Paul Pope’s Battling Boy by David Zissou / Original illustration process
The background title design borrowed from First Second’s Battling Boy poster. This is my first time playing with animation and it’ll be repurposed for the series of giveaways I’m doing for First Second on the Paul Pope tumblr, DestroyComics.
Battling Boy is fantastic!
Abe Sapien by Dave Zissou
Orion (The Last Color Study) by Paul Pope w/ colors by David Zissou.
The first two are single gradient layers with orange tints on the line while the second two are those layers combined to mellow out the colors.
I find that by tinting line, whether by reds for heat or blues for coolness, I’m attempting to reproduce an illusion of distance I see in some of my favorite Sumi-e paintings; as objects in a painting are further from the focal point the inkwash becomes lighter; or similarly in watercolor taken from observing mountains in the distance, the colors become distorted and appear purple due to atmospheric perspective. Essentially, a tint can distance the eye from the page where a black line is bold and pops towards the viewer. This is probably most effective with artists who wash their inks out like Paul Pope and Mike Mignola, opposed to just going straight 100% black. Also, this technique is probably more suited for directing the eye in crowd scenes and composing landscapes than a single focused subject like Orion, but it’s an interesting and fun effect to play with.
Nope.
LSP doesn’t buy you using your monogamist misogyny to deny her a social life with anyone, so keep it casual and lump the fuck off.
DON’T LUMPIN’ TELL ME WHAT TO DO.
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Jam Comix #6: Heart of the Sunrise by Yes
Heart of the Sunrise was used in Buffalo ‘66 for what I think is one of the heaviest sequences touching on American culture from emerging from the golden curtains to the strippers dancing under the red, white & blue and ending with the local celebrity. This is my favorite scene ever used in film.
I spent 40 minutes jamming on this one. I might take the concept and do something that looks professional for later.
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Jam Comix #4: Love on Smack by Witchfinder General (Suggested by hipflaskadventures)
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I really like jamming these shitty comics and this is a sequel to the second Jam Comix. You can buy this or others in my shop.
Jam Comix #3: Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues (Suggested by my homie, Grace)
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Time spent: 1 Hour. You can buy the original here.
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Jam Comics #2: Killing Floor-Howlin’ Wolf
Speed comix: Two hours. One Hundred MPH.
I’m selling this for 20 bucks.
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Self-Portrait: 1-1-13
My dad gifted me a giant 11x14 sketchbook for my birthday. 2013 is shaping up to represent a lot to me; a time in my life that will be marked by getting my shit together towards the direction I want to take in life. I penciled this is in 10 minutes and I could only see rawness of the life I’m living at the moment.
Also, a picture of what I used to paint and ink. This is my first piece using a bamboo brush.
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These are Morgan Freeman’s actual words:
This is going to sound cynical, but it’s absolutely true. There are people who want to present fictions as reality in regards to the celebrity. It’s a comforting illusion that someone of greater importance and wisdom than the person casting the lie would say something that we all want to hear in times of great emotional crises. I understand this. It appeals to just how lonely and desperate the human condition is.
However, those words are not my words. If you do not question a fiction, you are the fool to allow a fraudulent reality.
Please, do not put the words I do not own into my mouth.
It is of significant importance that I state, these are not my words, but the words of David Zissou.
Don’t be a fool. Question. Gather evidence. Dissolve the fictions that allow the people of the world to be stupid enough as is. Sincerely, I am tired of this shit.
-Morgan Freeman
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Three of 333
A dead body adrift in infinite space.
I’m really satisfied with the milkyness of space that I got out of the ink.
SOLD.
David Zissou is 13 and does what he wants. He's a storyteller and actor currently lost in the California wastelands. Store. Twitter. E-mail. I also run Destroy Comics.
