Monday, 22 September 2008
It’s like two comics in one! Lucky you.
Apologies to Sarah and Markel, who don’t look anything like how I’ve depicted them in this comic. This is a problem with working this small. I have neither the awesome fine motor skills nor tools of Dürer, who was known to work at this scale. And so: I stumble around on the index card and even the slightest mistake or inability to render faces accurately gets magnified—literally: the images on this site are bigger than the originals! Usually comics artists make use of the wonderful effect reduction has on artwork: they draw big, and their final pages get scaled down to fit the book dimensions, thus hiding or minimizing potential errors. Not me though. For FC, I scale up, and maximize errors.
This is where a bit of the “foolish” in Foolish Creatures! comes from.
Anyway, Hurricane Gustav turned out to be not so much of a much, and none of Sarah’s New Orleans friends got hurt. That was a relief.
So! Did you know that in Twilight Princess, you can use the hawk to grab chickens for you? Cos you can! You can’t grab cats though.
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:08
Nate.
Robinson.
September 22nd, 2008 at 03:47
haha i like that thats what you chose to document. For some reason i always confuse cerebral and ephemeral with each other. I’m not even sure why.
awooooooooooo
still waiting for that call. no zelda here but we can draw pictures? salmon spawning on our wall? wed love to see you.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:21
how do you even have 40 lbs to lose?
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:00
Eeen was a fatty before college took hold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ3hC4Za2kc
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:22
Well, I had 40 pounds to lose then…
& that video’s pretty damn cute, Frank. Here is one that is maybe less cute (actually there are 5): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thTaP9TsVZ4
September 22nd, 2008 at 06:51
I cannot picture a fatty Een!
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:06
I’ve been meaning to look more into Dürer, especially since Pontormo was influenced by his prints (I kind of studied Pontormo in the summer). Come to think of it, Vasari complained about that actually.
You are kind of making it harder on yourself by drawing small and then enlarging it. (Though losing detail from drawing large and then shrinking can be a huge bummer.)
And there are bound to be days when we look at our drawings and go “meh, this is not so good.” You’re braver (and more dedicated) than I to be posting something every day.
September 23rd, 2008 at 01:02
Well, enlarging drawings isn’t such a bad thing on the web, because screen resolution is so crappy. At least this way my hatch marks are fairly clear and don’t run together too much like they would if I reduced the images.
I saw Scott McCloud talk in New York when he was on his Making Comics tour, and he talked a lot about webcomics: mostly about the freedoms that working online affords, but also its restrictions, one especially important one being low resolution. The fine hatching in the art of Dave Sim and Gerhard in Cerebus, for example, would look like gray mush as 360×600 pixel images. The images that work best online tend to be much simpler and bolder, as with the art style Mike Krahulik developed in Penny Arcade…
And yeah, you kinda have to balance between lowering your own standards a bit and working harder to improve when you’re posting stuff this often.