Clip Studio Paint

Clip Studio Paint Heads-Up

This great but curiously named software is on sale again, as it fairly frequently is. In every way that matters it is the program that used to be called Manga Studio, and it is a terrific alternative to Photoshop. It's actually made for producing comics and saves many mouse clicks relative to Photoshop. Here's an unpublished cover I inked and toned using it.

Clip Studio Paint Sale

John

February 18 Wrap-up: Assignment Recap etc.

Thanks for turning out on a blustery night, everybody.

Easy (?) assignment for next time, Feb. 25

Fire up your imagination. Ask yourself what would be your ideal comics assignment. Give yourself your dream job, but minus the money!

Name a genre, or a character, or make up a one- or two-sentence plot summary. Setting is worth mentioning...

That's it.

In the weeks ahead, we're going to be moving into producing pages.  Just a 3-5 page scene from your pet project. Or you can use a favorite character of someone else's. I'll never tell. 😁

Body Movin'

As promised, here are inspiring little nuggets again. Try a bunch of these, why don't you?

Here is a happy development

Those of you who manage to attend more than one session will earn a 20% discount on books for the week. Joseph and I haven't finalized that, but I'm jumping the gun to tell you, because I think that's likely how it will be. Ask either of us next time.

Facebook Page, you ask?

Not to brag, but I'm in the loop, I'm caught up on almost all the current crazes...  So we have this Facebook Page, which could be a good place to post your work or other inspiring visuals, and to contact classmates.

Till the 25th!

John

Homework for Feb 11, in Detail

Find three photos in 3/4 view of three different celebrities,  each with distinct head shapes, facial types. I said in class to find them online, but if you want to save yourself printing them out, clip them out of magazines. Heads should be at least 4 in. tall. You'll recall my urging you to concentrate on the gender you have the most difficulty with, if you have such.

Do a simple line drawing of each. Draw at very nearly the same size, ideally.

Then trace the photo on tracing paper or the like.

On both drawings, draw the vertical center line of the face. Follow it right down, riding the fullness of the forehead, the center of the bridge of the nose, etc.

 Compare the tracing to your line drawing. If the sizes are close, you can overlay the tracing paper and really compare. What are the differences? Did you err on some of the size relationships? You can reasonably assume that these goofs are habitual.

DONT CORRECT THE ORIGINAL DRAWING or you will get less out of this.

Please be ready to talk a minute or two about what you learned.

Good luck!

John

Artists to Follow on Social Media

Mike Hawthorne (Great feeling of dimensionality, structure, etc. )
devilpig666 = Dave Johnson (great covers)
Claire Wendling (Impossibly, she pairs the dumb, snarling force of Frazetta with an elegant design sense. Great animals)
Spacejunkees = Andrew Robinson
Otto Schmidt
UrbanBarbarian=Dan Panosian
Victor Kalvachev
Helen Mingue Chen
Matteo Scalera
Agreda, Jose Luis
Dan Brereton
Sean Gordon Murphy (A representative--along with Andrew Robinson and Dan Panosian -- of the best in current styles, says I.)

ENJOY!

John