Blowing dust off the ol’ website
Posted on September 1, 2003
As I have noted above, I have finally created a webpage that outlines my art process when creating a page of Dicebox.
I hope to continue to fill out my website over the next few of months, including opening the art section (finally) as well as expand the comics section. Not to mention general maintenance, like updating and checking my links or the various problems people have noted to me.
“This is the sort of thing IÕll excitedly show people, and get disappointed that they canÕt see the final result in all its splendor.”
Ouch! Boy do I know *that* one. As I work away on my portfolio, along with all the other things I’ve needed to do this summer, I have cause to reflect on all the the things that didn’t make it into the presentation. I *wish* I were a faster drafter (as a comics artist, you get to snicker–you people are probably the fastest illustrators there are.)
Randolph
as a comics artist, you get to snicker–you people are probably the fastest illustrators there are
Me? Heck, no. I’m one of the slowest out there.
I’m constantly wishing I could do more faster.
“I’m constantly wishing I could do more faster.”
I suspect that’s most artists, at most times in history–I imagine the Lascaux cave painters wishing they could do more. “Life is short and the art is long…” And aren’t you doing the whole job, instead of working with a bunch of assistants? Or has that gone out the window with computers?
Next, I convert the roughs into bluelines using the Hue/Saturation menu. These bluelines are then printed on smooth Bristol for me to do my final line art, still in pencil.
Jenn, thanks for the cues as to how you work through your own creations. What size of Bristol do you use when you print the blue line work out? This is the part of your process that made me go “Duh of course.” as a smacked my forehead with the flat of my hand.
I also really dig how you used the patterns from Illustrator in things like the clothes and flooring. I’m learning so much today, hooray learning!
Iain- glad you’re finding my art process page useful!
I print out my bluelines on 11″x14″ Bristol (standard Strathmore pad) on my Epson inkjet which can handle up to 13 inches in width.
Actually, Randolph, the funny thing with computers is how they can seduce you into putting even more effort into something, sneakily increasing the time spent.
This is becoming especially true on my day job where clients are no longer satisfied with marker comps and concept sketches. This has been partly perpetuated by project managers who aren’t content to present something to the client that won’t look exactly like the final product.
Do you mean that ID clients now want to see a complete design for initial presentation? That sounds bad.
In architecture, the style standard has definitely risen–competition drawings from 50 years ago would never pass muster now. And the while, the construction standard has fallen in the USA, though it’s better than 1980. You know what I think of building details these days; with all these new materials we don’t know how to build good walls and roofs any more–everything’s over-complicated and ugly, and a lot of it leaks.