Johnny is just the gift that keeps giving.
You can tell that O’Hirn is pretty happy with their tight bonds. This band of bros.
This is one of the last of the older set that I did. There are a lot of things that make me mad. The biggest thing is the camera angle. I knew when I was drawing it that it was a weak choice, but at the time I couldn’t care less. Because I’m lazy I decided that I’d draw all of these in my sketchbook. That means I only have so much space to work with. The second that I realized that I finally drew a rhino that fit on the page? DONE DEAL.
I drew so many rhinos….ugh.
This comic has better flatting to support it, but you can tell that I got trés lazy with the shading. When I get my brain around that, I’ll have a pretty good looking page. Well, color-wise.
I finally finished a drawing-reading book! It was super useful. Titled Framed Ink it talked a lot about how to frame shots, get continuous movement (don’t cross the cameras line!) and have a cohesive layout. It was heavily illustrated, with a lot of step-by-step instructions. That type of methodical writing is something my dense self loves. The whole book is just chock full of lessons I obviously need to pay attention to.
If you’re more of a beginner in those subjects, the best intro book to the composition of a page is hands down Molly Bang’s Picture This: How Pictures Work. It’s literally a book for children on how shapes effect story telling. It retells Red Riding Hood with just shapes. It’s a little shy of a hundred pages (but it’s really 50 since every other page is a picture) and it is so elucidating on this subject. Page composition and how shapes illicit emotion is one of the hardest conversations to participate in art. If you can do it, it means you can justify modern art to a layman, and that’s crazy art skills. Bang won’t make you a master, but she’ll make the words more comfortable on your tongue, and that start leads to being able to build a better view of art.
Yeah! So! Go read those books….if you’re inclined.
Thanks for stopping!
Characters © Marvel Comics. Creative content © Sheli Hay