Thursday, February 4, 2010
Digital sketchy sketch!
Whilst working on our latest project, I decided to do some sketching in photoshop for it. There really was no call for it other than I forgot my sketchbook at home, but happened to bring my wacom. Never-the-less, here are a few quick sketches. I was more or less just getting a feel for some of the images I was hoping to use for the big drawing. Each were 10-20 minutes.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Introduction postage.
Hello art world. I'm Marc Anderson. I'm a studio art major concentrating in drawing. I've been directing most of my energy for the last couple years at editorial illustration and cartooning. I have been using a variety of mediums including pen and ink, watercolors, acrylics, and most recently digital painting. I use a lot of exaggeration and caricature in most of my illustrations.
I've found that using more traditional media such as pen and ink for editorial illustration can be a challenge to really find my own voice within the illustration world. However, it was also a great starting off point. A lot of my recent work can be seen below.
I've found that using more traditional media such as pen and ink for editorial illustration can be a challenge to really find my own voice within the illustration world. However, it was also a great starting off point. A lot of my recent work can be seen below.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Old Sketches
Here's a few sketches I dug up from last semester. I was working on a few Cheney and Madoff illustrations that never came to fruition. Also there's a couple skull studies.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Semester finale!!!
So I just had my painting IV crit today. It went well, and all i have to say is...
I painted a big Dick.
Entitled "Dick Has Ways Of Making You Talk".
I painted a big Dick.
Entitled "Dick Has Ways Of Making You Talk".
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
"Black and White" -The Process
The first of 60 pages is complete! Actually, it might end up being shorter than 60 pages (God willing). Jared, the writer, is going to go over the script again and maybe give it a rewrite in spots. Hopefully it'll reduce my work load.
Upon looking over pages and pages of drawings it was nice to reflect on how the whole process took shape. It all started with reading Jared's 60 page script several times to get a good feel for the characters. Then of course designing the characters followed that. The design stage was probably the most challenging part for me. I almost felt like I had to relearn how to draw. After a few years of drawing caricatures and cartoony illustrations, I had to get back into a more realistic style with accurate anatomy and gestures. After the character designs were completed, I started going through the script again to do thumbnails for each page of the graphic novel. They started off pretty rough, but were refined as I went along.
The process from there starts to get a bit more exciting (well for me at least).
Carter character design
Rico character design
Devil character design
Here's the rough for page 1. Initially I had started to do these just with a pencil and paper, but I think it may have worked better for me to do it in photoshop (which is shown above.) From here I blew it up to 11"x14". This is standard procedure in the comic book industry. After the final image is completed, it gets shrunk down to print size. In this case print size was planned on being 8.5"x11" while comic books generally are a tad smaller.
After I blew it up, I printed it off and traced it onto bristol board. It's called the pencil stage, and its the point where any final revisions are made. The drawing gets tightened up. The pencil artist is a very important position in the whole process for comic books (the pencil artist, inker and color artist are often not the same person). Depending on if the penciler and inker are the same person, sometimes the pencil drawing can be a little looser and less detailed.
The inking stage is a lot of fun for me. This also a very crucial point, but more on a technical level rather than conceptual or compositional level (this was all figured out at the pencil stage). After the inks are done, all the pencil lines are erased and the ink drawing gets scanned in. Then the photoshop fun begins...
After many hours have already been invested by now, the tediousness of painting in photoshop can be a little draining. Never-the-less, you can start to see a light at the end of the tunnel, and if you stick it out, you'll end up with a finished page.
Upon looking over pages and pages of drawings it was nice to reflect on how the whole process took shape. It all started with reading Jared's 60 page script several times to get a good feel for the characters. Then of course designing the characters followed that. The design stage was probably the most challenging part for me. I almost felt like I had to relearn how to draw. After a few years of drawing caricatures and cartoony illustrations, I had to get back into a more realistic style with accurate anatomy and gestures. After the character designs were completed, I started going through the script again to do thumbnails for each page of the graphic novel. They started off pretty rough, but were refined as I went along.
The process from there starts to get a bit more exciting (well for me at least).
Carter character design
Rico character design
Devil character design
Here's the rough for page 1. Initially I had started to do these just with a pencil and paper, but I think it may have worked better for me to do it in photoshop (which is shown above.) From here I blew it up to 11"x14". This is standard procedure in the comic book industry. After the final image is completed, it gets shrunk down to print size. In this case print size was planned on being 8.5"x11" while comic books generally are a tad smaller.
After I blew it up, I printed it off and traced it onto bristol board. It's called the pencil stage, and its the point where any final revisions are made. The drawing gets tightened up. The pencil artist is a very important position in the whole process for comic books (the pencil artist, inker and color artist are often not the same person). Depending on if the penciler and inker are the same person, sometimes the pencil drawing can be a little looser and less detailed.
The inking stage is a lot of fun for me. This also a very crucial point, but more on a technical level rather than conceptual or compositional level (this was all figured out at the pencil stage). After the inks are done, all the pencil lines are erased and the ink drawing gets scanned in. Then the photoshop fun begins...
After many hours have already been invested by now, the tediousness of painting in photoshop can be a little draining. Never-the-less, you can start to see a light at the end of the tunnel, and if you stick it out, you'll end up with a finished page.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Comic book progress
It seems that with every stage of this darn thing, I realize how big of an undertaking this project has been and will continue to be. Granted I think I'm getting a little faster at laying out and drawing the pages. Still, its quite a labor intensive project.
Below is the first page and it's almost done. I just threw the text in to get a rough idea of what the completed page will look like. I've got to touch up the coloring a bit, then clean up some other areas.
Below is the first page and it's almost done. I just threw the text in to get a rough idea of what the completed page will look like. I've got to touch up the coloring a bit, then clean up some other areas.
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