Mark of the Beast 15 – In Your Head

Talking about a forum post Dave Anderson (Pixelgun) brought up about “Do you see it in your head?”–asking the question, how do you previsualize or do you. Music by Beast in the Field. Follow Mark on Twitter! Discuss this in the Forum! Can’t see the audio player? Log in or register here! [private] [Audio clip: [...]

Video: Daily Sketch March 12, 2010

Some video of me putting together my Firefly sketch on March 12, 2010. Spotlighting my use of the Pentel Color Brush and some of the choices I make when creating an illustration. Follow Jerzy on Twitter! Discuss this in the Forum! Can’t see the video player? Log in or register here! [private] Right-click or Control-click [...]

Art & Story – Your Comic From The Ground Up, Pt 4

[private]It’s another installment of the Your Comic From The Ground Up series, and this time we give an hour and change over to a discussion on editing! Time to put away the Art Mullet and get brutally honest and analytical about what’s working with what you’ve done so far and what is not. As with [...]

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Art & Story 95 – The Big Balloon II

[private]This week we try to answer an email from Storrior Jose Gonzalez, specifically about some tricky word balloon uses he plans on trying in one of his comics. We take the opportunity to revisit a topic we haven’t formally explored since episode 08–namely the role and function of word balloons in a comics narrative. We [...]

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Art & Story 77 – The Big Love

[private]It’s a special Valentine’s Day episode of Art & Story, and the topic on the docket is creating comics with a high degree of romance–in other words, love stories. Since Mark and I don’t swim too deeply in those waters, we surrounded ourselves with a stellar round table of cartoonists who are at ease making [...]

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Art & Story 64 – The Big Funk Breaker

[private]I think it’s safe to say that all cartoonists fall into artistic funks from time to time–nothing is happening the way you want on the page, you’re stuck on an idea, or you come back to the page two days later and notice some glaring errors. So how do you break out of that crummy [...]

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Art & Story 59 – The Big Block II

[private]This week we revisit the topic of a panel’s “innards”–the content of the panel itself. We talk about staging, “blocking” our shots, composition, scene transitions, and how studying photography and theatre performances could help a struggling cartoonist find new inroads to creating interesting panels. We meant to get at two topics this week, but we [...]

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Art & Story 023 – The Big Rhythm

[private]Mark and Jerzy begin the discussion of panel rhythms, page flow and timing. Also listener emails. We’re still interested to hear your thoughts on us doing the Art & Story “ALIVE” show, so either email us or leave you’re comments below. Examples: The Taco Time storyboards 1, 2, 3. The Front 1 & 2 and [...]

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