Here's a very early strip that was originally published in black and white. It was featured in the ICECUBES book 'Noise Is News' and was then colored. I remember struggling with the pencil and the inking on this strip, as it required a lot of detail and I was still pretty green at the time. I thought you might enjoy seeing the process animated! :)
When I’m planning out my strips I try to draw the characters in different poses to see which ones work best. It’s a good idea to try things out before drawing the strip and to experiment. Often times I come up with unusual results and that goes into the strip. The funnier the better! 🙂Be sure to take the poll! This coming week will be the last week. If you want a third comic on Fridays remember to support ‘ICECUBES’ by clicking on our sponsors!
I like how these pencils look. Sometimes the pencils look better than the finished ink job. I hate when that happens! Oh well, you decide.Notice how I always extend the drawing beyond the panel in order to get a balanced feeling. You can click on the image to get a better look.The finished comic strip is here.
It’s all in the gesture! That’s where you get the energy and ‘funny’ into your drawings. So I always spend time practicing each drawing on a sketch pad by drawing big circles and blobs for the heads and bodies of my characters. This helps me ‘anchor’ them into place and make them feel real. Be sure to always get a good under-drawing happening before committing to the final. No amount of style can make up for a poorly balanced drawing.
So get crazy and start making ‘gestural drawings’! 🙂
When drawing on the outer edge of your panel, it’s important to extend the drawing as if you were drawing the whole character. Even if parts will get cut off it is a good idea to draw them to get a feeling for where things are supposed to fall. For example in this drawing, Peckinpaw is off to the side and his shoulder is mostly cut off even though I drew the shoulder. Without the shoulder I wouldn’t know where to put his arms and hands. Also note that his left arm is drawn even though I won’t see it because of the book in front of it. That way I know exactly where to put his fingers.I call this ‘backdrawing’ or drawing in the round. 🙂
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2 thoughts on “Classic Animated Strip! #0013”
J.P. Keslensky
This is really fun.
Leroy Brown
Thanks JP! That strip gave me some problems trying to fit everything in such a small space. Now I know why the old timers used to draw so big! 🙂
Positions.
Pencils.
Gestural drawing.
Cool Pix!
Backdrawing.
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