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Peter Martin
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Peter Martin
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Rebecca Jansen
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Can I say it's enjoyable to see such a variety of styles and approaches? Thank you for what has been posted and what will be!
I think the best advice I ever heard of was in a Gil Kane interview about seeing through the objects you're drawing, how things are constructed. It might sound obvious put like that, but it's what's under the surface, the bones, that can count the most.
Also I remember something about looking at the very best artists as opposed to settling for being better than whoever you feel is not good. Really, all the very best are genuine fans of the very best. Although that can be discouraging, you want to be like them in their approach to learning and observation. See through their work and how they constructed it.
I don't know if any of this will be useful but thought I'd offer it as all I can offer back just now.
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Peter Martin
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The concept of drawing from what's underneath is something I something I have managed to incorporate to some degree into my art, but it's come later than it should... and for some reason, I find it easier to key into this when I colour a picture. I draw flatter than I colour...
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Peter Martin
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When the city sleeps, the Blue Harrier watches...
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Rebecca Jansen
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Another piece of useful advice I've held onto for ages came from Dick Giordano. He spoke about how everything around you is reference for an artist/illustrator. You can get information about how things work, how cloth folds, how an elbow bears weight and so on from what is around you. It's like we're always in school. (Insert of Frank Miller on NYC rooftops learning how to draw water towers). A young father working in comics said he was glad his daughter wasn't old enough for school yet because he needed her ears around to help him draw them better! :^)
Sketchbook is another term for workbook... a place to work things out. I think they are pretty private things for some artists but it's always interesting to see something of how others work things out. I felt honored one time when an older artist friend, maybe not even knowing I was struggling with some basic things, let me see some of their much earlier work that they really didn't like anymore. I got to follow a bit how they got to where they got to, plus the fact that his early figures and perspective were weak at one time made me feel a lot less hopeless. One of those 'I'll never be able to draw that well' artists for me, but he didn't draw that well once upon a time! Now Windsor McCay (Little Nemo, early animated films), he always seemed to draw 'that well'... there are also complete freaks of nature and all you can do is just gape in awe.
Edited by Rebecca Jansen on 18 March 2018 at 2:56pm
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Gil Dowling
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Darren Taylor
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Three studies in cloth movement & wrinkles.
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Peter Martin
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Good stuff, Darren!
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Peter Martin
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Still working on colouring it. In the meantime, a semi-transparent png.
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And now coloured:
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