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  Blame it on Frank MillerApr 06, 2012 1:06 AM PDT | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:^ I blame this one on Frank Miller. Although he has had some pretty hefty PR problems in recent years, before going to Hollywood and Crazy Town, Miller made some really good comics, particularly if you like gritty, high contrast stuff. Today for some reason I got it in my head to see if there were any interviews with him about comics on YouTube, and of course there are! So I compiled some of the more useful ones—where he's actually talking about comics and his thinking that went into them and so forth—into this here playlist; the first interview in particular shows some good examples of his black and white work, the second is I think from earlier days before he went into film, and they both contain some pretty good quotes, like "I don't think there's such a thing as a mistake in art" (or something like that, I'm paraphrasing :P).
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3veX7NgKTM
 
[Edit 5/26/18 - looks like two of the three videos I originally had in that list are no longer on YouTube : P]
 
And after thinking about some of his art and why I didn't really like the art in yesterday's A* page—I mean, it wasn't full of horrible mistakes, but it also just felt a bit too ordinary—I realized that since I've been working in traditional art materials, I've sometimes been lured into trying to illustrate too much. Like, the previous two pages have been establishing shots, but in yesterday's I put in this big black void around the characters, then felt I had to fill it with little details; you'll also notice, if you look at the photos of the earlier stages that I posted yesterday, that at one point I had way more little brush strokes and light and shading in Selenis' clothing—but then I scanned it in and looked at it on the screen and realized all that detail was just distracting, so I blacked it out with a fuzzy old marker, and I think that helped de-clutter that page *a little*. But it still felt flat and lacking in dynamism, and it occurred to me that, well, if that's what I want, I don't necessarily have to illustrate everything around it, in fact maybe I *don't* want to illustrate everything around it, because the more you do that the more it has the effect of crystallizing the moment and making it feel absolutely frozen in time.
 
Or something like that, I dunno. As usual I'll probably change my mind tomorrow. :o
 
 
 
 
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