Comics artist/ designer Chris Ware

I wanted to give you guys a taste of some other options for storytelling art. Chris ware stretches the maning of comics art with his heavily design oriented art style. Read through these. The Designers on in class might want to take a close look.

9	Figure in Space/Perspective	Drawign with model; figure in		On Bristol in panels	Mid Project Horror Piece.
	demo: Drawing in Ink pens			h. fill 10 pages with pictures of figures in
		draw scene in perspective		space interactive with environments. one final in ink and panel

Hey everyone,

I've been looking over the pages and I've noticed a few things everyone or most everyone need to address

1. Drawing. The quality of drawing and lack of reference is coming clear. Please reassess, you all have much stronger skills in class.
2. Balance of black and white in the panels.
3. Line weight and line work. Control your lines, only use lines if they mean something.

These are all issues we've spoken about inclass. This week we will look more closely and consider it a WIP critique.

Keep working, and make a good show for class this week.

Steve

New project due 10/28

Next comes Project : horror movie three pager

Create a three-page comic penciled in ink on 10 x 15" Bristol board.
At least six panels on every page preferably more.
Take a hard movie scene from a movie of your choice and re-create the scene in your own visual language using suggestions from the original adding your own flair.

Your page sequence need to include the following visual shots;  obstructed view image,  Birdseye view, worms Eye view, space and a silhouette. Try out working with zooming in for detail zooming out for establishing shots.

 Push yourself and have fun !

Due October 28

Drawing Hands!

As if these photos didn't give you a clue. I want you to make the same kind of sheet that you made last week for faces, of hands in different positions. 20 hand photos doing 20 different things, (punching, pointing, holding objects etc.) draw 20 nice clear drawings of those hands in those positions.

Pretty simple.

Muscular anatomy, hands, arms etc.

Here is some more information about anatomy! Gleaned from the interwebs.

Assignment for September 17th Due Sept 24th

A. Make an expression sheet of 20 heads/faces using your camera. Make a single sheet of the expressions. Try different facial expressions and angles( looking up down, side to side, Etc ( see examples)

B. Draw all 20 of the images in your sketchbook, try to have fun with expressions and add some cartoony energy to the drawings.

C. Create a new character and using the same twenty expressions create a series of 20 head drawings of the character from different angles.

Comic book rendering styles and finishing looks

Just adding this to give you some more ideas as to how people use their pencils to create different effects with their pencils in comics.