Posts filed under "artwork"
Joao Ruas - The clear successor to James Jean as one of those outstanding artists. When he first replaced Jean on Fables as the cover artist, I was sceptical. After this latest image, I no longer am sceptical. This is one of my favourite artists working in comics right now.
Society6 - Definitely something I would like to try in the future. I want to get back into regular drawing and creating artwork, so here’s hoping after all this wedding stuff is over I’ll get a chance to do more of this sort of thing.
James Jean’s Mirada Logo - It’s been a while since I’ve linked to anything from James Jean. He’s still one of my favourite artists in the world, even though he doesn’t do comic book art any more. This is interesting in that is looks NOTHING like a logo. It’s this incredibly detailed illustration, that the company Mirada is using. Not sure how it scales, but it’s a lovely drawing.
Art by Illustration Master Adam Hughes - It’s not a secret what a huge Adam Hughes fan I actually am, of both his art and his very rare writing as well. This overview is an excellent place to start appreciating his work. Now to blow your mind, Adam uses a mouse and photoshop to do all the colouring. Seriously, not a pen, a mouse.
The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains - Neil Gaiman, at the Sydney Opera House, reading a short story, with a quartet behind him and artwork by Eddie Campbell….yeah pretty cool.
http://www.brokenkode.com/the-truth-is-a-cave-in-the-black-mountains
Just thought I’d share a nice milestone for myself. My one and only comic book work ‘Coffee Beans’ has now been downloaded over 250 times since I originally ‘published’ it. Here’s hoping I get to finish off more comic book stories in the near future. Thanks for reading.
Ragnarama - Dunno how I missed this, but Ragnar’s new website. Just started looking at his book Big City and it’s a tour de force of just page after page of amazing art in creating his story. Amazing stuff. If you can get a copy, definitely flick through it.
Audrey Hepburn Portfolio - Amazing sketchbook collection with one of the best subjects ever.
The Daily Zoo 2 - Having just bought the first book, I can tell you that this is an amazing art book, with an amazing story behind it. Draw an animal every day for a year…well two years so far and counting.
The Complete Famous Artist Course - This is one of the best resources for aspiring artists out there - instant bookmark and download.
http://www.brokenkode.com/on-animation-blog-archive-updated-the-complete-famous-artist-course-1960
It Will Come From Japan! - Love me some Paul Pope.
Alphaposter - While I’m talking about love the detail in these posters as well (obviously not as elaborate as the Colosseo poster, but lovely nonetheless).
Colosseo Letterpress Poster - Love the attention to detail of course. It’s objects like this that make design something special.
http://www.brokenkode.com/colosseo-letterpress-poster-reimagining-the-roman-coliseum-with-type
Dali’s Adventures In Wonderland - You know, to prepare you for the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp fest. Love the statue, always the best Dali work in my opinion.
Lost Art of Inglourious Basterds - Some great looking pieces. Not seen David Choe’s work in YEARS so it’s nice to see he hasn’t shot himself or anything and he’s still producing great work.
So this week was spent doing character designs. With an exhaustive list of 56 characters that need to be created, it’s pretty easy to flip between characters as I build the library and as more ideas become clearer in my head. Like with the writing process, it’s amazing how sometimes your pencil and pen take you in a direction that you didn’t actually originally imagine. It just happens in front of you and comes from no where.
Each time I draw the character I get more comfortable with drawing them and new ideas manifest themselves to better flesh out the character and enhance their look. Hopefully by the time I have to draw them in the final pages I will have the proper feel of the characters.
For these particular drawings I decided to also play around with my water colours. The truth is I’ve not touched a paintbrush and gauche since 2002 or something like that, so to say I’m completely rusty is a little bit of an understatement. In fact I’d so go far as to say, I honestly suck major balls when it comes to painting at the moment from an already limited experience built earlier on in my life. I’ve not developed this skill at all and I can see how my line art has moved forward whereas my painted work has all but stagnated.
The other major point to make is that I don’t have any of my books around me which basically teach me the basics of water colours. In stead I’m basically learning by doing…which is just going to mean taking a hell of a lot longer to get to a decent standard where I’m not ruining the drawing/sketch with my ghastly colour combinations.
This is a small peek. I’ll be sharing more drawings as they come along.
Movie Mr Men - This made me smile a lot. Love how he’s just constantly building this flickr set. Here are some of my favourites:
LOST Posters - Awesome minimalist posters. It’s definitely en vogue nowadays to do these, but I still like them.
Michael Johansson - Click on that link, you’ll not be disappointed (via iso50).
If you’re subscribed to the site, then you’ve no doubt been bombarded this last day with 15 or so ‘new’ posts. These are all part of the illustration section which I’ve been putting together. Regulars of the site for a while will recognise a lot of these images, however there are several new ones and others that have never been shown in this way.
I kept thinking about the best way to put this section together, as there is a lot of stuff I’ve got on my harddisc that’s not seen the soft glow of the internet in years. Hopefully because of the general ease with which this section is maintained, I’ll be constantly uploading images to this section, because I’ve always believed that all art needs to be shown, because it gives you perspective on where you where artistically before and how much you’ve improved in the time passed.
Banksy film to debut at Sundance - Soo, totally watching this when it comes out. What can I say, I’m one of those poor fools that actually enjoys what the man does. (via @stevemassart)
Iconic TV Posters - by Albert Exergian. Also be sure to check out his site.
Well the results are out for the 2009 Comica/Jonathan Cape/Observer ‘Graphic Short Story’ competition. For those of us who dreamed about winning, yesterday morning brought with it the sharp taste of a dream lost (to most of us).
So I did what every person who’s had 3 months of creating, stressing and waiting do, I met up with Mike and Sam (who also had entered the competition) and had a day of comics, food, arguing, frustration, beer and ultimately consolation. We understood the frustration of having put soo much effort into something that was only ever going to be read by a select few number of people.
So after sleeping on it and updating this website with a new section dedicated for comics I’ve created (the first of course is ‘Coffee Beans’), I had another bright idea. If there are over 240 entries (because that was last year, and apparently there were more entries this year than any other year), then maybe 100 of these entrants are online somewhere; maybe they’re also considering where to go next. So maybe it would be a nice idea to try and self-publish an anthology with these 4 page stories. This could then be something we show various publishers or can share with family etc.
Well the point is that the dream would start all over again for most of us.
So a call to all those who entered the competition but were also unsuccessful, drop me a line on twitter or via the email (khaled.aboualfa at gmail.com) or post a comment below.
Update: All those wondering how we can do this, there are a plethora of self-publishing options available through print on demand services (PODs). I’ve got a bit of experience with a few of them, most notably this: http://www.lulu.com/content/222930
http://www.brokenkode.com/2009-comica-jonathan-cape-observer-competition
75 Ways to Draw More - I don’t need any ideas, but it’s nice to know that there is a list out there if in case one needs one.
http://www.brokenkode.com/75-ways-to-draw-more-sheet-1-on-flickr-photo-sharing