Creating a Graphic Novel : Art – Food – Photography

Hard to believe there’s exactly 2 weeks till Christmas! Time has gone past too quickly. With the Life Drawing course concluded, I asked the instructor Karl Mattas if he would be interested to answer a few questions for http://www.sigmatestudio.com about how he started out and his approaches to teaching. When did you start art professionally? […]

With Week 7 completed, this was the last week of the Life Drawing course. A next technique shown was cross contour which builds up the depth in the sketch, giving a three dimensional feel to it. This was my attempt with the focus on the face. I tried to illustrate the model’s high cheek bones. […]

Eduardo Vieira is a Brazilian illustrator who has a fantastic style. I’ve been in contact with him for a while and commissioned him to do a piece of artwork for me. I didn’t give much of a brief for this work and simply stated that I wanted Psylocke in a dynamic pose. Three sketches were […]

With Week 6 finished, this week was the penultimate session for this course. Started again with various gesture drawings with the model using a bamboo stick as a prop. This is the first time the model used a prop. To capture it as part of the picture was an interesting experience. Especially in the next […]

After having my story accepted Tango 8, I was invited to the launch party December 17! Unfortunately with work going crazy approaching the Christmas season I won’t have the opportunity to take the journey down south for the event. However, still looking to get my hands on a copy of the anthology! “Yes, glorious contributors, […]

Gregory Woronchak is freelance artist who’s worked on storyboards for a few TV series as well as on a computer game (Prince of Persia : The 2 Thrones). He’s got a resume of some amazing sequential work and pin-up work and took the time out to answer some questions for this site. Where are you […]

Following on from Week 5, the class started with some gesture drawing. It’s an easy way to capture the sense of movement of the model. I hope to develop a gesture drawing into something more academic. It’s a good way to get started on getting a “sense” of the subject. During Week 6, we revisited […]

Based in Vancouver, Robin Thompson has been working for almost 10 years on a horror oriented comic Champions of Hell while writing and drawing the highly controversial Zombie Jesus and a bi-monthly comic strip called Lil’ Natas. He also the inker on Outnumbered. He primarily works with pencils and inks. The below Tigra picture was […]

I couldn’t make it to Week 4 so Week 3 was my latest update. The class started with 15 sec then 30 sec and finally 1 minute gesture drawings. The combined poses on the one page gives it a life like quality. You have to concentrate to pick out the different poses. The next task […]

I made a submission to a comic anthology called Tango 8 about two months ago. It was my first attempt at getting published and my first at creating a story in the “comic” medium. Full details of the process to create the story is here. Received this acknowledgment late last week : “I ‘m happy […]