COMIC ART CORRECTIONS

So, I’ve not done any sketching tutes of late, and...

donttypeangry — Mon, 06 May 2013 03:20:57 -0400

So, I’ve not done any sketching tutes of late, and they’re sitting on my desktop waiting to be posted, but I’ve been tired. Mainly because in the months prior, I was preparing to paint this thing, and then I did all the painting for it compressed into a month (for life reasons). It nearly killed me, it was an effort. But basically, if you’re wondering where the hell I’ve been - this is where I’ve been.

Detailed shots on my art blog, nancylorenz. Please do have a look. Basically, my payment for this thing is people simply looking at it. It means a lot to me that people enjoy it. The money - eh, I never have it anyway, I’m used to being very poor. But people’s happiness at looking at it? That’s magical.

breelandwalker: fangirling-daily: fat-pikachu-mas: denise-pu...

donttypeangry — Wed, 01 May 2013 00:03:52 -0400

breelandwalker:

fangirling-daily:

fat-pikachu-mas:

denise-puchol:

Comic Book Readers

orkin 1947

what’s this?

Little girls read comics from the very beginning of their incarnation??

“Girl reading comic book in newsstand” by Teenie Harris (c. 1940-1945) © 2006 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

That sound you hear is thousands of wangsting sexist fanboys shrieking in horror.

Suck it.

Comics are for everybody. <3

Oh hey! I see you found my work on DA, with the genderswapped avengers. They actually have their own tumblr I run (asktheladyvengers), but I honestly don't update it that often. Still, high-five to you guys! I look forward to the day when ladies in comics have more awesome representation.

donttypeangry — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:00:48 -0400

Sweet! Well, it’ll take the hard work of all of us for that to happen, but I think we’re off to a phenomenal start! *fist-bump*

What did I do today? Why I was on a panel at the local fan con...

donttypeangry — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 05:18:24 -0400

What did I do today? Why I was on a panel at the local fan con “Swancon” with none other than the brilliant and incredibly lovely Gail Simone! The concept of the panel was the audience suggesting comic characters for us two artists to re-imagine and sketch on the fly, with Gail providing editorial comments and guidelines. I was given the task of Nolanising Wonder Woman and making a sci-fi take on an Inidigenous Australian Thor. Was awesome fun! I loved also working along side Emily Smith and Sarah Akers. TOP LADIES ALL!

(Ironically, I know the anatomy was hideous but I had very little time to sketch and ink it and I was doing it in a funny position (upright on a wobbling whiteboard) and f*ck you, you’re not my ART TEACHER! LOL!)

donttypeangry: eschergirls: der—sprout submitted: I thought...

donttypeangry — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 07:45:30 -0500

donttypeangry:

eschergirls:

der—sprout submitted:

I thought this fit the spirit of this blog pretty well: http://arythusa.tumblr.com/post/42938921232/christopher-hart

I’ve noticed that in most of his books, when it comes to drawing women, a lot of it is what NOT to do, or you’ll turn her into a man, or make her fat, or ugly, or etc… and of course, when you combine them all together, all of your women end up looking more or less the same.

So this text for this book is hideous and sickening. Sharing cause hey - let’s break ALL THOSE RULES, people. Let’s make our women heroes look however the fuck we want them to look.

AND THEY’LL ALL BE WORTHWHILE CHARACTERS.

eschergirls: yondamoegi submitted: I saw this picture...

donttypeangry — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:13:29 -0500

eschergirls:

yondamoegi submitted:

I saw this picture http://eschergirls.tumblr.com/post/43148298733 and thought ‘Poor guy! Look at his hand! Poor Rogue, the artist drew her hips wrong again…’ then I looked closely and… SWEET BABY JESUS!

So… another redraw?

Reblogging this because Rogue. Must always look out for Rogue. And this is a solid redraw.

eschergirls: thatmadgray submitted: I did a redraw of...

donttypeangry — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:47:00 -0500

eschergirls:

thatmadgray submitted:

I did a redraw of this supergirl image. :)

Very nice. :)

The image this one is based on will be in a mini-essay/lesson thing I’m doing about legs soon, so pay attention to this, it’ll come up again in this blog.

Beautiful redraw!

On the subject of drawing men and women, there are certain common differences between male and female faces but they're really really subtle, and by no means universal. The trick to being able to draw faces and make them look the gender you want them to is OBSERVATION. Do not listen to artist guides on how to draw gendered faces, you'll end up with a stereotype. Go out and draw real people and keep it up until making your faces look like you want them to is second nature.

donttypeangry — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:53:37 -0500

This is actually the best advice I’ve seen on drawing genders. I was going to basically put this in the tutorial I was working on, but this is so concise that I’m just going to point to this and go “THIS!” This is honestly how I get people looking how I want them to look.

Sure, there are subtle little things, trends if you will, in body shapes and so forth that a comic artist might use when drawing, but honestly? When I’m drawing elaborate, professional work, I always make sure that I have full character studies for each main character memorised, and I use photo references or I look in the mirror (if appropriate) whenever possible.

Practice, reference, stylise. Those are my steps.

Regarding the latest post (about the woman recipe blah blah), do you have any basic tips on how to make a female character look... Female? Without having to resort to breasts or any other visual shorthand? Like with your drawing, it is plain and obvious that the person in question is female even though they have some traits associated with masculinity, namely chin and shoulders. :o

donttypeangry — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:04:04 -0500

The thing about someone looking male or female is that it comes down to context. Humans have a very dimorphic view of gender, when in reality, the line is far more blurred than people realise. People look female or male to us because we KNOW they are male or female, hence the context is established and maintained. I can do a post on that, going into detail.

It’s like that image that was floating around the net some years ago of an identical face that looks male or female depending on what parts of the face are darkened. Eyelashes and lips make a face look feminine, where-as eyebrows and pale lips make them look male. There are stereotypical markers one can use, just one or two, to tip off the viewer.

But ultimately, you have to have faith in your storytelling and art. I will put “The Right Way to Draw Women in Comics” on the list of things To Do. :D The ultimate point of that post? That there is no one right way, and that women, like men, are infinitely variable. ;)

donttypeangry: I made this before I joined tumblr. I wrote the...

donttypeangry — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 08:10:14 -0500

donttypeangry:

I made this before I joined tumblr. I wrote the filk lyrics and I sang it. Sadly I’m shit at miming.

If this was seen by a couple of hundred people, it would be a Christmas miracle for me. My music career was sadly waylaid by illness, so releasing stuff on the internet is the main way I can share my voice with people.

My festive message to the followers of this blog. Sorry I’ve been so slack lately, I’ll try better in the new year.

Yes, that’s me singing. ;) Merry Holidays!

fuckyeahsuperheroines: Marvel Genderswap...

donttypeangry — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:23:41 -0500

fuckyeahsuperheroines:

Marvel Genderswap by taintedsilence

That is how it’s done, people.

Escher Girls: Thoughts On "The Hawkeye Initiative"

donttypeangry — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:26:53 -0500

Escher Girls: Thoughts On "The Hawkeye Initiative":

sylviasybil:

girlinfourcolors:

On tumblr, polerin elaborates:

There’s some really nasty shit lurking not too far under the surface of some of the drawings. In some cases, like the ones where…

This is why I’m going to focus on The Romanoff Mission - having women in strong, heroic poses that we wouldn’t usually see them in.

I have a backlog of images and I’ll be doing some sketches this week.

AWESOME WOMAN DIAGRAM. (I refuse to call it a recipe - women...

donttypeangry — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:29:00 -0500

Original by Toonsketchbook

By NapalmNacey

AWESOME WOMAN DIAGRAM. (I refuse to call it a recipe - women are not food products, FFS!)

I am so fucking through with Comic World Bullshit this week. Sorry that the sketch is not as beautifully rendered as I would have liked - I fluffed it out on an iPad3 because I’m having computer issues right now.

I could have drawn the Awesome Woman a thousand ways. This is just what felt right to me in my heart.

Original image toonsketchbook. Not linking, just saying so people know who to hate on.

eschergirls: i-am-albie: So I just had to join in on the...

donttypeangry — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:55:39 -0500

I AM MEANT TO BE A GIF

eschergirls:

i-am-albie:

So I just had to join in on the Hawkeye Initiative bandwagon, it’s just so… full of empowerment.

And then I went totally overboard.
Even gave them suggestive captions.

I feel like a predator drawing this.

(but Tony’s face! <3!)

Avengers Assemble!… for SEXINESS.

Tony’s pose and expression rule my world forever!!

eschergirls: le-mec: eschergirls: spac3crick3t submitted: I...

donttypeangry — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:08:22 -0500

eschergirls:

le-mec:

eschergirls:

spac3crick3t submitted:

I was researching some cat-based superheroes for a friend when I found this gal. Not as bad as some of the stuff on here, but check out that swivel waist! Also I don’t know if she’s supposed to be swinging on that rope or what. Help!

The original image fails to accomplish what the artist(s) set out to do in several ways:

Problem #1: The only cat she looks like is this one:

She has none of the charm that cats have. Her mask is practically a recolour of the costume that Halle Berry wore when she played Catwoman, and I hated that costume for the same reasons. Halle Berry is a pretty good actress and very attractive, and not even SHE could save that terrible outfit.

Aside from the mask, there’s nothing evocative of cats in the entire design. It’s all just boobs n butts. impractical shoes, and a silly cape in case you forgot that you were looking at a superhero. Also, pumpkin orange all the way, with no distinctive markings anywhere like what you’d find on a cat.

2: It’s tasteless.

I’m a connoisseur of boobs and butts in the same way that I am a connoisseur of filet mignon. I mean, it’s beef wrapped in bacon! How can you screw that up!?

Easy.

Just pull out the raw meat out of the wrapper and throw it at my face.

Like any dish, the enjoyment factor is inseparable from how it is prepared and served. Throwing boobs and butts in the faces of your audience with no thought for presentation is repugnant and an insult. Even a strip club is more than a parade of nakedness, no matter how tawdry. There’s a performance, a level of tease where the performer will make the audience think she’s going to take off a crucial article of clothing but move on to remove something less revealing, leaving the “best” for last.

3: In the mad dash to boob-and-butt their way to victory, they forgot what the characters were actually trying to do.

Her pose completely disregards physics. If you swing from a rope, gravity and centrifugal inertia will pull you towards the end of the rope. If you’re holding on with one hand to counteract this tremendous force, your arm will naturally stretch out until your elbow is straight.

But because they didn’t straighten her arm, it communicates that she’s completely without mass.

The cape doesn’t even follow the direction of travel along an arc. The fact that it’s fluttering upwards shows that she’s falling downwards even though the rope is taut and she’s on the up-swing.

It’s like they reused the pose of a cowboy riding a horse trying to lasso a steer.

So here’s a redraw:

1: Foreshortening.

This is simple upward foreshortening. I could have chosen downward foreshortening, but I wanted her to feel like she was swinging from a height. So I made it so that we are looking slightly upward at her. Too much foreshortening would make her head puny and her legs massive.

I also made it seem as if the attachment point of the rope is at an area high over the viewer’s head. This is as if she’s swinging around the building that the rope is attached to and we’re viewing her from inside the building.

2: Less bonk bonk bonk in the pose. Smooth it out.

The old pose had no unity. Arms and legs bending this way and that. She’s not cactaur.

I aligned her left arm, body and left leg into a continuous flow that stemmed from the rope. Her right leg merely extends that flow while the bent knee of the left leg puts it more in line with her left arm.

3: As Edna Mode says: NO CAPES!

In addition to being dangerous liabilities, cats don’t wear capes unless their soon-to-be-scratched-to-ribbons owners attempt to put them on the cat. In character design, and ESPECIALLY with superhero design, you gotta stick with the theme of the character. It’s a creative limitation that will make your design stronger if you work with it.

So I gave her a cheshire cat grin, more cat-like ears, a haircut that changes the silhouette of her head to be more similar to a cat’s, upper eyelids with an inward slant, a collar with a bell on it, changed the cowboy rope to a big ball of yarn, and even gave her a sort of jacket with big chunky paws and a tail.

If I wanted to give her other accessories they would be things like milk bottles and maybe some knitting needles and a fluffy sheep sidekick and cat toys or at the very least, have some sort of cat-theme to it. It’s really easy to come up with this stuff once you have a theme to lock on to.

I always love your redraws so much. :) They’re great learning tools and are both funny and informative.

I like the redraw, but I could do without the comparison of women’s bodies to filet mignon. Advocating a “Correct” amount of objectification is not in my interests as a woman comic artist. Sorry.

Other than that, the redraw is sound. The issue of the costume comes down to taste, of course, and I don’t comment on that.

I'm feeling a little hopeless tonight. Marvel is coming out with a book called Fearless Defenders, starring nine female heroes, but of the two preview pages they've released, one is almost entirely Misty Knight breaking her back to show her boobs and butt. I went on CBR to voice my disappointment and after three pages, not a soul has agreed with me that this is fucked up. Am I crazy for being especially mad that this is the direction they're going with this book?

donttypeangry — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:19:20 -0500

No, you are not crazy. It is madly offensive and you have every reason to be pissed off about it. The whole structure of our society is geared to tricking, silencing, shaming and abusing the less privileged into silence. Don’t feel bad that the script that has been trained into you since birth is one you’re following, that’s not your fault. We all do it, cause we all want to go through one day without feeling the weight of anger, hurt and fear.

You did speak up, and that’s where it starts. We need to continue to speak up, all of us, again and again and again. It must be like the rain, so that we give birth to a torrent, which then courses into a flood. You cannot have the flood without the raindrops.

Let us all rain down, wash this shit into the sea.

(30mg of codeine for severe cramping has made me poetic, y’all.)

Shorter version: You’re not crazy. There’s plenty to be angry about. Sexist fuckers are everywhere. Let’s rip this shit up.

I know you made one of your earliest posts about it, but I believe that the topic of painted-on clothes deserves a big post that points out a few pieces of artwork from different people. The way "clothes" wrap tight around women's breasts in comics is one of the worst offenders. I'd love to see you correcting comics which believe that instead of forming folds and being pulled by gravity fabric is supposed to glue itself to cleavage and underboob area, all of that without a single seam. Love you!

donttypeangry — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:22:51 -0500

I actually have a special large post devoted to that coming up, as well as Subway Sandwich Thighs, and a couple of other comic art standards that drive me up the wall. So don’t worry, I’m working on that.

I’m on a committee at a local convention to do art for them, and I’m also up to my eyeballs in commissions, so if you’re wondering why it’s taking so long, that’s it!

I love you too. Fer realz. <3

eschergirls: gingerhaze: brofisting: gingerhaze: elevatorghos...

donttypeangry — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:49:09 -0500

eschergirls:

gingerhaze:

brofisting:

gingerhaze:

elevatorghost:

I’ve been staring at this panel for 15 minutes and I still don’t understand

someone who can draw please help me understand

I’m so confused

perfect mystery solved

That panel does get something right. That is amusing.

FORESHORTENING, HOW THE FUCK DOES IT WORK?!

My one and only post about the Tony Harris outburst:

donttypeangry — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:16:00 -0500

Dear Mr. Harris,

This is all I have to say to you and your hideous, backwards attitudes:

We don’t need your permission to be considered as legitimate fans. Women and Comic Artists/Writers are not two mutually exclusive categories. For example, I am a woman, a cosplayer, a comic artist and a comic writer.

I will go to conventions, wearing what the hell I want. I will BE a comic artist and writer and professional, despite the attitude prevailing in the industry that you share, that somehow my only job is to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of comics while having the body of a Victoria’s Secret model, existing solely to either metaphorically or literally suck the dicks of men like you. I will exist, I will thrive, I will make friends and enjoy my fandom and there is NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. Continue to impotently flail and make an ass of yourself on the internet, please. Your BroTears are delicious.

In conclusion, please go fuck yourself.

No Love,
Nerd Girl Nacey.
(Happy Cosplayer, Passionate Artist)

Edit: I don’t know why that link is in there to the ad. I didn’t put it in there. Is this something new Tumblr are pulling? If so, I don’t like it.

Quick redraw of Jim Lee’s cover/illustration for the new...

zombiedaisuke — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 01:04:00 -0400

Quick redraw of Jim Lee’s cover/illustration for the new Man of Steel comic. I kept the proportions but I straightened out his neck and body a bit because…it was really weird before. Also, my version is jump-roping.

Nacey: You know Supes would be mad-good at the jumprope shit. Like, he could do a million of those fuckers, forwards AND backwards.

Thanks for tackling Jim Lee! He’s hugely influential, and I have a lot of respect for the work he’s done, but at the same time, he’s also done a lot of ridiculous shit.

Like Superman bending his neck like a bucking stallion here.