Comments on: On the Drawing Board http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2006/11/30/on-the-drawing-board-15/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-the-drawing-board-15 Tom Richmond- Cartoonist and Humorous Illustrator Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:26:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2006/11/30/on-the-drawing-board-15/comment-page-1/#comment-3018 Tom Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:35:09 +0000 http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/?p=559#comment-3018 Suzanne- Thanks... I'm blushing!!!! Suzanne- Thanks… I’m blushing!!!!

]]> By: SUZWORKS.COM http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2006/11/30/on-the-drawing-board-15/comment-page-1/#comment-3016 SUZWORKS.COM Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:42:44 +0000 http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/?p=559#comment-3016 Tom...Just joined your blog...You are absolutely amazing...talentwise and as a human being. Thanks for sharing and helping us all grow! Honored to know you. Suzanne Berry Tom…Just joined your blog…You are absolutely amazing…talentwise and as a human being. Thanks for sharing and helping us all grow! Honored to know you. Suzanne Berry

]]> By: cvanoni http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2006/11/30/on-the-drawing-board-15/comment-page-1/#comment-715 cvanoni Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:41:16 +0000 http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/?p=559#comment-715 HA! Interesting about Friedman! Your response answers my question perfectly. I hadn't even noticed those two desks were 'out of line' with the others, for layout purposes. For such a complicated piece - it sure is uncluttered! Frog girl's foot - envelope boy's foot - the globe - the teacher's arm against the wall . . . no space is wasted but everything has its place. - C HA! Interesting about Friedman!

Your response answers my question perfectly.
I hadn’t even noticed those two desks were ‘out of line’ with the others, for layout purposes.

For such a complicated piece – it sure is uncluttered!
Frog girl’s foot – envelope boy’s foot – the globe – the teacher’s arm against the wall . . . no space is wasted but everything has its place.

- C

]]> By: cvanoni http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2006/11/30/on-the-drawing-board-15/comment-page-1/#comment-709 cvanoni Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:26:01 +0000 http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/?p=559#comment-709 Question! When you do pieces like this (with MANY characters) do you try and design your layout to hide incidental feet and things so you don't have to draw them? (You being a shrewd, time saver, I mean - not an artist who can't draw feet!) I know in a lot of old MAD parodies Drucker (and others) would often lop off legs or what not to allow for a splash page layout - and it was fine because the content was goofy anyway. It didn't really hurt anything. But on a job like this you obviously can't be that blatant. Question!

When you do pieces like this (with MANY characters) do you try and design your layout to hide incidental feet and things so you don’t have to draw them? (You being a shrewd, time saver, I mean – not an artist who can’t draw feet!)
I know in a lot of old MAD parodies Drucker (and others) would often lop off legs or what not to allow for a splash page layout – and it was fine because the content was goofy anyway. It didn’t really hurt anything.
But on a job like this you obviously can’t be that blatant.

]]> By: Tom http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2006/11/30/on-the-drawing-board-15/comment-page-1/#comment-712 Tom Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:39:54 +0000 http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/?p=559#comment-712 <p>No, I don't do that on purpose. I layout a scene or splash based on the best way to tell the story or impart the message. If feet enter into the scene, I draw them. If not, I don't. I could have cropped the kid with the frog's feet in this one if I had made the girl in the foreground's desk bigger and more in line with the other desks. I decided to move it out of the way to show more of the kid's body, as he was central to the image and therefore both he and the scared girl needed to be as visible as possible. Once I established the important parts I just filled in. When a foot or hand was needed, in it went. </p> <p>I understand what you are saying, however. It's always easier to crop a body than draw it in full convincingly. I was told Drew Friedman hates drawing feet. </p> <p><strong><u>Clarification:</u> Drew tells me he doesn't dislike drawing feet, he just doesn't think they add any humor to a drawing unless they are drawn by Jack Davis or Don Martin. </strong></p> No, I don’t do that on purpose. I layout a scene or splash based on the best way to tell the story or impart the message. If feet enter into the scene, I draw them. If not, I don’t. I could have cropped the kid with the frog’s feet in this one if I had made the girl in the foreground’s desk bigger and more in line with the other desks. I decided to move it out of the way to show more of the kid’s body, as he was central to the image and therefore both he and the scared girl needed to be as visible as possible. Once I established the important parts I just filled in. When a foot or hand was needed, in it went.

I understand what you are saying, however. It’s always easier to crop a body than draw it in full convincingly. I was told Drew Friedman hates drawing feet.

Clarification: Drew tells me he doesn’t dislike drawing feet, he just doesn’t think they add any humor to a drawing unless they are drawn by Jack Davis or Don Martin.

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