Korgar: Barbarian Math Teacher!!

PeterAndCompany

Geez, how long has it been since I've posted art? I don't even remember.

Anyways. Hi guys. My second-to-last quarter at SCAD is about to wrap up, so I figured I'd share all the crap I've been working on in Hand Lettering and Typography for Comics, my only sequential class this term (stupid me, waiting until the very end to fulfill all my art history elective requirements).

The name of the class is pretty self-explanatory, so yeah, here are all the projects I had to do, sans the final which I have yet to finish (it's due a week from Wednesday).

Project 1: Mixed-case and all-caps alphabets. I had to do two separate comics of at least three panels each giving an example of both sets. In a random moment of inspiration I decided to take all the dialogue from the MST3K episode "Pumaman." The only requirement was to have them in pencil, but I have plans to ink them eventually. Just haven't got around to it yet.

Mixed case:


All caps:


Project 2: Character-specific voices. Again, I had to do two separate comics, three panels each, this time giving an example of lettering tailored around a specific character's voice. These had to be fully inked.





Project 3: Image-As-Text. The idea behind this was to have the background, props, and other organic elements form the lettering, rather than relying on a standard typeface. My idea was to do a cover for Ademar where arrows have struck the brick wall, spelling out "The Chronicles of Ademar" in the resulting cracks. The end result was a little too hard to read, so I'll probably avoid doing this for an actual cover.



Oh yeah, and the characters of Ademar (Lily and Buckley seen here) are now humans instead of animals. That's why my Ademar site is listed as "under revision" in my sig. Yeah... more on that later.

Project 4: Text In Environment. We were given a list of different types of text to incorporate as background elements into two separate single-panel illustrations. I loved this one.





Project 5: Sound Effects. Complete one full page of comic art, and manage to squeeze in at least eight different sound effects of different types (onomatopoetic, repetitive, dopplar, etc.).




Our final project for the class requires us to create two separate title logos and use them in a cover page and splash page, while also incorporating a little of everything that we've used in our past projects so far. Yeah... a cumulative final. Good lord. O.o

I'll post the sketches and whatnot for it as soon as I reach that point. Until then, comments and critiques are definitely welcome.

RubberAC

great to see you around these parts again peter.
These all look pretty solid, I wish i could ink as amazingly as you.
Love the 'Squeeka's in the onomatopoea page

PeterAndCompany

Thanks, Rubber. I still would like to put together an inking tutorial to share with the AC sometime... I've just been really swamped for the past several months.

Prospicience

Really cool peter, I love the robot one.

So sad though...

Kewop Decam

hey... how about you lend me those awesome perspective skills you have.




Thanks, I'll bring em back when I'm done.

NightDragon

A few word-spacing problems throughout (mostly seen in the first comic, I thought), but overall not so bad. The inking you did for the 1st panel of the robot comic is really excellent. Gets a little messy in the 2nd panel, and the last panel is also very well done, inking-wise.

PeterAndCompany

Prosp: Hehe, thanks! That one got the most interesting reaction out of the class.

Kewop: LOL, thanks. Be careful with them, they're fragile. ;-)

ND : Thanks for the critiques. I know the word-spacing in the first few comics was rather tight, which is something I still need to work on. Force of habit makes me write closer together (I have really tight handwriting most of the time), and I was able to get around it through my digital font with automatic spacing... but that's such a cheap fix for something I should correct on the rudimentary level first.
I also see what you mean about the inking on the second panel. Admittedly I didn't plan out the background elements as well as I should have (and it seems a bit odd for a robot to have curtains to begin with). Plus I think my hand was killing me at that point, since I did the last panel first when inking it, so I got a bit sloppy with the brush. I should learn to take a break more often. lol

I'll have some more stuff to share within the next week or so. I could post sketches and crap but I'd rather put up more refined work for critiques.

trixtah

I love that acorn one a lot for some reason Love it all though

Kewop Decam

trixtah wrote: »

I love that acorn one a lot for some reason Love it all though

It's because of the leaf ticket and the dude being annoyed by the guy on his shoulders.


Well... that's why I like it

PeterAndCompany

Well that stinks, I can't rename the thread anymore. Oh well.

Thanks for the comments, guys. Here's half of my final project for Hand Lettering. I had to do a full-page comic cover/splash page using various elements, blah blah blah. I colored it for shits & giggles, and put in some digital text because it looked cleaner (the one I'm turning in for a grade is black & white with all hand-written text... I only went digital for presentation quality on the colored version).

For more of an explanation as to who this character is, start with this comic and read through the next three after it. Also, I decided to use the second half of my final for my latest P&C update, so I won't post it here since you can read it over there.



And yeah, the cover's totally fake. I don't plan on making this an actual comic anytime soon. I really don't know if Korgar could hold his own.

Synthetic Orange

Renaming the threads is handled wierdly in this. double click right next to your thread title from the forum view and you should be able to edit it there.

PeterAndCompany

Wow.... that is really awkward. I miss the old forums. Thanks for the tip, Synth.

The Celestial

Wait...what? This thread has been here for over a week and no one has called Peter a fucking furry yet? What's up people?!

I kid, I kid.

The first two projects look smooth; print-quality as the way. Project 3 looks very forced. Like you came up with the cracks idea and had to make it work.

By ones in project 4 look stellar. There's a bit of a perspective issue with the movie names in the UFO one, but that's the only gripe. I love the Acorn Lift though, really nice piece.

Project 5 looks nice as well but the "stab" panel is very hard to read. Your viewer should be able to make out the word without referancing what's happening in the panel.

Oh, and I love Korgar. He is the greatest math teacher ever.

MagicToaster

I love that Hogarth has lots of stuffed animals on his desk. Also... "Fat guy"?

PeterAndCompany

Celestial: Thanks for the feedback & comments! I will agree, project 3 was rather forced... it was an idea that I thought looked cool in my head, but in practice... not so much. I definitely won't be using that for an actual cover, but for the purposes of the assignment it was sufficient. I'm actually taking my last Sequential class next quarter in Cover Illustration, so I'll be able to rework it then to see if I can save the concept... if not, no biggie.

MT: Hehe, those are actual kittens on his desk. In the P&C comics you see that he keeps a huge mass of kittens in the front drawer. Why? ... he's Korgar, no one questions him.

And yeah, "Fat Guy" is in reference/tribute to my friend Dan, who was one of the ones who created Korgar five years ago here at SCAD. The character spawned from a simple typo on an advertisement for Kroger on the bulletin board at the dorms (misspelled "Korger") and well... the rest spawned from too much soda and not enough sleep. I'm only just now getting around to actually drawing him in my stuff.

Fibretip

I know it's too late and all, but the perspective feels a bit out of whack on the korgar one... if we can see underneath the blackboard and the desk like we can... korgar must either be standing in a pit, or have his feet on his knees? or of course the desk could be like a meter and a half high... just seems that we're sat about collar bone height on korgar himself, but the background we're sitting on the floor...if you follow. I guess they could be far away... but it doesn't read that way... and still feels off to me.

randomproxy

Fibretip wrote: »

I know it's too late and all, but the perspective feels a bit out of whack on the korgar one... if we can see underneath the blackboard and the desk like we can... korgar must either be standing in a pit, or have his feet on his knees? or of course the desk could be like a meter and a half high... just seems that we're sat about collar bone height on korgar himself, but the background we're sitting on the floor...if you follow. I guess they could be far away... but it doesn't read that way... and still feels off to me.

If you were slouching in your seat trying not to be seen (tough to do if you're the poor bastard in the front row), would that make the perspective look like that?

Honestly, it didn't bother me at all until you pointed it out.

Staleghoti

Mentos

hahaha

PeterAndCompany

Fibre: Good eye! The blackboard was meant to be like most blackboards I remember seeing growing up, where the bottom part is actually at an angle (like a triangle-shaped piece of wood underneath), so I drew it as if looking at it head-on. It's not a completely horizontal surface, but sort of at a 30-degree angle or so.
The desk I admittedly fudged the perspective a bit, although this was on purpose, since looking at it head-on made it look flat and showing the top of the desk made the background too cluttered and busy (with all the kittens). There are times when bending perspective for such a minor detail is just as effective (and most of the time unnoticeable unless you really look for it).

NightDragon

the anatomy really is off on that last guy.

NeoRedXIII

I just can't get over how cool that cat is that's second from the left. You've got some excellent work Jon. :^: