It's been a while since my last post. I've making my new web comic BEAN BEARD THE ORACLE .
It's a crazy tale of navel visions and other wonderful stuff. The first post is already up and new post will be on Wednesdays.
I'm also still working on my 20 pages story from the last workshop. But it's taking a little longer since I can only do after school.
The first assignment in Steve's workshop was to autobio in 6 min and then we switched stories and got 1h 30min to tell the story in 3 panels.
Above:
9 panel story based on the world "Woodstick" we created during the week.
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We also had to re-write another's 12 page autobiographical comic from last semester. The assignment was inspired by the comic Steve and Teddy made called The red diary/The re(a)d diary. I got Cathrin's http://cathrinpeterslund.blogspot.dk/ story
Teddy Kristiansen
The first assignment was to improve the first comic from the week before
Then we had to choose a character or slice from Steve and Teddy' comic house of secrets. We then had to make a story where we used the style to amplify the situation and feeling in the scene.
We had to tell a story about a person in love without mentioning Love, or the lover and a mother who had lost her son in a war with mentioning war, the son, death. There had to be the same building and weather in the stories.
The final page assignment was to make a comic from an anecdote from a historical figure. I chose Freud.
Most of the stuff only had to be turned in as sketches since we didn't have that much time for each assignment.
We had a small photoshop course this weekend. Most of it I knew but I picked up a few hot keys and I got to play around a bit and finally made a concert scene here is the result. (MORE SMOKE WUHUU)
ps. We had an awesome weekend with Steven T. Seagle this week. More about that next weekend since it's some what combined with the coming week with Teddy Kristiansen.
Here is some of the things I've been doing for the last few months. I've been quit busy I haven't been the as consistent as I wanted to.
We had a classic drawing workshop with Artem Alexev, Professor of Fine Arts from the St. Petersburg Academy of the Arts.
portrait of my classmate Albert
3 min. inkwash croquis
A couple of ink croquis. I think it was 10 min.
We had another drawing workshop with Lawrence Marvit. The workshop focused on drawing perpective and contrucktion, etc. constructing objekts into general shapes so they appear more dimensional.
The first assignment was to design an Atlantian weapon/Underwater weapon. Using only lines. I came up with this underwater sonic amplifier helmet inspired by a spermwhales sonic attack.
The next assignment was to do an epic environment of Atlantis using only lines.
For the last assignment was to draw a grayscale interior perspective scene. We could choose to either draw an antique shop or a Sci-fi lab. I of course chose the sci-fi lab.
Our last workshop of the semester was with Matt Madden. The workshop was based on Matt Madden's book "99 ways to tell a story". We had to make a template 1 page comic from a script had made.
Student 1 drawing a comic in a classroom
Student 2 enters
S2 sits down next to S1
S1 slids the page to S2
S1 says "She's all yours"
S2 starts to draw
The workshop's goal was to show how setting obstructions for your story, can free it rather then kill it. The idea is inspired by "The 5 obstructions" with Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth.
Template
Above: The story made in the style of Illustrator/Comic artist Dave Cooper
Above: Story in pencil POV
Above: The last assingment was to make obstruction for a classmate. My classmate Jam found quit amusing to force me to make Manga Lucky Star style.
Well I wish every a Marry Christmass. I promise to try and be better at upload what I next year.
We have mostly been learning about story structure and scripting for the last month. So haven't done as much drawing. But yesterday I had to do a style test page for a 20 page comic that is going to be finished late January. I did a couple of tests, so far it's going to be black only.
This week we had a design class with concept artist Lawrence Marvit who has worked for studios such as Pixar, Thrave, Nickelodeon,Universal Studios, and a nomination to an Eisner Award, according to himself because it long.
The focus of the workshop is the 7 elements of drawing:
LINE
SHAPE
VALUE
COLOR
FORM
SPACE TEXTURE
which we are going to go through one at a time. This week we have gone through line and shape.
Our first assignment was to make a dynamic composition with 3 boxes and a line. All the boxes should be at a 90 degree tilt and couldn't touch the edges or each other. The line on the other hand had to touch to sides.
And
Just to make it even trickier no distance from edge to another could be the same.
Our second assignment was to describe 70% dark chocolate using only line. We had to taste the chocolate and describe the taste poetically to give us something more focused. Since having no restrictions tends to keep you in the ideation process and it helps to avoid too many clichés.
My line was Autumn Deserted Playground.
Then we had to listen to Jazz, Miles Davis: kind of blue. Same process as the chocolate assignment, just using shape instead of line. The focal point had to be clear. Resulting in this amazing jazz-shapes.
The final assignment was to make a picture on the theme circus of the dead, using what we had learned. I learned a lot doing this assignment. I need to stop trying to draw myself out and think instead. For the next couple of months I'm going to focus on shapes and composition for awhile. Since I had to redo and simplify this picture a few times. I ended up do most of it with the lasso tool, so I couldn't detail the shit out of it.
Here is a little update. This week we are having a style course on the famous French/Belgian comicbook artist Franquin.
We have spend the last two days on our own doing research getting to know his style a little bit.
The assignment for the week is to do 1 or 2 comic pages in the style of Franquin. This all sound pretty straight forward, but to freak things up a bit the story is a scene from Cormac McCarthy's The Road. The scene is where the father and son meets an old man and decide to share some food with him.
So far I have made a character sheet spicing the characters with some post-apocalyptic gear. In the next couple of days it is all going to be some depressing post-apocalyptic slap-stick making with Mården Smet, know for Stig and Martha.
