Look at the goodies I got from Spectrum Live in Kansas City! There were so many talented artists and I spent far too much money, but I had planned on that.
Kent's Damned Movie Reviews: Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek Into Darkness is a bit of a weird title. It comes across as a Wheel of Fortune ‘before and after’ puzzle. But, if we stretch the metaphor beyond breaking, that Wheel joke expresses the tr…
My latest review that went up last week.
Pencils for another Sopwith Cammy concept piece I’m working on. It’s changed a little in the inking, but I’m pretty happy with it thus far. Hope to finish it in the next couple of days at some point when I get a chance to sit down.
Kent's Damned Movie Reviews: Iron Man 3
Tony Stark may be battling one of the funnier bouts of PTSD in filmic history. In Iron Man 3, the guy that had a bomb put shrapnel in his heart, escaped from a cave full of terrorists, fought blood…
I don’t know if there’s anyone here that reads my reviews, but the newest is Iron Man 3.
These are seriously brilliant. I want them in my home.
Libby Levi | Blog: Here, HBR, let me translate for you.
This article from the Harvard Business Review has been making the rounds on twitter lately, as designers and other “creatives” rightly take offense to it’s demeaning tone and off-base “tips” on managing creative employees. I thought I’d take the opportunity to translate their 7 rules into…
In other words, treat them like real employees instead of monkeys with crayons.
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School KC- Anya Neeze 4/8/13
Some more pix from Vegas’ Neon Boneyard. As you can see, I’m just ducky!
Some Vegas pictures. My friend Heather, a scary giant woman and lots of stuff from the Neon Boneyard.
Doing homework for my Photoshop desktop publishing class. We were supposed to make alterations to a photo of an old church, so of course this is the first thing that sprang to mind.
Ma! Meatloaf!
I usually use Chicken in a Biskit crackers, but this time I decided to risk using Tabasco Cheeze-Its. Let’s see how THIS turns out…
A logo I made in Illustrator to the specifications of one of my family’s business ventures. (Grew up on a farm, doncha know?)
Tumbl'n with Kt: Advice To A Young Cartoonist
(nabbed from James Sturm’s article on www.cartoonstudies.org)
Chuck Forsman and Melissa Mendes were kind enough to return to WRJ last week as visiting artists. They talked about their comics, Oily Comics, and life after CCS. During the Q&A a student asked what advice they wish they had…
I can safely say without any doubt in my mind that the best drawing school is to have to sit down and do a comic strip every day. When I was doing a five-day-a-week strip for the KSU Collegian, my artwork got exponentially better. If you really push yourself to improve (and don’t get lazy like some syndicated folks) your storytelling skills, ability to show emotion and motion, anatomy (real or otherwise), editing of your own work and ability to draw a character so that they have a set look every time you put them down, along with every other aspect of your art and/or comicking will improve. You may get frustrated at first that you can’t do everything right off the bat, but stick with it. You can’t play guitar the first time you sit down. You have to practice at making comics and drawing too.
Some of my comics from the series Aoi Sayonara. I did this surrealist Alice in Wonderland-style series as an experiment to try to do one completely dialogue free, unplanned, less than 30 min a pop and using brush pens for everything but the main character. I also didn’t erase the pencil work so it would have a sketchier feel. (Originally I intended to do all the initial art in blue pencil, but it was damaging my pens when I tried to ink over it.) Some of them were good, some less so. But I was overall happy with it and have thought about redrawing it, this time taking my time and trying to do a professional level job on it.
Do you like fish sticks?
