More Text Bubbles
/I’m still trying to decide whether I should ditch the texture. My thinking is that the texture is on a multiply layer above the color and line work and it darkens everythng, including the whites.
I’m still trying to decide whether I should ditch the texture. My thinking is that the texture is on a multiply layer above the color and line work and it darkens everythng, including the whites.
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Up to this point in my drawing life I’ve given little thought to composition — I feel fortunate to just get a drawing that looks something like what I see in my imagination. But I know that there’s more to a good picture than simple verisimilitude. I have three Hiroshige art prints staring back at me from above my monitor and each one is a masterpiece, not because everything in the image looks like a carp, or a geisha, or a traveler in the rain. Nope. The pictures are awesome because of their composition and the way my eye travels through each picture and takes me into the Edo period.
Today I decided to try composing a picture intentionally. I need a two-page spread and I want to combine four pictures of Jimmy Jay and Buddy Butterfly playing games into a single image that flows across two facing pages from one scene to the next. Here’s my working sketch. The blue line is on a Photoshop layer, not in the sketch itself.