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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2016 15:09:26 GMT -5
mrp, nice job on the artwork that you did recently - I loved the Medusa and the Zombie one in particularly! Again, not my art, it's my wife's work. -M Thanks for the correction and I do appreciate that the credit due to your talented wife! |
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Post by Overlord Thundersnow on Jul 21, 2016 14:55:47 GMT -5
Here's another big battle-scene.  ![]() Save |
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 21, 2016 16:38:59 GMT -5
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Post by junkmonkey on Aug 8, 2016 18:54:19 GMT -5
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Post by junkmonkey on Sept 2, 2016 16:27:59 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 20:25:11 GMT -5
Arrrgh! ... I loved it Junkmonkey!  |
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Post by junkmonkey on Sept 3, 2016 6:21:30 GMT -5
Arrrgh! ... I loved it Junkmonkey! Thank you. |
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Post by junkmonkey on Sept 9, 2016 3:01:39 GMT -5
Bartholomew Brown the Beatnik Koala by liam, on Flickr Another quick strip while I get on with the serious business of shoving all Geeks #1's Kickstarter Backers' copies (and attendant goodies) into mailers.  Me and my three kids (I Made This - a bit!) opening boxes from the printer. |
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Post by junkmonkey on Sept 14, 2016 19:40:03 GMT -5
Now that all the Kickstarter packs have been sent out and before we do a con in a few weeks to try and shift a chunk of the rest, I can get back to the fun bit:  Jet Pack Jenny by liam, on Flickr |
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Post by junkmonkey on Sept 19, 2016 8:06:54 GMT -5
Black Hole by liam, on Flickr I'm not entirely sure this one really works - but I had fun drawing it. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2016 9:29:13 GMT -5
junkmonkeyThat's great artwork that you shared here. I like the transition from light to dark in great sequence here. Great Composition too.
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Post by Wild Card on Sept 21, 2016 3:48:25 GMT -5
These are brilliant! Where do you get your inspiration?
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Post by junkmonkey on Sept 25, 2016 19:07:08 GMT -5
These are brilliant! Where do you get your inspiration? Me? Well thanks for liking them (if you do mean me). Inspiration? I'm not sure what that means. I usually just start by breaking a page of my notebook into 8 panels with a few pencil lines then start doodling one of my characters in the top left hand panel and sometimes - if I'm lucky - by the time I get to the third or fourth panel I know what they are doing and where they're going. Then I often have to go back and rework the first few panels to get there a little more easily. Sometimes the whole thing just appears in my head out of nowhere BANG! like that and I have to get it scribbled down quick before it vanishes. I always carry a sketchbook with me. I was at a Con this weekend with the family and a girl walked by cosplaying Princess Fiona from Shrek and I thought, "If you were evil you could greenscreen her into being anyone" and thirty seconds later my Geek characters were scrabbling over each other in my head to do just that and cosplay as Andy Serkis. I thumbnailed it on the spot. The moment, later the same day, when I saw a comic I used to own when I was a kid but sold for pennies when I got bored with comics in my teens (Barry Smith and Roy Thomas' Savage Sword of Conan #1) on sale for 100 pounds became the basis for a one page I doodled up while I was waiting for some soup to cook this evening. Again my younger, smarter, hepper Geek characters were inside my head and watched my reaction. I don't think there is such a thing as inspiration - there is such a thing as recognising a possibly interesting thought as it passes by through ones endless internal monologue, grabbing it and then worrying at it till it is fit to present to the world. But 'Inspiration'? Not convinced. Quite often - as with any form of 'art' it's knowing when to stop and leave things out that's the most important bit. Like that line from Six Degrees of Separation My wife knows when to take my drawings away from me. Anyway here's my latest which, coincidentally, contains the word 'inspired':  The Pitch by liam, on Flickr |
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Post by Wild Card on Sept 27, 2016 8:28:15 GMT -5
These are brilliant! Where do you get your inspiration? Me? Well thanks for liking them (if you do mean me). Inspiration? I'm not sure what that means. I usually just start by breaking a page of my notebook into 8 panels with a few pencil lines then start doodling one of my characters in the top left hand panel and sometimes - if I'm lucky - by the time I get to the third or fourth panel I know what they are doing and where they're going. Then I often have to go back and rework the first few panels to get there a little more easily. Sometimes the whole thing just appears in my head out of nowhere BANG! like that and I have to get it scribbled down quick before it vanishes. I always carry a sketchbook with me. I was at a Con this weekend with the family and a girl walked by cosplaying Princess Fiona from Shrek and I thought, "If you were evil you could greenscreen her into being anyone" and thirty seconds later my Geek characters were scrabbling over each other in my head to do just that and cosplay as Andy Serkis. I thumbnailed it on the spot. The moment, later the same day, when I saw a comic I used to own when I was a kid but sold for pennies when I got bored with comics in my teens (Barry Smith and Roy Thomas' Savage Sword of Conan #1) on sale for 100 pounds became the basis for a one page I doodled up while I was waiting for some soup to cook this evening. Again my younger, smarter, hepper Geek characters were inside my head and watched my reaction. I don't think there is such a thing as inspiration - there is such a thing as recognising a possibly interesting thought as it passes by through ones endless internal monologue, grabbing it and then worrying at it till it is fit to present to the world. But 'Inspiration'? Not convinced. Quite often - as with any form of 'art' it's knowing when to stop and leave things out that's the most important bit. Like that line from Six Degrees of Separation My wife knows when to take my drawings away from me. Anyway here's my latest which, coincidentally, contains the word 'inspired': The Pitch by liam, on Flickr Note: I'm on mobile again, so I can't edit this quote without risking destroying it. So it's a long quote :/ ) Yes, junkmonkey, you! It's a broad question, I'm wanting to know everyone who has posted art here, what the "inspiration" is, and that totally includes you!! Your take on "inspiration" is interesting. Never really thought about it. I've just used the term inspiration. For me, it's different though. Inspired is that recognition of an interesting thought and having the motivation to pursue it. It's a two parter. It's not inspiration if I don't have the drive to conplete it. As for knowing when to stop, that's always been just something I do. When I draw a character or write a poem or write a short story or chapter (as I've yet to compete a novel or anything) I just...know this is the end. This is point in which it'll read it look the best and if I do anything else to it, I'll have it ruined. I think it's a good idea to carry a sketchbook everywhere. I don't draw often but I do carry my note and sketchbooks for story or character ideas. But I totally get the whole BANG there's the idea lets get it down part. Like a switch almost that's flipped upon seeing or hearing something. A recognition of an interesting idea, like you said. Can I ask why 8 panels? I'm just curious. It's not bad, but I'm just curious why 8? See, I can't do that. I have drawn a few comics and mostly I write a plot outline, like they teach you in school, except each "point" will be a panel. And then I scribble a tiny version of the big concept and all the boxes are various sizes that fit in a readable pattern. And it's various counts, too. Sometimes 6 or 9 or whatever. I think it's neat that you just....draw 8 panels and start working and then you are able to figure out where to go. I'm super jealous of that, actually. I love how you described what your characters do when I ask a question. Like the Fiona incident you described. That's really cool. |
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Post by junkmonkey on Sept 28, 2016 3:27:41 GMT -5
Why eight panels? I guess because you have to start somewhere. There's nothing in the world more intimidating than a blank piece of paper. By making four long lines across it I break it down into smaller digestible chunks and it gets me started. And once I've started I might as well finish. A bit like Robert Sheckley. Sheckley was a professional writer. He had a regime that he wrote 5000 words a day. Once, when suffering writers block, he just started typing 5000 words a day. Anything. 5000 words. His name over and over again. Anything. After a couple of days of doing that he got bored with typing rubbish so he wrote a story instead.
Not that my strips always end up with 8 panels. The 'crap movie' one up there started out as 8 panels - and grew. The last one I drew in my sketchbook shrank to 7 when I realised it worked better if the running girl I drew in panel 1 was actually chasing the thing I drew in panel 2 (and once I knew she was doing that I knew who she was) - and once that happened I knew where I was going.
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