Monday 1 March 2010

Klop

I'm still hoping to do a graphic novel one day. How can I not after seven years surrounded by les bandes dessinées?


In contrast to the last image, I gave the pen free rein in this sample and kept Photoshop in its place. It's dark, but I like it that way. Looking at this again, I think I might have stolen something from Cézanne, but there are worse people to steal from.

Click for a closer view, but don't cheat at cards.

10 comments:

  1. I like the little bit of darkness and that guy with the pipe in the corner.

    If you must steal, steal from the best:) Yes, shades of Cezanne, but it's still you. I think we all borrow, consciously or not from the masters, or at least from our favorites.

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  2. Hey, T! I'm still waiting to see Launay and Sprick roar into action! we should do it. Lovely drawing as ever...

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  3. liked the last image but I prefer the darkness of this, and the fact that any computer wizardry is kept in its place. I know I'm uniquely placed, but I find I'm searching over some of the other images trying to identify recognisable pieces of clothing and soft furnishings! (Sorry!)

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  4. Terry, you're right -- sometimes theft is the greatest compliment.

    Hey there, Moose. How did it go again? Sprick is quick, but Launay's brawny.

    Mum, don't waste time looking for fabric you know. I tend to scan pages from magazines more, and if I do use real material, I distort it a lot in Photoshop.

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  5. Haha, Penny! Brilliant! Sorry - can't make a sensible comment now! Hehe. I imagined you going around photographing people's clothes to scan later...surreptitiously snapping at the hem of someone's dress or coat sleeve....


    Hmn..moving on.. I love this image - picaresque and textured without the fabric...I suppose the amount of time you have to play with dictates a lot how much you can photoshop, does it?

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  6. Thanks, Rachel. Yes, the 'Rouen Snipper', arrested for skirt grabbing in some grubby back street. Not a happy image.

    Photoshop tends to save time, allowing large amounts of colour and texture to go down at once. With this image, for example, the pen and ink drawing took longer than the colour.

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  7. Strangely enough I just stumbled on the Launay and Sprick pilot this morning when sorting a draw. How I would love to read 'Fat Man in Domme' and 'The Velocipede of Death'...!
    We'll collaborate one of these days...

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  8. ps: The Courtauld has an exhibition of various of the Cezanne card player paintings later in the year...

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  9. Who has the real ace and who has the fake?

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  10. Actually, Anita -- the real ace is still in the deck. They're as bad as each other:)

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