Animated comic strip " Small fish in a big pond "
Video comic strip
" Small fish in a big pond "
I was sketching a birthday card, but the creative process took a turn and a small 3-panel comic strip was born.
Background
I still don't have a drawing board or a computer to draw with. All I could find was copy paper and pencils. And my sister's son had a birthday coming up, so I thought I could quickly make a little electronic greeting card.
I ended up continuing to draw on my phone, but I guess I got a little too excited
Here's a little clip of the drawing process, at the end of which there's a 3-panel comic strip about the dangers of a small fish's life.
I'm a traditional artist and i don't draw digitally that often. For me it is painstakingly frustrating and slow way of constructing an image. I like to use koncreat things paints and canvas or recykled materials. I think digital draving is fustraiting for me because of the zooming bussibilytys, you cant zoom in a peace of paper.
I did some background research on great white sharks and hammerhead sharks and it turned out that the relationship between these species is not very warm. While listening to UMK, I remembered a Finnish Eurovision song about sleeping on a bomb. As I remember, it caused a lot of noise at the time because the rest of the world didn't really understand what "Nukkua pommiin" sleeping on a bomb meant? Well, that's a Finnish saying for when you're late because you didn't wake up to the sound of your alarm clock.
So I had finished that 3-panel strip. The horrible fate of the hammerhead shark in the belly of a great white shark was swirling in my mind. What kind of habitat might the little shark live in if it felt safe in the company of a great white shark? You can see the final result in the youtube link below.
WORK PRINT 1
Video comic strip WORK PRINT 2
"small fish in a big pond"
If you are interested in drawing comics you should read this Finnish section using Google Translate, there I will go through some tips for beginners.
SHARK the drawing process
Can i draw a comic strip on my phone using only my finger?
The third comic panel the great white shark.
This great white ended up being detrimental to the little hammerhead shark. In this example, hopefully you can see the basic drawing principles. First we map out the basic shape. Then we define the basic shapes by color blocking or by light and shadow's And finally, we add the details.
But then when you paint a pictures (actually with paint on canvas) this technique can vary greatly. It depends on what kind of painting technique you use . For example, there is a brush technique where the paint is loaded into a brush or knife so that the details are in the paint itself. And this effect is created in the paint mixing stage. This is the painting technique used in oil painting. (If you are interested in landscape painting, this painting technique was made known to the general public by a guy like Bob Ross, who painted oil landscape paintings in his own program series The Joy Of Painting and all seasons can probably be found on YouTube by searching for the keyword. The great thing about this program is that Bob demonstrates painting techniques. These techniques can then be adapted to your own way of painting. A good example of how techniques can be adapted to your own way of working is John Salminen, who paints urban landscapes with watercolors. He uses Bob Ross's wet-on-wet oil paint brush fading technique to paint water and wet surfaces and has adapted this technique to suit watercolor painting.)
Why did I mention painting? Even though I was drawing with my phone? When I poked the screen with my finger, I noticed that normal drawing was not possible. I would describe drawing with my phone more as painting than drawing. And it really felt a lot like oil painting. The drawing process felt like moving paint across a canvas, not drawing.
3 panel comic strip as a video comic
THE ANIMATED CARTOON WAS BORN BECAUSE I FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS CUTE LITTLE HAMMER CHARACTER.