jjmccullough:

Can you tell what’s wrong with the official gubernatorial portrait of Arnold Schwarzenegger, which was officially unveiled in Sacramento earlier this month? Look at his lapel.

Originally, Arnold asked the artist to depict himself wearing a large pin with the face of first lady Maria Shriver on it. But as we all know, the Schwarzenegger marriage went sour shortly after the Governator left office, and the couple is currently in the midst of a multi-million dollar divorce. But apparently the portrait was finished before all that started to go down, so as the New York Post reported, Arnold had to get someone to do a crude touch-up after the fact. According to statehouse staff, a “sloppy mess” is what resulted.

It’s another wonderful case study in the dangers of cramming your official portrait with lots of myopic nonsense. It’s got to be up there with Mitt Romney asking for his official portrait to feature a copy of the Romneycare act. 

radfordsechrist:

Construction and proportions for Jasper and Kyoko. I have to square off the ball and pear for Kyoko to show off her boxy hips.

radfordsechrist:

Figuring out Tech’s basic proportions and construction

faitherinhicks:

phobs-heh:

isthistakenalready:

Aoi Honoo is Too Real

Me at job. 

my editor sent me this and was like “it’s you!”

… yes. :F

southworthart:

Pink! Plus progress… 

jigokuen:

coryloftis:

Since I’ve been playing Wildstar so much here lately, I thought I’d celebrate with a little concept art dump!!  Some of the many random things I drew during my time at Carbine.  Also I’m sure Andy Cotnam, Mindy Lee, or Johnson Truong probably had a hand in the concepting of more than a few of these.  What a super talented team I had!  

STAHP. CORY. STAHHHPP.

(just kidding never stop)

gravi-teamfalls:

Two Weird Old Men! (And their puppets)

Me & Matt Chapman goofing around between takes for the credits tag in Sock Opera. For those of you that don’t know, Matt Chapman writes on Gravity Falls (Co-wrote “Into The Bunker” with me) and also makes a hell of a good McGucket puppeteer. (Oh, and he’s also Strong Bad, incidentally) 

Puppets by Puppet Extraordinaire Nicole Mitchell (Her blog: http://dearquatty.blogspot.com)

saydolly:

Aziz Ansari is like the king of callouts.

ryannorth:

In my view, the entire purpose of a comic script is to communicate what you’re thinking to your artist!  So anything that supports that will do the trick.  I’ve seen some of Alan Moore’s scripts for Eddie Campbell on From Hell and he’ll have parts where he’s like “Okay this actually won’t show up on the page at all but here’s some cool backstory and here’s where I’m going with this” which I love: the more an artist knows your intentions, the better the two of you can work together.

My scripts are pretty straightforward: usually just a listing of panels, a scene description, and then dialogue, like

Panel 1:

Marceline is standing (well, floating) with her hands on her hips, clearly upset.  In the background zeppelins are crashing out of the sky and into the Candy Kingdom.  Candy citizens are running around, screaming.  Buildings melting like candy, liquid sugar pouring out of water towers, etc.  A candy disaster!

MARCELINE: I thought I said “NO RAPPING ALLOWED”, Jake.  Now look what’s happened!

Panel 2:

We pull back to see that Marcy’s floating behind Jake, who was clearly in the middle of beatboxing, not realizing she was there until just a minute ago.  He’s frozen in place, eyes wide, hands still in front of his mouth.

JAKE: Uh

Panel 3:

Jake turns around to face Marceline and shrugs, smiling weakly.

Panel 4:

Marceline, hugging Jake.

MARCELINE: Aw, I can’t stay mad at you.

A lot of people do scripts differently: some include lots of panel layouts (I generally don’t unless it’s critical, since the artists I work with are AWESOME and always come up with really great ideas), some write it like it’s a screenplay, etc.  There’s no wrong answers here: as long as your script communicates clearly to your artists what you’re talking about, it’s a good comics script.

One final piece of advice is to write out your script, then leave it for a few days and come back and read it again.  If what you read isn’t like what you remember imagining, add whatever detail you need to your script until they match up!

fabien-mense:

Agito Cosmos t03/ work in progress ! Fights, palmtrees, pirates, monkeys, guts, blams, everything’s in it !

beatonna:

King Baby says No

I’ll be honest here, I don’t know if the proper word is Lay or Lie

edit: it’s lie!

radfordsechrist:

“The Butter Thief” I did this comic a while back for “Explorer: The Mystery Boxes”

typette:

sidizenkane:

fyeahlilbit3point0:

Marvel Anti-Bullying variants for November

Oh my god.

Oh my GOD.

These are beautiful. I’m buying all of these.

EDIT: Here’s the full list of October/November Marvel titles with Anti-Bullying variants: Rocket Raccoon #4, Hulk #7, Guardians of the Galaxy #20, Avengers #36, Inhuman #7, Captain America #25, Legendary Star-Lord #4

the Gamora one ;_;

kane52630:

Super Antics by Kerry Callen

comicsalliance:

GENE LUEN YANG TO COMIC CREATORS: DON’T LET FEAR STOP YOU FROM WRITING DIVERSE CHARACTERS

By Matt D. Wilson

In a speech at the National Book Festival at the Library of Congress last weekend, The Shadow Hero writer Gene Luen Yang threw down the gauntlet.

Yang challenged comics creators to overcome their fears of bring criticized for inaccurately portraying characters who are different from them — in terms of race, gender, or other identifying factors. In brief, he told writers to do some research and get it right, but first and foremost to step outside themselves.

Here’s a brief excerpt:

We’re afraid of writing characters different from ourselves because we’re afraid of getting it wrong. We’re afraid of what the Internet might say.

This fear can be a good thing if it drives us to do our homework, to be meticulous in our cultural research. But this fear crosses the line when we become so intimidated that we quietly make choices against stepping out of our own identities.

After all, our job as writers is to step out of ourselves, and to encourage our readers to do the same.

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