This happened while i was watching TV. Loki being all presidential. I liked it. I dunno if i will do it all nice with the computer or not. Maybe.
I like his look in vote Loki, cus waistcoats are sexy. I made his hair a little long, to make up for the tragic loss of Thor’s hair. I can not deal with short haired Asgardians, it’s just wrong.
Kentauroi - Tayla Modelsheet http://bit.ly/17jkRhL
This is a fascinating read (well, to me anyway). Sometimes, when you are so familiar with the language of comics, either as a creator or a reader, you get to the point where things that would be baffling to the layperson are second nature to you, and you don’t even think about it. that someone might not understand a comic seems strange, because we know the secret language, and can compensate when they do something with the layout that might be confusing to someone unfamiliar with the medium (either due to lack of storytelling skill, or them trying to do something different and innovative). I think there is definitely a place for comics that push boundaries in terms of structure, layout etc. but I think more people have to remember to put clarity over coming up with strange and innovative layouts sometimes. I’m not saying we have to dumb comics down, just prioritize storytelling over pretty.
Before Photoshop
I miss them still…
They really were that size: paintings and assemblages that Dave would take to get photographed, and send the transparency to DC Comics to use as a cover.
3d views of Dave McKean’s original assemblages for SANDMAN covers.
Imagine the balls required to pitch this to your editor for a monthly comic book series.
Imagine the editor who said yes.
The Earthquake Rose: When a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook Olympia, Wash., in 2001, shopowner Jason Ward discovered that a sand-tracing pendulum had recorded the vibrations in the image above…
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“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.” —Albert Einstein
Though I did not think it possible, I have found something more tedious to draw than scales… feathers. I’ve had this guy in the works for a long time now, but every time I open it, I get to inking the feathers (I used a method in Photoshop to give a rough vector inking of the pencil drawing as a starting point, but it still needs work to smooth things over afterwards, and it really lost it with the feathers) and I just get bored and don’t finish. :p As with scales, it’s just so repetitive. And then there’s those veins in the middle of the feathers that are taking the longest. (and of course you can’t even really tell when it’s shrunk down for the web, but I sell 70 inch posters, so needs to be high res!) But I really like how the face and tail look… (but I always do have fun with the hair) I am determined to finish the inks on this tonight, though.
