Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Re-Run: Tower Board Game

For the start of 2016 I need to put my Blog on hiatus. This is due to a combination of reasons: not having material I can currently share to post about, being behind on important projects & unable to dedicate the time to develop new posts, and some personal/life things going on with the health of my Mother.

I will return to regular posting with process, tutorials, insights, advice, behind the scenes, stuff from the vault, and more before summer or hopefully sooner.
In the meantime, over the course of the hiatus, I've decided that each week in place of a new post, I'd link back to one of my favorite posts over the past 9 years of me updating this blog. Think of it as a greatest hits re-run on something you may have missed in that time. (And you can visit past posts anytime using the Blog Index: http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2013/12/blog-index.html)

This week:
TOWER
Tower is a home-made board game a friend and I developed at the end of college. There are 3 copies that exist in the world (mine, his, and one my nieces asked me to make for them). The game has its flaws, but I still enjoy the heart of the game and occasionally toy around with re-developing it*. Below are 3 posts about tower: the original post about the game & it's pieces, updated character portraits, and updated item art.
Original Tower post: http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2008/12/big-old-non-mg-post.html

*I was talking over ideas & jotting down notes on how to redesign & improve Tower as recently as the end of Dec 2015.

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Re-Run: Legends of the Guard Cover Process

For the start of 2016 I need to put my Blog on hiatus. This is due to a combination of reasons: not having material I can currently share to post about, being behind on important projects & unable to dedicate the time to develop new posts, and some personal/life things going on with the health of my Mother.

I will return to regular posting with process, tutorials, insights, advice, behind the scenes, stuff from the vault, and more before summer or hopefully sooner.
In the meantime, over the course of the hiatus, I've decided that each week in place of a new post, I'd link back to one of my favorite posts over the past 9 years of me updating this blog. Think of it as a greatest hits re-run on something you may have missed in that time. (And you can visit past posts anytime using the Blog Index: http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2013/12/blog-index.html)

This week:
Legends of the Guard Volume 2 & 3 Covers

Legends of the Guard covers are always fun for me. I get to really stretch out and try odd & interesting stuff that might not otherwise ever fit into the normal Mouse Guard comics. Below are links to 10 step-by-step cover blogs for all of Volume 2 & 3 of Legends of the Guard


 Volume 2
#1: Copperwood Miner:
http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2013/03/legends-of-guard-vol.html

#2: Dayle's Orations:
http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2013/05/legends-of-guard-vol.html

#3: Morten-Harvest Trio Dance
http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2013/06/legends-of-guard-vol-2.html

#4: Coin Horde Memorial
http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2013/07/legends-of-guard-vol-2.html

Hardcover: Gatherers in the Dale
http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2013/08/legends-of-guard-vol2-hardcover-cover.html


Volume 3
#1: Lost Calogero Caravan
http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2014/12/legends-of-guard-vol3-cover-1-process.html

#2: Bernarr & the Maple War
http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2015/01/legends-of-guard-vol-3-2-cover-process.html

#3: Barron Finbarr Murough
http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2015/02/legends-of-guard-vol-3-3-cover-process.html

#4:Moth Potentate Coronation
http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2015/03/legends-of-guard-vol-3-4-cover-process.html

Hardcover: Cloverdale Snake Tamer



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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Re-Run: Drawing Like Yourself & Learning From Copying

For the start of 2016 I need to put my Blog on hiatus. This is due to a combination of reasons: not having material I can currently share to post about, being behind on important projects & unable to dedicate the time to develop new posts, and some personal/life things going on with the health of my Mother.

I will return to regular posting with process, tutorials, insights, advice, behind the scenes, stuff from the vault, and more before summer or hopefully sooner.
In the meantime, over the course of the hiatus, I've decided that each week in place of a new post, I'd link back to one of my favorite posts over the past 9 years of me updating this blog. Think of it as a greatest hits re-run on something you may have missed in that time. (And you can visit past posts anytime using the Blog Index: http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2013/12/blog-index.html)


These two "advice" posts I use as the basis for my most successful slideshow talk & presentation. The meat of these posts is to emulate and study and idolize your artistic heroes for a period of your development, but to allow yourself to become your own artist by using the underlying ideas of their work (not just the surface stuff) and become something new that has roots and foundations in your inspirations while at the same time being an imitation of no one.

The full Drawing Like Yourself post can be found here: http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2012/02/drawing-like-yourself-yesterday-on.html

And the full Learning from Copying post can be found here: http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2012/09/learning-from-copying-these-mostly.html




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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Re-Run: Little Nemo Page Process

For the start of 2016 I need to put my Blog on hiatus. This is due to a combination of reasons: not having material I can currently share to post about, being behind on important projects & unable to dedicate the time to develop new posts, and some personal/life things going on with the health of my Mother.

I will return to regular posting with process, tutorials, insights, advice, behind the scenes, stuff from the vault, and more before summer or hopefully sooner.
In the meantime, over the course of the hiatus, I've decided that each week in place of a new post, I'd link back to one of my favorite posts over the past 9 years of me updating this blog. Think of it as a greatest hits re-run on something you may have missed in that time. (And you can visit past posts anytime using the Blog Index: http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2013/12/blog-index.html)

This week: 

It was a big thrill for me to contribute a page to the beautiful Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream hardcover. This post details my step-by-step process of creating my 1 page Little Nemo comic story complete with Nemo, the Princess, Flip, King Morpheus, the Jungle Imp, and a few real animals.






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