Gender
Male
My Content
Birthday:
March 12
Location:
male
Area(s) of Interest or Expertise:
Comics, toys, and graphic design
My Testimony: (We encourage members to share briefly about how their faith in Christ has impacted their lives.)
Raised a cultural Christian, got seriously saved in college at an Intervarsity Christian Fellowship Bible Study.
Dream Job: (If you could have your dream job in the comics industry, what would it be?)
drawing Godzilla
Favorite Comic Creators:
Arthur Adams, Brett Booth, Todd Nauck, Will Eisner, Mike Turner, and Jack Kirby.
Comments
Hello! Welcome to CCAS! Please let me know if you have any questions. God bless.
Eric Jansen
Tips for a future Art-tech book?
I'm totally unpublished, so these are only tips from a doodler, and buyer of art books:
1) Young doodlers(up through high school) start out with pretty low confidence in their work. Freaks did a pretty good job of breaking skills down into incremental steps and interspacing it with cool pics for inspiration. Putting artlessons online, and breaking lessons into lesson-pages(Pdfs) that could be bought for an small price might be a money-maker. I've seen this done successfully with knitting and sewing sites where thousands of hobbiests buy patterens of outfits they like the look of.
2) The next level beyond Freaks, for a Sketcher-wanting-to-turn creator, could be a compilation of tricks and tips from competant amateurs, many of whom would gladly share a personal technique in return for some name recognition.
3) I personally would pay good money,(already have in fact), to have a series of lessons(with redlines and edited practices) on character design and refinement. Its r e a l l y hard to get a detailed critique outside of an artschool.
Well...thats all the artbook ideas I can think of.
I've owned and pawed through your book, Freaks, drawing fantastic creatures for several years. Great stuff!
Glad to have you aboard, Steve. Look around the CCAS site and make yourself at home.