Comments on: Mokuyoubi

By: Jeff H.

Jeff H. — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:56:03 +0000

Thanks for the props, Chuck…I’m honored to get a mention. I’d never seen Olduvai George’s site, either..most impressive. I love the megafauna, y’know.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:36:34 +0000

Well, I know that the guy from Penny Arcade (whichever one does the drawing) is a fan of Alias Sketchbook Pro, and there’s a demo of how he does a drawing in that program on their demo site (which I can’t link to).

They’ve also done a step-by-step from sketch to finished comic in one of their news posts, but I’ll leave that as an exercise for you. Search the archives for “photoshop” or “process” or “how I draw this thing” or some such.

For the rest of it I’m pretty much in the same boat as you. I bought a Wacom tablet hoping it would make me super l33t drawer, but so far all I’ve found out is that it takes practice just like everything else. As far as I can tell, using tablets and Photoshop and such help your stuff look a lot cleaner and more polished (it’s easier to color, erase, organize, etc.), but it won’t automatically master the fundamentals for you.

Dammit.

By: J00 Maerizt

J00 Maerizt — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:17:43 +0000

Thanks for the website tip. It looks really fun and I really, really, really want to learn more about how people make art for the web because I have decided that all published books on this topic are irretrievably dumb.

I would just like to know how Penny Arcade draws their stuff, you know? As someone who is an average drawer at best, but who has some ha ha funny stories to tell, I want to know if the computer can help me make my art good enough, so that I can then just focus on the ha ha funny story.

Does that make sense?

Another way to say this is:

I need mad sk33lz. Can the computer grant me these mad skeelz powers?

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:04:39 +0000

Hey! Yeah, that article in the smoking gun, and the resulting controversy, was the first I’d heard of the book. I was even still inclined to feel a little sorry for the guy after the smoking gun’s expose, until I started reading reviews of it and excerpts from it. He just comes across as an arrogant bastard who puffed himself up to make himself sound like a bad-ass, all to profit from it with a sequel and a screenplay to support his failing movie career.

By: eingy

eingy — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:25:08 +0000

I made my way here via Seppo’s site. Hi!

Just wanted to comment that in addition to being bad, James Frey’s book has been exposed as being a bunch of lies. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0104061jamesfrey1.html :)