Andi Pasti's Animal Art

Last year I drew a Centrosaurus with ink and grey markers on brown-toned paper. I’ve bought that paper two years ago and never used it properly, but I figured out that it’s quite handy.  With a mid-toned paper you only need to care about shadows and highlights because the mid-tone is already provided by the paper itself. On white background you have to establish this mid-tone yourself. I decide to use this paper block to fill it with dinosaurs drawn in that style. Over the past year I tried to fill the pages with some species that I like, not the usual ones that get much media attention. Centrosaurus Dilophosaurus - those frills from Jurassic Park were added for fun Therizinosaurus - in fluffy Challenges from drawing with traditional pens  Technically I discovered some challenges which tampered with my joy: I use some black fine liners from Faber-Castell, 0.1-0.3 mm for the outlines or black shadows. These are fine! for whites I use a gel pen, probably low quality, as the ink ...

The big question when writing a comic is: how long should it be? How many pages in total? The truth is, I don’t know exactly. I don’t know how long the story will be and how many pages I need to draw. Based on the high expectations we all have about us and our creative stories I maybe don’t want to know. This said, I don’t want to fall into this trap creating an overblown project that I start eagerly with motivation, but lose interest along the way and nobody gets to see. So I am trying to follow the Minimal Viable Story approach here, kind of. I actually want to finish stuff. So I decided to divide the story in approachable chunks, more precise several issues that I produce and publish after another. This way I run the circle of writing the script, making layouts, pencilling, inking, colouring, filling in word boxes in smaller timelines and repeating it multiple times. Which means I even could learn from my past mistakes when preparing the next issue. Some of these thoughts came throu...

Hello dear reader, welcome to my blog. I am glad you found me among the enormous amount of other blogs around the world. I will keep this introduction short: I am not (yet) a professional illustrator, also I can't execute this hobby at full-time. But that's not a big deal. Nevertheless I am eager to create amazing drawings and step up my game with the line and shading wizardry. Amongst the occasional animal, or maybe even a dinosaur drawing, you will find progress on my comic creations documented. I haven't been into comics really big for a long time, but I recently found that comics offer a different experience and a whole new universe of stories and immersion opened up for me. For your curiosity what this is all about and until the next blog entry, enjoy this little drawing of my woolly puppet that I did as kind of a master study. Influenced by Sophie Campbell: So if you are interested in my process, follow this blog and keep being updated. Cheers, Andi