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#31
Jake Wyatt indeed...  :lol:
#32
Prog / Re: Prog 1862
06 January, 2014, 09:55:34 PM
You are right, Sir!
#33
Film Discussion / Re: DREDD CONCEPT ART
13 October, 2013, 08:22:06 PM
Not sure if I'm behind the times (as usual), but came across this today:
http://www.johnjhilldesign.com/folio/proj_dredd.html
#34
Creative Common / Re: Attempts at the sample scripts
27 August, 2013, 03:16:07 PM
Thought you'd like to know, the recent samples I submitted were accepted and I am currently awaiting commission from The Mighty One.
Many thanks to everyone for their support and advice...
#35
100% of Sun readers agree BIG DAVE should return - good on you, Dave, England salutes you!
#36
Quote from: Steven Austin on 28 July, 2013, 08:06:40 PM
Quote from: JTPegg on 19 July, 2013, 08:49:35 PM

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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.

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.
Hi Steven -

I have looked at your stuff and REALLY enjoy it - nice moody shots and good angles.  Sorry you've not heard back in 4 months.  I confess I've never had to wait that long and if it were me, I would consider re-submitting with a (polite) letter explaining yourself.  Tharg can be extremely busy but generally he does get back to you.

Regarding your other questions... A bit of both if I'm honest but generally I ALWAYS THUMBNAIL:

Its actually one of my favourite bits of the process.  I always thumb in pen as it helps me for some or other reason.

When I read a script a few panel descriptions will instantly bring an image to mind.  I'll then re-read it a few times to make sure I get it.  Normally, the other panels are forming from this.

Rate the page:  is there anything on it that stands out / is important / is just damned cool!?
Consider making that your main image and working the other images around it.  There some superb examples of this (Henry Flint for starters).  But the absolute master (for me) is Mike McMahon, see 'Block Mania' or 'Sky Chariots' to name a few and prepare to have your eyeballs melted!

Flow and pacing:  There are 'invisible' lines that pull you round a page so try to consider how to make people look where you want them to look.  Layout is king not just the images in it, McMahon (again) makes a page 'beautiful'/a piece or artwork to be admired.
Pacing is what occurs from size and detail.  The longer the eye has to rest upon an image, the longer the 'beat' - what are the 'beats' of the story?  Try listening to some music with a steady beat.  For each of those beats look at a panel of your story - does it still 'read'? If you are no longer in time with the music it because you are dancing to your own tune!

Stay fluid:  Sometimes you gotta ignore a thumbnail and do something else.  I used to be one of those idiots who would come up against a panel that I could not crack and the whole process would come to a halt. These days, I skip it and move onto the next, continually trying to move forward then coming back round to it.  Normally, by the time I'm back to the problem, the answer has revealed itself.

Time?  Hard to say as I thumbnail, pencil and ink in batches.  I don't tend to move on to each stage until the previous is sorted.  Sometimes I can get trapped on one panel that seems to takes ages, but will often return to these over time in an effort to get the mass done (stay fluid).  Generally I would say I can do 1 page a week, part time, or 1-2 full time.  its very much dependent on what is required.

Hope that helps? :)
#37
The low rez copy of the completed tryout can be viewed on the link below:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7258534/DreddSEALEDlwrz.pdf
#38

Quote
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...
#39
Some great stuff on here (damn I hate the competition!)
#40
Creative Common / Re: The big fat COLOURING thread
11 April, 2013, 01:00:41 AM
#41
Creative Common / Re: Attempts at the sample scripts
15 March, 2013, 09:48:59 AM
#42
General / Re: MARCH ART COMP - RISE OF THE ROBOTS
08 March, 2013, 09:20:55 PM
I can't resist a robot comp!



JOE PINEAPPLES
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7258534/N%26V.png
#43
Creative Common / Re: The big fat COLOURING thread
06 March, 2013, 12:37:09 AM
Been a long time since I've posted anything (frankly the competitions are getting too hard!)...So here goes:


Its for a personal project (hence the big black space).

Am currently trying to relearn how to colour when starting from a point I would normally not begin at.  It's not quite there, but hopefully it is a heroic failiure, worthy of this great thread :D

I look forward to seeing some more stuff soon...
#44

DON'T CALL ME CHIMP-FACE!
Looking forward to seeing the results of your warped imaginations... :)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7258534/HARRYHESTON.jpg
#45
General / Re: THE 2011 MESSAGEBOARD ADVENT CALENDAR!!!
09 December, 2011, 10:29:29 AM
Grud Bless Us, Everyone...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7258534/MerryXmas.jpg

Wishing you ALL a very Merry Christmas :)

++++++++++++++++++
PREZZIES FOR ALL!
Photoshopper's only:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7258534/Prezzie.psd

and for everyone else, a few old projects and sketches:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7258534/TheUltimateConquest.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7258534/aSKETCHYROUGHABANDONNEDandLOSTxmas.pdf

HO, HO, HO...