Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Mangas
THE EYES
The eyes will of course be drawn in an expressive fashion, which obviously includes a sleepy look, or a taciturn one ( as are the depressive characters of Jason or the sullen ones of Menu).
Knowing that the eyes of the reader will immediately plunge into them, the eyes of the characters can be accented, without going to the disproportion permitted in mangas, not out of jealousy for large occidental eyes, but certainly to gain in expressiveness. Standing out can mean playing with contrasting shadows, (from the eyebrows seen from underneath, with the wrinkles of the eyelid or brows), but especially in being precise about the position of the pupil in the eye. These two dots, which can be considered graphical commas, must find their proper place; in the center of the eye, they will create a stunned look, half hiden beneath the eyelid, and they will suggest an unexplicit intention, etc.
Without this graphical message, a character will be without a look, that is to say without a soul, without thought, without emotion, without life; that makes for a great deal!
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FOLLOW THE LOOKS (OF THE CHARACTERS)
I remember a sequence in Blueberry, drawing 2, from La Dernière Carte (Dargaud, 1983) at the top of which all the characters barge into a saloon (this part is easy to imagine). All of the looks take stock of the interior of the joint and the axes thus created structure the scene. Even though the colour is off because of being treated with too much striping (throughout the whole album), the lines of virtual looks create a strong underpinning to composition and readability.
When one draws two characters in the same frame, the line of the look they give each other creates a line of composition which can have more strength than a background line ( which corresponds to a solid object).
Do not hesitate to use in a composition these invisible lines which the reader perceives perfectly.
from Gérald Gorridge, Créer une BD, éditions First-Gründ, Paris, 2010.
The eyes will of course be drawn in an expressive fashion, which obviously includes a sleepy look, or a taciturn one ( as are the depressive characters of Jason or the sullen ones of Menu).
Knowing that the eyes of the reader will immediately plunge into them, the eyes of the characters can be accented, without going to the disproportion permitted in mangas, not out of jealousy for large occidental eyes, but certainly to gain in expressiveness. Standing out can mean playing with contrasting shadows, (from the eyebrows seen from underneath, with the wrinkles of the eyelid or brows), but especially in being precise about the position of the pupil in the eye. These two dots, which can be considered graphical commas, must find their proper place; in the center of the eye, they will create a stunned look, half hiden beneath the eyelid, and they will suggest an unexplicit intention, etc.
Without this graphical message, a character will be without a look, that is to say without a soul, without thought, without emotion, without life; that makes for a great deal!
...
FOLLOW THE LOOKS (OF THE CHARACTERS)
I remember a sequence in Blueberry, drawing 2, from La Dernière Carte (Dargaud, 1983) at the top of which all the characters barge into a saloon (this part is easy to imagine). All of the looks take stock of the interior of the joint and the axes thus created structure the scene. Even though the colour is off because of being treated with too much striping (throughout the whole album), the lines of virtual looks create a strong underpinning to composition and readability.
When one draws two characters in the same frame, the line of the look they give each other creates a line of composition which can have more strength than a background line ( which corresponds to a solid object).
Do not hesitate to use in a composition these invisible lines which the reader perceives perfectly.
from Gérald Gorridge, Créer une BD, éditions First-Gründ, Paris, 2010.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Oh No!
Doxa is not invited to the Internet G-8, to be held in Deauville, France in the next few days, nor to the e-G8 being held in Paris this week.
Given that the topic under discussion is the future of the Internet, though, Doxa certainly feels like one of the concerned. French Culture Minister Mitterand has made it clear well in advance that he intends to let Google know, and the other major players like Facebook, that they will have to pay the Creative Work being done on the Net. Given the years of work I have put into Web performance, I have to readily agree. But isn’t the Minister saying at the same time, that he doen’t expect to be footing the bill, in the name of governments. What does this portend?
A Requiem Mass on the virtues of private enterprise is always de rigeur, but, oh no, not the Internet. Napoleon once said that, if he followed economic orthodoxy as advised, he would be counting on London bankers and William Pitt to finance his wars. Isn’t this same kind of thing being argued here? Lets move unto something serious, gentlemen, and forget all this free Net! Doxa will be following developments very carefully...
Given that the topic under discussion is the future of the Internet, though, Doxa certainly feels like one of the concerned. French Culture Minister Mitterand has made it clear well in advance that he intends to let Google know, and the other major players like Facebook, that they will have to pay the Creative Work being done on the Net. Given the years of work I have put into Web performance, I have to readily agree. But isn’t the Minister saying at the same time, that he doen’t expect to be footing the bill, in the name of governments. What does this portend?
A Requiem Mass on the virtues of private enterprise is always de rigeur, but, oh no, not the Internet. Napoleon once said that, if he followed economic orthodoxy as advised, he would be counting on London bankers and William Pitt to finance his wars. Isn’t this same kind of thing being argued here? Lets move unto something serious, gentlemen, and forget all this free Net! Doxa will be following developments very carefully...
Saturday, May 21, 2011
DSK
I am about to go wayyyy out on a limb here and defend Strauss-Kahn. I don’t have to, and he is a totally unpopular cause if ever there was one but… He is sixty-two years old and I am sixty –one. We are both sane, healthy, functionning adults but we aren’t kids anymore. We were kids at approximately the same time in history and share the school yard. Here it goes.
Both DSK and his accuser are natural parents, not innocents. Neither one. One has to adjust things, here, to do justice to the man. Rape laws, the very concept of rape, are about protecting procreation, the capacity of individuals to make the personal voyage of relationship that leads to parenthood. They have both visited that island before, and not together. This cannot be about sexual innocence betrayed, it has to be about something else. What, precisely, I don’t know, and can’t really tell from here. We will be assaulted by this dreadful case for a long time. I am miserable for us poor informed citizens, really!
I might add that the business about the other assault case makes him look rather good. Is that all there is against him in sixty-two years of life? The man should be Pope. Really! Stuff just adds up over the years and looks bad; one can explain all of it but who wants to. It just looks bad.
Granted he is a priviledged individual. Not just because he is wealthy; he is also deemed powerful. He is not powerful in an ugly way, he is powerful in being allowed to work on matters very important to the rest of us, on the world economy. One likes to think that those who eventually get those jobs are – if rather ruthless – also terrifically persistent and dedicated. That is one very long haul to the head of the IMF.
One of the things one tries as one gets older is to communicate to those younger by letting them glimpse what we might have been like at their age. I have been known to buy young clothes once in a while. Not much appreciated by those youngsters, I am afraid. I don’t think it warrants calling me senile for the faux pas, but the ugly word will be heard anyway. That’s the terrible subtext of this whole DSK business, to my mind. To the extent that those crude accusations may be true, one is accusing an old gent of being senile. That is my personnal take on the case. Very painful to watch. Voilà!
Both DSK and his accuser are natural parents, not innocents. Neither one. One has to adjust things, here, to do justice to the man. Rape laws, the very concept of rape, are about protecting procreation, the capacity of individuals to make the personal voyage of relationship that leads to parenthood. They have both visited that island before, and not together. This cannot be about sexual innocence betrayed, it has to be about something else. What, precisely, I don’t know, and can’t really tell from here. We will be assaulted by this dreadful case for a long time. I am miserable for us poor informed citizens, really!
I might add that the business about the other assault case makes him look rather good. Is that all there is against him in sixty-two years of life? The man should be Pope. Really! Stuff just adds up over the years and looks bad; one can explain all of it but who wants to. It just looks bad.
Granted he is a priviledged individual. Not just because he is wealthy; he is also deemed powerful. He is not powerful in an ugly way, he is powerful in being allowed to work on matters very important to the rest of us, on the world economy. One likes to think that those who eventually get those jobs are – if rather ruthless – also terrifically persistent and dedicated. That is one very long haul to the head of the IMF.
One of the things one tries as one gets older is to communicate to those younger by letting them glimpse what we might have been like at their age. I have been known to buy young clothes once in a while. Not much appreciated by those youngsters, I am afraid. I don’t think it warrants calling me senile for the faux pas, but the ugly word will be heard anyway. That’s the terrible subtext of this whole DSK business, to my mind. To the extent that those crude accusations may be true, one is accusing an old gent of being senile. That is my personnal take on the case. Very painful to watch. Voilà!
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