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Give me yr art-fu!

17:10 / 09.06.02

It's not much to ask. All I want is a 'lither who can draw (Moriarty? Rizla? Nelson Evergreen?) to let me get a big fuckoff table and some spangley equpiment and rip their fucking talent out and implant it in me so i can draw.

Please?

04:12 / 10.06.02

At first, I didn't know how to respond to your plea. I thought maybe you were just venting. By your topic abstract, I see I was wrong.

Re: materials. Chester Brown draws with a board on his lap, on normal typewriter paper, one panel per page. Art Spiegelman drew Maus on typewriter paper. Some of Robert Crumb's best work was drawn on restaurant placemats, and Hugo Pratt was known to doodle some magnificent work on napkins using burnt matchsticks while in the pub.

Not to say you shouldn't try out some more professional equipment, just don't let a lack of such things stifle your creativity. Are you looking to do this professionally, or just for fun?

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

07:32 / 10.06.02

Just draw.

07:59 / 10.06.02

There was a thread in Art & Design about materials and process recently, you might want to check that, although it did get very fatbeardy (entirely my fault).
Generally, what they said. Draw a bowl of fruit or copy a groovy picture of Batman from a comic. IMO observational drawing is the wellspring from which a fluency in the visual language flows.

13:17 / 11.06.02

I say too - just draw. It's suprising how fast your drawing gets better if you keep trying and stuff.

I'm delighted to be included in your list of people who can draw because I totally can't draw. I mean, I've got no natural talent or anything, I can't draw perspective or real life stuff at all - I failed GCSE art. I'm simply 'functional' at drawing basic cartoons becasue I've been doing them since I was about 6 years old..

15:32 / 11.06.02

Actually Riz, I really like yr style. OK, so it cna be a bit... erratic, but it totally fits what you right, and yr comics are one of the main reasons why i wanna learn to draw and make comics of my own- at the risk of sounding like I'm sucking up (I've been doing that a lot recently... ), I reckon they rock a whole fucking lot.

And I got a B in GCSE Art. Heh. Tho that was thru my sheer ability to blag my way thru any ammount of shit with some amazingly pretentious and anal explainations for why I did what I did.

Oh, and leanding my teacher about half of my record collection.

And while I have no doubt practise is indeed the way to go, it is, frankly, one of the single most disheartening things I can do right now.

19:27 / 11.06.02

I was once told..."You can learn to Draw anything... start with drawing a thousand circles."

there certainly some truth to it in my experience... if you even make it to 1,000 you will have taught yourself to show up at the blank page... a major lesson in an of itself.

also that newest circle will look much more like a circle than the first. It'll develop hand eye cordination, it might even tone down that little critic in your (anyone's) head.

Pad's of newsprint paper are super cheap... "drawing paper" is slightly costlier... cruise an art supply store with about $20 or whatever and see what appeals to your for that price...

I love to doodle with a bic pen on some thick paper... My sketch book is one of those black hard cover books with the hard square spine... I try and go through one a year (more like 1 every 1.5 years lately).

IMO: try one of those China Markers cheep, last forever, kind of fun!!!

But that's me... if you're gonna start now, I would suggest a bowl of fruit over a cool Batman pic...

or get your girlfriend to sit still for 20 minutes (dressed up as batgirl?)

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:22 / 12.06.02

Hey, I want art-fu too. I've just drawn 754 circles and only 5, 89, 207 and 691 were any good. And now my arm hurts.

What next?

10:20 / 13.06.02

Gee Pin .. thanks for the props .. that's really nice..

I think as far as drawing comics is concerned, just go ahead and do them. I don't think it really matters all that much if a comic's just drawn with stick men and stuff, so long as the narrative/story is good..

11:09 / 13.06.02

PATricky- what are China Markers?!

Modant- So you know... You still rock. Like, a fuck load.

Rizla- Heh. I'm sitll falttered from when you said you read my blog...

And yeh... drawing quality is all over the place, ahdns and feet are the two most fucking annoying things in the world and why can't I draw with pencils?! Seriously, my coordination is better with pens, which for all sorts of really obvious practical reason is leprecitical as fuck.