pantsketch: This is what happens when you combine children's lit with some cutlery.

Bill (

mudron) wrote in

pantsketch,
@ 2003-09-16 15:15:00

Current mood:	fuckin' covered with graphite
Current music:	Pogues - Turkish Song of the Damned

This is what happens when you combine children's lit with some cutlery.

I promised everybody more Peter Pan art, and here it is. The contrast is fucked up (there are supposed to be three layers of lighting depth here, but i got LAZY), and while scanning it into the computer, i learned a few funny tricks that'll come in handy once i start producing actual comic pages...which'll be pretty be pretty soon, i think.

Anyway, that's Pete there in the middle, with Wendy behind him, Ace off to the left, Don't Ask fooling with a rope on the right, and a few dead pirates strewn about the clearing. It does not pay to piss Pete & the boys off when you're on their turf.

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	bigbigtruck 2003-09-16 12:25 pm UTC (link)
	Something about this - I think both the faces and the vivid detail - reminds me of Finder. Excellent work - really absorbing! (Reply to this) (Thread)

mudron
2003-09-16 12:38 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, i think that i tend to over-simplify faces in ling shots though - i actually sketch in pretty detailed facial expressions, but then i pull back and think "fuck, man, nobody's gonna be able to tell what the hell is going on with that much detail!", and so i revert to the simple slash n' dot faces above. I'll get over it, though. Hmmf.

And yeah, Carla's work...i dunno. I see a lot of influences in HER work - one of the chief ones being Evan Dorkin, who god knows influenced me eighteen ways to Sunday - so yeah, the cross-pollination of styles is inevitable. ;)

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	lberghol 2003-09-16 12:34 pm UTC (link)
	This is SO amazingly awesome and Gorgeous!!!!!!!!! I love the interaction between Wendy and Petey! OoOOH! I can't wait to read Le comic!! :D (Reply to this)

	olukemi 2003-09-16 12:38 pm UTC (link)
	O_O Ho.ly.Shit. twitch (Reply to this)

	nonamecity 2003-09-16 12:39 pm UTC (link)
	it not so....nevernever land-ish, i would say. but hey random graphic violence, I'm always in the mood for. Peter got grown up fast i guess. Wonderful work! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mudron 2003-09-16 12:49 pm UTC (link)
	Nah, it's not so magical - at least not the fighting that goes on in the island. When you've got two groups of lonely males beating the shit out of each other for 60 years, things are gonna get pretty brutal - even in a fantasy-land where kids can fly and clocks run backwards. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dragontale 2003-09-16 12:48 pm UTC (link)
	Freaking awesome. Oh god, the detail... I love the bold lines between the layers of lighting depth (yes, I can tell they're there). I cannot wait to see the comic. (Reply to this) (Thread)

mudron
2003-09-16 01:00 pm UTC (link)

Thanks, man - but you can see the details a little better in this coloring-book-version of the page.

I think that i'm gonna plop myself down sometimes this week (or the next) and finally teach myself how to use layers in Photoshop - that way i can break down a drawing like this into different lighting planes and then slap it all back together again for a more cohesive picture.

*grumbles about having to use more computers in his artwork*

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dragontale, 2003-09-16 03:53 pm UTC

	daaay-um. mao 2003-09-16 01:07 pm UTC (link)
	can I have a photocopy of this to stick on my wall? Pretty please? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: daaay-um. mudron 2003-09-16 01:23 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, hell yes. To the person who gave me copies of both Hero and Amzing Magic Card Tricks!, my soul is yours. (And hey, do you have a coy of Hero on DVD yet? As swank as it is on a computer screen, it kicks major elephant-ass in widescreen surround sound. Daaay-um, indeed.) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

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wise_balance, 2003-09-17 12:28 am UTC

	bellebet 2003-09-16 01:10 pm UTC (link)
	Wow. I'm wicked jealous. I wish I had Half your talent. You think about submitting this to Graphic Smash, or you want to do it on your own? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mudron 2003-09-16 11:06 pm UTC (link)
	I was thinking about handing it over sometime to Graphic Smash (if they'd have it), but i want to keep the comic free for a good long while. Part of that is because i'm still just starting out, so i hate to charge people to see my work, and also, the updating schedule for the comic is going to be pretty irregular once it launches this winter... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	query 2003-09-16 01:51 pm UTC (link)
	lick (Reply to this)

	Mr. Mudron = my new folk hero spinooti 2003-09-16 01:53 pm UTC (link)
	Jesus, Bill, you had already won my heart. Now you've won my heart and a little bit of my spleen and esophogus. (The good bits, I promise.) I've mentioned that I burn to see this with the fire of a thousand suns before, but it bears repeating: I burn to see this with the fire of a thousand suns. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Mr. Mudron = my new folk hero mudron 2003-09-16 11:09 pm UTC (link)
	I hope you like the comic when it launches, then. Hell, i hope EVERYBODY likes the comic when it launches. That being said, though...don't actually expect to see Peter tusselling with the pirates for a looooong time yet. I've got to get Peter to the island first. ;) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	quirkybird 2003-09-16 01:54 pm UTC (link)
	...and so it begins. >:) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mudron 2003-09-16 11:28 pm UTC (link)
	Hey, i just hope you enjoy your own front-row seat, madame'. ;) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	gdg 2003-09-16 02:03 pm UTC (link)
	that's great! :) (Reply to this)

	Holy fuckin' SHIT (Anonymous) 2003-09-16 02:36 pm UTC (link)
	Bill, you are simply magnificent. Set up a system whereby I am allowed to throw money at you in exchange for goods and services, please! (Reply to this)

	pixiethief 2003-09-16 03:16 pm UTC (link)
	Dead, disembowled pirates and happy looking little songbirds...Something about that just has endless amounts of appeal. I absolutely love the style- behold the power of graphite! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mudron 2003-09-16 11:02 pm UTC (link)
	Graphite! It's the other white meat! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	alesto 2003-09-16 03:25 pm UTC (link)
	oh....my....god Your shading Its...the most perfect thing i've ever seen. All self taught or is there some possible way i can learn technique like that? (Reply to this) (Thread)

mudron
2003-09-16 11:01 pm UTC (link)

Yes, copy as many black and white Mapplethorpe photos as you can! Then the art of subtle-shading shall be yours to command as you conquer and smash the denizens of the "inter-web"!

Seriously, though, that shading style is both self-taught, and rusty as hell right now. I've got to learn to wrangle my field contrasts in again. Shit.

I'll get better, though. I swear my blackened heart upon it.

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	OOOOoooo (Anonymous) 2003-09-16 03:51 pm UTC (link)
	I can't wait to see the comic! Mmm... neverlandy... And just so you know, that picture has earned the covented "Background of my Screen on the School's Computers" Prize. Congradulation! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: OOOOoooo mudron 2003-09-16 10:56 pm UTC (link)
	Your teachers are down with dead pirates being plastered all over the desktops? Why didn't i ever enroll in your school? (And do they let kids put pictures of impaled unicorns on their lockers?) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	smccloud 2003-09-16 04:20 pm UTC (link)
	Yow... Might as well buy the hand brace and the Advil now, Bill. You'll be one of us by the end of the month. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mudron 2003-09-16 10:53 pm UTC (link)
	I'm already learning to draw with my feet, should it come to that. sobs quietly in the dark (Reply to this) (Parent)

	geca 2003-09-16 04:36 pm UTC (link)
	I'm interested in seeing what you'd define as "flatware." 0.o (Reply to this)

	11blue 2003-09-16 04:39 pm UTC (link)
	holey shit. OMG. thats one of the damn best pencil drawings ever. bows (Reply to this)

	audio 2003-09-16 06:36 pm UTC (link)
	... <--- this would be me being speechless (Reply to this)

	Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood. rotabilis 2003-09-16 09:19 pm UTC (link)
	That looks... how you say... painful. So where does Tinkerbell figure in to all this? Or is this the universe of DARK Tinkerbell, complete with glowing red eyes and shurikens? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood. mudron 2003-09-16 10:52 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, Tink's just about the same character she's always been, just maybe a bit more jealous and funnier now. I think she was running about, screwing a wood nypmh when this battle occured, though. I dunno. These characters are all retarded. (Reply to this) (Parent)

dien
2003-09-17 01:25 am UTC (link)

I want Ace's top-hat. But then, I want any top-hat.

...curious: the line about 'two lonely groups of men beating the shit out of each other for sixty years...' Can I take this to mean the lines of black and white, good and evil, that were always fairly clearly defined in Barrie's Pan will be blurring a bit, and we'll be seeing the people amongst the pirates a bit as well, seeing both groups for the dysfunctional yet amazingly fascinating buckos they are...?

...cuz if so... I have to, like, sex you or something. At least fall at your feet in worship.

*coughs discreetly, flees thread*

(Um, lovely art by the way. Sickening.)

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	Sex? Sex is GOOD. mudron 2003-09-17 04:09 am UTC (link)
	Let's put it this way: both the Lost Boys and the pirates are fucked up, in much the same way that the morons who're involved in gangs are stupid, because they're all stuck in a cycle of violence none of them can escape from. We'll be seeing more about the pirates - and where they came from - than any other telling of the Pan legend so far... (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

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	(Anonymous) 2003-09-17 06:26 am UTC (link)
	Can't add much to what the others have already said. Nice piece, for darn sure. Can't help thinking, though, that Mr. Axe-in-the-face got off easy compared to the fellow dangling from the tree... Jonathan D.A. Bacardi (http://johnnybacardi.blogspot.com) (Reply to this)

	WOOOT (Anonymous) 2003-09-17 05:34 pm UTC (link)
	Hot DAMN, man, your whole house must be gray! I, too, am a graphite fan--but you're takin' it to a whole 'nother level. It's OUT OF CONTROL. My one thing is that it took me a minute to figure out what in blazes was dangling from the tree. Aside from that, though, you have my total worship/slavebond for life. I'll be heading back to the plantation now. (Reply to this)

	Scairy Maury (Anonymous) 2003-09-18 01:41 pm UTC (link)
	That's amazing. Is it a random, or is there a story behind it? Or even a future comic? MillywiggZ (profeshional idiot) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Scairy Maury mudron 2003-09-19 12:03 am UTC (link)
	Yep, there's gonna be a biiig comic behind that drawing. Stay tuned. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	SHANEY-MAC!!!! (Anonymous) 2003-09-19 03:38 pm UTC (link)
	WoooT! Go Pogues!! and Bill RoXX! Dammit. "Says my ol wan to your ol wan!..." -Beryl (Reply to this)

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