| Posted: 22 April 2016 at 8:41am | IP Logged | 3
|
|
|
Do you find yourself fighting the urge to do add shading by crosshatching etc.. ?•• Time for a Story! Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. For my 21st birthday, my parents bought me a trip to New York, and I visited the offices of Marvel, DC and Warren Publications, hawking my wares. In terms of commercial success, the trip had zero impact, but part of that stop at the DC offices put me in the break room, showing my portfolio to Neal Adams. Neal studied my stuff, then drawn almost entirely with Rapidograph pens, and pointed out that there was no "life," no "bounce" to my line. "Everything starts on a point and ends on a point," he said. He suggested I practice with a brush, to get some variation in my line. That bit of advice has followed me ever since, sometimes making me crazy as I found myself on what seemed an unending quest to find the right tools for me to accomplish what Neal had said. Which is a long way of saying that this project is kind of a turn back in time. I am using a pretty much "dead" line for outlining my figures, varying the thickness in layers, rather than within the individual lines themselves.
|
Topic Closed)
