Jinx artists

[Thequeerjock]

Is that Emma and Maddy?
Lovely work.

[Jim Ritchey]

Working hard trying to get dynamic lighting correct.



DM Jim

Hey, Jim!
It always helps me to draw an arrow from the light source. The girl's face shoulda been lit more from the right side of the panel, not from underneath.

Rod Whigham turned me on to this almost two decades ago, and it's helped me enormously:

[DungeonMasterJim]

Hi Jim,

Thank you for the insight. I chose lighting from underneath because she's carrying a lantern. The guy in the picture is also carrying a flashlight but I figure that can easily be explained by it's pointing off panel.

I think I may be misunderstanding or over thinking what you are trying to tell me. I keep thinking in my head that you want the light source from the right side. But now I'm thinking you just mean lower right side. Do I have that correct? Lower right?

It might cause lighting issues but in my head the girl keeps switching the lantern from hand to hand out of fatigue. I should probably acknowledge this in a word balloon in some way.

Thanks Jim,

DM Jim


EDIT: The Wally Wood 22 panels is totally awesome. But like a fool, even though I have it several times on my harddrives, I keep forgetting where I put it. I have to many folders. So I'm doing a 'save as' for the 22 panels.

[Jim Ritchey]

Hi Jim,

Thank you for the insight. I chose lighting from underneath because she's carrying a lantern. The guy in the picture is also carrying a flashlight but I figure that can easily be explained by it's pointing off panel.

Yeah, I thought about it right after I posted it. The big white spaces w/ crosshatch behind the figures really throw off where the lighting is coming from. I understand you're trying to differentiate the figures from the background, but it comes off like there's a big, glaring light behind them. I filled in that white area in Gimp on a panel, and it still looked great--with the crosshatch part actually looking like the outline of shrubs:


I like your linework--a lot. But those big open white spaces are messing with your composition--kinda extraneous. You should have an ambient source (like a moonlit sky) crossed with the light from the lanterns, or just the lanterns.

I think I may be misunderstanding or over thinking what you are trying to tell me. I keep thinking in my head that you want the light source from the right side. But now I'm thinking you just mean lower right side. Do I have that correct? Lower right?

Hard to determine, since I wasn't noticing which hand the light was in, now I do, the lantern should have been lighting her face from the bottom right--no lines on the right next to her eye. It's important to have the figures relative to each other panel to panel, and if the one I 'corrected' is the previous, the second panel should mebbe be reversed.

It might cause lighting issues but in my head the girl keeps switching the lantern from hand to hand out of fatigue. I should probably acknowledge this in a word balloon in some way.

I feels ya--and to be blunt, what is in your mind should be indicated on the page--assume the reader is mentally handicapped. The key to good sequential storytelling is leaving absolutely nothing up to the imagination. Google Alex Toth ripping Steve Rude a new one on his Jonny Quest pages.

[DungeonMasterJim]

Yeah, I thought about it right after I posted it. The big white spaces w/ crosshatch behind the figures really throw off where the lighting is coming from. I understand you're trying to differentiate the figures from the background, but it comes off like there's a big, glaring light behind them. I filled in that white area in Gimp on a panel, and it still looked great--with the crosshatch part actually looking like the outline of shrubs:


I like your linework--a lot. But those big open white spaces are messing with your composition--kinda extraneous. You should have an ambient source (like a moonlit sky) crossed with the light from the lanterns, or just the lanterns.

Hard to determine, since I wasn't noticing which hand the light was in, now I do, the lantern should have been lighting her face from the bottom right--no lines on the right next to her eye. It's important to have the figures relative to each other panel to panel, and if the one I 'corrected' is the previous, the second panel should mebbe be reversed.

I feels ya--and to be blunt, what is in your mind should be indicated on the page--assume the reader is mentally handicapped. The key to good sequential storytelling is leaving absolutely nothing up to the imagination. Google Alex Toth ripping Steve Rude a new one on his Jonny Quest pages.

I think we think quite a bit alike when it comes to art. I pretty much take the view of the bolded above.

I also just noticed I forgot to fill in the black between the lantern handle. Oy!

Also, eventually there is moonlight, but for the moment the trio are suppose to be deep in the forest with almost none making it through the canopies of the trees.

Thanks for the feedback, Jim. I appreciate being able to talk art because my close friends only read comics, they have almost no art skills.

DM Jim

[Cassandra]

Is that Emma and Maddy?
Lovely work.

It's Emma and Jean, back in the day Jean had a stint as a Black Queen.

[DungeonMasterJim]

Super-hero characters...



DM Jim

[Lew'sGhost]

New page....away! Just click my signature and comment please.

[DungeonMasterJim]

Okay, I'm really happy so far with this work in progress which is why I'm posting it.



Um,... that thing by the lower left panel is a rough of a forearm and hand. Not that anyone is probably going to believe that...

DM Jim

[Cassandra]

Love the pencils DungeonMasterJim, I really enjoy seeing comic pages evolve.

I've recently been doing some fast, $10 pencil sketch cards to help pay for one of my cat's vet bills. (She burnt herself in a hot pot of coffee the pear sweetie. Thankfully she's much better now.)

Anikin / Darth Vader, Rogue and Gambit and Kitty and Lockheed.