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The Clovis kitchen
🕑 Added 2020-10-14 17:25:57 +0000 UTCUpcoming pages require me to draw Mrs Clovis' kitchen over and over again, sometimes from mad angles. So I modelled it in Sketchup from photo reference. It's taken me a long time to get to grips with Sketchup but with practice, I'm improving. I don't need anything perfect, just a good sense of dimensions and props, and a few depth cues.
I got the original cottage from Rightmove - always my first stop for character homes. Maybe you live in one of my characters' houses and you do not even know it and I am not even joking.
Then I cobbled together a replica.
This is a very useful way to deal with backgrounds and an aid to composition if, like me, sometimes you wake up in the morning not very good at it. It's also a way to draw some really stiff looking backgrounds that make your wobbly, cartoony characters look odd if you're not careful. I love Sketchup and what it has enabled me to do, but it has put demands on my drawings that completely changed the nuts and bolts of how I draw. In searching for angles that my characters' "shape language" did not contain, I've had to learn a lot in order to preserve the aesthetic I want my comics to have. Working background-first calls for stronger anatomy.
I'll talk more about this another time because it has been a real learning curve.
Comments
Myles Corcoran
This is fascinating, particularly that the backgrounds have driven you to adapt your figure drawing.
Jen Decay
Always fun to see little tips n’ tricks from the artistic process, answering many questions that I have as someone lacking such abilities
