I felt like continuing a bit with my experimental streak. This should be the last one, really. A great thing about building perspective in a 2D medium like comics or movies, is that you can create an overlap. This is how you can make 3D illusions. A good example is the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy. They used perspective trickery …
If you hadn’t guessed it, this is what I imagine would happen if a trans-dimensional traveler were to find himself in a comic all of a sudden. Looking at comics objectively, you see it has some very specific natural laws or rules, just like any language really. And as I was trying to show last week, there’s fun ways of …
Experimental comic! One thing I love about comics is the manipulation of our perception of time. The act of reading itself (left to right, top to bottom in the Western world) takes us forward in time along a series of events. Pretty straitforward, right? It’s called “sequential art” for a reason. So if I were to start reading backwards, I …
Trying something a little different this week. It’s a looping comic I built by trying to fill a random set of panels instead of writing a joke or story with a punchline. It ‘reads’ along the edges of the comic. I thought having the colors flown into each other and cover te whole spectrum would accentuate that feeling of a …
This one took me ages to color. The original file is about 1.6 Gb and my laptop had got some problems rendering and saving it. But I managed to finish it without crashing Photoshop so I’m not complaining. A more gloomy take on a classic platform game: get to work, catch coins, go home, stare at a screen all night …
Something a little different this week. A visual translation of the song ‘Magic Perfume’, by Charlyne Yi and from the movie ‘Paper Heart’. I found all three to be quirky, cute and enchanting so I had to make a comic about it. The watercolour effect didn’t work out very well but I’m tired of trying any further for the moment. …
Every now and then I think that panel layout needs to be shaken around a little. If I get to antagonize my characters doing so, that’s a nice bonus.
This week it’s a side-scrolling experiment. The site isn’t really make for wide comics, but I hope you can see the scrollbar. If not, click here to see the comic in a seperate window. Yeah, I’m impossible at noticing little things like, you know, my heater disappearing! So ladies, next time your man doesn’t notice that new haircut or the …
Give this one a little time, it takes a while to load. I’ve probably reached the limit of the “continuing image”-format, with its 15000 px height. A nice experiment, but you have to be weary of file-sizes and load-time.
As pointed out several times by Scott McCloud in the past and more recently by Yves Bigerel (Balak01 on DeviantArt), the possiblilities for digital comics are widely underused. This is only a little scrolling-experiment but it did give me some insight on the relation between time and movement. Well worth looking furter into when I find some time, I think. …