I just received my most recent order from Amazon: How to Draw Noir Comics - The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling by Shawn Martinbrough. The guy is a traditional comic book artist who has made lots of inked illustrations - most notably for DC Comics. I've always loved the kind of style of high contrast black and white images, and I really want to learn all the techniques to capture the cinematic look of noir.
The book contains some pretty interesting stuff about camera angles, panel layout and how to effectively light a scene to create drama etc. This will definitly make me stronger in 3D art as I can start applying some of the traditional methods introduced in the book. We'll see...
Oh, and I just love the quote in the beginning of the book: "Hopefully I will inspire you to see this gray world in which we live in black and white." Hah, well said Shawn.
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