Follow up to composition

The same layout template applied to Leiji Matsumoto's Captain Harlock, Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira and Akira Toriyama's Dr. Slump. This relates to: The Comics Journal.

Composition and intuition

Here's a fascinating article about layout composition as applied to the classic comic strip Tintin. After reading it, I was curious about how much my own work follows those aesthetic principles. So I grabbed a pic from the article and layered it over some of my favorite pages from book 3 and look what I found out:

The thing I find interesting is that none of this was intentional. I didn't know about dividing the page into squares, circles and triangles, I just juggled the elements around until they "looked right". What this tells me though, is that it's possible to quantify what "looks right". These are of course just some of my favorite pages, and I haven't checked to see if all my pages conform, I'm sure they don't. But it's nice to see that when I think it's working, I can actually prove it.

How To Be Creative

Here's a good article about creativity which aligns pretty closely with my own feelings about making art. It's good stuff.

THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF THE DUCK ALFRED J.KWAK

I wish I could color my comics like this. Check out this blog by one of the creators, a former production designer for Disney who now teaches in the Far East. There's a treasure trove of unbelievable art there!

Much process

Hey guys,

I put together a little tutorial over at ConceptArt.org to show how I draw a page.

Check it out here.

More Una

Apropos of my last post...

Here are some random cool things from my hard drive.

Cintiquery

I have finally joined the future. I am now officially a cyborg. So long paper...

A few of my favourite things...

I thought I'd share a few of my favourite blogs with you guys. I check these out pretty much daily! Just click the banners.