finally a new strip up, the scrape and here’s the sped up screengrab if you’d like to see how it all came together. or didn’t come together? i’m never sure if these comics work or not.
Tag: cartooning
scarecrow timelapse
here’s a timelapse of the making of yesterday’s scarecrow strip i’ve also added the webcomics plugin so that you can easily read all of the past ‘steps’ strips. (i don’t know why i call the strips featuring little guy ‘steps’ but i think it works. this plug in lets me keep the latest strip at the top of the blog and gives you an easy way to navigate them. the double arrow takes you back to the first ‘steps’ strip, the single arrow lets you increment back to the previous strip, and the little infinity symbol takes you to…
2:30 am comic strip timelapse
i just realized how wonky the perspective was in the drawing of the doorway and of course you can see how lazy i am when i just copy and paste the doorway from panel to panel view the completed strip
the couch cushion timelapse
here’s the timelapse of the couch cushion strip from a few days ago the process usually goes like this: i see a moment in real life that i think will work for the strip: in this case it was watching little guy move the cushion so he could sit down on the couch (and right now i’m focusing on those moments that dont require any dialogue, right now i’m more interested in telling these little stories without dialogue, so i’ve passed on some great moments that have dialogue. maybe that will change in the future) then i’ll need…
timelapse of the easter strip
color was really important in this strip (i mean, color is always important for me, and i kind of sweat it when coloring the strip, but color was especially important to the storytelling of this particular strip) i don’t think this strip could have worked in black and white (and some of my past strips absolutely could have, but i like color…and now i’m not even sure of what my original point was. anyway, hope you enjoy seeing the strip come together at high speeds, it always seems a minor miracle to me when a strip is finished
paper towel roll timelapse
here’s about 45 minutes of drawing compressed into about 45 seconds if you watch closely you can see how lazy i am once i get a good drawing i recycle it in all the panels and just adjust what i need to
search timelapse
here’s the screen capture of me working on the ‘search’ strip from a few days ago i also reorganized the ‘comics’ menu item so it is just finished strips now. no process videos or sketches making it easier to scroll through past strips without all that junk in the way so if the sketches, videos, and various other asides that appear between strips aren’t in your wheelhouse, you can just bookmark the comics page and see the most recent strips
zipper comic timelapse
it is hard to wear a zipper sweater and carry him because he likes to zip up the zipper and catch my neck skin in it i don’t know if that came across in the strip or not not only were the drawings difficult for me on this one, but so was the ‘timing’ of the strip – trying to figure out which moments to show so that the reader understands whats going on and the punchline is effective
timelapse of recent visiting the grandparents comic
some days you just dont feel like you can draw i think the outstretched arm of grandpa gets lost amongst the squiggles here you’re seeing about an hour and a half go by in about a minute
popcorn timelapse
lot of struggle in this one replacing panels figuring out the timing figuring out the color
ivan brunetti’s cartooning – exercise 1.3
i think if you asked me what half of these doodles are i couldn’t tell you
ivan brunetti’s cartooning – exercises 1.1 & 1.2
you can really see my panic in that 15 second car doodle… cartooning by ivan brunetti reading brunetti’s book is really elevating the word ‘cartooning’ for me…
reading ivan brunetti’s cartooning
monotonous droning voice, chronic absent-mindedness soporific slideshow, soul crushing critiques cartooning by ivan brunetti hadn’t heard of ivan brunetti, though i’d seen his work here and there his book jumped out at me from ed piskor’s instagram… so good brunetti’s thoughts so lucid and clear the introduction alone is fantastic (so i cartooned it) update: don’t know why i had the second page (panels 3 & 4) read right to left confusing – disorienting maybe i guess it still works though