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weeklyartchallenges: King Nightmare as … Prince Nightmare! The King is an original character and I doubt that there is another human form than its  ”adult”-appearance, since it is more of a personified dread than a real being. It puts on a “human suit” to lure people into false safety. I found the idea interesting to figure out, how he might have worked as a child-character. This is his original design. And this is a glorious rendition by the ever amazing rennerei. I am very happy the WACs are back! Thank you and good luck with the job. my tumblr

weeklyartchallenges:

King Nightmare as … Prince Nightmare!

The King is an original character and I doubt that there is another human form than its  ”adult”-appearance, since it is more of a personified dread than a real being. It puts on a “human suit” to lure people into false safety. I found the idea interesting to figure out, how he might have worked as a child-character.

This is his original design. And this is a glorious rendition by the ever amazing rennerei.

I am very happy the WACs are back! Thank you and good luck with the job.

my tumblr

twistedcomic: You can’t fix Everything The green plush toy is Miiks and was invented by a friend called dheny. Within the twisted-story-line Bob has this as his favorite plush toy. (…) Sorry for the double-posting from twisted stuff… but it IS what i am drawing most at the moment and so it’s part of my drawing blog as well. Thank you.

twistedcomic:

You can’t fix Everything

The green plush toy is Miiks and was invented by a friend called dheny. Within the twisted-story-line Bob has this as his favorite plush toy.

(…)

Sorry for the double-posting from twisted stuff… but it IS what i am drawing most at the moment and so it’s part of my drawing blog as well.

Thank you.

I really like the project oh! (oh is the title of the magazine) enonea: Alright, I’ve been working most of my freetime in the last weeks for the second issue of a special comic book. Christoph Mathieu wrote a story with three lines of action, which are illustrated by three artists, Asja Wiegand, Caroline Ring and me. This method is exiting and, as far as I know, a novelty in comic books. You can follow our development (German only atm) in our blog. I also want to mention, that we are crowdfunding our second issue. If you want to support us - and even better! want to get the second issue cheaper than everyone else, please visit our crowdfunding project. - I took my artistic freedom to make some whole-page panels or whatever these are called. This is a wip, but so far it turned out very close to my vision. I love forests. Even the spooky dark ones. Or those in particular :-)

I really like the project oh! (oh is the title of the magazine)

enonea:

Alright, I’ve been working most of my freetime in the last weeks for the second issue of a special comic book.

Christoph Mathieu wrote a story with three lines of action, which are illustrated by three artists, Asja Wiegand, Caroline Ring and me. This method is exiting and, as far as I know, a novelty in comic books.

You can follow our development (German only atm) in our blog.

I also want to mention, that we are crowdfunding our second issue. If you want to support us - and even better! want to get the second issue cheaper than everyone else, please visit our crowdfunding project.

-

I took my artistic freedom to make some whole-page panels or whatever these are called. This is a wip, but so far it turned out very close to my vision. I love forests. Even the spooky dark ones. Or those in particular :-)

Done, thanks for stopping by : )   I will do some livestreaming of a pencil drawing. I am always happy about visitors http://www.livestream.com/gabrieldevue … my last pencil drawing is ancient. this will be fun 

Done, thanks for stopping by : )

 

I will do some livestreaming of a pencil drawing.

I am always happy about visitors

http://www.livestream.com/gabrieldevue

… my last pencil drawing is ancient. this will be fun 

twistedcomic:

Process of drawing one page.

Any feedback to the video is appreciated. It was a lot of work to put this together for a video-noob like me. If this is helpful and you enjoy it, i gladly do more. 

speed up process. Original Time is about 6h 

beware the cat at 2:52

Money for Fanart?

Dear Fellow Tumblrs,

again and again I come across posts who offer glorious, beautiful artworks - originals, prints - for money. Many of them are fanart.

As much as I love some shows and would want glorious artwork on my walls and as much as I adore many of the deeply inspired and lovingly cared out fanworks - isn’t it wrong to earn money on the creations of others? Many artworks wouldn’t get half the exposure if they weren’t connected with a fandom. Many people like the artistic value of them, but actually buy because it portraits a show/character they deeply care for in a light they enjoy - and the original merchandise doesn’t offer.

It seems to be widely accepted on tumblr and i don’t get it. I love fanart. And I actually don’t mind originals of fanarts being sold. But editions? Buttons? Real merchandise?

My experience and opinion:

As much as I would love to have Calvin + Hobbes Merchandise to show my affection for the series everywhere, i would not dare to buy some, because I know how the original creator feels about it. I also worked for a company that had products from the disney-princess-franchise and konami on their shelves and had to work with the graphics departments of said companies to set up their products on a fair. i know how they are about the usage of their interlectual properties…

I was asked a lot to offer prints for a fanart of portal I once did. I asked valve if they wanted to use the image for something, because I got all the asks but never heard from them. I simply uploaded the image in the best resolution I had so everybody could make their own prints, even though art-prints are a lot of effort and also expensive. This is probably one of the most liked images i did - but i know why: for portal. not for my artwork. And that’s perfect to share the love in that way. As a fan - but that’s just my view.

I find it okay to pay money for an image of original characters in an existing setting (Your Avatars in a game) or your wish to see characters in a certain constellation - but not as a merchandise product.

How do you feel about this? Why is selling fanart acceptable to so many people?

yes, i know that Marcus jr. is not an engineer and in any setting Scotty is the one to break and fix stuff easily, but even in this movie it has been widely established, how easy those engines break and that Carol Marcus knows something about technical equipment as well. At this point in the movie i was very annoyed and it suddenly won me over, because I thought Carol (running out of the bridge while being beamed) was already on her way to the engine room. Sure - they also established that they could beam you right into a prison cell… still… it would have been a nice change. I was beaming with glee how stupid and full of himself the admiral was to commit such a blunder. And then… CURSE YOU… 

yes, i know that Marcus jr. is not an engineer and in any setting Scotty is the one to break and fix stuff easily, but even in this movie it has been widely established, how easy those engines break and that Carol Marcus knows something about technical equipment as well.

At this point in the movie i was very annoyed and it suddenly won me over, because I thought Carol (running out of the bridge while being beamed) was already on her way to the engine room. Sure - they also established that they could beam you right into a prison cell… still… it would have been a nice change. I was beaming with glee how stupid and full of himself the admiral was to commit such a blunder. And then… CURSE YOU… 

Star Trek CAN do strong women. But not in that movie. Was there even a scene where two women talked to each other?  I know - within the movie the scene with Uhura and Spock and Kirk was set differently. And whereas everybody could understand her gripe, it was misplaced for a professional and very, very, very annoying.  Star Trek fought hard to introduce a diverse cast and I understand that many of the most liked characters are in fact male. I am not asking for a female lead. It just would have been nice to see “strong” not just as “nagging”. 

Star Trek CAN do strong women.

But not in that movie. Was there even a scene where two women talked to each other? 

I know - within the movie the scene with Uhura and Spock and Kirk was set differently. And whereas everybody could understand her gripe, it was misplaced for a professional and very, very, very annoying. 

Star Trek fought hard to introduce a diverse cast and I understand that many of the most liked characters are in fact male. I am not asking for a female lead. It just would have been nice to see “strong” not just as “nagging”. 

I took up the storyboard challenge and started storyboarding on and off Leon the professional. 

The main reason is that my action-splatter comic Twisted is actually quite dialogue-heavy and i was curious how one of my favorite action-movies solves the dialogue problem and increases tension. Heavy cuts like in these scenes are not possible without confusion and very distinctive settings within comics, but it’s good to study this.

Also… I am very bad with proportions. Almost none of the frames are really close to the actual composition :/ More reason to do this. I tend to work very graphical, using lots of lines and tentative strokes - i try to work up to getting the likeness of the characters but reducing the “noise”. But alone within this tiny frame i can see a great improvement on how to approach this.

I have to do quite some storyboarding for other projects. Never did it with traditional media though. It’s faster but no correciton possible D:

Next I will try to figure out a way to show camera movement better. 

Material: I really would like to use a broad marker but the copics don’t work with the paper. My light grey gave out so now I am stuck with dark grey and those other two colors. I chose a 0.5 rough Pen or 0.8 sometimes to not get caught up in details too much. Also I cut a stencil for the frames so it’s very quick to draw them. Genius-gab cut a 4:3 frame, wich is THE most used cinema-ratio…. well, not really. I read the DVD, did not think - the dvd is in 4.3, but the movie is in 1:1.89

I will not be able to draw this. I thought, that this bad feeling in me might go away,if i at least attempt to draw this, but i cannot. There are a few nightmares that are so bad, that I vividly remember every detail of them for years - their cold, their bleakness, their dispairing depth. The one I had 2 days ago was one of these. When he caught up, I had to experience things done to a child that are unspeakable.  In contrast to other dreams of that nature, this time there was a person actually believing me. Worse than ever before was the agonizing realization, that this person wanted me to shut up so the incident went away for everybody, because the man was more “valuable” to that society than a child was. The dream went on with me seperating the child from the growing up body. I had been the good part. There are people today who do not wake up from this.

I will not be able to draw this. I thought, that this bad feeling in me might go away,if i at least attempt to draw this, but i cannot.

There are a few nightmares that are so bad, that I vividly remember every detail of them for years - their cold, their bleakness, their dispairing depth. The one I had 2 days ago was one of these. When he caught up, I had to experience things done to a child that are unspeakable. 

In contrast to other dreams of that nature, this time there was a person actually believing me. Worse than ever before was the agonizing realization, that this person wanted me to shut up so the incident went away for everybody, because the man was more “valuable” to that society than a child was. The dream went on with me seperating the child from the growing up body. I had been the good part.

There are people today who do not wake up from this.