More about Medusa!

Welcome to our weekly update! 

As of now I have completed the pencils for the pages left. There are 12 pages remaining to complete the book. I am still revising a few things on the last three pages regarding the finale but other than that things are well on their way. I have to say I am getting really excited.  The most crucial part of the process is almost complete. 

I have already started considering stuff that needs tweaking. There might be changes/ improvements to the pages you have already seen on this blog or social media as well.  

It would be great to hear if you have any suggestions for the comic too! Sound off your suggestions on the comment section down below or on Facebook or Twitter!

I have been hearing some really nice words since I stared this graphic novel! I wanted to thank all of you who support this initiative! Thank you very much!

See you all next Sunday!

Panos.

Medusa Update!

Okay so if you are following any of my social media presence you already know that today I will discuss the graphic novel I am working on. Just for those who visit this blog for the first time let me do a brief introduction about the project.

I am making a one shot graphic novel of the Medusa myth. Medusa was an ancient mythical monster (gorgon) that had snakes instead of hair and could petrify (literally turn to stone) any leaving creature that set sight upon her. 

Medusa was once a striking young woman with beautiful long hair. In fact she was so beautiful that all men in Athens wanted to have her as their wife. Medusa though was a priestess of the virgin goddess Athena, and she was bound by an oath of chastity meaning that she was beyond any man’s reach. Poseidon god of sea was among her admirers, and as the powerful god that he was, nothing was beyond his reach. Poseidon found Medusa inside the Parthenon (Athena’s temple) and raped her. Athena was furious that such terrible desecration involving one of her priestesses took place inside her very own temple. Athena was angry but not with Poseidon; she felt that the wrong deed was Medusa’s fault. The goddess full of anger curses Medusa for her crime and turns her into the monster we are familiar with. After that Medusa was send to live to an isolated island.

The graphic novel would be 52 pages in total. Today I will be finishing page number 40. I assume that I would have all the pages completed by early July. After I am done I will go through every page again correcting inconsistency mistakes, improving any anatomy issues etc. Then I will proceed to refine the writing and dialogues. Right now I have a very rough version of script that needs a lot of work until it becomes the finished polished writing that will end up in the graphic novel. After I am satisfied with the writing I will do the lettering (placing balloons and captions in the comic). Finally after all this is done I will create the front and back cover. After the comic is finished a new challenge arises, promoting, publishing and distributing the graphic novel. I will go through how I am thinking on handling those on a future post. 

Now you have a good idea on how this is shaping up. It takes a good amount of time planning and executing all those different production stages. 

Thank you for being here!

See you all next Sunday!

Panos

How to draw in three-point Perspective.

Welcome once again to another drawing tutorial. Today I am going through the three point perspective. Basically we have three point perspective when we look at objects from an angle (just like in two point perspective) but we look at them from a high standpoint or a low standpoint. 

E.g. Imagine you are in a helicopter up in the air, when you look at a building from an angle you are looking at it at in three point perspective (called bird’s eye view). Same is if you look at a building from a low stand point all the way up from an angle you have again three point perspective (called worm’s eye view). 

In this example we will do a bird’s eye view.

First draw the horizon line.

Now draw three vanishing points. Make them have a good distance from each other

We will put a rectangle in perspective. We don’t have any parallel lines here. Draw two lines from Vanishing point 2.

Now draw two more from Vanishing point 1.

Now unify each corner with Vanishing point 3.

Decide how long you rectangle want to be. Now close the shape with Vanishing point 2 and Vanishing point 1.

There we have a rectangle in perfect three point perspective.

See you next Sunday!

Take care!

Panos.

How to draw in two-point Perspective.

Welcome to another drawing tutorial. Today we are going through two point perspective. Basically two point perspective is when you look at objects from an angle and not straight on like in one point perspective.   

If you haven’t been through last week’s tutorial I strongly suggest you go through that one first. Link: http://panoskamoulakos.blogspot.gr/2013/06/blog-post.html

First draw the horizon line.

Now instead of one vanishing point draw two. Make them have a good distance from each other.

We will put a rectangle in perspective. Draw a short vertical line.

Now draw the lines towards the two vanishing points.

Now decide how long your rectangle wants to be. Draw another short vertical line.

Draw the line towards vanishing point 1. 

Draw another vertical line. 

Draw the line towards vanishing point 2.

There you go a rectangle on perfect two point perspective.

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial.

Take care!

Panos.

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How to draw in Perspective

Today we are going to have a look at some basic perspective theory. There are three basic perspective categories: one point, two point and three point perspective. There are actually other types of perspective (four and five point perspective) but you need to get really comfortable with those three basic categories first before you move into more complicated compositions.

This week we will go through one point perspective. 

Literarily anything you draw into paper follows perspective rules. Let’s start! 

Draw a straight horizontal line. This is called the “Horizon Line”. This is the line where sky and earth meet. 

Now draw a dot on the Horizon Line. This is called “Vanishing Point”. It is the point where all of the lines of the objects you draw will meet. 

 

e.g.

Draw a rectangle. 

Now from each corner draw all the lines towards the vanishing point.

Depending on how long you want your shape to be, draw the rest of the shape. The lines are parallel with the original shape.

There you go a rectangle in one point perspective. 

As an exercise you can take numerous rectangular objects and put them in perspective as shown below.

Next week we will go through two point perspective. 

See you next Sunday!

Panos.