Jerzy Drozd
Teaching Artist and Cartoonist
Jerzy Drozd
Teaching Artist and Cartoonist
Today I share some thoughts and experiences from my professional illustration career to dig at the notion of working in a “style”. Do we have our own styles? If so, are they what we do “wrong”, or are they what
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Today I share some thoughts on the value of a good hook for your story or project, tying that in to how we can think of the “character” of your story or project as a means to keep yourself on
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Inspired by a recent Art & Story Extreme!! conversation I had with Sara Turner, I share some thoughts on wiping the slate clean by having a mid-year set of resolutions, and a reminder to myself (as well as you) about
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Today I leap on some thoughts that occur to me as I head in to Kids Read Comics 2010 and the ongoing convention season. A convention is a great place to meet cartoonists you respect and admire as well as
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Today I answer a question from Rene van Belzen about how to keep the fires burning when working on a long-form comic. I share some of my personal experiences in letting old projects go until I found the story that
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Today I respond to a post in the forum by Jon David Guerra, which was essentially a question about how concerned we cartoonists should be about our style changing over time in a comics project. If you use the word
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Today I share some thoughts about how we’re hired for our imaginations as much as our skills with the pen in contractual employment. Illustration skill is important, but you need a highly developed imagination in order to beat those nearly
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Another one from the forum: Is copying and pasting artwork cheating? I share some of my thoughts on the subject, using my professional illustration work, the works of other comics creators, animation, and the Switch Runners project to back up
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Today I respond to a thread in the A&S Forum and share a few thoughts on evaluating the pros and cons of a project’s length, running time, or page count. Bigger is indeed better, but only in some ways. Sometimes
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Today I share a few thoughts on how we could re-think projects like conventions and the 24-hour comic by taking advantage of emerging technologies on the Internet. Subscribe through iTunes RSS https://jdrozd.com/wp-content/audio/tpd032.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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