comic #1 so far...

So i taken my first idea that was on paper, scanned it, cleaned up the lines in photoshop, and addd color. My next step is to add text. I think i will do most of this using illustrator so i can manipulate the text easier. I hopefully will have the whole page up by this weekend.

comic ideas

"Fish" my character

So i have decided to use the fish from the Dr. Seuss book "The Cat and The Hat." I've done a few drawings and comics with him on paper. I just recently started to draw him on the computer where i will do most of my final work. here are a few promos i have of the "Fish."

my comic? what comic?

Over the last couple of days I have just been kind of brainstorming on ideas I want my comic to be about. Like what characters I want, the scenery, and the storyline. On Friday I decided that I wanted to do a comic about the goldfish, and the character I am Sam from Dr. Seuss. I think that they basic storyline will be them living in an apartment together trying to get through normal day challenges.

Recently I have been practicing my drawing on the characters with different facial expressions, gestures, and body language. Once I feel comfortable being able to draw those I’ll move on to the scenery they will be engaging in. I defiantly like to work on a large workspace where I can spread everything out and listen to music. Things that distract me can be just about anything. I can usually stay focused on something for quite a while, but my concentration can be broken easily with a text message or my roommates or facebook. I kind of like to have my concentration broken up though because if I’m too focused on something I can get frustrated pretty fast and then I just want to give up.

I think to be able to complete this comic I need to stay focused on checkpoints like finish these panels by a certain time, and keep the storyline moving so I don’t get bored. I really enjoy what I’m doing in this class so it gives me that extra push to keep trying.

Marvel: The Road to Civil War

I haven’t really read too many comic books in my time, mainly just the newspaper and a few pages out of a book. One comic that really caught my eye was one of the Marvel comics called “The Road to Civil War.” I liked how all the panels are usually not consistent on every page. For example, some might be a long panoramic panel, others just normal rectangles, and some are long skinny portrait panels. I also enjoyed the use of the “white space,” through out the comic. Sometimes they used black “white space,” when it was a night or dark scene. It really gave me a sense of being there. I thought that the use of their text was really effective as well. When Iron man would speak he had a red hue, analog robot like text. And the others used just a normal shorthand serif like text. I noticed that on occasions that the text would turn italic to show a little more emphasis when someone was speaking. I think that seeing some of these techniques will really help me with my ideas in designing my own comic.

Something New

Something that I picked up on the other day in class when I was looking through comic books and pictures books is how simple yet effective Dr. Seuss’ illustrations are. I like how his imagination allows him to create all of these wonderful worlds and creatures, but its still tied down to the world we live in. Take for instance the fish from “The Cat in The Hat,” I’ve never seen a fish like that in my life, but to kids that see the book for the first time they don’t see anything wrong with it. It’s a simple illustration that fits the description he is trying to portray.

My Artistic Father

One of my artistic fathers would probably be Vincent Van Gogh. I really enjoy how he takes little brush strokes and creates masterpieces out of them. It almost seems like he does abstract painting but he creates very realistic artwork. I want to focus my artwork in that way, take sometime fairly simple and create something magnificent out of it.