Chapter 2: Leap | 11
xmung on Oct. 5, 2010
One thing about drawing the same face from the same angle several times on the one page… you wanna get some consistency happening in the facial features. This page is not one of those instances, at least not in the fourth panel - whoah, what happened there? It's like Kaycee's face slipped down a bit or something. I'm a bit more clued into that sort of thing these days and fix my B&W art errors when I'm adding the colour but I totally missed it on this page. Anyway, thanks for reading, tomorrow we catch up with Go!Anna as she tracks down that mysterious artifact! :D
xmung at 5:49PM, Oct. 6, 2010
also, yes - I am very bad at self-promoting stuff - too many things, not enough focus or time
xmung at 5:48PM, Oct. 6, 2010
well, this site is for folk who don't wanna skip to the end... ;-)
alschroeder at 4:27PM, Oct. 6, 2010
I should note that the main MAGELLAN site at [url]http://magellanverse.com/[/url] is updating again, after a hiatus of six months! Check it out! Stephen, you need to promote your own stuff more!
Ozmandious at 9:12AM, Oct. 6, 2010
at least it shows your not a cut & paste artist, which drives me nuts, although it does have its uses in certain areas. doing it over and over is laziness, not art
alschroeder at 3:24AM, Oct. 6, 2010
One thing that always impressed me about Perez was the individuality of the faces he drew.
xmung at 1:34AM, Oct. 6, 2010
It's definitely one of the key aspects of super hero comics, a well designed and striking costume will mean a reader can pick out the character from amongst a sea of others. I've tried it with some George Perez covers, especially one of the mind blowing ones he did for the Avengers/JLA crossover, and it amazed me how easy it is to pick the character... not by their face but by their costume. Speaking of crossovers - I keep forgetting to pimp the imminent start of [url=http://www.drunkduck.com/Crossoverkill/][b]CROSSOVERKILL[/b][/url] now with its own site! :D
Lemniskate at 12:40AM, Oct. 6, 2010
Ah, consistency is for wimps ;) Well, okay, it isn't. As a kid I always wondered, "How do those comic artists do it?" For I never got to draw the same face twice. But when I look back now, I realise that it was as often the medium of comics as was their actual ability to draw consistently, because even if the faces don't look the same, since the clothing does and we know from panel to panel who we're dealing with, there's no need to get the faces 100% right every time.