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Gary Smith in Happy Volts Asylum.part of the BULLY FAN ZINE I'm making with
or so I hope!
Ink, photoshop.
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Man, I must say, zine illustrations are challenging. The last zine drawing I made I never posted it because I didn't really like it that much...and to be fair, coloring illustrations in gray scale is very difficult. Difficult, but necessary, I think. I wish more of my teachers in school had forced us to do value studies.
I still need to test how well this is going to reproduce as a photocopy--and adjust accordingly. Sigh. I'm hoping that this project will force me to loosen up a bit. Illustrating every day for marketing purposes is very very different than illustrating for editorial, or just for fun. Things have to be exact and perfect and if you're working with others, your styles have to mesh as closely as possible. So this probably took me a little longer than it should have (gary's face gave me so much trouble!). Using a brush instead of a pen has helped me a lot in the past, but i still have quite a ways to go.
More to come!
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THE ORDERLIES
BEING DICKS TO POOR GARY. Time to bring out the slingshot...
Hey, question: What's a zine?
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I... I don't know what to say... oh right... THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME! Poor Gary.
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I just love how you captured that resistance in Gary, just love it.
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...I'm pretty sure that this is awesome. I wish I was old enough to view it.
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This is a level of awesome I thought was unobtainable 0__o
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When can I start giving you money for this?
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@_@ Cant really think of words to say at this awesomeness .///. rather turned on though
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This is pretty kick ass, I love the feel of the whole picture and how you actually -show- Gary struggling. It's pretty intense, love it!
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fffff, this is so amazing.
I love everything you do.
Definitely +Fave
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daang.gary creeps me out in this pic.but im still fav-ing this
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Oh God, this this this. So amazing. I can't wait, especially if you're teaming up with her <3
AND your Gary looks amazing.
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A Bully fan zine?! Holy shit aaaa~wesome! Rooting for you guys to finish it!
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pretty intense. i wonder why he's getting pulled away for -w-
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I really like this because I think this is the most Gary looking Gary I've seen from you. And value studies are very hard, but I think this is a good effort that gives off the right amount of atmosphere.
If there was any advice I could give you for doing gray scale, is not to focus so much on trying to translate or represent a certain color to a certain shade of gray, but rather focus more on creating the best or most interesting contrast in your composition. Like making sure your lights and darks are well broken up, not making things too dark in one area, and too light in another. Because if you have one area of the composition that has a lot of dark shades of gray, the effect is that it will look like one dark blob to the eye. Same if you have a lot of light shades next to each other. The more contrast you have, the greater feeling you'll have of volume and space in your composition. If that makes any sense.
For instance, you could perhaps afford to darken the shadow on Gary maybe a notch. And you could also lighten up the highlight on both of the legs of the orderlies. Generally a good rule is to squint your eyes at your drawing, and if any of the values seem to blend into one another without any clear contrast, then you could afford to lighten a highlight or darken a shadow in those areas to create a greater contrast. That's the effect I'm getting with both of the orderlies' legs. Also if you want more emphasis on Gary, or make him stand out more, you could maybe lighten the walls and the floor of the background a little.
However doing values or gray scale is a give and take process, so you have to be careful and observant. Since contrast is all relative, all your darks will seem darker next to lights, and lights will seem lighter next to darks. So if you darken Gary's shadow, that will lighten everything around him, like the background, and make him stand out more. However if you lightened the walls and floor, that will darken the shadow on Gary, and also make him stand out more. So you could do either, or both.
Of course that's all just one way to do things, it just depends on the effect you're going for. Enhancing the contrast in your composition will give your figures more presence, and they'll feel rounder, and more solid, and more weighted. If that's not what you're going for, there's other ways to make the eye go to what you want, so you can just experiment with what looks the best to you.
Long comment is long, but I hope it was helpful in at least some way to you. C:
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That's cool; I think i will try to darken Gary's shadow a bit... I wanted to the orderlies to be kind of dark and graphic though--the amount of detail they have now is actually more than i intended them to have. That's just how my style is, I guess. I was just really concerned with Gary being readable. I guess it'll all depend when i make a photocopy. The orderlies might just sink too much into the background so i might try to make the walls and such lighter.
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Yeah, like I said, my suggestion was just one way to do things. It all depends where you want the eye to go, or how to emphasize things. I know you're familar with . Look at this drawing of Jimmy she did recently, [link] . I think she's a pretty good example of someone who uses effective and interesting contrast in her black and white pieces. Everything is clear and stands out in just the right way. Notice how the shadow on Jimmy is rather dark, but you can still make out all the lines and detail she put in there anyway, and at the same time it makes him stand out the most. Even if you look at everything else your eye still wants to go to him. I thought this would be a kind of help piece to look at since the shading on her Jimmy is pretty similar to what you're trying to do with Gary. I'd suggest taking a look at some of her other black and white drawings. She's a pretty good artist to study if you're looking for help with this kind of stuff.
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ps, I love both of our obvious infatuations with shitty background graffiti. "balls" haha! I wanna do so much more with this.
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Immaturity! It's what makes Bully truly Bully.
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HEAVY BREATHING. I am so excited about this I WANT THIS ZINE. You two are my faves~
Also LOOK AT THAT BRUSHWORK look at it. It is awesome. You did a good job with the values, too; when it photocopies everything will get darker and more towards middle-tones, but you've differentiated enough that I think it'll be fine. A+
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Gah I really need to play that game again, just to pester Gary... (I want one where you play AS Gary or someone, and not as Mr Potato Head)
This looks SO COOL.
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Your style wows me every time. I really like the Gary's foot...
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i know today is a good day because you posted an ert
That poor dude's ear. What happened?
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He's a sociopath; don't worry about it
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