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. |
I don't play videogames. It's not that I have anything against them, they're just not my thing. I have many other hobbies like this blog and my comics and dungeons and dragons that I keep me busy. However, I've always been fascinated by the effects and scenery in videogames. The animations are so realistic. It's incredible. Here I'll show some effects that inspire me and I find beautiful or jaw-dropping. Bioshock You probably know by now how much I like water so of course I'll love the scenery in Bioshock. The water animation is so cool! Portal The mirror effects in Portal are epic. It's so cool how accurately the reflections, for lack of a better word, are. I've been messing with drawing portals in my comics but I'm not there yet with the accurate mirroring and all. Skyrim The scenery is amazing. Yeah.
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Last night I was sitting on our screened in porch with my family when it started to rain. The sun was shining on the clouds and far trees in the distance. The rain poured on our house like buckets of water dropped from above, yet in the distance the sky was clear, and the sun glowed gold. Rather than washing out the colors of the trees and flowers, it strengthened them. The pink cherry blossoms grew even brighter and the grass shown a vibrant green behind the curtains of the storm. Gushes of water broke into mist through the screens of the porch. Then the rain let up as quickly as it started, leaving the whole world in a bright green haze. The clouds above were a beautiful gradient of grayish purple and golden yellow. The setting sun illuminated the whole world before our eyes. It was as if the world was a photo with the saturation turned up the whole way. Everything had color. The previously grey tree trunks were now a glowing brown. Dead leaves on the ground came back to life. Even driveways came alive. The whole world woke up. The whole world let its colors shine.
My art is inspired by many things inside myself. From holiday joy to deep emotions, there’s always something of me that propels my art. I put a lot of myself in my art I put a lot of feelings -- a lot of me -- into the art I make -- and it shows. When I’m into an art piece, it is so much better than ones I rush through. For example, the art below: I rushed through the ones on the left, but the ones on the right I put more energy in.
Sometimes I rush through art when I'm not inspired by it, but more often it's because of time pressure (I'm running behind on my comics, I have to do something in a few minutes and want to finish the frame before then, etc.) Water and Ice: Beauty of NatureI don’t know why but I love water and ice. I also love to draw storms. Whenever I get a chance I include them in my drawings. Usually it doesn’t make plot sense to have a water, ice or snow scene, but whenever there’s a chance I do it. Rain is a lot more common, so I do include a lot of rain scenes. This is also true for stories and role playing games I write. It's also inspired me to design temperature control, water powers, and ice powers characters for my comics. Below are slideshows of my art that's been inspired by these things. Ice and Snow Water Rain, Thunder, and Lightning Seasons and HolidaysOne thing I really enjoy is holidays, so you'll see me doing a lot of art relating to seasons, holidays, and special events. I made a whole Halloween special and a beach special for my comics, put a lot of work into drawing our Christmas tree, and included as many snow scenes in the winter as I could. I love to draw seasonal weather in my outdoor scenes! I showed a lot of special family traditions in these pieces of art.
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Deep EmotionsThe deepest use of art for me is expressing heavy, strong, and complicated emotions. It's a really powerful way for me to express myself and what I feel. These pieces are usually more detailed since I have all this power to put into them. A lot of times I use music to channel these emotions too. Some of these pieces are heavily inspired by a song that brings up powerful emotions in me.
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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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