Brandon Graham's Blog, page 79
April 5, 2018
Getting my artbook together for the fall.
Getting my artbook together for the fall.
hi boiler. I'm trying to get started doing my own comics, but my biggest stumbling block is trying to come up with plots for them. Do you know of any good advice for studying this subject, or any books about it? I know doing is the major thing but it's har
There’s certainly a lot you can do to work on that stuff. I think the main thing to improve your writing is just to read a lot. –and write down notes on what you’re interested in talking about – what’s going on
(or not going)
in your life that you want to talk about. I often think about what I’d most want to read when I’m coming up with what to make.
It’s also worth sometimes just jumping in and seeing where a story can go once you’ve drawn a few pages of it.
April 3, 2018
Tonight’s Sketchbook gentlemen.
Tonight’s Sketchbook gentlemen.
i've noticed that, in a lot of color palettes you use on your pages, the colors are all the same temperature, which sort of flattens the depth of field in a picture plane. I do not mean this with any mal intent, but why do you do this? thank you.
I looked up a color temperature chart.
what I do is certainly a 70′s/80′s French comics influence (
I dislike the look of 1990′s pro-animator Disney colors– ) but it might be that I came from black and white comics or that in recent years I’ve aimed to focus on tone over color. – like the one below with no gutters between panels– where the yellow of the sky is a different tone when it bumps up against another yellow sky panel.
For the page below– The red is meant to pop out as separate from the tone of the scene so the arrow in the last panel stands out. (the sound effects are red and blue because of a kind of Peter and the wolf thing I was doing to give each major vehicle in the story it’s own color)
I guess the short answer is, I just like how mid tones look. I imagine I’ll mess around with different tones in some of my future work I enjoyed doing this red light scene with the bright blue screens.
April 2, 2018
Airplane sketchbook page
Airplane sketchbook page
March 24, 2018
Drew in cafes all day
Drew in cafes all day
March 22, 2018
March 21, 2018
vancouvercomics:
Cartoonist Brandon Graham @royalboiler returns...
Cartoonist Brandon Graham @royalboiler returns as a guest of this year’s VanCAF!
Brandon Graham was born in 1976, the grandson of pin-up artist Bill Randall. He grew up in Seattle around a lot of graffiti and comics. His books include KING CITY, MULTIPLE WARHEADS, PROPHET, ARCLIGHT and ISLAND magazine which he co-edited with Emma Rios.
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VanCAF, the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival, is May 19 &
20, 2018 at the Roundhouse in Vancouver British Columbia, on the west
coast of Canada. Attendance is free, and open to everyone.
raleighgeorge:Still inspired + blown away by how much...
Still inspired + blown away by how much @royalboiler put into this #Prophet piece for me this past weekend at NC Comicon: Oak City Comi Con. Can’t stop looking at it.
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