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Good luck with starting School hope it all goes well for you my friend.
Thanks, I've made arrangements to have it hung up in MoMA. Could be called my magnum opus to this point in my career.
It's not funny, @ClarkDevlin. It's my earnest and uncensored examination of a post-modern nuclear family and a viewpoint on how our view of family has shifted and mutated from those halcyon days to something more. Despite the degradation of human thought and the sinister burgeoning power of industry, technology and increased war, we can see that the nuclear family is as wholesome a unit as ever. From this we can see that, no matter where time and trial may take us, the only true constant is the love and unity of the family bond.
I did two other accompanying pieces to this one in more vivid crayon depicting male and female same sex relationships, and meant to have the three of them exhibited as a triptych of how family can take all forms, no matter the gender or sex of the spouses. MoMA didn't go for it, however, as they thought the content was a bit too heavy. They just don't understand my attention to craft or the message I'm trying to spread through my work. Plebeians, all of them.
There was never any doubt about that. After you teamed up with me to make that Jackson Pollack tribute with animal scat I knew I was working with an artist after my own heart.
Not familiar with that part of TLoEG, but I was definitely giving the middle background figure Kingpin vibes. It's hard to make a sack of muscle not feel like him already. ;)
He even has the same stance, and waistcoat.
Here's my latest piece, a new addition to my continuing series of Bond related art. In this one Bond has found himself nearly buried alive under heavy rubble after a devastating explosion at an undisclosed location:
I've also had the idea of doing some caricature-like drawings of some of my favorite icons, basically really quick and rough cartoons that are more loose and fun and presented like portraits.
Nice piece of work, @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7! Developing a recognizable style, here!
Had my share of digital editing of scans. Absolutely hate going over artwork – adjusting levels, removing small dots or pieces the level adjustments can't remove, etc. These days I do most of my "inking" digitally on my Wacom board, and instead of scanning, just take a quick photo from my iPhone. How things change, huh? :-)
Recreating comic pages in a different style can be great fun! Doing the same page in several styles is a great way to mix things up, and a nice tool to develop your own style. Doesn't need to be a complete page either. A single panel, or a comic strip is also a possibility.
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Also, make a Google search of «Wally Wood's 22 panels that always work». That's the best tip I've ever got about making comics.
I've had my share of digital inking, and almost exclusively used a smaller Wacom in college for my art classes to ink my work for final assessment, but in the past two years I've gone traditional again. After so many years of using technology for art you yearn to just go back to the "old ways" of doing things before the world got taken over by the stuff. Heading back to pencil and paper every once and a while feels nice and refreshing, but as you can see I still find time to do a lot of digital art too with a focus on minimalism.
I've sort of become known as a Luddite, and am very cynical about technology's effect on our species, so I use it as a necessary evil but can also see how the modern tools have their uses. I just think a lot is lost when you lose touch of traditional means of doing art (or doing anything, really) and so I consider myself very fortunate that I grew up in a time when the world didn't revolve around the newest phone or computer accessory and feel bad for those who will be born into this world not knowing how things used to be.
Wacom really is a good tool for inking (and sketching), but it's still just a tool. One should mix things up a bit. I find Wacom difficult to function as good as pen and paper –at least the Cintiq I have, which is a getting old. For most purposes, it's a time saving (and space saving!) way of doing things. If I do things for fun, then it's all analog.
There's a few new tablet releases which seem closer to that "pen and paper feel", so that might be a thing to consider in the future. The most important thing is to find the tools you're comfortable using for making artwork. I know people who buy expensive art paper, while I feel just as comfortable with slightly heavier paper than the usual copy paper. Still looking for that perfect brush pen, but hadn't had luck so far. So much to choose from, too.