Hey all...
I wanted to point you guys to a great site called Transmission X Comics. There's some great comics on the site and they do some really cool videos, like these videos on storytelling in webcomics. It's a cool discussion on the challenges comic artists in a digital realm.
So check out the site and enjoy!
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Monday, December 17, 2007
The Proof Is In The Work
Hey All! Well Josh and I finally got together to podcast and work for a bit and I thought I would show you all some pictures from us working. We typically will podcast at one person's house and then head out to the local Barnes And Noble to get some work done in their fine coffee establishments. Enjoy the pics, but beware there's some spoilers if you look too close at my work!
As you can see, my setup is pretty simple. I work on 8.5x11 bristol board and a layout guide that I created for myself using a blue line for easy Photoshop removal. I draw all of my pencils in blue lead too. Those two microns are all I use for inking, except a Sharpie for large black areas.
Josh, however, works pretty large and I gotta say I love working small, but I equally love seeing large finished art work. So I'm slightly jealous. Here's Josh working on a new page of "Newman."
And finally a big prideful nudge towards our Jacksonville Jaguars and their victory against the Steelers. Note the hat.
Well, Josh and I had fun today. It's been about a year since we first met and its really cool having another comic artist living nearby who thinks remarkably similar to you. If you guys have a fellow artist nearby I recommend getting together to work just like this. It's really fun and gets you away from feeling so lonely at that drawing table.
As you can see, my setup is pretty simple. I work on 8.5x11 bristol board and a layout guide that I created for myself using a blue line for easy Photoshop removal. I draw all of my pencils in blue lead too. Those two microns are all I use for inking, except a Sharpie for large black areas.
Josh, however, works pretty large and I gotta say I love working small, but I equally love seeing large finished art work. So I'm slightly jealous. Here's Josh working on a new page of "Newman."
And finally a big prideful nudge towards our Jacksonville Jaguars and their victory against the Steelers. Note the hat.
Well, Josh and I had fun today. It's been about a year since we first met and its really cool having another comic artist living nearby who thinks remarkably similar to you. If you guys have a fellow artist nearby I recommend getting together to work just like this. It's really fun and gets you away from feeling so lonely at that drawing table.
Friday, December 7, 2007
Two Reviews And Other Thoughts
Well, I'm back and sorry I have been kinda absent lately. It is the holidays and things are busy. Apologies for the lack of an podcasts lately, but Josh and I have plans to get back on that in about a week. We'll both be on winter break, which should open up time. So hang tight, we're doing the best we can! In the meantime however, the next From Death Til Now podcast should become available next week as we close chapter 1!
Which brings me to my question to all of you readers. How did you like the first chapter?! I'm very proud of it and I gotta tell you when I finished it up a couple of months back it was a great feeling. It was nice to see a good chunk of content finally finished and out. So now we get strapped in for a much more dramatic chapter 2!
I also hope to have a nice treat for all of you very soon, so be on the look out for something different very soon.
Now on to the reviews...
Just got back from a screening of The Golden Compass and I have to say I feel some where between pleased and unfulfilled. The book I think is pretty high minded for a book written to a young audience, but much of that stuff is kinda changed for the movies. I don't wish to give much away, only to say that they very cleverly snuck around much of the controversy that has been building up.
I feel unfulfilled because I think it was beautifully done, but the director lacked a lot of pacing in his storytelling. Things moved too quick and he never really lets up to allow the world to captivate us at all. Something I think really set Lord of the Rings out is that Peter Jackson has a great sense of pacing, of letting moments breath or burst on by. This movie felt very much the same tempo all of the way through.
I was pleased by how much this movie felt like reading the book. I kept waiting to know what dust was and all that just like I did in the book.
I'll do a more well rounded review with Josh once we get back to podcasting.
And finally the mother of all graphic novels that have interested me has finally arrived and I gotta say that this is an amazing well crafted graphic novel. It breathes life with each page and the energy of the story never lets up. My only regret with it is that it went by too fast. I blazed right through it, which I think is something really hard to get your readers not to do in comics and will have to be a part of discussion with Josh and I later...
Back to the book. The opening prologue is very very well crafted and I found myself quickly pulled into the story with it. The overall plot I think works really well and I look forward to sitting down and rereading it at a slow pace. I think I gobbled the whole thing up quickly because I was so excited it was out.
Other news...
FDTN Chapter 2 production continues and I'll be putting some final touch ups in on the script and working my way through the new scenes. The next page I'll be drawing is, in my opinion, the most epic image yet in the comic. I'm really looking forward to the challenge that chapter 2 is going to bring to me as I move forward. Each chapter and each new scene of this book feels like climbing up hill all over again. I feel challenged by it all the time. Which is great!
On another note I'm currently working on the script for a graphic novel series that is aimed at a younger audience. The fun thing with it is that I am writing this book so differently from how I usually write; no planning! I have a general idea for the story and what the end is, but that's about the extent of my planning. Instead I'm letting the story write itself and I'll go back into it during the redraft stage of the writing process. This way I hopefully maintain a sense of enthusiasm in writing the script and discovery at new twists the story can take as I go.
Which brings me to my question to all of you readers. How did you like the first chapter?! I'm very proud of it and I gotta tell you when I finished it up a couple of months back it was a great feeling. It was nice to see a good chunk of content finally finished and out. So now we get strapped in for a much more dramatic chapter 2!
I also hope to have a nice treat for all of you very soon, so be on the look out for something different very soon.
Now on to the reviews...
Just got back from a screening of The Golden Compass and I have to say I feel some where between pleased and unfulfilled. The book I think is pretty high minded for a book written to a young audience, but much of that stuff is kinda changed for the movies. I don't wish to give much away, only to say that they very cleverly snuck around much of the controversy that has been building up.I feel unfulfilled because I think it was beautifully done, but the director lacked a lot of pacing in his storytelling. Things moved too quick and he never really lets up to allow the world to captivate us at all. Something I think really set Lord of the Rings out is that Peter Jackson has a great sense of pacing, of letting moments breath or burst on by. This movie felt very much the same tempo all of the way through.
I was pleased by how much this movie felt like reading the book. I kept waiting to know what dust was and all that just like I did in the book.
I'll do a more well rounded review with Josh once we get back to podcasting.
And finally the mother of all graphic novels that have interested me has finally arrived and I gotta say that this is an amazing well crafted graphic novel. It breathes life with each page and the energy of the story never lets up. My only regret with it is that it went by too fast. I blazed right through it, which I think is something really hard to get your readers not to do in comics and will have to be a part of discussion with Josh and I later...
Back to the book. The opening prologue is very very well crafted and I found myself quickly pulled into the story with it. The overall plot I think works really well and I look forward to sitting down and rereading it at a slow pace. I think I gobbled the whole thing up quickly because I was so excited it was out.
Other news...
FDTN Chapter 2 production continues and I'll be putting some final touch ups in on the script and working my way through the new scenes. The next page I'll be drawing is, in my opinion, the most epic image yet in the comic. I'm really looking forward to the challenge that chapter 2 is going to bring to me as I move forward. Each chapter and each new scene of this book feels like climbing up hill all over again. I feel challenged by it all the time. Which is great!
On another note I'm currently working on the script for a graphic novel series that is aimed at a younger audience. The fun thing with it is that I am writing this book so differently from how I usually write; no planning! I have a general idea for the story and what the end is, but that's about the extent of my planning. Instead I'm letting the story write itself and I'll go back into it during the redraft stage of the writing process. This way I hopefully maintain a sense of enthusiasm in writing the script and discovery at new twists the story can take as I go.
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