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Showing posts with label strip. Show all posts

Friday, 2 October 2015

Drawing classes: analog and digital illustration - cursus: analoge en digitale illustratie


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Since the beginning of this schoolyear, I teach "Analoge and digital illustration" (60 hours; 3 hours per lesson). 
The first three lessens were about perspective, before starting with anatomy in the fourth lesson, of which you can see some pictures below.
We didn't go digital yet because the tablets haven't arrived, and because I wanted to give some fundamental drawing principles first...

Isometric perspective for constructing ribcage and pelvis.  Knowledge of perspective is important to understand how you can place a person in a certain space. Structural rhytm of the legs (S- or B-shape) is indicated in red.

The thursday evening students. There is also a class on wednesday morning.

The computer in the right corner of the picture shows some pictures from Luc Besson's "The fifth element" (during break we discussed the influence of french authors Moebius and Mezières on Star Wars and other SF-movies).

Understanding how a dragon wing works is understanding that a wing is the same as a hand with skin between the fingers.

The classes are on wednesday morning or thursday evening in PCVO Scheldeland (the former PCVO Waas en Durme) in Lokeren (Belgium).

English version: see above
Sinds het begin van dit schooljaar geef ik "Analoge en digitale illustratie" als vak (60 u, 3 u/les). 
De eerste drie lessen behandelden perspectief, om daarna in de vierde les met anatomie te beginnen, waarvan je hieronder enkele foto's kan zien.
We werken voorlopig nog niet digitaal omdat de bestelde tekentablette nog niet gearriveerd zijn, en omdat ik toch eerst wat fundamentele tekenprincipes wou meegeven aan de cursisten vooraleer aan de computer te gaan zitten.


Hier gebruiken we isometrisch perspectief om de ribbenkast en het bekken aan te duiden.  Kennis van perspectief is belangrijk om een persoon in een bepaalde dimensionele ruimte te kunnen plaatsen. In het rood heb ik het structurele ritme van de benen (S- of B-vorm) aangeduid.

De donderdagavond-cursisten.  Er is ook een groep op woensdagmorgen. (althans voor het eerste trimester van 2015-2016).

De computer in beeld toont foto's uit "The fifth element" van Luc Besson, omdat we het tijdens de pauze hadden over de invloed van Franse auteurs als  Moebius en Mezières op Star Wars en andere SF-films.

Om te begrijpen hoe je een drakenvleugel tekent, moet je snappen dat een vleugel eigenlijk een hand met heel lange vingers is, en opgespannen huid ertussen...

De lessen gaan door op woensdagochtend of donderdagavond in het PCVO Scheldeland (het vroegere PCVO Waas en Durme) in Lokeren (België). De school ligt op 5 minuutjes wandelafstand van het treinstation.  Lokeren ligt op de lijn Gent-Antwerpen en is dus vanuit beide steden makkelijk bereikbaar.


Wednesday, 20 May 2015

Comic artists that I admire...

On this blog,  I will discuss some comic artists that I appreciate very much.  Their talents have been (or still are) an inspiration for me. That's why I want to put them in the spotlight for you, the blogreader that might not know them (especially if you're not from Belgium or France).

So here are the artists that are worth to check out:


Rosinski - read the article here

Thorgal by Rosinski

Dave Gibbons

Watchmen by Gibbons

Karel Biddeloo

The Red Knight by Karel Biddeloo

Philippe Delaby

Laments of the lost Moors (Complainte des Landes Perdues) by Delaby
Steven Dupré

Illustration by Steven Dupré

Hans Kresse

Illustration by Hans Kresse
Beatrice Tillier - read the article here

Le Bois des Vièrges (Virgin's Wood) by Tillier
Thierry Ségur - read the article here

"Légendes des contrées oubliées" (Legend of the forgotten countries)  by Ségur


James Gurney

Dinotopia by Gurney
Jean Giraud/Moebius
Blueberry by Giraud




In the following blog posts, you'll get a chance to meet them and their work.  


Maybe you wonder why most of these artists are less known outside Belgium and France?

Well actually Belgium and France have another "comic culture" than most other contries.

American comics and cartoons (action heroes and Disney-likes) are very popular in the whole world. 


But Belgium (in the fifties and sixties) and France (from the seventies on) developed their own way of comics, like Tintin (1930), Spirou (1939), Lucky Luke (1940's), Astérix (1959), The Smurfs (1950's), Suske en Wiske (1940's). I'm sure some of these names ring a bell :-).




These local comics have always been more popular than American import. Fact: any Disney-marketeer knows where Belgium lies, because it's the country where Disney-stuff has the most difficulties to penetrate the market and has the lowest sales-figures... 
Scandinavia for example, on the other hand, had a smaller local comic production in the past.  That market there has been heavy influenced by action heroes and the Disney-characters.

Photo credits: I took the pictures from Internet.  I do not own the copyright.  If you do a Google Image Search for the pictures, you'll find the rightfull owners. That's all for the legal stuff :-).