wannabeanimator:

After watching this pencil test today, I was reminded of Disney’s shelved project King of the Elves which is now supposedly back in production. You can get more info on it here. So, here’s some concept art. I know I watched an animatic from it a year or two ago, but of course I can’t find it anymore, so if you have the link, let me know!

This is one of the last things I would expect coming from Disney. Love it.

puppytube:

one more for today

my favorite page out of context so far

the face in the 4th panel kills me

Get blasted, jacked, and beefed every day.

Ah, panel layouts. Whacha gonna do? Certainly not the same old rows and rows of talking heads.  Designing a panel is like cinematography and direction: it controls the mood, focus, and context of the scene by controlling the viewer’s access to your world, so the real trick is figuring out what shots convey what meanings.

If you’re stuck on options, Wally Wood’s 22 Panels that Always Work(!!) are the original trouble-shooting guide:

But in Drawing Words and Writing Pictures I’ve come across an even more comprehensive break-down: 60 ways to illustrate the action of a single panel, and the impact of each decision. 

Fun concepts to consider are framing, blocking, acting, and Mise-en-scène (design aspects such as lighting, inking style, etc.)

You know what would make this placid makeout sesh more dynamic?

A 45 DEGREE ANGLE TILT.  WE ACTION NOW.

Awesome, awesome. Okay, inking - I can do this. It’s just the coloring part that leaves me flabbergasted, so delay that step as long as possible by throwing in some late summer fruits-n-berries. Check. But what kind of book is the hairy guy going to be reading?

Victorian Romance Emma, duh.  Beefy dudes love shoujo.

Click for mega-huge.

GROSS

Funny thing, I can’t remember having ever drawn kissing before. And this still may not technically count.  

I started coloring this at least six times and probably wasted a week and a half before finally cheating with a monochromatic scheme.  The color sector of my brain is busted, busted bad.

Okay, these are a bit cleaner.  From The Art of Comic Book Inking Vol. 2 by Gary Martin.  Each inker gets a page opposite their art to discuss their methods, materials, or just how much they like the penciler.  The art scans are higher-res.

Here’s a complete list of the artists participating:

Brent Anderson (pencils)

• Gary Martin, Steve Leialoha, Mike Royer, Brent Anderson (inks)

Terry Dodson

• Gary Martin, Alex Garner, Michael Bair, Rachel Dodson

Randy Green

• Gary Martin, Karl Kesel, Hilary Barta, Randy Green

Adam Warren

• Gary Martin, Al Gordon, Randy Emberlin, Adam Warren

The pencils are all different pages of Ghost, and the author Gary Martin takes a crack at each of them.  You can also see how the original penciler inks their own work.

Most of the comic art books I’ve come across are aimed at the beginner or intermediate level, such as the Drawing Words and Writing Pictures book I’ll also be posting from, so it’s unusual to find a guide focused almost entirely on nuance — perhaps this is because the author is a professional inker himself.  I don’t know how useful this would be for everyone, but I enjoy flipping back and forth to see the different choices everyone makes, though they are obviously all strongly informed by the pencils which are very tight in these examples. 

From The Art of Comic Book Inking 2 by Gary Martin.  I found this weird little book in one of my local comic shops.  The first few pages are discussion on line-weight, joining contours, texture guides, and other inking minutia I rarely see covered in art books.  The rest of the book consists of a few pages penciled by one artist, then inked by three to four other artists so you can see the differences in how they approach inking the same page.  I’ve never seen anything like this, but the first volume is nowhere to be found. 

Here are the pages devoted to texture, and I can post some of the inking comparisons as well.

Sorry for any quality issues — I can’t bring myself to unbind a book.

I’ve been doing a lot of my own drawing but still haven’t uploaded for no good reason. Lately the coloring stage has been frustrating enough for me to delete several days of work at a time. Like six drawings, right out the window.  Will I never learn? Until I get a handle on this, I’ll keep posting some reference scans that ya’ll might find useful.

Thanks for everything.

I’m going to begin as China Miéville did with a kind of disclaimer. In fact I’m going to pick up on something China said at the beginning of his piece. He says:

One of the usual arguments authors level is the foolishness that ‘I know better than you because I wrote it’. To make my position absolutely clear: authorial intention be damned. I do not necessarily know best.

I’m going to go a bit further than this. For me it’s not so much that authors don’t always know best. It’s more, “Sorry guys, I’m not actually the author.” The author couldn’t come. The author has left the building. She left when the book was finished. I’m just the person who remains now she is gone. …

Post V-day sketch.  This is the least mushy part, Jeff.

mesotheliomata asked: Please pardon me if I'm mistaken, but--are you using MangaStudio for the pages with the hyena?

I sure am! I love SAI for sketching and one-offs, but MangaStudio has this consistent crispness and pen control that I really like for longer projects.

nullusername:

brotherhoodoftheslice:

A tip of the hat to Audrey for putting together a Gurren fanart anthology in different styles! A COOL IDEA

Unfortunately this is a bunch of old art, but I guess that’s still topical since the style’s all over the place….

ughh you are unfairly awesome

also you forgot http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1070/fptnscan.jpg

Oh God I did forget that

I’m doin’ a spit-take just like old times.

(via dullusername)

A tip of the hat to Audrey for putting together a Gurren fanart anthology in different styles!  A COOL IDEA

Unfortunately this is a bunch of old art, but I guess that’s still topical since the style’s all over the place.

four and a half years later i still think this is funny

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe… 

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. 

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. 


Time to die.

nullusername:

sammneiland:

ghetto-astronauts:

So I’ve been seeing a lot of things on my dash lately that have been making me really uncomfortable, and I realized that a lot of the people doing these things were people I like, people I respect, people who I think are genuinely good people who…

oh my god women having sexual thoughts and feelings?? in PUBLIC?? ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE? s c r e a m

yaoi slash et al != anything having to do with real gay people and it’s wrong when either side conflates the two

it is something by and for women (of many sexualities, many of whom are nonstraight themselves)

women fantasizing about men does not have the same problematic baggage that straight men lechering over lesbians does

also: consider the fact that most of the people that are ‘fetishized’ in yaoi/slash are cis white straight (GENERALLY COMPLETELY FICTIONAL) males so i’m just going to shit myself laughing a little when people cry about them being objectified and oppressed 

ALSO ALSO CONSIDER: THERE’S A PRETTY SIZABLE CHUNK OF NONSTRAIGHT TRANS GUYS INTO YAOI SO ARE WE FETISHIZING OURSELVES?????

ugh i’m going to stop looking at this before i get angrier

The concept of “appropriating sexuality” is interesting, especially in relation to niche communities and fandom.  However, it’s not an idea I buy into.  

The key here is

yaoi slash et al != anything having to do with real gay people and it’s wrong when either side conflates the two

Slash et al aren’t real and were never meant to be, and I don’t mean the “if the characters are fictional than how can it be racist/sexist/etc.” copout, I mean it has nothing to do with reality.  At all.  Fantasies are 100% about the consumer, not a commentary on their subject.  (A relationship worth several essays on its own.)

There is also an issue of controlling who is allowed to fantasize about what and how these groups are defined.  I’ve seen it expressed that some individuals — as outsiders, whatever that means — have no business finding two men erotic, much less writing or talking about it.  Except people generally don’t choose what they’re going to be aroused by, and there are as many different reasons for being into a certain scenario or pairing as there are people who enjoy them.  Yes, some straight women like seeing two men together.  So do some queer women and men, even the occasional straight guy.  Suppose a person likes to see two guys and one woman, or a tall girl and a quiet woman, or a buff dude and a curvy lady with piercings.  And if certain fictional characters press those buttons, so what?  Mr. Darcy and Jack Sparrow, alien sex, centaur Sonic the Hedgehog inflation kidnapping fetish?  It doesn’t have to make sense, it doesn’t need to be justified, it doesn’t even happen to be nice — I enjoy plenty of things that I’d never want to wish on real people or be a part of in real life, and I can tell the difference.  

For the same reason I don’t have a problem with dudes being aroused by the thought of two women together, as cliche as that has become.  Those scenarios are often always as fictionalized as any other erotic fantasy, which isn’t an issue in itself until it becomes so over-saturated in media that it becomes confused with fact, or worse, that people come to expect their fantasies to be pandered to by actual humans.  Having a fantasy is one thing, objectification is walking up to a lesbian couple and requesting them to make out for your benefit, or asking two gay men “which one is on top, because hawt.”  The fault here, in addition to being damned inconsiderate, is failing to maintain a wall between fantasy and reality.  Keeping the two separated should be common sense as well as common decency. Pop ‘em a good one in the mouth.

So some people are assholes, but I don’t feel comfortable telling anyone — minority, majority, whatever — how they’re allowed to enjoy media or assigning them motives.  I don’t like the idea that someone shouldn’t find a scenario exciting unless it’s the correct sort of fantasy involving characters with the correctly corresponding orientation. Thought-policing, in so many words.

But I’m glad people are discussing how they respond to media, how we think about sex, and how the two intertwine.  It’s better to address these thoughts instead of censoring them (or censoring others).  I like seeing it explored frankly in art and I hope people continue to do so, though in part this is because I also think sex is totally hilarious.

So yeah, this tumblr account is 95% about art and comics, but I’m not gonna pretend this subject isn’t a part of that community and how I interact with it. That being acknowledged, here’s the part where I now back  the fuck  away.

(Source: lostinthemorning, via dullusername)

puppytube:

have decided to do 15-20ish minute sketches like this at least once a day before i start workin on comix

ANYWAY. after a conversation I had w/ my friend I knew I had to draw this.

meet Abusive Seme, a fujoshi riot grrl band. (with fudanshi drummer, ehuehue)

they totally sound like bratmobile if bratmobile wrote songs about dudes touching eachothers butts

Great idea for a warm-up, great idea for a band. ROTTEN GIRLS, downloading all them mp3s.