catch up

am particulary proud of this one, worked right from sketch and kept refining. think it gave it a cool look. i tried to pay extra attention to shapes-- the shape of rachaels hair, the shape of pennys dress... that day was a good draw day...

i liked the inking on this one. [;

page 30, this was an interesting page to do. the last pose took me hours and hours-- i realize now cause it has no clear sillo to speak of and is kind of confusing... but i learned for next time not to attempt any crazy stuff like that... but the reason why the page was interesting is, i was trying to push line of action a lot, you know, give the bodies s curves and c curves... i think it looks pretty cool but i decided i didnt really want R&P to go in a cartoony direction...

these pages were really fun to do becuase... i LOVE coloring, love testing out new palettes and doing moods and stuff, so i am excited to start doing pages in color. don't think all of them will be in color considering the effort, but the important pages... as i feel like it on a whim... i was also proud of my inking in this one cause i tried more with line weight, and also realized some important things about speech bubbles-- you don't want to give the text TOO much space, and also you capitalize pronoun I's ... what a novice mistake!! but i'm glad i picked up on it eventually, that's why i like doing a webcomic, because every week i can try something new. it doesn't do well for my overall consistency but what the heck, learning makes me happy

and i caught myself struggling a LOT with panel composition, making things clear, not being cheap... that's a tour bus in the first 2 panels but w/o the previous pages i don't think you can tell! so i cheated there. but now i'm practicing perspective, and doing composition studies from archie and work by the hernandez brothers

 this is what my studies look like... studying composition is hard?! i'm trying to break down the different elements of the panel and see how they're arranged, and hoping that i do it enough where it becomes a part of my visual library. as for perspective, have nothing interesting to share with that... just blocks!!!

another thing i've been practicing is pixel art... I DON'T KNOW WHY. i feel guilty doing it because it's not relative to comics or illustration, but that's because i have this weird guilt complex about having hobbies. oy vey. here are my attempts so far, anti-aliasing is a bitch and i'll ignore that as long as i can heheh

yeah... wow............. look at them... it's so cute not knowing how to do something but maybe if i chip at it when i have free time it'll pay off

some other stuff on my mind: want to make more minis, want to study storyboarding, want to hone in on a focus to my portfolio, want to move out, want to live in new york... brooklyn yo..

OBSESSED

888

my last marceline pic amassed like 16k notes on tumblr which is pretty impressive! it made me get my ass back in gear and i finally made my portfolio website laurenzukauskas.com 

anyway, one thing that makes me feel kinda cruddy is i usually try out one illustration style then move on for the next one.... so you never see anything in that style again..... hmm...

referenced

wip it

01001

 in style of sechrist

see saw

doing more study on edges, but someone asked me why im studying a painting thing.. huh... i guess i dont know! i guess i should be at the age where im focusing on an art thing (aka comicing) but my indecisiveness will haunt me the rest of my life...

i saw tangled and i liked it a lot because i could relate so much with rapunzel... i mean emotionally, not physically... its a nice movie because you can watch it and fantasize suddenly running free and leaving home and falling in love

though i dont like how they handled the Evil Mom.... i dont think she deserved the fate she did, it was kinda weird.... i guess you cant ask for that much depth in a disney movie

comics or illustration... idk... 

life on the edge

edge studies, not sure what im doing

bolamps

sludge

must learn arms. must learn arms. must learn arms. 

calliope

a fanart. trying to regain something lost

whao

today's post comes from a very special place and that place is 8 am on a sunday after not sleeping for over fifteen hours. my five key does not work and sometimes my hh posts 2 hh. i do not know why.

studies in tintining

i've become enamored by the simplicity of tintin's style and the way herge tells his stories. its basically tintin runs a round a lot and should probably have some serious brain damage by now. 

apparently youre supposed to draw 100 of something if you struggle with it, and i have a very hard time with "backs of heads." but in tintin, there never really is a straight up back of head shot... 

i'll take mine black. 

i realized most of the work i do these days that i want to share is comics, and with a webcomic you cant really post stuff pre-emptively... spoilers and all... but my interest in tintin has made me want to try my hand at having a colored webcomic. i cant wait to share.