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Antlers of Iron

@hermajestyschimera / hermajestyschimera.tumblr.com

Illustration, graphic design, fashion, dank memes. Some Toonami liveblogging spam on Saturday nights (US). Occasional posts on politics.
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neil-gaiman

Mr. Gaiman! I'm starting out writing comic scripts and I'm running into things I've never considered before. For instance: Is there a good rule of thumb or trick to know when you're too wordy with dialogue? It seems okay in my head, but until I hand it to a letterer or get more experience I worry I'm cramming too many sentences into one panel or one word bubble. Any advice?

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30 words max in a balloon, 180 words max on a page is a good rule. You can break it once you know what you’re doing, but it’s a good place to start.

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The Formal Generators Of Structure

Axonometric visual experiments by architects Stanley Tigerman & G. T. Crabtree - via Data Is Nature:

Architect Stanley Tigerman’s‘The Formal Generators of Structure’ (Architecture & Urbanism Journal, 1975) explored the combinatorial use of rectilinear shapes to generate volumetric, optical and architectonic compositions. Spatial configurations of the square and cruciform are extruded to create axonometric projections reminiscent of the ‘ideal’ geometricism of the De Stijl school. They are also reminiscent of the works of Op-artists such as Albers and Vasarely who toyed with the square to infinity through structural multiplicity and chromatic modulation.

A collection of images can be found at RBDRD here

More at Data Is Nature can be found here

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radiomaru

LOST AT SEA COLOR SPECIAL (Summer 2002)

Lost at Sea is a story about two streams of information: the inside of your head, and what’s going on in the world around you. This early 2-page strip (done a few months before commencing work on the graphic novel) jumbles all that information into one page. But I also split it here into two separate strips in order to make it more readable on tumblr or on mobile devices.

The background light streaky photos were taken by me out the window of a car on my own sad-ass road trip (from Toronto to Montreal) a few months earlier, after my own sad-ass breakup.

I tweaked the original 2002 colors, adding more pinks and more saturated blues, and I think it looks really nice :I

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ucresearch

The visual linguistics of a comic book page

Inside Science recently wrote about the study by UCSD’s Neil Cohn, Navigating Comics, which looks at the underlying structure of the comics language:

People who read the English written word scan text from left to right. Once our eyes hit the end of the page, we stop. Then ding!, like an old-time typewriter, our eyes shift downward and snap back to the left to start reading the next line. This is known as a “Z-path,” as our eyes whip about like the end of Zorro’s sword.
But that linear track gets derailed in comics with complex layouts and Cohn wanted to know if experienced readers had strategies to follow along.
Cohn rustled up 145 participants at the 2004 Comic-Con International, a comic book convention held in San Diego. Participants had varying experience with reading comics, ranging from “never” to “often.”
Each participant was given a booklet containing 12 pages of blank panels. Each page was independent of the rest and used different design techniques.
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