(Part 2) Best products from r/comicbookart

He is good! Get him a sketchbook, encourage him to draw from life whenever possible. Or something like this, a friend of mine does comics workshops for kids/new artists, a workbook like this could encourage him too: Let's Make Comics!: An Activity Book to Create, Write, and Draw Your Own Cartoons https://www.amazon.com/dp/0399580727/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_WIO4DbR66MK47

Love the attention to detail on the costume, as well as the Kirby energy around Mjolnir/background. Colours are spot on, too.

The pose isn’t working for me, though. It lacks dynamism (one of the hallmarks of Kirby’s works) and the silhouette is muddled. The limbs are twisted every which way and there’s no clear line of action of action through the figure.

If you’ve not already read it, How to Draw Comic the Marvel Way is pretty essential. Some of the specifics are a little dated by modern standards, but the fundamental advice around posing and composition still holds true. Every comic artist should have it in their library.

One of my favorite mini's from X-Force. If you love his work check out Secret War By Brian Michael Benis and Gabriele Dell'Otto About Nick Fury finding out about the "tech" villians and who is bankrolling them and their gear. Just as amazing.

Awesome work, dude.

I did a revival Moon Girl comic a few years ago with my friends.

http://www.amazon.com/Moon-Girl-Tony-Trov/dp/0986898538

Its good. The proportions are a little weird but they're not bad. You should read Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. I put it off for a while but it really helps.

I would definitely recommend Fear Agent. One of my favorite series. You can pick up the first trade for fairly cheap on Amazon.

Otherwise the Library Edition is on sale and you get a ton with it.

Without getting overly-technical, here's the thing to remember: the vanishing point(s) is/are always on the horizon line, and the horizon line is the same thing as eye level. Everything above the vanishing point(s) recedes down to it; everything below recedes up to it.

So, in your image and that first GIF you link to, you can imagine the viewer (or "camera" if you want) like this:

http://i.imgur.com/3Lsw4eg.jpg

The horizon line is his eye level and since he's parallel/perpendicular to the rectangular objects, there's a single VP dead center. Everything recedes to it except horizontals and verticals of the objects facing him.

The second image is more difficult to deal with because all the buildings are at different angles to the viewer and therefor have different VPs, but--and this is important--those VPs are on the same horizon line. Because the horizon line IS eye level and there can only be one viewer of your image.

So, just to grab one building:

http://i.imgur.com/IaJrXuv.jpg

One VP on the left, one way off to the right somewhere. Viewer/camera is elevated here. All the lines (orthogonals are what they're called) above recede down. All the ones below recede up.

The section on casting shadows in perspective is wrong in this, but it's otherwise a really solid intro to basic perspective:

http://www.amazon.com/Perspective-Artists-Library-William-Powell/dp/0929261135

Hope that helps!

I think in this case it has to do more with him practicing that style and seldom deviating from it.

You might like this book:

http://www.amazon.com/City-People-Notebook-Eisner-Library/dp/0393328066

This is one of my favorites:

http://animationresources.org/pics2/eisner08-big.jpg

An artist gave me a list of books to read at a convention after I showed him my work.


Figure drawing for all its worth

Perspective! For Comic Book Artists

Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative

The Classic How To Draw Comics the Marvel Way

I put it up for free on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QTP3TZL?fbclid=IwAR15iYFIEf-ivNyOds_L8cVfbhSbjDEEva0uIwFCNgV_hj4Tl3v1g74yhLM

So this should give you a good introductory to PS colouring while also moving up to some basic professional techniques, and I use one of these for my tablet.

The Wacom Bamboo series is affordable and really great to start with. There's a learning curve if you're coming from tangible media, but it's something you get used to.

may I interest you in the original pulp?

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian

The Bloody Crown of Conan

The Conquering Sword of Conan

I've only read the 1970s Conan comics and they were decent. A little too narration heavy for me for a comic.

Have you seen his art book yet? Fantastic! The editing is a little wonky but the images are incredible.

Yes. I've currently bought vol.'s 1 to 4 of their run in trade paperback.

Here's a link to vol. 1 and then you can go from there:
http://www.amazon.ca/Batman-Vol-The-Court-Owls/dp/1401235417