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[May. 19th, 2012|08:40 am] |
Been awhile! Some recent stuff:
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| Moebius. |
[Mar. 13th, 2012|11:04 am] |
Saturday left us without Moebius, one of my favorite artists. Cancer, cancer... there goes Dave Stevens, Dylan Williams, Moebius, and so on.
But let's discuss the good.
CRAFT
The thing which first attracted me to Moebius's work, and which I still admire most about it, was that ( Read more... ) |
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| Process |
[Feb. 28th, 2012|03:08 am] |
Here are some prelims for recent pics I've done, starting with the "Witch Hazel" pic from my Cartoon Redheads blog.
This first one is a rough to get the feel of the overall shape of the figure. I establish the simplest outside edges first, and then carve out the negative spaces (such as where her legs part), like cutting into a pie.
I did this next one to give myself an idea of what the main lines would look like. As you can see, her feet didn't line up at first. I later decided that it would look better if the toes of both her feet all followed the same arc (which you can see in the diagram of the final version at the left).
Here's my first attempt at her head, followed by the version I ended up with, in which I tried to make her look less "Sabrina" and more mischievous.
Here are a couple of hat designs. Chuck Jones's original design was more cartoony, so he got away with placing the hat on her head like a coin on an egg, but since my version is slightly more realistic, I had to figure out a sensible way to fit her hat onto the dome of her skull, without intruding on her bangs or ponytail.
And here's the rough of my Viveca Lindfors portrait. (I didn't end up doing a rough for the Lisbeth Salander portrait. The final versions of realistic portraits take longer than the finals of cartoon drawings, so I don't always have time to mess around with roughs beforehand.) In this rough, I'm getting a feel for the three-dimensional shape of her head, and the shadow pattern.
And that's that! |
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| Common parlance. |
[Feb. 24th, 2012|07:46 am] |
Yesterday I read this article by Heidi MacDonald, in which she discusses the enormity of the current market for fan art (that is, art which features trademarked characters without permission). Various interesting points were raised, but what struck me most was this reply from artist Ulises Farinas, whose fan art sales Heidi mentioned in her piece:
"After reading this article, i have to admit i feel a little weird. But my only response is, nobody looked at my work until i started drawing black-market licensed work. It is sad, but i gotta pay bills. And if i draw a lego-dude as Green Lantern, everyone is impressed. But if i just draw my own work, everyone’s just 'eh'."
With uncommon frankness, Ulises describes a problem that has troubled artists throughout history: ( Read more... ) |
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[Feb. 19th, 2012|08:42 am] |
Debating whether to devote the requisite free time to that next Toth post. All in favor...? |
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| Grammi Bear |
[Jan. 26th, 2012|11:40 pm] |
Bouncing here and there and everywhere... |
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| Cathy Gale |
[Nov. 17th, 2011|01:31 pm] |
A recent commission. |
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| What if...? |
[Oct. 28th, 2011|02:31 pm] |
Here's my entry for the What If? blog, a fun collection of Marvel fan art:
I hope you'll browse the other entries... my fave is hardcore '80s Ghost Rider. |
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