Creative Stuff for Class: February 2013

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Research and Notes for Final Project

I decided to create my comic on the anxiety/panic attacks I experienced for 2 years. They kind of went away half a year ago, although I still get the itching of them. Here are some of my nonsensical notes:

The text of the comic is going to work like poetry. So I've been listening to a lot of spoken word poetry to get into the mood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZBhEP42aw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgALhKr4ZZo

The best one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dswhhPtpdck&list=UUW4OkAZwGC0xOmqd77FKWsw

Update:

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Taking Stuff From Other Artists

My Eyeless Candy character with Love and Rockets:

Jamie Hewlett mermaid thing:

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Self-Assessment

I find it interesting to look at other people’s techniques for concept art. I have my own way of setting up my concept art, for example, in my comics, but there definitely are some techniques I will adopt. Turnarounds and even something as simple as character heights in relation to each other would be useful things for me to preplan. I want to research how specifically other comic artists preplan their work; I learned from my friend and mentor their technique, but I’m curious to see other’s.

I have already been thinking and jotting notes for my final project comic. I went into a lot of detail for the comic on a previous post, so I won’t repeat it, but I’m excited to get started on it already. The direction of where my art is going (including the comic) is making beautiful and disturbing things. I want to viewer to get those simultaneous, almost contradictory feelings. Below are just some of my favorite works and artists, and a lot of them evoke that effect I’m trying to reach.