Thanksgiving Week

Mentioned this guy in class: http://www.johnwatkissfineart.com/

November 14, 2015

I screwed up the measurements on the final, the interior pages are 11" x 17" split down the middle for 2 pages. I blame Chris for this mistake. Mock him if you must.
Photoshop color:
Open you new document with your drawing, go to "layer blends" in the "layers" palette. Drop down to "multiply". Lock off that layer and create a new layer under it and cal it color. Color will show through the top layer now.
Illustrator:
Place you drawing on it's own layer (file-place). If you want double click the layer and dim it.  Use the pen tool to draw you lines. Fatten the stroke slightly, Select all lines and go to file-object-outline path (save your original lines also). Then you can use the white arrow tool to select points to adjust your drawing.

Some Interesting Tutorials

Inking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI2tro_-JpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH4RmMCMa7I

October 17, 2015

Staging and action. Below are some good examples of staging.

October 3. 2015

Some good ink/shape info:
http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/11/shapewelding-sketching.html
Bill Watterson's tools:
http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2015/06/book-review-calvin-and-hobbes.html

Sebastian Krüger painting a big caricature of Michael Jackson. It's an interesting use of shapes and approach:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b18LOHBjyuc

Ralph Eggleston great color info. Look up his color scripts. This applies to comic and long form things like graphic novels. Plan out how the color will flow from page to page.

http://www.pixar.com/behind_the_scenes/Colorscripts#/node/3830
Great Glen Keane lecture on thumbnailing action, this will be relevant soon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJOziG8cCMg

9-26-2015

This is an image search for a book titled "Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers" this is a good one for ink solutions.https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0SO81arMQRWLj8A_VtXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0NjZjZzZhBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNwaXZz?p=framed+ink&fr=sfp&fr2=piv-web
Some Wouter Tulp caracitures:
http://caricaturez.blogspot.com/2011/11/caricatures-by-wouter-tulp.html

September 19, 2015

Caricature artists... 
New Al Hirschfeld profile, this guy was a flat out genius. I'll post the video when it's up: http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-caricatures-of-al-hirschfeld/

Philip Burke: https://www.burchfieldpenney.org/exhibitions/exhibition:04-10-2015-09-13-2015-the-likenesses-of-being-portraits-by-philip-burke/

Pablo Lobato: http://www.agoodson.com/illustrator/pablo/
Sebastian Kruger: http://www.sebastiankruger.com/
http://sebastian-kruger-news.blogspot.com/
Some shape doodles from lunch...

9-12-15

Documentary on Greg Ruth, a total ink badass:
https://vimeo.com/90784758

September 5, 2015

Great Steve Brodner video showing his process. We'll be covering this technique coming up:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSbRGMOEytQ
John Cuneo drawing and watercolor demo:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJJAlejepf4
Oscar Grillo:http://okgrillo.blogspot.com/
Posting this for the ideas and the caricatures:
http://stevebrodner.com/2015/08/14/2014-so-far/
Interesting Pixar Info:
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/educational/learn-how-pixar-makes-its-films-with-the-free-pixar-in-a-box-program-118359.html
This is Chris Sasaki's site. He has a very personal drawing style. Great character stuff but check out his sketchbooks: http://www.csasaki.com/
Ralph Steadman, great use of ink, watercolor and splatters: 
http://www.ralphsteadman.com/
Video showing some of Steadman's ink technique:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6omL2ukk9c
Another Steadman video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n5E1xZtaJY
Chip Wass, great design:
www.worldofwassco.com

Syllabus

8-29-15

Materials. We will be using a variety of tools but I'll try to keep the cost down.
• Black Huggins Ink:
http://www.dickblick.com/products/higgins-waterproof-black-magic-ink/
• Crow quill pen.
• Fine line markers, including brush pen. 
• Blue Prismacolor Col-Erase
• Standard pencils. Get a good one Staedtler is fine or any good art pencil.                 Weight is up to you but I wouldn't go over a 2B.
• Pad of bristol paper. Smooth, it's sometimes called plate or vellum.
• Roll of sketch/trace paper. If you have trace pads or paper that's fine.

Links: 
Carter Goodrich, simple forms:
http://www.cartergoodrich.com/
John Cuneo, great loose line and great nuance.
http://www.johncuneo.com/
This is Cuneo's Drawger page. It has a great article on cartoonist Richard Thompson:
http://drawger.com/johncuneo/?
Peter de Seve. great "searchy" line and really funny. Another great guy for nuance. Great expressions.
http://www.peterdeseve.com
Brad Holland:
http://bradholland.net
Steve Brodner, one of the best current political cartoonists:
http://stevebrodner.com/
Calvin and Hobbes, great, well everything...
http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes
Mimi Pond a lot of autobiographical stuff:
http://mimipond.typepad.com/
Zap Comix:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zap_Comix
Honoré Daumier:
http://www.daumier.org/
Mort Drucker, crazy good draftsmanship, look at his inking:
http://www.adriansinnott.com/mortdrucker.html
Amazing video of artist John Kascht on caricature, watch this or else!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpUE-oMpjNE