For Love of Lists

SECOND WEEK
Reminders:
Free admission to SFMOMA for AAU students;
Spring Show; 540 showcases;
Illustration Town Hall Meeting, 3pm. Thu. 8Feb, 540 Powell. Air your hopes and gripes!

Summary of voting:
Yes to covering Photoshop coloring, Yes to lettering.
No to live model, Cartoon Art Museum.

Hey, y'all...
Here are the key concepts and terms we reviewed in class today!
...And if you're not going to do your own pet project for the pitch that makes up the bulk of this semester's work, then check your options in the "Pitch Basket" below. Yet another option is doing a retro script on an existing comic--working with popular existing characters, in other words. Up to you. Next week is decision time!
"Drawing Through"
"Even if you can't see it, it still shows"
Contrapposto
Canon(s) of proportions
Line of action
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
Two-shot
Three-shot
Dutch angle ("camera" is tilted)
180 rule
Prop continuity
"Variety and Unity"
"breathing room" and its close cousin, open areas (white paper)
Eye-path
Shape schemes, ala Frazetta's triangles
FG-MG-BG
Balance: black=weight
Dynamism
Storytelling

Pitch Basket: Alternatives to doing your own idea. Here are the different pitches I've assembled from the writers I know. It's actually a deeper and more impressive list than I thought we were going to be able to come up with. Please be thinking of which two, if any, you would like more info on. Each one will only be assigned to one student.
Basket of ideas

Pro Art for Inking Practice: 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.

BIBLIOGRAPHY ADDITIONS (Great books to have, for info and inspiration)

Writing for Comics with Peter David, 2006, Impact Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-58180-730-1ISBN-10: 1-58180-730-9
The DC Comics Guide to Penciling Comic Books by Klaus Janson, 2002, Watson-Guptill
ISBN 0-8230-1028-7
The DC Comics Guide to Inking Comic Books by Klaus Janson, 2003, Watson-Guptill
ISBN 0-8230-1029-5
The DC Comics Guide to Coloring and Lettering Comic Books by Mark Chiarello and Todd Klein, 2002, Watson-Guptill
ISBN 0-8230-1030-9
The Art of Comic Book Inking by Gary Martin, Dark Horse Publishing

JH