It's a long one today, as we talk about color and value. Ralph, Andy, Socar, Patrick and Jeremy take us through an admittedly introductory discussion about the nuts and bolts of these vast subjects, as well as a few of our normal detours into areas unknown.
http://www.megaflowgraphics.com/NinjaMountain/NinjaMountain018.mp3
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Show notes:
WiP Podcast
Big Illustration Party Time Podcast
Rendering in Pen and Ink, Guptill
Rendering in Pencil, Guptill (out of print, buy it used!)
Unseen Shadows: 50 cover concept illustrations, Steranko (expensive but hey, you're worth it!)
(And it's up on ebay right now!!)
Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green, Wilcox
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Hey guys...I'm sorry if this question has been asked previously in another thread...but will any of you be attending the Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con? Would be very cool to see one of the ninjas in person!
Good question! We should be putting together our yearly "summer cons" post soon. I know I will not be there - at this point it looks like my only convention will be SDCC in July. Of course if Wizard World or anyone else wanted to pay for our travel, I'm sure we'd make it... (hint to all convention organizers everywhere!!)
Any other Ninjas planning on traveling to Philly this year?
-Patrick
I'm sorry to say that I am not leaving the UK for any shows this year, but I will be in Birmingham next weekend for:
http://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/
Cheers,
Ralph
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Another great one, guys and gal! It was a nice change of pace (and very informative) to get a bit more technical in discussing color and such. Also, I'm very glad you waited to have Ralph on for this discussion as his color usage has this adventurous savoriness that just pops!
Oh, for anyone interested, you can grab a copy of Rendering in Pencil at Amazon for about 10 dollars US (I know as I just ordered a copy).
Sorry; I'm such a stealthy ninja that I never appear at conventions, for fear of blowing my super-secret ninja cover.
Heeeee-yaaaaaah!
/bad martial arts movie
I'll be at GenCon this August which has me very excited. It'll be good to get back there. :)
I think only one other Ninja, Grey Thornberry, will be going as well.
I may be at a small local con here in New Hampshire.
OGC Con.
If I can swing any other shows this year, I'll let interested folks know.
Tomorrow I am going to a small local comic show, "Granite Con" here in my hometown of Manchester.
A cool Boston show or two will likely also be on the roster. We'll see. :)
---Jeremy
Good episode. And long, just as Patrick promised!
Great that you went a bit into the theory - that whole "It's important to see, not just look." idea. It took me a long time to realize the few color-related things you mentioned.
That objects rarely have the color we think they have and that it can change a lot in a different lighting situation. Or that colors look different based on neighbour colors.
Definitely an episode very useful for beginners.
And Socar speaking in abbreviations! :D The fact I knew them all makes me feel dirty...
Thanks for the stellar editing job again, Pat! Herding cats is a phrase which springs to mind! Having just listened back to the cast I figured I ought to ask Jeremy what he meant by using an 'analogous' palette. I think I know what he means, but could you spell it out for somebody scratching his head, Jer?
ANDY
MuYoung - glad you found it! I can guarantee you won't be disappointed.
Andy, you should ask these things during the show! Everyone likes to hear us try to explain ourselves in real-time. :D Since Jer is TOO SLOW and I love to hear the sound of my own typing: analogous is just another word for a palette limited to colors next to each other on the color wheel. Not monochromatic, but close. Like yellows with some orange.
I've found that if you're going to go to either side of your main color in an analogous scheme, some work better than others. Red + a bit of purple and a bit of orange seems to work better than Yellow + a bit of Orange and Green. But that's just personal taste, probably.
-Patrick
Thanks Jan! Socar messed me up in that section - I just updated the one f-bomb I missed. Damn your dirty mouth, Myles!!!!
-Patrick
ZzzzzZZZZZZZnnnnnggggGGGGGgggggg!
What was that?
Why, it was the sound of my Sopwith Camel Special Edition F-Bomber, buzzing this post.
Eeeeeeeaaaaarrrrooooooooouuwwwwwwww...f---!
No, thank you Patrick! I've been looking for something to help me develop my pencil skills and generally rendering so this podcast was a boon for me. Criminally so as I was able to get a hardback copy to boot! As it comes recommended from the Mountain, I have no doubt it's filled with awesome win (as opposed to un-awesome win).
Hey Socar, the only possible response to your Sopwith Camel attack is... "Rats!"
MuYoung - well, maybe at least we're filled with "un-lose". Which would be a major step up for me!
-Patrick
Patrick really needs to add a vblog to the weekly podcast. It can be him sitting in his study with the book of the week to discuss. you can wear a smoking jacket, pull out a pipe and pontificate on the Verisimilitude of illustration.
Tut Tut!
Thanks for the mention of ArtOrder (http://www.artorder.blogspot.com)!
I'll see, a fw of you, at Gencon and IlluxCon this year.
Jon Schindehette
Nice rewarding podcast,thanks very much once again my friends!
I was initially appalled and disgusted* by your group promotion of stiff, academic, atelier methods like grissaille, and even worse having black on your palette. Man what?!!!!
But you saved yourselves with at least a brief mention of The Impressionists, only the most significant practitioners of colour theory EVAR and also briefly mentioning how vitally important it is to remember to watch for colour intensity as an integrated part of value when working colour on top of a grissaille sketch.
Ala prima and teh impressionists for teh win! ;););)
Conversely was it Loomis who said if your values are right you can use whatever colours you want?
*its so much fun being just a listener.
Let the record show that when Jon takes a show or two off, he becomes a troll.
Next thing we know, he'll be collecting bridge tolls... ;)
I kid because I love, mate. ;)
---Jeremy
Hey Tim - I actually do have an awesome vintage smoking jacket, bequeathed to me by my super-cool Grandpa. I've never had an occasion to wear it, as I'm usually working at night rather than sipping port and smoking Cubans, but maybe that would be a good excuse.
Jon Foster is a real "painter" with a pencil. I've sat with him as he's sketched just some ideas off the top of his head and it's pretty amazing. He encouraged me to not jump to sharpen my pencil every 5 seconds, but to use the blunt, and sometimes oddly planed, tip of the pencil to create new textures and surfaces in your sketch. He typically sketches with a 2B pencil and pulls the lighter areas out with a kneaded or Sakura electric eraser, and the darker areas with a 4B or darker pencil.
Jon's work is fantastic and very thoughtful and a joy to look out. I'm a big fan. Check his work out if you get a chance! You'll see what I mean especially if you take a look at his "sketches" section.
http://www.jonfoster.com
If there is anyone presenting the show who doesn't know who Jon Foster is I shall kick them in the shins! THROUGH THE INTARWEBZ!
Caco - If we'd had some more time (or do another show on the subject) I'd like to get more into that subject of mixing. I work a lot with the color wheel - not so much warm/cool (though that's an aspect) but how things relate for mixing. For instance the as you mentioned the presence of blue in a red messing up the mixing of an orange. Or the orange flavor of the Cad reds messing up mixing purples.
(And on a side note, that's where Faber Birren's books on color theory really fall apart for me - it may work for putting together color schemes (whether they're attractive or not I leave to the viewer) but it doesn't work at all for paint mixing.)
Great podcast as aways!
About that book you mentioned "Rendering in Pencil", it doesn't have caopyright anymore, so, anyone can download it for free at internet archive, here:
http://www.archive.org/details/sketchingrenderi00guptuoft
That's good to know, Pedro! That reminds me, the best figure drawing books on the planet can be found online if you look around - ANDREW LOOMIS. Here's Figure Drawing for All It's Worth: http://www.scribd.com/doc/255814/Andrew-Loomis-Figure-Drawing
While I'm on the subject - here is a link with good scans of several Loomis books, including Creative Illustration, which all aspiring commercial artists should read at least twice:
http://fineart.sk/index.php?cat=1
Since these books are criminally out of print and have been so for many years, I see no ethical problem downloading them for educational purposes.
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