't read it sorry
I'm like not good when it comes to reading comics in general :'D
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Speaking as a comic maker, any thoughts on Moebius?
haven't read it sorry
I'm like not good when it comes to reading comics in general :'D
Have you ever used Krita for doing your digital art before? If you have, how would you say it compares to Clip Studio Paint?
Never tried it sorry : <
I'm trying to think up some challenges/memes/prompts for making comics for the beginners and the art/writing blocked of us comic creators online and off. Other than what Scott McCloud has, do you have any ideas? I already have a few, like a two part 20 page story where the artist and writer switch places between parts, or trying to tell a story with no words or dialogue...
hmm..... okay lemme just dig a little in my memory bank...
Ah!
Back when I studied comics two-three years ago, we often had these little "games" that challenged us in a very fun and relaxed way but still kept us active drawing.
I remember two of these "games" the most:
"The Marvel/DC method"
Basically everyone gets a random title.
After that you write a script for a short 2-3 page comic.
Hand out the scripts in random order to everyone.
Now you're gonna sketch the comic pages based on someone else's script.
When the sketches are done, repeat the process again when it's time to ink the pages.
(we called it "marvel/DC method" since most professional comic artists in sweden (and many other countries with a tiny comic industry) do most work on their own, and not in a team.)
"Comic Relay Race"
You arrange the chairs/desks so everyone is sitting in a circle/around the room, then you hand out a page to each person. Set the timer to 2-5 minutes, the artists now are going to draw only the first panel on their comic page.
Once everyone is finished or the timer runs out, you hand your page over to the person sitting to your left side. Set the timer again and now everyone will draw the second panel. Repeat this till the comic page is finished. This is a really fun game since the comics can turn out really random but also really funny.
hhhh okay these are the two I can come up with right now, I know we had a couple of more games but I can't remember how they worked.
If little games isn't enough for you, maybe try out the 24-hour comic challenge? I think the official event is happening right now actually (anyone can join it if they want).
The challenge is basically that you have 24 hours to make a 24 page long comic, everyone will get a random title to use for their comic as a starting prompt.
If 24 hours of drawing without any proper sleep is a bit overkill, make it a 8 or 16 hour long challenge.
I'm personally not that good at coming up with stories/plots myself, but I have some "basic knowledge". And tbh the comics I've made from these kind of events actually got pretty good stories than I expected.
Here's examples of comics I made from previous 24h comic events:
"The Angel from the Tales"(2011)
"Destroy your inner cosmos"(2013)
Other than that, the only thing I know that works for me is when I don't think too much about the outcome. Don't be afraid of messing around with the plot or the way you draw the characters. It's good to make mistakes and screw it up here and there.
hmm... ah one more thing I've learned from when I was a teen and tried making my own comics: Set a page limit and don't bite off more than you can chew.
For example a friend of mine made a whole comic about a guy that turned into a talking hamburger - just because he wanted to use as many food-puns as possible in the dialogue.
I think this is all I can give you right now. I hope you'll find it useful :D
Do you do commissions?
sorry I don't do commissions nowadays unu
What is style? I draw what I see, so when I draw people they turn out like the reference I used, so when I show people they're like "that's cool, but when are you going to get your own style? Ya know, like this *then shows me cartoon like drawings*" should I stay with my realistic drawings? I find it difficult to "draw with style"
First off I think it's REALLY rude to ask an artist "when are you gonna get your own art style?" because that's putting unwanted expectations from you. Not to mention that an art style doesn't have to look cartoony to count as a style, have ppl completely ignored the history of art styles??????????
My guess tho is that they're actually talking more about your creativity - copying from photos aren't really considered as being creative nowadays (especially if you are a digital artist).
I would say that drawing style is similar to your own handwriting. I think the best way is to stick to what you personally enjoy to draw, but if you're curious why not draw stuff that aren't based from a reference? I mean if you have drawn from references many times, you shouldn't have any problem to draw similar stuff on your own right?
A drawing style doesn't have to look cartoony or anime/manga.
To me, drawing style is also stuff like how an artist prefer to ink/lineart their drawings; do they prefer uniform thin lines or do they enjoy black heavy shadows with dynamic line width?
Style goes also for how the artist prefer to color their artwork, are the colors strong and vivid? Or are they more fond of pastell toned color schemes?
For traditional artists, style can also be about their preferred choice of art materials. That in itself can be a form of art (like you know artists who makes giant sculptures out of M'n'M's and similar stuff)
And for many many MANY artists, their style often has to do about what they personally enjoy to draw - some artists simply just wanna draw pinups, or dragons, or portraits of their pets.
Style is more or less the things in your artwork that indicates it's done by you. Just like how we can recognize the handwriting on a lot of people.
Art style is maybe a bit like your own "visual" accent or dialect or personal smell.
tl;dr: art style is your own choice and you have all right to draw what you want.
What are good art exercises to do regularly or daily?
Dooooodles of all kinds of things : 3 draw from photos and real life and from art you really really love. If you see photo of a cute dress you like - grab your sketchbook and doodle it down. Basically have a sketchbook available when you procrastinate so when you see something cool you can draw it down.
Can you do a tutorial about painting faces, i really love your drawing style
I made a 12 11 part long series of tutorials 3 years ago about drawing faces. You should be able to find it on my deviantart. Tho it's mainly about drawing and not so much on "painting", and it's quite old so don't take everything in the tutorials as "actual facts". But in overall, I cover basically all I know about drawing faces in those tutorials :)
HI there! I might have asked this before; But I too go to a school of faux painting and I told my teachers of your work. They're very intrigued in finding out what school you go to and maybe get some contact going between the schools? :) I'm from Denmark, so xD
the school's known as "Folkuniversitetet Hantverkscentrum Tibro". Here's the schools website if your teachers wanna find out more about it :)