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[Camp Comic] Friday, February 6, 2015 - Seventeen Portrait
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[Camp Comic] Friday, February 6, 2015 - Seventeen Portrait
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No offence, others seem to find it cute, not creepy.
The detail and grime do humanize Seventeen and encourage you to imagine her as a real kid, which I guess is sort of creepy, in that Camp Weedonwantcha has such an unrelentingly dark premise. But that tension is why the strip is so compelling in the first place.
I can't wait to see more of these!
As for our current illustration here, well, quite the split! Some people are unnerved by our seeming hybrid of realistic and cartoon sensibilities! It's sometimes a bit of pitfall, it is - the ole cartoonist's strength is in caricaturing reality, and sometimes it shows up in our stabs at realism, however well crafted it may be!
...it's either that, or the fact they're very good at seeing the crude in people's appeal. I know Katie is good at that! But I can also see why the shoulders seem odd - it's either a movement that makes more sense for people in motion, or one that could've used more rendering...or we need to stare more at shoulders. And here I am at a computer screen instead!
Pardon the lengthy comment Katie, I suppose it's a culmination of finally getting around to talking and because it's something I've studied a few times before. And maybe helpful in some small capacity...nah.
Keep it up, ya make me weeks at college much more bearable with your work!
EDIT - Also, Seventeen is my favorite of the main trio, so it's wonderful to see you capture her wide-eyed, grimy visage in such a way. Whoo!
No super long break here! Just needed some time to prepare a Kickstarter for the first book.
The comic will be back after this portrait series.
With regards to the shoulders, it looks like she just leaned back into the 'frame' - you can replicate the pose by leaning back from your keyboard and looking off to your right, as if you were trying to look around a corner or squeeze into a group photo happening behind you.
I like this idea
oh wait, yeah, kitty...
It is! Though this Malachi is named after a character from one of my favorite books, Sirens of Titan. :]
Oh wow, I've been pronouncing his name COMPLETELY wrong... "Mala-chee" instead of "Mal-a-kai"...
I've always thought they we're greenish, but they're actually blue here. And some of her siblings have blue eyes.
This actually bothered me for a while, because maybe this is the moment I find out I've been colorblind my entire life, but I need to know. Haha.
Mean parents are all too real.