Final project

These are the thumbnails I have so far.

I was experimenting with the paper size, color, and pen versus ink:

First couple of pages penciled out. For the figure, I want to redraw some of the panels that appear in the comic later, so this page will have to be finished last.

This is what the finished product will kind of look like. I still have a lot to work on such as shading the background in ballpoint and adding some stylistic swirls and/or contrast to make it look more interesting. I am not happy about how thick some of the lines are, so I may want to redo the page.

Creatively Constructed Comics

David Mack's Kabuki: Metamorphosis

Jeff Benham's Forever All

More of his work here: http://belmondotomato.com/

Ben Catmull's Monster Parade

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:

Taking Stuff From Other Artists

My Eyeless Candy character with Love and Rockets:

Jamie Hewlett mermaid thing:

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.

Inspiration...

Just to name a few....

Jamie Hewlett's Tank Girl:

Concept art for Monkey: Journey to the West Opera by Jamie Hewlett also:

Gilbert and Jamie Hernandez's Love and Rockets:

 http://pblejzyk.blogspot.com/

http://yayashin.deviantart.com/

Brom http://www.bromart.com/

Akseli Gallen-Kallela:

And of course, Alphonse Mucha (which I already uploaded a few weeks ago):

Re-worked Landscapes