Notes from the John Byrne Art Seminar - Creation Con Boston - March 5, 1983 (PART 4 of 8)

John Byrne Drawing Art Seminar Class Notes, 1983


(PART 4)

note: these notes are recopied c.1983 notes from my messy notes in class (added blue in photoshop here to help see facts better)
See originals and Creation Con materials from JB Art Seminar in Additional Images area.


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Covered in notes:

ELEMENTS IN COMIC BOOK DRAWING
(Devices and storytelling techniques in Comic Drawing )

• CROPPING IN PANELS

• ATMOSPHERIC HAZING technique in comics



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ELEMENTS IN COMIC BOOK DRAWING

Devices and storytelling techniques in Comic Drawing



CROPPING IN PANELS ————————

Example: Superman flying over Metropolis - how do you place him in panel when he flies over Metropolis?

(wrong way)
Superman cropped on right side or left side at feet as in top sketch

(right way)
Superman full figure in panel, flying in center (always keep figure over city skyline when flying)




ATMOSPHERIC HAZING ————————

In a Scene, use "Atmospheric Hazing"

- Detail first layer, (part of scene closest to you)

- Drop details as you go away (the back layers), make things not as detailed as things go away, like lines getting thinner



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ABOUT THE CLASS NOTES & JOHN BYRNE ART SEMINAR

My class notes from master comic artist and storyteller John Byrne. maybe his only art seminar that I know of.

Recall that most people in my class were pretty young. It was from an 1 or 2 hour class that John gave in the Park Plaza hotel or Parker House Hotel (it's a while back)after that day's Creation Con. I was in high school and saved up for weeks from my newspaper delivery job to take this. This was a result of the meticulous and recopied notes habit that I used in high school to pass my classes to make up for my lack of natural smarts.

So I'm glad that I can share the benefits & timing of that process here on CAF (instead of Tumblr where they were before for many years) John was at his absolute peak as an artist during this time (Fantastic Four, Alpha Flight) and he shared some of his secrets, process & influences with us aspiring artists.