tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4797638951278756897.post3376699470193600045..comments2022-03-31T18:23:27.675-07:00Comments on SCRIBBLER: Get Uncomfortable, Damnit!Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02933081835531209360noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4797638951278756897.post-63551137322644005502011-11-22T07:55:36.085-08:002011-11-22T07:55:36.085-08:00Patriva,
I was dragged kicking and screaming into ...Patriva,<br />I was dragged kicking and screaming into the computer age. I was a production illustrator and the world had reached a point when directors no longer wanted to see an artist walk through the doors carrying a bucket and paints and boards and a tarp to throw over a drafting table (drafting tables were near non-existent anyway). Besides they had learned that rather than hiring an artist to paint (analogue-style), a digi-artist could create and then the (non-artistic) producer could walk up behind him and say, "Too red. Make green," and a push of a couple buttons later, green happens. So I found myself out of work for nearly a year, thinking my career had ended, unable to work on a Wacom tablet, when someone told me about this expensive thing called the Cintiq (a monitor I could actually draw and paint on. I felt I had no other option. I spent the next half-year learning the Painter program, then reentered the Hollywood work force. Now (aside from my personal projects) nearly all of my work is drawn or painted on the "machine." My output has nearly tripled and I work. —Regarding the tracing thing, I warn students against using copyrighted material of any kind. And I warn them that total reliance, without freehand drawing makes you a craftsman, but not an artist. The computer is a tool, like anything else, but if the tool becomes the master, you are just a button-pusher.<br /><br />An artist can put down the tools and pick them up again and it's like getting back onto the bike, they'll get back into the swing before too long. You don't really "unlearn" anything, it just takes a bit to catch up to one's old self. I don't know Neal personally so I don't know that he ever gave up drawing. He might have just gone off in other directions (much like myself). That "initial impetus" always evolves. Everyone should mature, learn new skills, have adventures. As one ages other drives are forced upon us. Sometimes as simple as a wife and kids, a mortgage, forces the artist to move on to other pursuits. The thought of making the same page rate at 45 that one made at 25 is frightening, so perhaps the artist eliminates details, or develops a faster style that allows him/her to make a decent wage. Even Kirby's work evolved, if you examine the breadth of his career. So, I don't have many negatives about an artist who gave us so much wonderful work throughout his career.Binghamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02933081835531209360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4797638951278756897.post-57743139464244515262011-11-22T03:05:44.905-08:002011-11-22T03:05:44.905-08:00Impressive ..
What do you think of the current (li...Impressive ..<br />What do you think of the current (like last 10 years) computer drawing - photo tracing techniques which seems to be the main trend nowdays in comics and appeals to readers for the real life feeling they convey ....??<br />Unrelated question : there is a feeling an artist should never stop drawing otherwise he might loose his initial impetus-knack and never recover it fully again, like for instance Neal Adams... On the contrary of Kirby who never stopped and thus remained powerful and creative until the end ... What do you think ..??Pavitrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16473149025067727061noreply@blogger.com