One of the things that fascinates me is the human flesh is not a monochrome color, boney parts will pick up blue, fleshy parts can have reds running thru them and everything picks up bounced light. The dullness of monochrome coloring in comics is part and parcel of the “I never saw a human being [...]
Gudrun og Gudrun Flash interface structured for still pictures
Apr 22, ’09
7:52 PM
Gudrun og Gudrun. A nice fashion site, to allow browsing of items but provide some standard storytelling for ads too. The site uses full browser window video, overlayed with a white band filled with thumbnails, clicking a thumbnail expands that image on white to full screen. A double click zoom ain’t totally working to zoom [...]
Martian Manhunter and Spectre comission drawing
Apr 13, ’09
11:54 PM
An odd commission for a pencil drawing, to revisit old friends. Pencils are a template for inking,, it’s weird to see the work artists do these days for pencilling, polished finished art there’s no room for inking in the drawings. Inkers have become overwhelmed with the computer airbrush tones and rendering losing the whole line [...]
In 1989 DC Comics tried to grow out of the long underwear.
Apr 12, ’09
10:46 PM
In 1988, Jeanette Kahn hired Mark Nevelow from the fashion industry to start a new line, Piranha Press. Nevelow had a mission statement to do diverse material. The DC office was weirded out as Nevelow commissioned a group of projects that ranged from science fiction, mystery to odd ball unclassifiable work. To the office fanboys [...]