1989 [4]
TODAY'S ITEM is 'sort of' connected to the previous Hitler one [I think you will all agree that Adolphus is forever linked with the concept that is WAR] inasmuch in that it is very much a Military-themed undertaking......I used to do loads of Army-based cartoons on here, in the early days of this blog, and I really must get back into this: it's one of the all-time 'limitless' themes for cartoonery.
Anyway, just take a look below at some of the detailed work I used to do in the 80s: I assume I done such delicate linework with a small steel mapping-pen and bottled ink. Detail like this works fine for drawing intricate machinery [say] but it usually works better if surrounded by lots of roomy space: the way I have done it here, with almost every inch of the paper taken up with endless detail. only really works on a poster design, or something else meant to be pored over.
A lot of readers are also turned off by hyper-detail, and will turn the page of a comic quickly rather than wade through a lot of fussy-looking embellishments: excessive detail is best used only sparingly, in my humble view. I never realized this fact, back in the 80s!
Today with digital stuff of course it is a lot easier just to 'draw large' then shrink the details down into another drawing: ingenious stuff which definitely benefits the cartoonist; however it always seems a bit like cheating, and cartoons like the one seen here always seem more like the 'real thing' in all honesty.
MORE 'VINTAGE' 1989 MATERIAL COMING UP SOON.......
Anyway, just take a look below at some of the detailed work I used to do in the 80s: I assume I done such delicate linework with a small steel mapping-pen and bottled ink. Detail like this works fine for drawing intricate machinery [say] but it usually works better if surrounded by lots of roomy space: the way I have done it here, with almost every inch of the paper taken up with endless detail. only really works on a poster design, or something else meant to be pored over.
A lot of readers are also turned off by hyper-detail, and will turn the page of a comic quickly rather than wade through a lot of fussy-looking embellishments: excessive detail is best used only sparingly, in my humble view. I never realized this fact, back in the 80s!
Today with digital stuff of course it is a lot easier just to 'draw large' then shrink the details down into another drawing: ingenious stuff which definitely benefits the cartoonist; however it always seems a bit like cheating, and cartoons like the one seen here always seem more like the 'real thing' in all honesty.
MORE 'VINTAGE' 1989 MATERIAL COMING UP SOON.......
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