Following on from yesterday’s short video tutorial with noted creator and manga reviewer Deb Aoki on inking there are more videos from SakuraColourproducts’ YouTube channel featuring Deb, including one on creating basic faces and expressions (nice and simple, even I might manage to follow this!): Drawing word balloons and sound effects: And adding dynamic movement [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Mitch Breitweiser has posted another of his cool time lapse videos of his drawing, this time he’s creating a version of Mike Allred’s Madman for Comic Twart: MADMAN from Mitch Breitweiser on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Monday, February 28, 2011
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Paul Kercal pointed me to this neat wee video – it’s a time-lapse drawing on an interactive whiteboard, 22 odd minutes compressed into just under 2. I like the ‘whiteboard’ too, what a great tool for drawing in front of an audience.
Continue reading...Monday, December 27, 2010
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Dan the Man Berry proves just how lightning fast his pens are. Oh, okay, even Dan’s not that fast, it’s time lapse, of course, around 1 frame per 5 seconds he says, as we see him working on a comics page. I always like time-lapse videos and they’re especially fun when watching someone creating something [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 22, 2010
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Phil Corbett shows us how to drawn the Dandy’s famous Korky the Cat (link via the Dandy’s Twitter and Andy Fanton):
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 7, 2010
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When it comes to the iPad most of the comics talk has been on what it is like as a platform to read a comics page on, but how about as a tablet to draw on? (link via Bloghorn)
Continue reading...Thursday, July 1, 2010
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If you follow us on Twitter you might have seen me mentioning a couple of weeks back that the artist, animation and film-making genius that is Terry Gilliam was talking to the BBC’s Radio 4 programme Front Row. However, I didn’t notice that while they had him there they also got Terry to draw his [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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Over on the Temple of the Seven Golden Camels (boy did I want a good excuse to write that name!) Mark Kennedy shares some good art tips from Glen Keane on the discipline – and advantages – of artists, even in a digital age, practising good fundamentals of their craft such as giving an image [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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Mike Lynch points us to this video of the then 99 year old artist Al Hirschfeld sketching Paul Newman over a period of eight hours, compressed into a short video:
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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Comic Box has video of the great Dave Gibbons drawing, captured at a recent comics bash in Paris which also included another Brit comics legend, Brian Bolland, who Dave comments should be following with another video soon. (via Dave’s Twitter) CB Live: Dave Gibbons Uploaded by comicboxlive. – Discover more animation and arts videos.
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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I like this short video by C. Coy with Milton Glaser creating a sketch of Will Shakespeare while discussing how the act of drawing shapes his interpretation of the world: “I’m convinced that it is only through drawing that I look at things carefully”. I suspect that’s true of many artists in many media, I [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 18, 2009
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This isn’t exactly comics news, but I imagine quite a few of our readers might be interested to know that the Guardian and Observer are following this week’s British comics giveaways with the Guardian and Observer Guides to Drawing and Painting, produced in collaboration with the Slade, this weekend in the Guardian on Saturday and [...]
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Friday, December 2, 2011
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