It's a 3D world - long hours in the ally
Just watched the Intro for Onimusha 3.... ok, I'm impressed.
Meanwhile, in another 3D world....
Man....I've been spending the better part of the last 6 days doing some basic art restoration, cleaning up scans of the classic comic strip Gasoline Ally for D&Q. Some timely work but man, cleaning up the specs and nicks, grooming the lettering so that it's readable - has to rank amongst some of the most mindless drudge work there is....blaaaa. My brain is melting out of my ears. Mustn’t complain I suppose, good to have the rent covered for another few months : )
It’s also opened my eyes to Frank King's Work. I was never really that keen on Kings work before, Nothing wrong with it, just indifferent, it had yet to grab me – so much to look at in the world it just got put to the bottom of the stack for a while in my mind.
Having spent the last few days getting to know his lines up CLOSE and personal - not just the strips I’m working on - I spent some time studying his work in Drawn & Quarterly Volume 3 so that I would be able to better understand his line work and what were his intended lines and what was damage, just to be sure I knew what to look for. Sadly some of the ones I’m working on are in pretty rough shape, it's a good thing that they've been documented now and will have a renewed life.
For you aficionados, it’s a very conservative clean up job, no real redrawing. Just clearing out specs and doing what’s needed for the legibility of the lettering where it’s nearly gone. I have redrawn a disintegrated panel or balloon border here or there but were talking about a CM/half inch or less.
All to say, I’ve a new found respect for his craft. The overall effect is not that exciting for me but he has some wonderful details in his drawing, and the sense of form and real depth of his sets and characters is really quite impressive. I really like the expressiveness of baby Skeezix, wonderful really.
I'm a pretty lucky guy, getting to make a living working on great stuff like this...even if the task itself is such a monotonous one at times. As BEM [also working on the book ] said last week, we’re getting to be part of history here, even if it’s just in a little way. Very cool : )
On a related topic..
Meanwhile, in another 3D world....
Man....I've been spending the better part of the last 6 days doing some basic art restoration, cleaning up scans of the classic comic strip Gasoline Ally for D&Q. Some timely work but man, cleaning up the specs and nicks, grooming the lettering so that it's readable - has to rank amongst some of the most mindless drudge work there is....blaaaa. My brain is melting out of my ears. Mustn’t complain I suppose, good to have the rent covered for another few months : )
It’s also opened my eyes to Frank King's Work. I was never really that keen on Kings work before, Nothing wrong with it, just indifferent, it had yet to grab me – so much to look at in the world it just got put to the bottom of the stack for a while in my mind.
Having spent the last few days getting to know his lines up CLOSE and personal - not just the strips I’m working on - I spent some time studying his work in Drawn & Quarterly Volume 3 so that I would be able to better understand his line work and what were his intended lines and what was damage, just to be sure I knew what to look for. Sadly some of the ones I’m working on are in pretty rough shape, it's a good thing that they've been documented now and will have a renewed life.
For you aficionados, it’s a very conservative clean up job, no real redrawing. Just clearing out specs and doing what’s needed for the legibility of the lettering where it’s nearly gone. I have redrawn a disintegrated panel or balloon border here or there but were talking about a CM/half inch or less.
All to say, I’ve a new found respect for his craft. The overall effect is not that exciting for me but he has some wonderful details in his drawing, and the sense of form and real depth of his sets and characters is really quite impressive. I really like the expressiveness of baby Skeezix, wonderful really.
I'm a pretty lucky guy, getting to make a living working on great stuff like this...even if the task itself is such a monotonous one at times. As BEM [also working on the book ] said last week, we’re getting to be part of history here, even if it’s just in a little way. Very cool : )
On a related topic..
posted by max at Tuesday, April 13, 2004
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