World of 'Close-Up'
This image has already appeared within this bloggular service, although seen within this isolated context, it may not be immediately obvious.
My approach to cartooning has taken dramatic new directions this last few months, with the introduction of composites, especially; meaning I have much more freedom to produce 'nicer' artwork using 'new' methods in which I have the luxury of having much more space to draw in.....[up until fairly recently, I drew EVERYTHING at the same old A4 scale, and although results are often fine this way, it can sometimes be pretty limiting; more on this later].
Here's a decent example here: this satire on Baby Boomer as Alex out of A Clockwork Orange was drawn using very large imagery; the head/face section itself was almost A4 sized, with the remainder of the body also hewn large, and all this is composited and shrunk down in unison
later on, a bit like Terry Gilliam used to do, in his celebrated Monty Pythons' Flying Circus cut-out/airbrushed animations.
The single 'head' element of BB here was later shrunk down and used as an avatar on a site I was on at the time.
This approach is great for imagery designed to be blown up large, and a lot of the details are, of course, lost when all the finished artwork is seen scaled-down.
I am using this technique increasingly, it provides much more polished results [than, say, the earlier black-and-white inkings seen in the earlier sections of this blog] and is also a lot easier on the old glazzies, at the drawing stage, old droogie.......
My approach to cartooning has taken dramatic new directions this last few months, with the introduction of composites, especially; meaning I have much more freedom to produce 'nicer' artwork using 'new' methods in which I have the luxury of having much more space to draw in.....[up until fairly recently, I drew EVERYTHING at the same old A4 scale, and although results are often fine this way, it can sometimes be pretty limiting; more on this later].
Here's a decent example here: this satire on Baby Boomer as Alex out of A Clockwork Orange was drawn using very large imagery; the head/face section itself was almost A4 sized, with the remainder of the body also hewn large, and all this is composited and shrunk down in unison
The single 'head' element of BB here was later shrunk down and used as an avatar on a site I was on at the time.
This approach is great for imagery designed to be blown up large, and a lot of the details are, of course, lost when all the finished artwork is seen scaled-down.
I am using this technique increasingly, it provides much more polished results [than, say, the earlier black-and-white inkings seen in the earlier sections of this blog] and is also a lot easier on the old glazzies, at the drawing stage, old droogie.......
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