The art for our Christmas card. That's meee, my huband Justin Toon, the calico is our hellion Addie, and the fat white one is Chester. I actually drew Chester much too small in this picture, he is almost a third again as long as he appears there. This was a totally last-minute idea, I knocked it out in about an hour so it's pretty sloppy in some places. Everyone went nuts over it so I guess they didn't notice!
Practicing construction, thanks to good ol' JohnK for posting some awesome comicbook covers to copy.
This is older work but I still like it . . . it's my jackalope character as different kinds of dragons. What, she's a magical creature, she can shapechange if she feels like it *shifty eyes*
^ a VERY SILLY doodle for Uncle Eddie (see blog link to the right). He is the oh-so-suave genius behind PlayNerd, a manly magazine for manly men who love those not-so-perfect, smartypants chicks. Well not really but wouldn't that be a cool magazine???
I'll do another post with caricature art later. I've definitely been more attracted to cartooning than caricaturing recently.
5 comments:
Kelly, how do you do the construction of the covers? Do you draw the construction on top of the cover?
No I do not trace it, I just look at the cover on the screen, find the underlying construction, and analyze it for a few minutes before starting to draw. Look for how different parts of the drawing relate to each other, for instance: What does the line look like that connects Porky's head to Bugs'? How far from the bottom rocker is the corner of the horse's nose? See how I drew a few lines around the rocking horse? That's to help me line them up correctly. I often hold my pencil up parallel to the screen, in order to judge what the lines and angles look like. I was trying to pay attention to the negative shapes, but I didn't get how they all related to each other, and that's what threw this off the most, as seen in JohnK's critique.
Hope this helps, Spumkin!
Well done Kelly! :)
I like the Uncle Eddie drawing! Snazzy stuff!
Hi Kelly!
Thanks for being a sweetheart and taking time to critique my progress on my blog! You know that sphere advice you gave me is a good idea.... Vincent Waller said the same thing in an email to me yesterday!
Yeah, I put a line on the angles that I wanted the heads to go, and then made the construction of the head. But since I wasn't really sure about the angle of the head, I didn't erase that line, but I did erase the circles for the head's construction. Of course, I see now that I got the eyes totally wrong as a result.
I did that angle line on the head because it's something I saw John do in a video tutorial he did last year breaking down the construction of a shot from 'Heckling Hare'. But as you correctly pointed out, the angle was wrong.
All the more reason to make it right. Well, back to the ol' drawing board! :oP Thanks again!
- trevor.
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