Here are some storyboards I put together for a student film. I was strapped for time with this and used photos and reference images…
There’s an adage that 10,000 hours of practice is what’s required to become a master. While that is more of an incentive for persistence…
Following on from the last post and still using the cover of Action Comics #1, here I’ll investigate different modes of interpretation.
Formalist reading. What are…
Traditional art writing and critique can be broken down into a system of steps, including describing.
The description is crucial because it draws attention to…
Scott McCloud’s Triangle of Representation (Understanding Comics, 1993, 52) lends a non-linear sliding scale of representation that might be used to assign values to…
Here’s something interesting.
Jonathan Culler in his book Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction says:
Traditionally, Western philosophy has distinguished “reality” from “appearance,” things themselves from representations of…
A day trip to Emden, North Germany. I really need to practice more at drawing water.
I have lived for almost four years with a German Fraulein, and undertaken six trips to her homeland. It has been a gruelling journey…
What is Autoethnography?
According to Dictionary.com, it’s a Noun. Yay research.
Wikipedia goes on to say that:
“In its early guises Autoethnographies were insider accounts of human…
Reader engagement. How to obtain it, how to maintain it? The late Marlon Brando* says, in referring to his Academy Award nomination for On…
In the space of comics the typeset letter quivers with the voice of the drawing hand, the referent…
“Logocentrism” was coined by the German philosopher Ludwig Klages in the 1920s and refers to the tradition that regards words and language as a fundamentally…
Douglas Wolk in his book Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels work, “whereas the great majority of mainstream comics are made by teams of writers and…
I’m sitting in a section of a very old farmhouse in North-West Germany called Ostfriesland and finally have the time and brain capacity to…
I’m at the stage of the graphic novel that I’m referring to as the hump. The big, horrible, hump.
I’ve turned 15679 of a total…
If you’ve always, ever since you were a tiny kipper, desperately wanted to hear someone battling with Man-Flu talking about their work making comics,…
I felt a scratching in my throat on the opening of Paul Cleveland’s Sins of Academia exhibition on Friday. Woke up on Saturday feeling…
Mirroring and repetition; whether it be with image, or text, or metaphor, or motif, is a powerful tool. It reinforces meaning, draws attention to itself, and…
This page harks back to enjoyable group activities back in the days. Hackey sack- a university cliché for good reason. Far more beneficial for…
This is one of the first scenes where I’m digging a little deeper into one of the supporting characters. The dialogue is still clunky,…
Scott Bukatman, in his essay Sculpture, Stasis and Hellboy found within Critical Inquiry, Comics and Media (Chute & Jagoda 2014), ponders on the ideas of…
More drawing like a madman, recording and adding commentary. This one goes for six minutes. My voice is like warm butter. Enjoy.
I’m really getting into these screen captures. The process of recording my drawing has become quite natural, which is odd when I remember the first…
Day one of my ten page a day goal is off to an uninspired start. Five pages, though pretty good, is only half the…
I have the next four and a half days for drawing. Aiming for ten pages a day. Should be possible!
Working on aspect to aspect transitions again. I originally had this scripted:
Upon drawing the scene out thought I had two intentions. One, to show…
Following on from the previous entries where I emailed Henry Rollins’ management about the use of some of his text and image in my…
There is a site where comic creators put forward their 10 rules (commandments?) for making comics, titled the 10 rules for drawing comics. I particularly…
These pages are part of an attempt to work faster. 3 pages in just under 50 minutes, as opposed to the usual minimum 1…
I’ve always enjoyed drawing. I’ll always maintain I’ve never had an inherent talent for it; I’ve just drawn a lot, and improved as a result. This page…