scans from that Wizard How To Draw: Storytelling book

[ratcreature]

A couple of people expressed interest in taking a look at the Wizard How To Draw: Storytelling book I mentioned, so I scanned two sections which I found quite interesting and which also might be useful as background for comic meta and such, i.e. Pacing a Scene and Pacing an Issue.












Obviously it's not so much analytical as examples demonstrating techniques. So what do you think, is this kind of thing helpful for your comic meta/analysis/whatever?

Comments

[brownbetty]

Thanks so much posting this! It's really neat!

[ratcreature]

I'm happy you find the sections interesting. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/__marcelo/]

This is great! It's really interesting - not something I've paid much attention to, but definitely something I feel I should.

[ratcreature]

Yeah. Sometimes I feel when I read about techniques and such that it's all really obvious, but still I just didn't notice the underlying principles and tricks on my own.

[deconcentrate.livejournal.com]

Oh, YAY.

References to CORPSE ON THE IMJIN - I love you, Phil Hester.

[ratcreature]

I've never read that. Do you know whether it's been reprinted somwhere?

[deconcentrate.livejournal.com]

. . . I think so?

I wouldn't know where, though - I read it in a museum exhibit. :/

[rabican.livejournal.com]

That's really, really nifty and awesome! Thanks muchly, ma'amsir.

And I squeed when they referenced Gil Kane.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, it's always neat to see the classics appreciated. :)

[rabican.livejournal.com]

*gratuitious Gil Kane icon*

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting these. They're fascinating.

[ratcreature]

I'm happy to hear you think so.

[red-eft.livejournal.com]

Ooh, shiny. Would you say the book on the whole is worth buying? I'm always looking for more comic-drawing stuff.

[ratcreature]

Well, I think with a price of nearly $20 for about 100 pages it's rather expensive, and the articles are of different quality, but some parts are definitely interesting and stuff I haven't seen put like that in non-comic drawing books. So I don't regret buying it, but I'd recommend maybe looking whether your comic shop has a copy available to browse through it first to check whether enough sections are of interest to you to make it worthwhile.

[snake-easing.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Very interesting. I've never thought about it like that before.

[ratcreature]

Cool that it made you see new things about comics. :)