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In this episode, Gord & Jay talk about all that has been happening over the last while since the last podcast. Here's the shownotes for your ease of use...
- Jay mentions his new found love of Instagram. Here's his one.
- Gord talks about his painterly selfie, his Alphabet Animals and his Mighty Druss.
- Jay Talks about his recent Dryad 8-page comic, and the Alanna story before that.
- Chris Riddell gets a mention (..again? Sheesh!), as well as Eric Canete.
- The Galway Pub Scrawl 31 Day Drawing Challenge is near!
- Jay alludes to his 100 Heads in 100 Days project from a few years back, here's the video he made of it.
- Jay mentions this face reference library tome. It's rather decent.
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And the music was supplied, once more, by Jay's brother (recently a daddy for the first time, Congrats!), Ryan Penn.
Tally Ho, we say!
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ReplyDeleteGreat episode! The conversation on composition gave me lots of food for thought. I think one aspect for solid composition is the storytelling quality of the composition. What does the image want to say, evoke, express in its design? Sometimes a centered composition looking up can be very effective to show power, stability, timelessness, (think School of Athens), then maybe doing something deliberately off center, off the frame may feel more slice of life, like you just stumbled on the scene (Degas: Absynthe Drinkers). I think Brueghel is an absolute master at composition and that's largely because his paintings tell such great stories. To study Brueghel is to study how he moves the eye around, not just from left to right, top to bottom but moving DEEP in to the painting though color, linear and atmospheric perspective and change of proportion. So the intention of the artist in telling the story of the image is so important--it can dictate everything, from the angle of view, the use of texture or lack thereof, color palette, movement vs. stillness, balance vs, imbalance, uniformity vs, variety, everything. Again, really liked the show guys. Keep it up!