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[lady_ganesh]

Or anywhere.

Recent wank about For Better For Worse has led me to two wonderful things:

How Lynn Johnston uses reference photos and models. This is really awesome, even if you're not 100% happy with the strip as it is.

And a marvelously-written rant about Anthony, and why we hate him. Including the fabulous thought: At the time, I was

Comments

[chili_das_schaf]

This is great and also encouraging. I always tend to think that references are a crutch and that it means I can't draw shit. To see that REAL cartoonists use them relieves me to no end :)

[lady_ganesh]

Yes! References are totally your friend. Do you have telophase friended? She talks a lot about the methods she uses.

[chili_das_schaf]

No I haven't, but I will definitely take a look t her journal :)

[telophase]

Hee! I was just coming here to comment that I'm going to have to get a toy car with doors that open for volume 2 of Project Blue Rose because when I took photos of a car for reference in volume 1, they ended up all being from exactly the wrong angles. XD

(Er, if you don't want to read through the massive mounds of piffle on my LJ, I think most of my art/comics posts are tagged - art, art reference, project blue rose, spindrift, manga, doujinshi, and various similar tags.)

[lady_ganesh]

(That's another reason I recced you-- you're organized.)

[telophase]

:D Not as organized as some of my LJ friends, who have things like:

a: monette sarah
a: novik naomi
anime: wolf's rain
anime: fullmetal alchemist
manga: cantarella
manga: saiyuki

in their tags, which I envy, but the effort involved in going back and standardizing my tags would totally not be worth it. XD

[lady_ganesh]

Indeed. And I thought tags were supposed to be the easy part!

[chili_das_schaf]

You seem to be an interesting person, so I'll just add you if you don't mind :)

[telophase]

No problem! XD