Man Ray - Fantasies of Mr. Seabrook, Paris, 1930
(Source: regardintemporel)
from the vassar college archive on flickr (via Miss Moss : college days)
Butterfly chairs are older than I ever dared to imagine.
Pictured here is Nico who went on to be the lead chanteuse of “The Velvet Underground” as a young model in Paris. She is posing with a pair of dachshunds in the apartment of legendary Parisian interior designer Henry Samuel. (via ana_lee: Mark Shaw: LIFE-show)
Some things I’ve taught myself through out the years. I have not gone to college for art or comics, these are things I’ve learned by just trying to make comics by myself.
I’ve also learned this stuff on the fly, through reading and doing. Regarding that last one: you can also use other elements to guide the reader’s eye through the page - shapes of objects, perspective on elements that “zoom” from top to bottom or right to left, etc.
Sure thing!
When drawing characters, I usually have some kind of silhouette in mind, or a pose, or something else that’s vaguely related to exaggerating shapes. (This design was really inspired by the “big torso/coat, little legs” silhouette that jaymamon and hak use a lot in…
Becoming a wimpster required true dedication to emotional unavailability.
(UH Foto Friday; image submitted by Jan Postma)