Art Lozzi explains color
We just can't stop linking to John K's blog, but this time he gets Hanna Barbera background designer Art Lozzi to explain his color theory, which does come down to forest green and salmon...
Making Comics – Chapter 5 1/2
Scott McCloud's brief Chapter 5 1/2 on web comics is up. We haven't had time to thoroughly digest it yet -- discuss!
How to draw things right
Speaking of John K. we've linked to his blog all kinds of stuff before, but it's really must reading. Kricfalusi is notoriously cranky and disdainful of bad work, and on his blog he has...
The concept art of Daniel Dociu
Daniel Dociu is a Romanian-born video game concept artist whose work we ran across back when we were a Spectrum judge earlier this year. He's currently Art Director at ArenaNet, most recently having worked...
Making Comics thoughts
Over at Make Comics Forever!!, actor/cartooner Cameron Chesney talks about one of the most unusualy aspects of Scott McCloud's MAKING COMICS: the section on facial expressions:
One aspect of the book, which I was amazed...
The Three Act Structure
Chris Butcher has a long important post spinning off from Queenie Chan's comments on making her Tokyopop OEL/OGM THE DREAMING. First quote is from Chan:
âFrom this perspective, it's almost inevitable that "The Dreaming"...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 11/17
The footnote interviews color whiz Matt Hollingsworth, who just moved to Croatia:
Q: Coloring techniques have changed quite a bit over the years, with them infernal computers and tools like Photoshop becoming more and more...
Comic novels
It was a red letter day for The Beat when we finally got linked in Gawker in an item parsing Wil Moss's report on the graphic novel symposium at the 92nd St. Y. Specifically...what...
Learn how to write with Lynda Barry
Lynda Barry will lead a two-day writing seminar in January. Tickets were available via eBay, but it looks like they are sold out. Barry is the author of the graphic novel ONE HUNDRED DEMONS...
Comic Tool blog launches
M.K. Reed has launched a nifty little blog called comic tools which interviews various folks on just that -- the tool they use to create comics. So far she's interviewed Jim Rugg, Hope Larson,...
Crisis on Infinite Good or Wednesdays
Do you want it good, or do you want it Wednesday? We're not entirely qualified to comment on this, since our knowledge of DC continuity post-Crisis I is spotty at best, but here goes:
One...
Scott McCloud Flash expression generator!
Boing Boing leads us to a page showing Scott McCloud's soon-to–be-infamous facial emotion generator, and a nifty Flash app that lets you blend expressions as others blend spices.
