Get the movement and energy down first. Get down shapes for everything. Be expressive. Use gesture, posture, shapes, distortion… anything to get the energy and emotion of a page. Once you get the layout down. Once you have the gestures and emotion in the page, get to drawing the final drawing as soon as you can. The more you refine, the more you edit, the more rigid and lifeless your drawing will be. Energy and emotion come through when you conserve as much of the energy and motion from the original sketch.
This is where you start building the structure of your characters and backgrounds. Keep your shapes simple and quick. Solid structure makes blacks less necessary but also more impactful. There are no straight edges in reality.
Everything is imperfect. Instead of using a straight ruler use a curved one. This gives you more motion. For every direct action made by a muscle, an antagonistic muscle can and usually causes and opposite movement. When one part of the body flexes the other is loose. When one is smooth the other is angled. Leave space for word balloons, leave space for word balloons, leave space for word balloons.
Not only will this reduce the amount of drawing you actually do and save you tons of time, but will also make your compositions better as well. Everything feels different. A shirt is different than a wooden table is different than an animals fur.
Not everything needs crazy detail but if you start to build texture into your drawing and characters your work becomes richer. Join my exclusive network and get this FREE 8. EMAIL — [email protected]. Matthew Childers is an artist and comic book creator living in East Tennessee. Extremely important if you hope to work as a professional artist. The reason I say to ask for it is I feel that if you request it, you are far more likely to receive it as sound advice.
Truth be told, it only hurts you to keep a closed mind to it. Even someone that is a complete stranger draws like a 5 year old and has a profile pic of road kill could still be a fantastic art critic with sound advice.
When you jump into the professional world anyone and everyone can quickly become your critic and even your boss. Best to get used to it now and stomach your sensitive little ego! We sometimes get to a certain level in our art and we think we are the next Jim Lee or Todd McFarlane so we go for more advanced drawings.
Hoping to hide any flaws in our work by applying our fancy smancy rendering techniques. Getting back to the basics of drawing gestures, primitive shapes, understanding perspective, composition, understanding your tools, jumping back into your art books, and so on is often overlooked because we think we are better than we actually are.
We have to remember that our polished art needs a sound foundation to rely upon. Only then can it soar to the heights of Mount Olympus or whatever fantasy reference you prefer. I really wish I would have done this more consistently through my younger years.
A series of completed sketchbooks gives you a more somewhat linear view of what you have accomplished. You still need to be adamant about dating your work of course. Sketchbooks are much more organized and as artists we need all the help we can get in that area. Well, I do at least! This is so important if you truly want to be a professional comic book artist. The comic conventions are an amazing way to learn and grow as an artist.
This part ties into the constructive criticism from Tip 3. Showing your comic art and starting some dialogue with others about it, will teach you a lot. Just be receptive and leave your ego at home. Speak to as many artists, writers, and editors as you can.
The nuggets of advice you will learn from them is priceless! As you complete new works of art, update your portfolio. Your better works should incline you to show the lesser works to the nearest exit. Your portfolio should only have room for your best comic art. It should contain 10 to 15 of your best pieces of art. It should also reflect what you want to be as a comic artist. If you want to draw books, then you need sequential storytelling not a bunch of pinups.
Only show your best work and listen more than you talk. Becoming defensive shows weakness. Just take notes and go back to the drawing board and make improvements. In my opinion, you should also make sure to include a nice range of your abilities within those pages.
Draw people with expressions and emotions as well as super-powered heroes punching through walls. We invited them to sit down with us and recap everything from the early days of Schmoyoho to the present day, as well as getting to the bottom of which Gregory Brother was truly the master of memes among them.
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