I ran across an old Perspective tutorial that I made several years ago. Believe it or not, for quite a while this tutorial was ranked #1 when you typed in “Perspective” in Google… till I lost my old domain name. Anyways, it seems woefully outdated now, and basically only deals with 1-point (and sort of 2-point) perspective. But if you’re just getting started, its a good description of how to think of perspective in terms of creating a scene for a comic. I know it helped me a lot when first demonstrated to me by Brian Stelfreeze many years ago.
At some point, I intend to do more tutorials. Hopefully this will help a few people out there in the mean time.
1. I finally redesigned my website and I’m actually happy with it.
2. We lined up our first GUESTS for our November convention!
(I honestly can’t believe how successful our previous conventions were WITHOUT guests, heh. )
3. I finally started my Super Zeroes webcomic after years and years of wanting to do something with it.
4. I am ENGAGED!
5. …and JEFF SMITH gave me a shout out on his blog!!! So awesome, I’m still giddy about it.
I will be doing caricatures tomorrow at the Garden and Arts Center: Festival from 9-6! Come by and get a caricature! Just $10!!! (46th and University in Lubbock) I don’t do Live caricatures much anymore. So this is a good chance to get out and get one. Plus the Festival is usually a lot of fun for the whole family!
Anyone in Lubbock willing to help me out some on Php/CSS coding on my webcomic website in exchange for some artwork or illustrations? I’ll make it worth your while. I really want a nice site, but some of this coding is beyond me.
This is a sketch of one of the main characters from my upcoming webcomic series Super Zeroes.
Last year I worked for a local company called Red Raider Outfitter designing Texas Tech game day shirts. It was a fun job and I got to work with a great artist and I learned a lot about graphic design, adobe illustrator, and meeting deadlines. I also had the fortune to work on a few of the big gameday shirts – one being the BLACK-OUT Texas shirt design that 10,000 plus people were wearing in the stadium when Tech pulled out that amazing 39 – 33 victory. I was lucky to be at that game thanks to some free tickets from my friend Phillip.
Well, it’s football season again, and even though I am only occasionally doing freelance work for Outfitter, I got the chance to work on this years Gameday design. I think it turned out pretty well. The shirt is available for Pre-sell now on their site if you’re looking to gear up for the game.
It’s always crazy how much a design can evolve from its initial conception. It always goes that way, through several different stages of revision. You only have a certain number of colors to print with in screen-printing. Plus your line-widths and colors have to be very deliberate. It definitely teaches you to be more bold with your decisions. This was my original illustrator version before the copy was added…
And the original pen and ink drawing…
I much prefer the detail you can get in pen and ink. But it doesn’t screen very well. But it is what it is. I hope the shirt does well, and I really hope Tech does well too!
This is from a while back. Its a shirt design for a fundraiser to fight cancer. I wasn’t sure what cancer was supposed to look like. Or a t-cell for that matter. So I just went with what came to mind. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.
Will works as a freelance Illustrator and graphic designer, and of course as a comic book artist. He has been making comics for over a decade. He has done comic and illustration work for many clients; including Disney, Microsoft, Flat World Knowledge, Slave Labor Graphics, Ape Entertainment, and dozens of small publishers.
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