This week we try and get to the bottom of what makes a productive workspace (to us at least). We go into lighting, work flow, how much space we operate out of, how we organize, then we get kinda tired and fizzle out. Enjoy!
Mark was called away and couldn’t be on the show this week, so I wind up flying solo. Well, not exactly–good friends Shawn Robare and Sally Scott show to keep things interesting. We talk about one of the topics I posted on this week’s Google Document, namely character design, which tributaries out into a discussion on writing story bibles.
I also have a book recommendation for this week - Vanishing Point, Perspective for Comics From the Ground Up, by Jason Cheeseman-Meyer.
We’re joined in the chat by Largopredator, Matt Munn, Audra, Kevin Cross, Snapshot, and The Blog Comics.
This time we profile the Sons of Northern Darkness, Immortal. A staple in the Norwegian Black Metal scene since the early 90s, Immortal has managed to stay incredibly versatile under the constraints of the genre and have crafted quite possibly the most unique discography in extreme metal. Join our search for Blashyrk in the Heart of Winter!
This week we posted our topics in a Google Document, which we’ll probably do for all future shows. We wind up talking about digital coloring techniques, drawing “through” our comics panels, and the various techniques and affordances we have to give our characters unique voices. We close out with a small discussion on the role and function of themes in comics storytelling. We’re joined in the audio by Sally Scott and Anthony Harris, and in the chat by Largopredator, Matt Munn, Audra & Scott, Shawn Robare, Kevin Cross, Jarmo, and The Blog Comics.
During our talk about lettering, we discuss one of Sally’s pages, seen here.
We have a coloring tutorial provided by Audra. As we amass more we’ll post them in this thread:
Amy Reeder Hadley’s copic coloring tutorial #2
Anne Drozd returns for a discussion and overview of our second installment of The Big Experiment, first attempted in Episode 31. This time we tighten up on the rules and make the parameters a little more random, resulting in mixed feelings about the comics we produced.
Photos of us struggling with the experiment can be found on our Flickr page.
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This week we discuss the sickening art of Dismember, one of the groups who spearheaded the Swedish Death Metal scene in the late 80s early 90s. They’re over the top imagery and lyrical subject matter have gotten them in trouble from time to time, but they’re music stands the test of time– Death Conquers All!
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This week we have a discussion with Scott (Kimonostereo) Yoshinaga of nemu*nemu about the branding options available to an online cartoonist in a web 2.0 world. We discuss the common wisdom of online comics publishing, but then go into a brief comparison study of other publishing models, from print comics publishing to prose to music.
We feel like we only scraped off a tip of this iceberg. If you have any thoughts to contribute to this conversation, send us an email or maybe bring them to one of our live episodes!
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This week we talk with Shawn Robare about panel designs and concerns, the role of digital coloring in comics, and the new “Kirby, King of Comics” book available in stores and your public library. We’re joined in the chat by Audra and Scott, Matt, The Blog Comics, and Largo.
