Jake Wyatt indeed...
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Steven Austin on 28 July, 2013, 08:06:40 PMHi Steven -Quote from: JTPegg on 19 July, 2013, 08:49:35 PMQuote
Have you submitted before? Still awaiting a response on my 2nd submission and interested to know if you have submitted previously what the feedback was from the Mighty Tharg.
Hi Steven - Best of luck with your second tryout!! Tharg does indeed know me and regularly sends me hotshots in the mail. I would also say that whenever you get any feedback from the Green Guy, have a good read as there are always little gems in there to learn from. A great deal of what your seeing here is as a result of that feedback.
A couple (off-hand) that come to mind:
1. Don't send just poster work, they want to see your storytelling style.
It's worth doing a little research on this. Look at your favourite artists and how they make you flow around the page. There are also some great books on storyboarding that can really feed back into your stripwork regarding framing/composition - personal fav: 'Framed Ink' by Marcos Mateau-Mestre.
2. Send Black and White samples.
By all means send 'em coloured as well, but they are judging your technique and colour is seen as something you can 'hide behind' and that may worry them as you are not demonstrating how you can 'express' yourself in simple old ink! Best thing that helped me is looking at my favourite artist (particularly their older stuff) and instead of just looking at their 'big strokes', look at their 'throw-away' marks. Practice those marks and add them to your 'library'.
For what its worth, if I can be of any assistance, feel free to PM me, dude...
Cheers buddy,
Just checked out your PDF's, really great stuff - hope you're accepted as I would certainly dig to see your stuff in print.
Thanks for the feedback - following my first submission the feedback from Mr Smith was very short and to the point (which I don't mind at all), it basically said, 'Storytelling is good, drawing is good but you need to refine your inks', which I have been working on and think I certainly achieved an improvement with the second submission - you may have seen it on earlier pages.
I am still awaiting a response (only been 4 months so early days really) and am looking forward to hearing what advise I receive next. I am under no illusion and don't expect to be accepted on the submission but will continue to plough on based upon the feedback received.
I have a couple of questions for you that aren't really for advice but more out of interest - what is your procedure when pulling a page together, do you go straight for it or do a lot of preparatory work? And on the back of that question whats your timescale for a page?
All the best sir.
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Have you submitted before? Still awaiting a response on my 2nd submission and interested to know if you have submitted previously what the feedback was from the Mighty Tharg.