An assignment given by Thomas Pitilli. Illustrating three random words into a concept. I was looking at a lot of Japanese postcard prints and loved the design of the page and conceptual ideas behind them. I also enjoyed the bold lines in the illustrations. I attempted to do a non scratchboard piece and to work out pen & ink skills and feel a bit rusty. But I'd rather put it out there to all could see rather than just put out the 'good' stuff.
Just a doodle comic I made on acetate paper, paint markers and rapidographs. The sloppy look is intentional.
At first I hated Illustrator, 'drawing with math? that doesn't make sense'. Then once I figured a few things out, I was okay with it. I realized it was good with typesetting and fast with simple shapes. But now, I love it!!! I've been reading a bunch of tutorials and unlocking the secrets to making awesome crap easily.
Check out these places if you want to improve your Illustrator skillz:
BITTBOX - Not sure how popular this one is, but I found the tutorials very easy to understand and follow.
NDESIGN - A lot of good tips here. Not the most in-depth tutorials, but it got me to use some methods I hadn't before.
ILLCRAFT - Gabe showed me this one, so I owe him a candy bar. Drawing comics in Illustrator?!! It CAN be done! The tip about the pencil tool settings (at the bottom of the page) is one of the greatest Illustrator tips I've ever seen. Now I can draw naturally in Illustrator. I'm going to attempt to ink the next page I do with it - I've already done some 'sketching' and it works great!
I found this pretty interesting.
Do online comics, and get paid. Problem is DC 0wns your work, or at least I'd imagine they would.
Still not a bad deal. Thoughts?
i've been a fan of guy burwell for a while, but his stuff lately has been crazy good:
computer lab in the west side building printshop has an awesome collection of fonts...
i, too, have an awesome collection of fonts. coincidence?
here's a silkscreen i did the other day:
Here is the book version of 'Money Money'. I made a hard cover book for the silkscreen version and became an accordian fold out book. I've been doing more and more silkscreen and bookmaking lately, I've been thinking of taking 'A Perfect Empire' solely as an original art, screen printed book making factory rather than just the same ol' press printed. (which is still nice)
I had to do an assignment for D. Sandlin's printmaking class and came up with this scroll comic. Hope you all rikey...
But not really a contest, does anyone win anything? I dont think so. Is there even a winner? I dont think so. But this is a new "art challenge" then. Haha. So let me begin to say what it is.
A drawing. Any medium of course. of a fictional creature. This creature mustn't have eyes, nor a functional jaw. The way it "sees" the world has to be in a completely innovative yet sensical way. The way it eats must be the same. Although none of us are biologists, i'd like the biology of this creature to be a main focus.
Functional would be the key word. Although it can resemble a living creature of earth, i'd prefer if it was almost completely foreign.
This challenge was inspired by Wayne Douglas Barlowe. He is one of my favorite artists. There was a program on the discovery channel called "alien planet", and he was the main guy...came up with the aliens and how they "worked". Very thorough. Here are some images to get you inspired too!
Ok, i hope people have fun with this. Even though i put a whole bunch of rules in it i think. Oh well. Rules can be fun too! Alrighty. Oh, and it doesnt have to be all super professional clean and painterly. Can be even technical sketches. As long as the ideas are conveyed and complete. Okay. FUN.
bye bye.
