Finch is so mastered at character illustration it's easy to forget he's equally skilled with composition. That frame is absolutely full of clutter and still every element serves the visual flow perfectly. Awesome to watch
Totally agreed. I’ve loved Finch since the 90’s, because his work is always so detailed, but it’s not just a case of throwing lines at the paper for the sake of it (like some other popular artists from that era that went overboard on details lol). He’s so good at packing a scene with detail and energy, without it ever feeling like too much.
This is gonna be a bit off topic. But watching few videos on this channel i discovered kinda cool way of learning when you can see reference on screen and then the artist disects it. It is good to draw from the reference and then draw ffrom reference to the side, but follow the artist. This way you can see your mistakes super well and can improve a lot. I kinda use this method to improve my gesture drawing abilities and i have literally seen improvement in the matter of few days.
To anyone. Improvement does not mean i am already perfect oh no no. But it already was visible enough to give that boost of "woah i am going to make it"
My favorite artist doing a tutorial video, on a channel thats been helping me solidify my fundamentals and push my art to the next level. I've never clicked on a video faster.
Controlling the composition with lights and shading is a nice method. Personally I use dynamic lines, thin amd thick, medium and other sometimes 3 line types with one stroke to make the background lighter and front darker or lower parts of the page darker and upper part lighter, it looks intresting together with shading.
David finch is one of my favorite comic book artists. Proko could you maybe get a storyboard artist in there eventually? I want to become a storyboard or comic book artist when I grow up!
We've had a few story board artists on the channel: Rembert Montald, David Colman and more. Rembert storyboards for games and David works in film like storyboarding the recent film Rendield. They just usually end up talking about composition, ideation or other topics because a comprehensive class on storyboarding is a little more job specific than our videos normally are. Our lessons on comic composition from David and our Marvel course here on RU-vid will be applicable to that, though! Here's Rembert breaking down a scene as a storyboard artist: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xAFT8KSfZsY.htmlsi=1hYYvTK59HmDPjDg
We have several free lessons from him on the channel. They come from his course he did with us and are all exactly as awesome as you expect from David www.proko.com/comicpage
Thanks for everything, could you show how to intentionally draw out of focus? As if replicating a camera lense? Theres an effect I noticed similar to it in Goodbye Eri and wanted to know if there are more ways you guys know on how to do similar things
Everyone whorships the old oilpaint masters for composition and light. But i bet none of these masters could draw like this. What an absolute talent this guy.😊
We have! Here's a video on rhythms: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FyZYTVn0zYU.html And here's a playlist of episodes from out gesture drawing class: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-74HR59yFZ7Y.html
I've especially kept my fave book of Mr. Finch (Batman the Dark Knight Unwrapped) separately from my other comic books 😊 and saved and watch Proko anatomy videos over and over.
How does his graphite looks so smooth, it's like the same shade and smooth as butter it feels like in the big areas, is it the paper, the graphite or just his control? or maybe a combination of all?
Combination of all, but mostly his control! David uses a very hard lead, Staedtler 2H, on Strathmore 200 series smooth Bristol paper which will give you a nice smooth surface to shade. His 30 years in the industry has a little something to do with it too! :D
Algo que não entendo é o fato de ele usar grafite 2h nos seus desenhos e o traço fica escuro como se fosse um grafite 2b, já que o grafite 2h a pigmentação é clara.
O estilo de renderização de David é tal que seu trabalho parecerá fortemente contrastante, um pouco mais escuro, mas as linhas que ele faz com esta ferramenta não são incrivelmente escuras. (Às vezes é difícil fazer os desenhos aparecerem no vídeo) Um 2H ainda é capaz de deixar uma marca bem escura, mas não tão facilmente quanto um 2B. Embora existam outras diferenças de qualidade que fazem um 2H parecer mais leve na maioria dos casos, é mais difícil do que um 2B. O 2B sendo mais suave significa que você pode deixar mais grafite na página com um traço mais suave, fazendo com que pareça “mais escuro”. Espero que esta resposta de tradução automática faça sentido!
The penciling is great, the inking is atrocious. It lacks personality, a distinctive confident style is missing... it lacks a unique, mature methodology.
