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Comics... heh. I'd love to. But I work really slow and I'm learning a lot during the process and then I go over it so I'll remember how something works better.
Comics take a lot of time in my opinion and probably I'd like to get there one day, but 'til then I'm going to keep polishing these critters, coming up with new ones and animating some simpler things with them. Ideally I'd like to work them in vectors, but that's a complete unknown territory for me.
We'll see how this goes
Comics take a lot of time in my opinion and probably I'd like to get there one day, but 'til then I'm going to keep polishing these critters, coming up with new ones and animating some simpler things with them. Ideally I'd like to work them in vectors, but that's a complete unknown territory for me.
We'll see how this goes
Gaspard said:
Just a word of advice here: don't fall for the same trap most wannabe artists fall for, that being: don't waste all your time on characters. Drawing characters is the easiest thing to master. I see tons of "artists" showing of their uber skills at drawing characters and playing with anatomy, and they can show me wonderful things, things I'd never be able to put onto paper myself, but in 99% of the cases it'll be the only thing they excel at. Which is sad.
Everyone can draw a comic consisting of characters against an empty or blurry background. There's no art in that anymore. If anything, comics need a living breathing world to animate your characters. Personally I find that concentrating on everything but the characters gets you more and better results in the shortest amount of time. I filled twenty sketchbooks with characters, but in all honesty, it was just twenty sketchbooks of me being in stasis, of not getting anywhere. Once I tackled rooms, furniture, buildings, cities, cars, ... I finally felt like I was getting somewhere.
That doesn't take away the fact that I like your characters a lot. They seem like the perfect little vehicles to make short comics or cartoons with. I'm thinking "post-apoc Peanuts" or something. So yeah, just keep doing what you're doing. You'll get there eventually.
Gaspard
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Thanks for the advice and feedback in general, alec, very much appreciated.
I'm painfully aware of the fact that just characters are not going to be enough for any breakthroughs here. I'm a big fan of some anime/manga artists for their fucking crazy enviros - namely Tatsuyuki Tanaka with his dystopian cyber-punk world.
Have you got any artists (no matter what field or genre) who are.. well, who you appreciate for their abilities and/or creativeness ? Perhaps any who stand out with their environment/setting art ?
I'm painfully aware of the fact that just characters are not going to be enough for any breakthroughs here. I'm a big fan of some anime/manga artists for their fucking crazy enviros - namely Tatsuyuki Tanaka with his dystopian cyber-punk world.
Have you got any artists (no matter what field or genre) who are.. well, who you appreciate for their abilities and/or creativeness ? Perhaps any who stand out with their environment/setting art ?
My main influences as a cartoonist are Chester Brown, Seth, Pont, Chris Ware, Hergé and Milt Gross, but you'll have a hard time finding any resemblances to their work in my Panopticum stuff (I'm very much focussed on technique, rather than style, if you know what I mean). I'm pretty confident that my bean people are my own thing.
The best one in that list is no doubt Chris Ware, who masters pretty much everything comics related, so if you don't know him, check him out, 'cause he's totally worth it.
The best artist out there is still reality. I'm much more influenced by isometric games, for instance, than by other cartoonists (which is a good thing). If you want to draw cities and buildings, then a book on architecture is way better than imitating your favourite cartoonist.
For my iso drawings, for instance, I'll sometimes buy a 1:72 plastic model kit (of a plane or a car or whatever), so that I can look at the "real" thing and translate it to my own style. Or I'll make a model myself (I frequently make critters out of FIMO) so that I can very easily place them in certain environments, change lighting, POV - and all of that in real time.
I also looked into right/left brain drawing techniques and that really paid off.
In short: everything I see, hear, read, feel... has the potential to influence me more than my favourite cartoonists do. And I think that's the best way to do it (but probably not the only way).
The best one in that list is no doubt Chris Ware, who masters pretty much everything comics related, so if you don't know him, check him out, 'cause he's totally worth it.
The best artist out there is still reality. I'm much more influenced by isometric games, for instance, than by other cartoonists (which is a good thing). If you want to draw cities and buildings, then a book on architecture is way better than imitating your favourite cartoonist.
For my iso drawings, for instance, I'll sometimes buy a 1:72 plastic model kit (of a plane or a car or whatever), so that I can look at the "real" thing and translate it to my own style. Or I'll make a model myself (I frequently make critters out of FIMO) so that I can very easily place them in certain environments, change lighting, POV - and all of that in real time.
I also looked into right/left brain drawing techniques and that really paid off.
In short: everything I see, hear, read, feel... has the potential to influence me more than my favourite cartoonists do. And I think that's the best way to do it (but probably not the only way).
Gaspard
Kasparov
Let's resurrect this baby!
Boring butt doodle, but the theme made me want to share here at NMA
Thanks, alec. A few years late, but they do say a thank you never rusts. Or do they say that of old love?
Meanwhile, I've now graduated and have my BFA and I've already left Russia. After a few years of struggling with existential questions like "can a fine artist make pulp book covers?" *vomit* I've decided that yeah, it's OK and I shouldn't worry about shit too much and have to do shit instead. So I've been doing post-apoc related pictures lately and I guess I'll post something here again whenever I remember to
[spoiler:43442a6898]OK, and here's one of the recent things I've been doing. WIP
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Boring butt doodle, but the theme made me want to share here at NMA
alec said:
Thanks, alec. A few years late, but they do say a thank you never rusts. Or do they say that of old love?
Meanwhile, I've now graduated and have my BFA and I've already left Russia. After a few years of struggling with existential questions like "can a fine artist make pulp book covers?" *vomit* I've decided that yeah, it's OK and I shouldn't worry about shit too much and have to do shit instead. So I've been doing post-apoc related pictures lately and I guess I'll post something here again whenever I remember to
[spoiler:43442a6898]OK, and here's one of the recent things I've been doing. WIP
Great stuff all around, dude. I love that last one.
Gaspard
Kasparov
Here's some early fan-art for the upcoming Torment
Yah - that is a flying carpet right there, offering some much needed shade on a long walk in the desert
Yah - that is a flying carpet right there, offering some much needed shade on a long walk in the desert
Gaspard
Kasparov
Haha, you know I had totally forgotten Mutant Boy altogether, but while resurrecting the thread I saw him again. So maybe I will
Gaspard
Kasparov
BIG GUNS
Had not seen this yet. Very nice.
Walpknut
This ghoul has seen it all
Good stuff, it kind of reminds me of The Binding of Isaac.
Nice work Gaspard, especially the use of shadows and colors. You also got a very fluent and effortless style
Gaspard
Kasparov
Here's a Mutants Rising demo fan-art piece, sorta. It's Tom, the mayor's kid tinkering with the old radio. Duh.
The quality's pretty homo for some reason... jay pegs.
Alec, did you notice the lipstick and fleshlight I included there, just for you?
The quality's pretty homo for some reason... jay pegs.
Alec said:
Alec, did you notice the lipstick and fleshlight I included there, just for you?
Gaspard
Kasparov
this one's rad-themed so there ya go
if you cultivate your skills more, you could become a really decent illustrator. And I do understand the one or other thing about design, you can believe me that.
Gaspard said:this one's rad-themed so there ya go
Simple but fun!
Gaspard
Kasparov
thank you crni, zegh
I did this and a bunch more for an art blog - the topic was "bugmen"
EDIT: here are some of the other ones and this one in a higher res
[spoiler:5249d41cff]
"the duel"
"pirate"
"mummy's revenge"
"crocodile tears"
"bugmen" (oh no - it's larger than I thought...) - a sort of fallout reference in there as well, with that name
and "kangaroo", I didn't think too much with this one and just did a tribute to the new launch of Tank Girl comics
[/spoiler:5249d41cff]
I did this and a bunch more for an art blog - the topic was "bugmen"
EDIT: here are some of the other ones and this one in a higher res
[spoiler:5249d41cff]
"the duel"
"pirate"
"mummy's revenge"
"crocodile tears"
"bugmen" (oh no - it's larger than I thought...) - a sort of fallout reference in there as well, with that name
and "kangaroo", I didn't think too much with this one and just did a tribute to the new launch of Tank Girl comics
[/spoiler:5249d41cff]