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Zandar's Saga 706 (Patreon)

Published:
2024-08-12 01:20:24
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2024-08-22 01:35:42
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Time to pull from the Dave Sim / Mike Mignola Background Avoidance Playbook.

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typeandkey

I love heavily shadowed backgrounds. You do it well. Now when does she fight a pulp monster?

Rick2tails

Or maybe you could give a monkey a gun?

Walter Reimer

Mathowlch's smart enough to have reasons?!

Rick2tails

he could be having a conscience.or maybe he`s playing "good cop" to the duchess`s bad cop?

Margaret Trauth

look, if you can't afford a Gerhard to do your backgrounds, you can get a *lot* of mileage out of just doing a half a page of aspect-to-aspect transitions and then drench the rest in shadows; honestly I think there are ways it makes for much better *storytelling* than filling every page with repeated drawings of the same setting.

Margaret Trauth

...this comes from bitter experience in spending the past half a decade trying to figure out ways to be her own Gerhard, and maybe it's just time to stop doing that for a while, I've indulged the part of me that wants to try to paint every frame for long enough and she hasn't gotten fast enough to keep up with my increasing desire to be a big slacker.

Mondegreen

Hey now, Zandar can't very well see how fancy it is when the lights are out!

tegerio

I'm reasonably certain Gerhard is not human.

tegerio

That's how she can tell! The fancier the place, the dimmer the lighting!

St. Veronika

Do you maybe have a visual example? For an aspiring young lass?

Margaret Trauth

Find yourself a copy of *Hellboy: Seed Of Destruction* by Mike Mignola and enjoy thinking about the way his comics are shaped differently from most American superhero comics; the "aspect-to-aspect transition" I mention is something you very rarely see in that genre. Look for scenes with a few silent panels of different parts of an environment to set the scene. Also find a copy of Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics", which is where I got the technical term for this kind of panel transition from; it's full of a lot of things to think about while trying to tell a story in words and pictures. You could also find a copy of "Cerebus: High Society", which has a lengthy sequence where Cerebus hangs out in a pitch-black hotel suite, but then you would be reading Cerebus, and while Dave Sim was a very important figure in the eighties black and white comics scene and possibly one of the best letterers in the global history of the entire medium, he was also a creepy misogynistic weirdo. After that story he got an assistant named Gerhard who drew backgrounds for him.

Margaret Trauth

"Gerhard": a special strain of mushrooms, grown entirely on macaroni and cheese