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balu8 · 5 months
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Kerascoet: Beauty
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dreebo · 2 years
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Kerascoët.
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chez-mimich · 7 months
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Kerascoët
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baldobranco · 2 years
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Incantesimo/Spell by Sara Kissa Chissalé
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graphicpolicy · 2 years
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Head back into the Dungeon with Dungeon: Twilight
Head back into the Dungeon with Dungeon: Twilight #comics #comicbooks
NBM has announced that it is revisiting out-of-print editions of its line of Dungeon titles. First to be released is Dungeon: Twilight Vols. 1 & 2: Dragon Cemetery collecting the first four stories into a single volume for the first time. The planet Terra Amata, on which Dungeon resides, has stopped turning. On one side, total darkness and absolute coldness; on the other, a searing desert and…
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hey! congrats on the new graphic novel coming out (and the prose novel ur working on it sounds sick). you've been an inspiration to me since i found NS as the first version of ch1 was going up, there's a lot to it but i won't get terribly sappy in your askbox, all that to say thank for making it and i'm happy to see you continue making art. i was wondering how you've found your inspirations (both visually and practically) have changed as you've shifted your focus to different works, and who/what those inspirations are?
hmm i'm not sure if my inspirations have shifted so much as i've been able to act on them more? with NS i was very tied down to particular style, a particular type of writing, a particular type of character. with the graphic novel i was able to try out some slightly different ways of doing things and get a little more mature and scary, and with prose i've been able to tell totally different stories (mostly, stories that are as adult as i am. i love writing awful teens being mean to each other but i also love writing characters that are adult-ass adults)
i've always been big into kerascoet, and i've been getting into frank frazetta and robert mcginnis. writing wise always gotta shout out kj charles the historical gay romance GOAT, but also terry prachett and ursula k le guin
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4. Favourite things to draw?
5. Anything you haven’t drawn yet but want to?
7. Favourite works of all time excluding your own?
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4. Favourite things to draw?
I've answered it but it's favorite things so here we go!
I really like to paint something with a little detail that viewers won't see right away. And read through the tags to see if someone saw it :3
Our dnd party in some whacky weird perspectives and places. With a stupid amount of detail so I can paint it longer. Anything to cope before next session. v.v
5. Anything you haven't drawn yet but want to?
I need to get my ass to draw more Science fiction robotic stuff and vehicles. It's a challenge to draw machines that well...make sense when you look at them XD
7. Favorite works of all time excluding your own?
Heavens that's hard.
There are so many amazing pieces out there....
Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples - Saga comics
Beautiful Darkness - Kerascoet, Fabien Vehlmann (Sorry for butchering the names)
Over the Garden Wall
Can't Help Myself robot - Sun Yuan and Pengu Yu (I saw it in person and fall in love with it on the first site).
Red Threads of the Soul - Chiharu Shiota (also saw that in person, absolutely stunning)
The question is so vast it can't be really answered completely truthfully to be honest.
Thank you for asking <3
I am SO sorry it took me this long to finish this answer, the last question got me stuck and life stuff reached me x.x
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clopans · 9 months
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Le "demon"
Bd dans le style graphique de Kerascoët, notamment leur bd "Beauté". C'est un peu frustrant de faire une page de BD toute seule, sans avant ni après, pour raconter un bout d'histoire ^^'
For non-french speaker (so a majority here), uuuh.... basically two friends are new to a village, villagers are weird, man go get wood and adopt a kid. Normal day. (And the graphic style is inspired by the comic "Beauty" from Kerascoet, if you wanna look)
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fantomcomics · 10 months
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What’s Out This Week? 6/28
HOW IS JUNE ALMOST OVER WHYYYYY
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Beauty SC - Hubert & Kerascoet
When the repulsively ugly Coddie unintentionally saves a fairy from a spell, she does not understand the poisonous nature of the wish granted her by the fairy. The village folk no longer see her as repulsive and stinking of fish-they now perceive her as magnetically beautiful-which does not help her in her village. A young local lord saves her, but it soon becomes apparent that Coddie's destiny may be far greater than anyone ever imagined. Caustic and flamboyant, this fairy tale offers grownups an engrossing take on the nature and corrupting power of beauty, in our age of obsession with it.
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Brinkley Yearbook: Picture Day GN Vol 1 - Sarah Sax
Everyone knows the most stressful day of middle school: picture day! Seventh-grader Viv never looks forward to picture day. It's just another day where she wears a boring braid and no one notices her. (Her two best friends, Milo and Al, don't count, of course.) But enough is enough. This year, she's taking matters into her own hands. Literally. Viv grabs a pair of scissors, her phone for live-streaming, and, well, bye-bye braid. Suddenly Viv is an over-night influencer at Brinkley Middle School. Everyone wants her help planning their next big moment-from haircuts, to dance proposals, activist rallies and mathlete championships. She hardly even has time for her friends anymore. It's exactly how she dreamed of reinventing herself... right?
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Creed: The Next Round #1 (of 4) -  LaToya Morgan, Jai Jamison, Wilton Santos & Mateus Manhanini
Ten years after the events of the blockbuster Creed III, Amara Creed is on her own path, stepping outside her father Adonis Creed's shadow and training like there's no tomorrow. But when her division opponents no longer present a challenge, Amara's drive will have her following in her father's footsteps, going underground. She'll also need the perfect trainer, but perfection comes with tangled strings attached.
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Darkly She Goes HC -  Hubert & Vincent Mallie
Once upon a time there was a fallen knight, who believed that saving a princess would allow him to atone for his crimes. Once upon a time there was a dark princess, who believed that it was up to her to atone for the crimes of her parents... Banished for a fault that forever taints his reputation, Arzhur wanders from tavern to field of battle in search of the next contract which will fill his purse. One night, three mysterious old women offer him to regain honor and fortune if he frees the daughter of a neighboring king, held captive in the ruins of an abandoned castle. But Islen is not the damsel in distress that he expected to save. Magnified by the virtuoso art of Vincent Mallié, Hubert questions the weight of family heritage and delivers, under the finery of a tale, an intimate reflection on our inner monsters.
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Delivery For You! GN -  Teku Rin
Izumi Fukaya is a shut-in bachelor and part-timer whose only joy in life is seeing the handsome delivery worker who drops off his packages every day. Every time Ryouta Tsuchiya arrives with another delivery, the contents of the boxes are only half the excitement. Determined to make himself "cooler" to match Tsuchiya, Fukaya has yet to realize that Tsuchiya already thinks he's the whole package - and they're both about to find out they already have everything they want right in front of them!Meanwhile, Yuito Igarashi and Yuuta Natsume are in the prime of their college years but neither of them can seem to hit that final, all important youthful milestone: a girlfriend. Natsume struggles to even talk to the girls, and Igarashi's greatest talent is coming off as a creep. Maybe if they team up and put their heads together, they can come up with a solution to get over their single-life hurdles.
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Disney One Saturday Morning Adventures HC -  Daan Jippes & Laura McCreary 
Pour a bowl of cereal and dig into a nostalgic comics tribute to Disney's One Saturday Morning! From Disney Adventures and its sister magazines come classic comics based on your favorite 1990s Saturday morning cartoon block! See sideways schoolkids Doug and Pepper Ann navigate the halls of tween angst-while sneaky Spinelli of Recess is always up to tricks! Join Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and Mira Nova for big space battles. Then return to the Hundred Acre Wood for The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh... and hit Mouseton for Mickey, Goofy, and (hot-cha-cha!) Mortimer in Mickey MouseWorks! Even the Emmy-Award-winning Teacher's Pet is back in comics... back in print for the first time in decades!
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Nudism Comes To Connecticut HC -  Susan Schade, Jon Buller & Laura Buller 
Nudism Comes To Connecticut is a fascinating graphic memoir of optimism, debt, nakedness and real estate scheming in the early 1930s. Frank Mallett, inspired by cooperative colonies he had visited in Europe, returned home envisioning utopian communities of bohemian emigrés and artistic intellectuals proliferating in sylvan harmony.       With the crash of 1929 his already floundering enterprises seemed doomed - until he discovered a growing interest in healthy, wholesome nudism. Closely based on actual people and events, Nudism Comes to Connecticut exposes the conflict between the ecstasy of the "exquisite naked plunge" and voyeurism, competitiveness, and greed by way of many period writings and letters. Although Frank's love of nature never falters, he learns that there is more to nudism than meets the eye.
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Goodbye Eri GN -  Tatsuki Fujimoto
From the mad genius behind Chainsaw Man and Look Back comes a new story about coping with loss. Yuta's moviemaking career started with the request from his mother to record her final moments. But after her death, Yuta meets a mysterious girl named Eri who takes his life in new directions. The two begin creating a movie together, but Eri harbors an explosive secret.
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I Should Not Love You GN -  Chise Ogawa
Since he was little, Taisei Fujima has been known as the pretty boy in his town, and throughout his pampered and self-indulgent life thus far, there has only been one thing standing in his way: Keita Okachimachi, his former middle school classmate. Therefore, when Taisei is once again reunited with Okachimachi, after three long years apart, Taisei can't help but get riled up. And thus begins Taisei's grand plan for revenge...! Except, something's wrong. Even though he loathes Okachimachi with every fiber of his being, why is Taisei's heart beating so fast that he can hardly think straight. "Don't tell me I've fallen in love with him-?!"
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Minami’s Lover HC -  Shungiku Uchida
In this raunchy, moving, funny manga for adults, high school student Minami's girlfriend, Chiyomi, shrinks down to six inches tall - and moves in with him! Originally appearing in the underground/alternative manga magazine Garo in the 1980s and adapted for television several times, the Japanese pop culture sensation Minami's Lover is the story of two high schoolers' romantic relationship when one of them shrinks down to six inches tall.
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Nervosa GN -  Hayley Gold
Unflinchingly honest and darkly humorous, Nervosa is a graphic memoir about disordered eating, chronic illness, and a profound relationship with hope.
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Obnoxious Hero-Kun Complete Collection GN -  Amanda Rahimi
At school, everyone loves Hiro (especially Hiro). Handsome, charismatic, and overflowing with poetic praises of himself, he can get any girl he wants with just a smile and an abundance of background sparkles. He definitely doesn't waste any of his precious time thinking about Takashi, a stoic and somewhat icy boy who sits in front of him in class. Hiro's always glaring at Takashi for being so uncool, not staring longingly at Takashi's stupid beauty mark! When Hiro pushes his theatrical charm too far and finds Takashi daring him to kiss, Hiro realizes that being the hero of his own story means facing a dizzying array of heart-pounding challenges...like figuring out his true feelings for the very blunt, very hot Takashi. And dealing with exactly how much fetish gear is in Takashi's closet.
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Power Rangers Unlimited: The Coinless #1 -  Adam Cesare, Moises Hidalgo & Dan Mora
As if the medium-spanning, fan-favorite villain Drakkon wasn't enough of a threat, Mistress Vile has special plans, ones that will bring the Rangers' greatest foe into our world! But this scheming isn't without consequences for Drakkon, and he'll have to take a page from the book of Zordon if he wants the world of The Coinless to survive. But who would be unhinged enough to join his team? As if they have a choice...
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Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse: The Art Of The Movie HC -  Ramin Zahed
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar-winning Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn's full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie takes readers behind the scenes to showcase the art and artistry of Sony Pictures Animation's highly-anticipated sequel to 2018's Academy Award-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The ultimate deep dive into the on-screen return of the Spider-Man multiverse, the book features exclusive concept art, sketches, character designs, and storyboards from the visually innovative film.
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Starfinder: Angels Of The Drift #1 -  James L. Sutter, Edu Menna & Biagio D'Alessandro
A bold crew of adventurers must race to an isolated world to stop a catastrophic war for faster-than-light technology!
In the science-fantasy universe of the bestselling Starfinder Roleplaying Game, five down-on-their-luck mercenaries sign on to help a robotic avatar of the hyperspace dimension bring starship technology to a previously uncontacted planet. But with sinister forces bent on exploiting the new world, it'll take all the heroes' guns, wits, and magic to make it off their space station alive... 
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The Story Of Barbie & The Woman Who Created Her HC - Cindy Eagan & Amy Bates
A beautifully illustrated picture book about Barbie-the most famous doll in the world-and her visionary creator, Ruth Handler. After noticing how her daughter played with "grown-up" paper dolls, Ruth Handler wanted to create a doll that would inspire little girls to use their huge imaginations and big dreams about their futures. While others told her it wasn't possible, Ruth Handler proved them all wrong by creating the most famous doll ever. This beautiful hardcover picture book will inspire children ages 3 to 7 to believe that anything is possible-especially with Barbie!
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Trojan GN -  Daniel Kraus, Laci & Jeff Dekal
Once upon a time, we lived alongside Legends. Creatures of myth. Centaurs, fauns, gorgons, kelpies, gnomes, and more. They were spectacular. Majestic. Powerful. Peaceful. Pure. In comparison, we were ugly. Weak. Warmongering. Rotten. Is it any wonder we could not live alongside them any longer? After driving these Legends to the fringes of society, an uglier form of mythos takes shape in the form of rumors of live snuff shows for dark web high rollers. When a mysterious young woman, Nessa, enlists the help of a hacker to take a tour of the grisliest corners of the Dark Web, she sets in motion a war between those who peddle to mankind's darkest fantasies and a world that transcends imagination. Trojan is fantasy thriller full of wonder and horror in equal measure.
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Wolverine SNIKT! GN -  Tsutomu Nihei
In 2003, fresh off the success of his hit series Blame!, star manga creator Tsutomu Nihei connected with Marvel Comics, writing and drawing the limited series Wolverine: Snikt! Bringing his signature style to bear on the iconic X-Man, Nihei took Wolverine to a darker, more terrifying dimension, presented here in a deluxe edition.
Whatcha snagging to close out Pride, Fantom Fam??
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balu8 · 2 months
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Beautiful Darkness
by Fabien Vehlmann/ Marie Pommepuy and Kerascoët
 Drawn & Quarterly
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W10 Essay so far
The attraction of flaw. The unique purposes of perceived flaws, anachronisms and low art.
A vivisection of my work shows my repositioning of camp, queer culture, genre, handcraft individualism and anachronism to positions of value. These emerged from my taste in 'low' art and storytelling. Predominantly, retro sci fi, fantasy, pulp, comics, horror and genre fiction. I believe in storytelling's ability to be both entertaining and meaningful, even if it's perceived as less academic. And that mediums are defined by their 'flaws', or rather their polarizing limitations and side effects, not weighed down by them.
The Creative
My body of work is primarily illustrative and often story focused. Usually featuring defined characters, nature and elements of genre fiction. My work spans traditional and digital paintings, to drawings, to short form comics, occasional writing, and the integration of these mediums into design. This affinity for story stems from my childhood interest in ‘low brow’ genre fiction, fantasy and sci fi and international comics. The works of Shirly Barbers fairy stories and fantasy fiction set my love for the pastoral. I began to be drawn towards traditional painting and medieval styles, and the Arts and Crafts movement in particular. While I don’t think myself educated enough to have distinct political opinions, I’m drawn to handicraft methods as a reaction to over industrialization same as William Morris and other figureheads of Arts and Crafts. For the more ethical production and imperfect uniqueness of the handmade[FR1] . But for as much as these movements are reactionary rebellion, they’re often escapism as well. Since the pastoral is aspirational, I’d argue escapism is inherent to the movement to a degree, but its excess in Cottagecore and Arts and Craft spaces makes me uncomfortable. Real life isn’t escapable. Simultaneously, I don’t think fiction needs to adhere to ‘high’ art standards to be taken seriously as more than ‘escapism entertainment.’ Nor that any level of escapism is immoral. Fantasy elements allow for metaphor and emotion to heighten in ways simple depiction doesn’t capture the same way. This is taken to extremes by weird fiction sci fi/fantasy authors like China Mievile and Jeff Vandermeer. Of their works, my favorite involves eldritch horror and Romantic sublime nature as an overwhelming force[fr2] .
Horror is a genre I found through its frequent pairings of sci fi and fantasy. Until recently, it was seen as sensational, cheap, and exploitative. But its reactionary disregard for societal convention means   horror will approach strong negative emotions, non-conformist femininity, queerness, physical and societal critique because its goal is to upset. We are drawn to horror out of morbid curiosity, information [FR3] gathering about desperate and dangerous scenarios, so we can watch and learn for our own lives. (Clasen & Scrivner 2021) This is why I like storytelling; its parallels help me process my own problems. So, a genre with more conflict makes more poignant metaphors. Horror is also associated with the feminine and queer. Even if the depiction is villainizing (queerness) or villainizing and victimizing simultaneously (femininity). Horror allowing for their depictions gave me a way to see myself and my problems that other genres don’t have the same pedigree of.
Comics are also a bedrock of my work. My art style is a heavily influenced by European [FR4] artists (and often writers) like Herge, Moebius and Kerascoet, with delicate, complete cartoons with drawn back perspectives. More interested in simple portrayal than the high character drama American commercial comics I also take inspiration from. Largely works from commercial publishes like ICW, Marvel and Image comics. These inspire me narrative, with likable, character driven, emotional stories. Japanese comics are also influences, not just in story but in art style. I grew up online surrounded by artists inspired by anime and manga, which in turn influenced me.
I’ve discussed my predilution for fantasy and sci fi, but not horror. All of these interests interconnect and fuel each other. Comics are largely genre fiction. Fantasy and sci fi stories are often horror. Horror is often queer. Queer is often cottage core, which is often fantasy and sci fi, and so on and so on.
While I incorporate illustration into my graphic design, I’ve neglected interactive design, my future career. I’m inspired by the high-quality interactive fiction often found of Itch.io. Works like queer horror artist KittyHorrorShow’s avant-garde eldritch fiction and character focused slice of life Wide Ocean Big Jacket are personal inspirations for creating story focused, meaningfully interactable experiences. This is an avenue that combines all my interests and is ripe to be explored.
The Creation
William Moris and his philosophies are inspirational and analogous to my own. He was the figurehead of the Arts and Crafts movement, a late 19th, early 20th century British movement concerned with bespoke decorative and fine arts[FR5] . This was in reaction to over industrialization, a relevant issue with current matters of climate change, overconsumption, and rising cost of living. I draw both from Moris and his own inspirations, such as folk art and Romanticism. A 18th century movement concerned with emotion, individualism, and nature. My work is overly emotional and handmade, using the warmth and texture of traditional mediums. The sublime Romantics and modern horror creatives also both depict nature as existentially larger than us, both for purposes of awe and almost Lovecraftian horror, something I explore in my own work[FR6] . It represents existentialism and is also comforting somehow, playing a smaller part is less pressure. Though for all Moris’s environmentalism and ideals, it also worth noting that by his own admission he didn’t change much societally, and neither do I. I also disagree with over glorification of the past or individualism since they’re often used to justify abuse.
Jaeden Pirfano Kristofferson is an online artist I’ve followed for some time. His exaggerated surrealist colors, shapes and expressions conveys the story and emotion of his characters perfectly. His work is considered ‘low art’, often being fanart, horror, genre and queer. But he’s one of my favorite artists and I was drawn to him for these features for reasons I’ve discussed before, excepting fandom. To be honest, I came from a fandom background, like many young internet artists. I got into art because I cared about stories and wanted to communicate with the original content and from there the world at large. And I stayed the course because of the surrounding community. Online art’s accessibility for creation and distribution makes it a hot bed of passion driven, not for profit, independent art. To me, these features give the same presence as ‘old fashioned artisan’ work. A significant portion of online art is in fandom, since it’s so populated with creatives that draws in or creates more artists. Fandom continues to be associated with the feminine and queer as well. Despite being almost three decades old, John Fiske’s take on fandom rings true. Fandom is associated with culture that dominant systems denigrate. Comics, movies, shows, pop music, celebrities, and genre fiction. “It is thus associated with the cultural tastes of subordinated formations of the people, particularly with those disempowered by any combination of gender, age, class and race.” (Fiske, 1993, p. 27).
Mike Mignola is a comic artist and writer, most famous for his B.P.R.P.D and Hellboy comic series. Both set in the same alternate universe of our own. His writing and art are what drew me to him. Mignola’s worlds are filled with mythology, folk tales, pulp action and extremely human inhuman protagonists. His stories hit me in the right time of my life for me to get attached to the characters. His gothic sensibilities art clear, originally a 18th century medieval revivalist movement associated with the Romantic, before becoming a genre that’s a little different everywhere. But always with a sense of ruin, isolation, over emotion and times gone by[FR7] . He was also inspired by pulp magazines and authors like Robert E Howard and Manly Wade Wellman. Pulp magazines being names for the cheap paper they were printed on so they could be sold to the masses. He was also inspired by authors like Micheal Moorcock, a favourite of mine regarding alienating fantasy, or HP Lovecraft and his contemporaries in eldritch existential horror. (Ferno, 2014) Medieval, emotional, and unsettling continue returning themes for my work thanks to their human storytelling potential. However, it’s his art that really attracts. High contrast, styled like sharp rock, gothic and efficient. He's economical but bold, making moody impressions easily. I recall noticing how faces for his scenes could be a few lines of shadow, complex architecture would be simplified to shapes or how he'd cover a background in black, so he didn't have to draw it. Cutting corners is common in high volume productions like comics and Mignola pulls it off with style. This project’s made me much more aware of how much I need to do and as an anxious perfectionist with a limited life, this stylish and efficient techniques are aspirational.
Jeff Vandermeer exemplifies high fantasy, sci fi, and a recurring inspiration of mine: the sublime. 18th and 19th century art influences me in many ways, including the Romantics and their concept of the sublime regarding nature and atmosphere. The Romantic era began in England, it was emotional, individualistic, emotional, a reaction to the industrial revolution and emphasising illogical yet powerful emotion. To them, the sublime is the greatness of something beyond measurability, calculation, or imitation, filling the viewer with intimidation and awe. Often its applied to nature. Consider the night sky, huge waterfalls, storms, and sunsets. Or manmade structures like skyscrapers, cathedrals, or dams. Vandermeer positions nature as a supernatural sublime force in his work, creating existential horror from forces out of our control. He upholds elements like mould, microorganisms, deep sea creatures and almost alien forms, inspiring me to have a similar fascination with them. For me, this expresses my existential worries and exemplifies the beauty of nature. Vandermeer is an environmentalist, inspired by the way the local wildlife that inspired his work was degrading. “We need to stop pretending there's a nature and there's an us… we'll one day realize that there is no separation, but by then it'll be too late.” (Vandermeer, 2018, para 10). I agree perfectly with his sentiments on environmentalism. Given the power Vandermeer gives his moss and mould, it’s safe to say he doesn’t think we can defeat nature, only cause enough harm to change it as we know it. And as we’ve evolved to live in it. (Maher, 2018).
Bibliography
Clasen, M. Scrivner, C. (2021). Why frightening imaginary worlds? Morbid curiosity and the learning potential of horror. https://psyarxiv.com/nvfbt/download?format=pdf
Naylor, G. (1988). William Morris by himself. https://www.amazon.com/William-Morris-Himself-Designs-Writings/dp/0760755639
Fiske, J. (1992). The Cultural Economy of Fandom. In The Adoring Audience. . pp. 27-47  Routlendge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203181539-4/cultural-economy-fandom-john-fiske
Ferno, C. (2014, March 17). HELLBOY WEEK: MIKE MIGNOLA Talks Literary and Pulp Influences. 13th Dimension, Comics, Creators, Culture. https://13thdimension.com/hellboy-week-mike-mignola-talks-literary-and-pulp-influences/
Maher, J. (2018, February 23). “The Future Is Happening Right Now”: An Interview With Jeff VanderMeer. Pacific Standard. https://psmag.com/environment/the-future-is-happening-right-now-an-interview-with-jeff-vandermeer
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designresearch3fr · 7 months
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Week 9
The Creative. As a designer my influences are vintage and pastoral styling, retro genre art, internet art and comic illustrations. The western comic influence is direct, the eastern comic influence is through artist models. My work is often handmade and against over industrialization, with an emphasis on personal expression, and using media to explore emotion. There's a focus on aesthetics, for the creation of pleasure in viewing. The aesthetics I create are often aspirational but unattainable, showing western beauty standards and old world aesthetics, though not values. I also need to expand my practice into design and absorb more ux ui, not for any thematic purposes, but the practicality of my career.
The Creation. My work is often illustrative, digitally or traditionally. This is thanks to my childhood love of comics and internet communities, which had me drawing from a young age.  My work is often inspired by classical paintings, in like with queer influenced pastoral movements like cottage core, contains queer themes and a focus on aesthetics. The human and nature are my most common subjects, both for their aesthetics and their different themes. I use my humans to display emotional and interpersonal themes, while nature is often displayed as valuable or existential. Either a key part of tiny moments that make like worth living or larger and scarier than the humans. The latter depiction ties into my retro genre pulp inspirations, often inspired by existential eldritch horror like HP Lovecraft.
I'm worried about the body depictions in my work though, since they fit such a narrow perspective of beauty. It's very inspired by classical western beauty standards, which can be harmful to pursue.
My design library also needs to be expanded. There are a million and one ways to be illustrative and meaningful through design in the same way I do illustrations but too often I stick to my comfort zone. I want to be a designer so I need to step outside of my comfort zone.
Creative communities. Most obviously are European, western and (indirectly) eastern comics. European comics have the most artistic Influences, artists like Moebius, Herge and Kerascoet. For their fantastical, even lined, efficient and yet technically mastered styles. Western comics have the most story influenced (excepting Mike Mignola's high contrast horror art style) with their character first interpersonal stories. Eastern comics influence my indirectly via some of my favorite online artists. Anime styles have heavily influenced Online art communities, since the internet used to be a nerdier, niche gathering place for socially unacceptable hobbies which have now gained mainstream acceptability alongside it.
Genre fiction in many forms has a heavy influence on me. The heightened reality bypasses the emotional distance between fiction and us and allows for poignant metaphor. Pulp and horror fiction are especially important to me and feature heavily in my  artistic influences. From modern societally critiquing horror, to HP Lovecraft to classic exploitation cinema. My affinity for horror also ties into alienating high concept 70s-80s fantasy.
If I could work with anyone I'd like to work with old comic legends like Mike Mignola and the two artists behind Kerascoet. These influence writer artists are the blueprints of individualistic, creative driven comics
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freeandsavedinjesus · 11 months
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Fearless (Disney Pixar movie)
Fiercehearted's second film
Fiercehearted’s adventure with her Harvard professors continue as they discover something new that is out of this world! Fiercehearted has to learn to be fearless! So cool 😎
Cast:
Avril Lavigne as Fiercehearted
Daveigh Chase as Young Fiercehearted
John Fiedler as Professor Brown
Scott Menville as Professor Philip Zimbardo
Delaney Rose Stein as Kerascoet
Dee Bradley Baker as Integral
Ken Sansom as Pythagoras
Matt Damon as Proverbs
Peter Cullen as Geographicas
Joseph Ashton as Professor Autumn
Jim Cummings as Planetarystudies
Yuri Lowenthal as Obsidianstudy
Vincent Martella as Professor Quadrtics
Ben Stiller as Brooke Fraser
Adrian Pasdar as Biochemis-tree
Joseph Izzo as Professor Loudemic
Paul Winchell as Academiix
David Schwimmer as Professor Marine Biology
Khary Payton as Professor Earth Science
Bobby Gaylor as Professor Politics
Travis Willingham as Platosnotes
Richard O'brien as Professor Pre-med
Sam Vincent as Professor Yoyo astrophysics
Randall Duk Kim as Dean of Faculty
Scott Menville as Dad
Kath Soucie as Mom
Brad Pitt as Peter, Fiercehearted’s older brother
Catherine Taber as Camilla
Nika Futterman as Valentina
Kevin Conroy as Matthew
Gary Imhoff as Grandpa
Cristina Pucelli as Casey
Amanda Leighton as Emily
John DiMaggio as Jason
Rachel Crow as Cornelia
Grey Delisle as Brenda
Jeff Bennett as David
Mark Hamill as Harvard guardian
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drakomanth · 2 years
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E Você, lê para seu(a) bebê desde a sua chegada no lar? Na estantezinha: -Bruxa, Magos e Duendes [PATIENCE, John (Editora leitura)]; -Aurora nas Sombras [VEHLMANN, Fabien e KERASCOET (@darksidebooks)]; -Contos de Fadas para Garotas Corajosas [GANERI, Anita e LE, Khoa (Pé da Letra)]; -Hostórias de Shakespeare [Shakespeare adapitado por LE, Khoa (Pé da Letra)]; -Cem Histórias Ilustradas [VÁRIOS (Edições Usborne)]; -Histórias de Ninar no Lar (Todolivro); -Histórias de Ninar na Escola (Todolivro); -Contos de Andersen [ANDERSEN, Hans Christian (Paz e Terra)]; -A Joaninha [ANÔNIMO (N/A)]; -O Livro Verde do Bebê (Editora Moderna). @leituraecoletivo #leituraecoletivo (em Recife, Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci2f76jMx67hut4PpHLi_Pav6v_aFFvIFBcny00/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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th3purp1escribbl3 · 2 years
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3/5/22 - (missed two previous lessons)
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chose colours from page 9 of  the book ‘Beautiful darkness’ illustrated by Kerascoet
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Getting  the colours as close as possible to the ones in the illustration was difficult but they were close enough. There are some pale yellow and green colours too but its not very clear in the picture of the illustration. I mixed the colours on a separate palette but put the swatches on the page. The colours straight out of the tubs are the line looking swatches. the ones above are the mixed ones. 
quick poses for 3 - 5 minutes 
- large shapes and the space in-between 
trying to get used to the colours 
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slightly longer poses to 15 minutes 
I was struggling cuz of the angle of the pose on the right anyways so I got frustrated. I was putting down dark colours first then tried to add light colours on top which is difficult because you won’t be able to see it on-top of dark colours. Like the yellow on-top of blue.
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I think these were longer poses with breaks - 15 - 30 minutes 
I was using a lot of yellow and green mixtures for the main pose but then using a mixture of blues for the shadows.  Since I did it that way first (the one on the left) its hard to focus on the main thing which is the figure and the skeleton. I had another go at it on the right. I put the shadows down first lightly and the main pose and skeleton.. The colours are slightly reversed so it was slightly eaiser. byt then adding highlights on the figure was difficult again cuz of the yellow on-top of blue approach. 
I was trying to focus on the shape of the space and on the figure, skeleton and the shadow later, or at different times. 
I was trying not to fixate on making the painting as accurate. I was letting things happen on its own. 
I filled the whole figure in a light wash of blue. I was forgetting about the original colour palette I wanted to use. 
- more grey blues and less greens and yellows
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changed the page from landscape to portrait. I was going to do a big paiting but I still painted small. used yellow paint as a base for everything. I was trying to contain the pose in this yellow box similar to the box view of my screen. I tried to add blue on top but it started going green. Darkened the shadows still look slightly green. proportions messed up a bit. thinking of shapes in the space between objects.
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After lunch we did longer poses with breaks in between. Used more blues mixing white and black. For most of the lesson I was trying to paint more without lines but I stayed with lines for the pose on the left.
With the pose on the right I was blocking in the the shapes on the large scarf or towel on the model. I was going back and forth with adding colour in the painting. I still added a outline towards the end of painting.
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