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Acting for Artists: Bringing Better Performances to your Cartoons, Comics and Character Illustrations
Submitted by Mark Mekkes on January 11, 2012 - 21:30
There are a lot of books on how to draw better and even a few that specialize in drawing emotions: but they all tend to give the same advice, “make a face in a mirror and draw what you see”. While there’ s no arguing that drawing what you see is the only way to advance as an artist, we’ve all seen enough bad acting to know that “making a face” is no way to create the kind of emotional attachment that’s going to draw a viewer into a narrative or a situation. Artists just aren’t taught the most effective ways to make that face in the mirror.
Acting for Artists: Bringing Better Performances to your Cartoons, Comics and Character Illustrations is a book that’s designed to fill that gap. So, if your New Year’s resolution was to try something to make your art better, then Acting for Artists is the book for you!
Crucified Comics
Submitted by joeychips on December 12, 2011 - 23:18
I have a new comic book out called Crucified Comics.
This eBook reads like a comics magazine that preaches and inspires. Check it out and let me know what you think:
Help Wanted: Artist Wanted for Horror Webcomic
Submitted by Vas Littlecrow Wojtanowicz on December 9, 2011 - 23:19
Take my comic experiment!
Submitted by Neil Cohn on November 18, 2011 - 13:09
Comic readers! I have a comic experiment that needs your help! This survey will help us prepare our next study looking at how the brain comprehends comics, and your help would be greatly appreciated. It should take roughly 15 minutes and involves reading comics and giving a basic rating for how much they make sense. Participation enters you in a raffle for a $50 gift certificate to Best Buy.
The experiment can be found here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/comic1
Please participate and pass along the link! Thanks!
Catnose Comics Updates 10/7/2011 - 10/12/2011
Submitted by Vas Littlecrow Wojtanowicz on October 12, 2011 - 01:48
Hey everyone! I'd like to let you know that I am a guest artist at this year's Fallcon. I'll be there from 10-4pm. If you are in the Twin Cities (Minnesota) area, feel free to stop by my table and say hello. The last few weeks have been total chaos, but I have been keeping busy with my comics are per usual. Here's what's new:
That's it for now. :)
Pear-Pear is going to NYCC!
Submitted by Pear-pear on October 10, 2011 - 19:55
I'm super stoked for New York Comic Con! This will be my first time.
Since Pear-Pear #100 is still incubating, and the story from 100 onwards is under development, I'll be going to Con mostly just to meet people and talk and gather ideas and maybe contribute a few.
Are you going to NYCC? I'll be there Thursday and Saturday. If you want to say hi, tweet at me (@pdonz) and maybe we can run into each other!
Comic Transcription for People Who Hate Typing
Submitted by Vas Littlecrow Wojtanowicz on September 29, 2011 - 11:08
I hate transcribing existing comics that were saved as flat files or did not have formal scripts typed up. I really do. I know that transcripts are useful for making comic pages easier to find on search engines. Transcripts give accessibility of my material to blind site visitors and foreign language readers. That didn't stop me from procrastinating on this valuable task. I just despise typing that much.
Catnose Comics Updates 9/27-28
Submitted by Vas Littlecrow Wojtanowicz on September 28, 2011 - 11:56
SOUP Wars: What the colorist and the letterer do. http://soupwars.com/2011/09/27/what-the-colorist-and-the-letterer-do/
Barxotka: How Can I Be A Virtuous Ruler http://barxotka.com/2011/09/28/how-can-i-be-a-virtuous-ruler/
Make Your Webcomics Site Multilingual Using ComicPress
Submitted by Vas Littlecrow Wojtanowicz on September 27, 2011 - 17:04
I finally fulfilled a long-term dream of mine. I am proud to announce that SOUP Wars is the first 100% fully bilingual title in the Catnose Comics universe, both online and offline. You can now read any SOUP Wars page in English, or the language it was meant to be read in, Spanish. The whole process required a ton of work and the technical hiccups were spectacular. Thankfully, this project has finally been conquered.
To change the language of any comic, follow the instructions above each one -- it works like magic! Try it now, even if you don’t read Spanish. It’s pretty freaking neat. If you do speak Spanish, find out why I like the version in my native language 10 million times better. I am sure that many of you webcomic artists out there would love to know how to do this. I am very happy to share what I learned with you all.
I realized that with ComicPress 3.0 webcomic publishing theme for WordPress, you can actually display two separate comics on the single post separately. The nice thing about this is that you don’t have to scroll like crazy to see the different comic pages. Out of curiosity, I decided to upload the Spanish version of SOUP Wars to see if I could make the pages instantly translatable using this feature. Once I got it going, it was a total dream, but it took a lot of trial and error.
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