Comments on: Grid Talk 4 http://johnamorartist.com/grid-talk-4/ Sun, 13 May 2012 11:26:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: johnamor http://johnamorartist.com/grid-talk-4/comment-page-1/#comment-535 johnamor Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:23:00 +0000 http://johnamorartist.com/?p=1068#comment-535 Yeah, I gotcha. It's so easy to spoil yourself though, especially when you're writing AND drawing. "That's not a crowd scene! That's a naked chick!" Yeah, I gotcha. It’s so easy to spoil yourself though, especially when you’re writing AND drawing.

“That’s not a crowd scene! That’s a naked chick!”

]]> By: Derrick Fish http://johnamorartist.com/grid-talk-4/comment-page-1/#comment-533 Derrick Fish Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:11:11 +0000 http://johnamorartist.com/?p=1068#comment-533 I read a blurb in Bob McCloud's magazine, "DRAW" about the danger of drawing what you want FIRST and moving on the the duller pages and panels later. The message is that you have to draw those pages EVENTUALLY, and if you do all the scenes you like to draw FIRST then you're going to have to do a huge BLOCK of pages full of stuff you don't like to do at the end and not have the drive. Personally, I enjoy drawing a good talking scene as I enjoy the challange of making it really interesting when there isn't always something interesting going on. If I actually WROTE the scene, then I'll try and at least make the talk happen somePLACE interesting or while characters are doing something ELSE while talking to keep things fresh. Bill Watterson had such a clever way of doing this in "Calvin and Hobbes". Whenever his strip was basically just Calvin and Hobbes yammering on about philosophy or something, he'd draw them on their sled or red wagon barreling through a beautifully rendered forest. It was an awesome way to add energy to an otherwise static scene. I read a blurb in Bob McCloud’s magazine, “DRAW” about the danger of drawing what you want FIRST and moving on the the duller pages and panels later. The message is that you have to draw those pages EVENTUALLY, and if you do all the scenes you like to draw FIRST then you’re going to have to do a huge BLOCK of pages full of stuff you don’t like to do at the end and not have the drive.

Personally, I enjoy drawing a good talking scene as I enjoy the challange of making it really interesting when there isn’t always something interesting going on. If I actually WROTE the scene, then I’ll try and at least make the talk happen somePLACE interesting or while characters are doing something ELSE while talking to keep things fresh. Bill Watterson had such a clever way of doing this in “Calvin and Hobbes”. Whenever his strip was basically just Calvin and Hobbes yammering on about philosophy or something, he’d draw them on their sled or red wagon barreling through a beautifully rendered forest. It was an awesome way to add energy to an otherwise static scene.

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