ARTIST WANTED!
Hey you! Yes, you, the one who likes drawing stuff and awesome geeky things like DnD, you! Want to draw a kick ass funny comic about stuff you like and get paid for it? Well I do too, but tragically I wound up being employed as a full time storyboarder by accident, so?
SO.
You (yes you get out from behind that sofa I see you there with your dragon plushie), you get a chance to do it instead! Want to see the characters? Knock yourself out. Want to talk to the author to ask him questions and show him your stuff? Send me an ask! I’ll pass on your information to Zach, the brains behind this project, and he’ll get back to you.
He’s also pimping this project out for a kickstarter and it’s looking good, so go jump on this wild opportunity before I flees into the tall grass along with its precious XP like those pesky random encounters do.
Packing up all the work I did at VFS and I found a few things I thought you guys might like. This was a homework piece for composition, I used two characters I made up in secondary school- typical Holmes/Watson combination but with some Frankenstein larks thrown in, maybe I’ll go back to them some day.
Sorry for random slanting mark at the top but the whole thing is in pencil and pfft straight lines.
Designing villains is fun okay.
Well, firstly thanks for reading! Hope I can keep entertaining you with it. There a few methods to make your characters stand out, but two of the biggest are that of silhouette and colour.
If you can understand what a character is doing by their silhouette, it makes the pose ‘readable’, and the motivation and acting of the character that much clearer. It’s very important to have strong, clear posing in animation, so I try to apply it in my comic as well. It can tell you what a character is doing, but it can also tell you how they feel.
The second is colour; the current backgrounds are predominantly blue. When I shade the characters I use a sepia for the tonal values, but I also designed RGB’s latest outfit with this in mind. Orange and blue are on opposite sides of the colour wheel, so it makes the character stand out. I did the same thing in the previous with Madras; the interior of the House of Paint is a green turquoise, while Madras has a scarlet pink colour scheme.
Also occasionally breaking the frame like this helps to bring the character out, but it’s best to use it sparingly. You also have to be careful that it doesn’t disorientate the reader or break the flow of the page; having character popping out of the frames tends to drag the eye towards it, so I always hesitate before doing it.
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reminder there’s a tumblr now if you prefer to keep track there
I love this in so many ways you don’t even know.
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when i think of a good title i’ll be sure to tag these with it
I really like this comic and I want to kiss its face end of story.