Ramblings and webcomics from LeEMS
I really enjoyed drawing that other tentacle lady.
And now…on to 24 Hour Comics Day. You know, late. After chores.
But I have an idea now, thanks to my Friday lunchtime friend.
Still, so not ready for 24 Hour Comics Day…
And, the set of grey markers might just be my theme…
Hello! I have no theme in mind yet for this year’s Inktober, but I’m going to try and get you 31 ink drawings this month. Jake Parker has a great description/instruction post on Inktober.
I like the, perhaps erroneous, idea that drawings should be only ink on paper, thus upping the difficulty level and increasing the possibilities for errors and/or happy accidents when an artist cannot pencil in a drawing first. I’m going to attempt as little pre-pencil as possible. But other artists do it other ways and it all ends up for some fabulous drawings.
Some other 2013 Intober artists (in my initial search): The Keeper’s Notes, Vanessa Ramirez, Jillian Lambert Art, Drawing the Sword, Sixandsevens, Partial distortion of grape udders, on Tumblr and on Twitter.
…trying out shading without lining first. this might need a little more experimentation.
This turned out mostly like I wanted it to.
I’m not prone to drawing anthropomorphic animals, but these two just came out of nowhere and demanded that I give them some space. That and, I got to try out some environments I have been drawing.
You see, I had this idea, that for a bunch of the character drawings that I do, I could have them live in a world of environmental drawings and after assembling the two, wind up with pictures that are more complete than either picture is alone. Yes, it’s kind of cheating and no, I’m not going to do it with everything.
I really like how the two dancing pictures came out, the stability of the background really makes it look like the two characters have moved across the floor. I’m sure I could’ve done that manually, but this was easier. Another added bonus to assembling character and environment drawings is that sometimes you are forced to crop and re size in a way that results a photographic quality, where shoulders, feet, and outstretched limbs are cut off in order to capture the middle of the arrangement. It makes me think of how many painters where inspired by photographic framing after Daguerreotypes came to popularity.
As you’ll see with Levi Levi on Thursday, I am trying something new that is similar to this for the flashback portion of the story. I am really liking the results too.
You may have begun to wonder what was happening to good old Marcus Trapp. The idea has not vanished. In fact, it may end up being my magnum opus. One of the things on my list of to dos for Marcus Trapp was some site artwork. How do you like it? It’s kind of hard to draw a character who will look completely different every time he is re-incarnated. I should give him a birthmark and incorporate that into some site artwork too. I mean, a comic ‘s got to have a logo.