taking a break from posting comics and posting some background set sketches for the book I’m working on about my first years in San Francisco. These sketches are pretty plain, just straightforward black and white, so they don’t make that compelling stand-alone art (I especially don’t like how Dog Eared looks because in real life it’s the crazy colors that make the aesthetic) but they work great for references for panels.
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Very nice!
Do you plan on coloring these? I think adding yellow to the FOR LEASE sign would really add some realism to the first picture… even if the sign’s not yellow in real life.
I’ve given this a tremendous amount of thought, Julia.
I hope agree with my opinion concerning the addition of the color yellow.
I pray that you do.
As Ever,
JACOB ECKSTEIN
Wow! I’ve only been to SF once and know that Needles and Pens place.
These are great. Way to capture so much detail. I like your eye for perspective and depth.
Splendid drawings.
Aquarius! Those assholes! I used to shop there as a young wanna be indie rocker, and they sneered and laughed at me. And then when I became a record store clerk a few years later, I sneered at my customers too. It’s a cycle of abuse.
Are you going to draw the Great American Music Hall? It’s so pretty, and I saw a zillion shows there. <3
I work right down the street from that first panel. San Francisco misses you.
I bought an expensive book at Fields once. Polk Street, right?
Splendid drawings, they remind me a bit of the ligne claire style of Daniel Torres, “Rocco Vargas” and so on. The perspective is a bit strange, though. How tall is the viewer? 10 feet?
Eh, if you do it at street level it might be a bit boring. I just pretend it’s the perspective of a muni worker in a cherry picker working on a sign or something.
Think I’d also keep it black and white, back when I did my own drawing with Rapidographs (.15 rullleeezzz) the most I ever might do is add a grey wash with an art market or something.
Where did all the trash go? And where’s all the homeless people?
Comics aren’t meant to be completely realistic. If you are using these for scenes in a comic the perspective can be whatever the artist wants it to be. Its much like camera angles in movies. There are always crazy camera angles and they aren’t always from a person’s perspective.
Suddenly everything makes a little bit more sense.
does that mean there’s not gonna be something like a Part 2 of your time in NYC in your new book?
NICE!