The Big Look Back

Thanks, you guys, for another thoroughly enjoyable class--during which we managed to cover or review a lot of ideas that can make our pages better.
Here they are again, a little better organized than on the handout:

Reviewing key concepts

• "Drawing Through"
• "Even if you can't see it, it still shows"
• Contrapposto
• Canon of proportions (7-head, 8-head)
• Line of action--I FORGOT TO COVER THIS ONE. DO YOU KNOW IT? This Tarzan figure by Kubert is a lovely example of how line of action can apply to a figure not in motion
• Helical perspective/atmospheric perspective
• 2-point perspective
• 3-point perspective always involves either the...
• zenith or the..
• nadir
• Establishing shot
• Close-up
• Extreme close-up
• Medium shot
• 180 rule
• prop continuity
• "Variety and Unity"
• "Breathing room"
• Eye-path
• Shape schemes
• FG-MG-BG
• Balance: black=weight
• Dynamism
• Storytelling
  

Pro Art for Inking Practice:
In the next couple weeks, I'll be posting jpegs and .psd's of professional penciled pages for you to print out on bristol board. They will print out in non-photo blue. You can use them for fun, practice, or pro inking samples.

JH

P.S.:
Here is a link to some really good portfolio pages. The faces are mediocre and there's one-point perspective in the first panel where where there should be two-, but otherwise I think these are stunning, A-level work, much better than the Vampirella entries.

http://www.drawingboard.org/viewtopic.php?t=46939