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Walley Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work

Posted on April 26, 2012 in Resources & Tutorials

Comics are a visual medium, and work best when they use pictures to advance and enrich the narrative. Sometimes a script doesn’t do that, but an artist still needs to communicate the impression that there is something dramatic taking place. Tv and film have sound and movement to help accomplish this goal. In comics, we’ve got variations in gesture, lighting, and composition.

Found Via Steve Leiber’s tumblr

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I Really Fell In Love With This Little Blog…

Posted on March 5, 2012 in Resources & Tutorials, Yay, art!
source: Less Tits n' Ass, More Kickin' Ass

source: Less Tits n' Ass, More Kickin' Ass

One of my favourite blog’s lately is “Less Tits n’ Ass, More Kickin’ Ass”. It’s premise is easy, they take anatomically challenged comic art and fix it up; whith a concentration on female poses.

I’m quite happy I found this ‘lil blog – the artist herself is pretty good and the pose edits are solid and clearly understandable. Something I really need for learning how to do better.

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The Comic Strip Artist’s Kit (Redux)

Posted on March 1, 2012 in Resources & Tutorials

The following is one of the best summarisation of the basics of cartooning/comic drawing in general I’ve ever seen. Don’t be scared of by Mickey and Donald, these comics hold up because they’re GOOD.

Please also check out the source, the Temple of the Seven Golden Camels – it’s a real good blog about comic strips and comics in general. And, due it’s strip nature, it seems to focus on the basics. It’s fantastic.

Artists who bother with teaching others need to be cherished.

 

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How To Take Screenshots In Mass Effect 2 DVD Retail Version – The Real, Absolutely, Fantastically Easy Way.

Posted on February 15, 2012 in Resources & Tutorials

You need: The steam client, Mass Effect 2

Add Mass Effect 2 to the Steam Game Library via “add steam foreign game” – You need to add the Mass Effect 2 Launcher.

Start Mass Effect 2 via the Steam Game Library (important!).

Press F12. Recieve Screenshot.

 

Femshep

Galetae Shepard - one of the nicest persons in the Galaxy and a Killcount in the thousands.

 

Should work for the first Mass Effect, too, but I haven’t tried that yet.

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A list of useful online references for artists.

Posted on January 20, 2012 in Resources & Tutorials

This is mainly for personal reference, but I am sure you guys will find it useful, too. :)
I will add to this whenever I find some new ones.

Faces and Facial Expressions.

Bodys and Bodytypes, Anatomy in general

Staging, Layout, Poses and other Comic specific tips and tricks

  • Comic Strip Artist’s Kit (Redux)
    Some basic knowledge about comic strips and panel layouts, pretty useful, actually. I’ve got a mirror on this site, but you really should check out the source.
  • Less Tits n’ Ass, More Kickin’ Ass
    Redraws questionable US-American Comic book poses into anatomically sound artwork with a focus on the female characters.
  • Posemaniacs.com
    Closest thing you can get to livedrawing without a model.  Features renders of models (both male and female) in lots of poses, plus a nice “30 seconds for a pose” feature that’s clearly meant for practicing art.
    Biggest drawback? The majority of female poses are shitty “sexy” ones, so be aware of that.
    And well… It’s a good pose reference, but due to the limitations of 3d models, it’s absolutly fracking useless for anatomy. So, do NOT use it for anatomy references!

If any of these links isn’t active anymore, please shoot me a short email, so that I can take it down.

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