Legend's Sketchbook_001

[Lege1]

Filling space is great for compositional awareness and playing with overlap to create a sense of depth that would otherwise require more perspective plotting. One exercise to practice 4 fundamental at once is to draw a cityscape it practice spacial awareness(how object occupy space),composition(how object are arrange in a pleasing way),perspective(how those objet are represented) and finally overlap (How those object flow into one or an other)

Those fill page remind me of mural like poster but to create to direct the eye and help thing look a bit more natural there empty space to create contrast between the area of interest and where the eye rest.


It already pretty apparent that you have that comic influence and it not surprising knowing how influential comic was in the last 50 years but specially if you were a kid growing up reading or watching them.

With hatching i am not an expert but i would say the trick would be to a master of understand light and shadow and to use the directionality of the hatching to achieve flow in the piece. Obviously that apply to if you to have unity and it not just random accident being put onto a page.

I am talking about those page you did in such a mural way because of your graffiti background.Would it not be amazing to have one of those picture on a wall?How cool is that?

I also know that it natural for graffiti artist to draw over other people work so i am not surpris to see that your drawing sometime seem to come from different universe which create those different perspective point.

Thank you so much Darktiste and everything you said there makes much sense, FallowGround mentioned the clustered full pages not being the best for visual readability so I will make some changes in future posts. I appreciate the good words and glad you can understand me better as an artist, my background, and why I do certain things. I was influenced heavily by comics as a kid and have friends that are well known artists in the industry, so the influence has been strong. I would consider myself a reject of the visual arts because instead of focusing on one topic or subject matter I have become a tornado of many different influences and mediums. That is an awesome picture you posted there, definitely very inspiring and always cool to see that 90's style of comics with the line art. Thank you again on the compliments, mentions, and critiques.