Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts

Thursday, February 18, 2010

viewer participation photocomics

Comics with pictures instead of drawings are called fumetti; the wiki article references A Softer World as well as a series about zombies in a post-apocalyptic world called Night Zero and a self-explanatory spoof comic, Alien Loves Predator.

I've already expressed my love for A Softer World, and word art in general, so I took this one step further and created interactive fumetti to hang in my bathroom. The idea is that anyone can change the words whenever they feel particularly inspired.


I looked through my photos for a series of shots that could easily be edited into three pictures with people interacting, then cropped them as 5x7s and arranged them accordingly. I added white boxes for text, put them in a frame with a glass cover and then taped a dry-erase marker on a string to the frame. I added the initial text to give people ideas, but am happy to say they seem to change fairly frequently. I'm working on my next photo selection (probably something with cats) and plan to change them every few months.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

wordsmithing

I've been meaning to incorporate text into my art for some time now. After a failed attempt to use letterpress text on ceramic tiles (which I eventually will retry), I've decided to try out some digital wordsmithing. To get started I did some images in the style of A Softer World. Then I tried adding text to images I've already created, which gives them a greeting card feel. Now I've just got to come up with a new concept. Turn gears, turn.







Tuesday, March 3, 2009

comic art-eth!

I've been working on digital collages of comics, both classics and webcomics, and then using them as a background for word bubbles, painting a light coat over all but the text. Classic comics include words like Kapow! Zing! and Thwip! while the webcomic pieces include Gah! OMG! and Blurg! I'm on a continual hunt for interesting words to turn into painted, action-bubble art. Jeff G. found a link showing all the action words on the original Batman television series, my favorites are the ones with "eth" as a suffix. Ouch-eth. Whack-eth.