Brandon Graham's Blog, page 83

hey dud3br0, when's my 2018 sketchbook coming brah? been waiting long already BRAH

SUP BRA-WANG MANSLAB!! 

GET READY TO FALL INTO MY OVERSIZED EXTREME ART BOOK, FALL TWOTHOUDSNADEIGHTEENEXTREME!!! 

GUITAR RIFF!!  (and sorry for the wait, it turned into a much bigger project & then I had to plan it with Image’s schedule) 

GUITAR RIFF continues into infinitude… dude 

Hello, I am universally loved and respected.

Hello, I am universally loved and respected. 

How cool is your little sister? Asking for a friend

I’m a fan. 

Hey Brandon! I was wondering if you could help me with something. I’m going to school for animation, I love it..but I can’t seem to bond with other animation students. I always feel left out based on my style and art interests. I’m not an anime/Steven Univ

Oh yeah, of course.

It’s something I’m still often struggling with. Feeling distanced from people who do the same thing that I do.  on the flip side of that I’ve met a lot of artists who have very different interests than I do who I’ve been able to learn a lot from and really click with as people. 

– mentioning Steven Universe, that show has some really amazing people working on it. Rebecca Sugar, Lamar Abrams and Angie Wang are all really great cartoonists who I found to be real cool as people . –

(here’s a cool drawing Angie did)

 and I get that you’re talking about younger artists still working through influences and maybe doing derivative stuff. 

So yeah, It can feel really weird to not click with other people who do what you do, I’ve had moments where I was surrounded by people who make comics where I felt completely alienated. I feel like belief systems and values are maybe much more important than art style. Like does someone’s ideas on their work either click with how you see what you do, or maybe just interest you? Do they treat other people well?

but maybe I’m thinking about it too much and you’re just in a class with a bunch of turds, Either way it’s good that you love the school and the work you’re doing. I hope you find some people who do what you do that you can click with– if anything it makes those people all the more valuable to have in your life when you meet them. 

What size paper do you draw on? What are the margins/bleeds/cutoff that you typically use or like does Image give you specs?

I draw on 11 by 17 for most of my stuff with a margin of a half inch on each side & & inch on the top and bottom –basically I try to keep the lettering inside ‘10 by ‘15. That’s for standard comic size– anything that lines up with 

7.38" X 10.74   with a trim size of 6.63" x 10.24" (16.84 x 26.01 cm) King city pages were a little smaller & printed a little bigger. –known as Golden age size. 

Most of my pages are full bleed. Here’s a page from my DHP The speaker story. You can see I messed up on the middle panel and then drew it again on another piece of paper. Comics is interesting in that the final printed thing is all that really matters but by the time you get to that you’re long past done with it. 

congratulations on being a writer for actual real life porn now

Thanks. It should be interesting if anything.

Woodrocket seems like a great company, I like how they treat the people they work with & everyone I’ve met connected to it. 

milonogiannis:A piece for a DIY Prophet omnibus collection....

milonogiannis:

A piece for a DIY Prophet omnibus collection. (Thanks for getting me to draw the crew again, David!)

Some mostly unused sketches I did for a recent MW interview.

Some mostly unused sketches I did for a recent MW interview. 

Sketchbook thang

Sketchbook thang 

Another daily comic

Another daily comic