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| Goodies from A* readers, gosh! | May 16, 2012 3:02 AM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Man! Today was a pretty awesome day thanks to A* readers. :D First, I was surprised to find a package on my porch as I went out today, 'cause I couldn't recall having ordered anything recently. And I hadn't, but it was the last item from the A* Amazon Wish List: Gary Martin's The Art of Comic Book Inking. Man! That's three out of three wish list things A* readers bought for me. :D Thanks to this latest lovely wish-fulfiller, and those of wishes past. :DD (More about the book below.)
And then an A* reader who just happens to live right down the street from me (what are the odds??) had me over for ice cream. Yep! All the other webcomic authors are jealous now, I bet. (So if you live near a webcomic author, do invite them over for iced cream--they will probably be pretty happy about it.)
It's a lame kind of thank you to all my lovely readers but um well I've had this sketch laying around for a while now 'cause I was too lazy to get it electronicized, but now I have done it! Behold:
That was from way back when I got some Copic Multiliner markers and kind of went nuts with the tiny lines and cross hatchings in this sketch. I filled in the larger black areas with a brush. I think I decided after this trial that I wouldn't do *quite* that much crosshatching again; you can get kind of an olde stylee engraving effect with a ton of crosshatching, but it also sort of freezes the subject in place as the linear energy is all crossed over itself.
Oh yeah I wanted to talk more about ice cream! No wait about The Art of Comic Book Inking! Based on an initial skim-through, it's an even niftier book than I'd suspected. The first part goes in-depth about the nuts and bolts of inking, and then it goes into loads of examples of actual penciled comic pages, each inked by a bunch of different artists--and each of them then discuss in quite a bit of detail what their idea for the inking of that page was, exactly what tools they used on it, and how they did the whole thing. Each different inking gets a full page picture and full page explanation, and it's easy and quite interesting to flip between and compare the results. And then, the last part of the book is taken up by folded-over full-size comic Bristol boards with the same pencil examples printed on them in "non-photo" blue, so you can have a go at inking them your own self, if you want! I dunno if I'll do that, since I'd rather spend that time on my own stuff, but it's neat to see what a standard penciled comic page kinda looks like. One of the pages is even a Jack Kirby drawing! It doesn't have that fine subtle shading that I talked about seeing in a video of other work of his yesterday, though, so I dunno if that shading I thought I saw was real or not. I'll have to see if I can find some good photos or scans of his work online that have it--maybe I was just imaging it. :P
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