My guest on today’s show loves to draw and write! He is Javier Hernandez, a DIY cartoonist, painter, and entrepreneur. He is the creator of such comics as EL MUERTO, MAN-SWAMP and WEAPON TEX-MEX, which he publishes under his own imprint, LOS COMEX.
Hola Minions!
In today’s show I give you a few helpful tips on making your drawings more expressive! A simple way to make your characters look more expressive is to pay attention to the eye direction. When you are doing a pin up of a cartoon character 9 out of 10 times you should have the character looking at us. It is much more powerful to have the figure make eye contact with the viewer. A lot of artists show their lack of confidence by having the character looking away. Not good! Unless the eye direction is dictated by the story in a panel or action you should have your cartoon making good eye contact with us.
Attention all Artists and Creators who want to hone their pitching skills!
This podcast is especially for you! Today I talk about how to effectively simplify your pitches and get to the point of your story quickly and effectively.
Project Jose!
Jose Gonzalez is a faithful Minion and developing artist! The guy loves to draw and I have taken him under my wing to help him improve his drawing skills! I assigned him to draw a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat and below is what Jose drew. I then took Jose’s drawing and went over it with red to punch it up a little and help him make a better drawing out of it!
Hola Minions!
Today my guest is the Dark One, La Cosa Nosferatu, Geo Brawn IV creator of the sexy horror comic The Untold chronicles!We talk about Halloween, what it means to us, and we let you guys in on some horror movies that don’t suck! Geo reveals that the trick to telling a good scary story is to get your audience nice and comfortable. You know? Get them at ease and then POW! Knock them dead with something horrific and cool! Keep the reader on his or her toes and then scare the hell out of them.
My guest today on the Man vs. Art Podcast is a legendary animator whose signature technique and dazzling visuals have been tickling your animation cockles for over 25 years.
“Your Face” which garnered a 1987 Oscar nomination for best animated short.
“How to Kiss,” “25 Ways to Quit Smoking”, and most recently “The Guard Dog” He has also produced a string of awesome feature length animated films, ” The Tune”, “I Married a Strange Person”, “Mutant Aliens”, and ” Hair High”.
But we’re here to talk about his most recent project:
THE MOVIE THE NEW YORK TIMES IS CALLING “RELENTLESS AND BRILLIANT”!
“Idiots and Angels” is a dark comedy about a man’s battle for his soul.
Of course I’m speaking of the King of Independent animation, the one and only Mr. Bill Plympton! Jim Lujan and I had a wonderful time talking to Bill Plympton. Sit back enjoy the podcast and get your butt to a screening of Bill’s latest release Idiots and Angels.
