by Henrike Dijkstra | Feb 2 2015 | Artwork, Blog, Making comics
What’s typical for comics (and some other narrative art forms) is that you’ll be drawing the same characters, props and locations over and over again. For a lengthy scene in the same place it can be tricky to come up with nice, new compositions for each...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Jan 12 2015 | Artwork, Blog, Making comics
Some of you might remember I posted a painting I used in my portfolio for CTNx. It is a painting, not a comic panel. For my comic, however, I`m not going to paint it all. I`m going to use line art. I experimented a bit with how to colour this lineart and how to keep...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Dec 16 2014 | Artwork, Blog, Making comics, Overcoming obstacles
The main feedback I got at CTNx was that my character designs looked stiff and I didn’t tell enough of a story with them, even in the basic designs it`s better to let the characters do something or react to something so we know what kind of character it is. I...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Nov 6 2014 | Artwork
This week I made a last portfolio piece for CTNx. I wanted to practise an environment for my comic. I had this image in my head for this mountain landscape and since I absolutely love being around mountains (since in my country we have none) this was begging me to be...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Oct 20 2014 | Artwork, Blog, Making comics
Hello all! I didn`t finish an illustration a day for the rest of Inktober, but I did work in ink a lot this week. (so I kind of made up for it?) Since my main focus now is finishing some comic pages in time for the CTNx expo in LA I am in the middle of designing...
