A Cartoonist's
Playground
In this blog I'll share my
experiences navigating digital art and cartoons. |
In this blog I'll share my
experiences navigating digital art and cartoons. |
Today marks the first day of LGBTQ+ pride month! In celebration, I'm posting some of the pride art I made over time! Enjoy! From my superhero comic strip; A Matter of Time, Pride Month
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Recently I've been experimenting with different ways to draw eyes. When I started drawing my comic strip, I never drew close enough close ups to have the eyes be anything more than black dots for pupils (except, of course, when they were glowing for any reason.) From my superhero comic strip; First Superhero Comic Strip, Birthday Only late in the second story did I began to add color and shine to the eyes. From my superhero comic strip; Superheroes: Balance Toppled, Nightshade's First Strike In the third story I began to experiment with drawing lighter colored eyes. From my superhero comic strip; Superheroes: The Search for Mirage, Pumpkins Even more recently I began to experiment with the different colorings in eyes. If you look close at many eyes, you can see its not just one color but two or more rings blending into each other. I experimented with gradients when drawing eyes. From my superhero comic strip; Superheroes: Division, Time Travelers Arrive Even more recently, after being inspired by the art in an anime-style animated show, Legend of Korra, I tried yet another design for eye coloring. It's made up of three colors, a light, dark, and middle color, and then the pupil. I also experimented with coloring the lines of the edge of the iris not with black but with the darker color in the eye. From my superhero comic strip; Superheroes: A Matter of Time, Tom's Flashback I'm going to keep working to improve my drawings of eyes and the rest of my art!
So far most of my posts have centered around my art. That's not the only part of comics or even art in general. There's the storytelling aspect and the character aspect. Today I'm going to go into that character aspect. I'm going to share my process of designing a character. My sister Erin has helped me a lot with generating ideas for character suit designs. I started with her idea she gave me for this character. She usually gives me creative designs based on a style idea I give her. I took the design from there. Keeping elements of her design, I sketched my own. Usually I do it by sketching many drafts until I come across something I like.
My ArtI just want to put it out there that I am not a professional artist or have any experience for that matter other than my self taught art skills. And books. Okay. Now that I completely discredited myself, I'm prove my worth. This is my art. These are from my superhero comic strip. It might be hard to understand what's going on if you haven't read any of it before, since it's an ongoing storyline. But you can see the art. I've also done other artwork, such as the backgrounds for this website. You can see more by going to the art tab. ImprovementI'm learning as I go. I'm improving as I go. To show this, below is what I considered to be some of my best work this past spring/early summer (left) and what I consider to be some of my best work now (right). I used pictures of the same characters and similar scenes for comparison. Next TimeIn future posts, I'm not going to show as much art and I'm going to talk more about things I learned and what I found useful. I'll definitely keep you updated on my art, though. If you want to see more, go to the art tab!
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My name is Loren SinclairI am an artist and amateur cartoonist. I have been drawing my own comic strips (the biggest one about superheroes) and improving my art along the way. Archives
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