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[PA Comic] Monday, January 19, 2015 - Something To Be Desired
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Gabe's hair is shiny because he 3D printed a new hairdo after that barber's hack job. The black marks in the third panel are bruises he got from... whatever he 3D printed after panel 2.
This is basically the life cycle of owning a 3D printer in three panels:
-Realizing you can make anything
-Realizing you have no good ideas on what to make
-Realizing you really CAN make ANYTHING
-Realizing you probably shouldn't make some things
It's like Mike didn't remove filters he was using to make Friday's strip. It makes it all feel like the events aren't real, but a dream or simulation. This is the kind of visual effect I'd expect when a person's dream is losing cohesion and they are about to wake up/leave the matrix.
Only thing that slightly confused me at first was the fact that the final panel evidently takes place some time later. I think a change in scenery would have been an effective way to demonstrate the shift in time without sacrificing the flow.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2015/01/19/about-drawing
Yes please, to more news posts like this. Also good luck in your sketchings!
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I know you're not lacking for support or inspiration so i'll aim this at any fellow artists out there who might be feeling down about their art:Don't ever stop or let anyone convince you to. Don't ever look down at what you draw because every piece takes you one bit farther. It's all steps along the path. Keep at it believe in yourself and always know that you're worth the while.
2013 (SFW) http://t.facdn.net/10613625@400-1368742480.jpg
2014 (SFW) http://t.facdn.net/14254316@400-1407923915.jpg
A year can make a hell of a difference.
1. Gabe looks extra cartoony/dream sequencey in the first panel.
3. The odd shading under his eye & nose in Panel 3. It's like all the shading/shadows were just extra thickened. Everything else looks great.
THROW IT IN THE FIRE.
The funny thing about art school is that so many of the most talented, even successful artists I've seen recall hating their days in art school, often flunking and dropping out. Thing is, a lot of art instructors lose sight of how utterly subjective and open-ended art is, and try to railroad students into their own personal preferences, and/or grade on their preferences. As long as the teacher knows what actually needs to be taught to a student so that they're able to put what's in their head onto paper (or whatever medium), figure drawing, line work, basic coloring, that's fine, but when it starts getting into 'please don't use lime green' (something Monica from Strip Search remembers hearing), things have gone very wrong.
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Wow, Gabe's got two resolutions this year. Hopefully he can show the same dedication to this one as his other.
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/01/02
Awesome to me too. (In whatever way you want to take it :P )
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.