The All Purpose Jam Thread

[carlito1978]

love that image piece. a little off topic but how do people post with thumbnails?

[dagouch17]

I remember seeing that Image piece somewhere where it was being created somewhere. Didn't Erik Larsen or Liefield lay it out. I vaguely remember one of them did.

[Fanboy]

Originally Posted by dagouch17

it all depends on what you're looking for. The amount charchters etc etc. I would recommend for the layouts to be very loose. I've seen other where it's almost tight pencils and the other artist is just inking it. Not there true style in the inks.

Agreed. I was offered to have my layout done by another artist but it didn't have a very loose look to some of the examples I was shown. It's also part of the reason I went to large with this piece as it seems to give the artists a lot of room to play with. It's easy enough for an artist to erase some of what's there to work on the characters they way they want.

[Bishop40]

Originally Posted by dagouch17

Doug,

My buddy's Cheung Jam piece is like yours. It's an Invincible one but Jimmy layed out the whole thing.

Mike

I love al's piece that's the one that gave me the idea for mine. i actually saw it at c2e2 in person and was talking to him about it.

Octavio

[Fanboy]

Originally Posted by carlito1978

love that image piece. a little off topic but how do people post with thumbnails?

When posting in advanced mode, there is a button at the top titled Attachments.

[Fanboy]

Originally Posted by dagouch17

I remember seeing that Image piece somewhere where it was being created somewhere. Didn't Erik Larsen or Liefield lay it out. I vaguely remember one of them did.

I can't say for sure. Someone had mentioned that to me the day after I picked it up, but no one seemed positive as to who had done the layout.

[ftrain1]

Originally Posted by dagouch17

Those are badass Carlito!!!

Ramos can't do no wrong. He layed out my buddies jam piece. I hope he'll post it here.

Hey Mike. Are you referring to Richard Oh's Avengers jam? That's a real beauty. I check regularly on CAF to see if it's done.

[ftrain1]

In terms of layouts, I agree that layouts definitely help in terms of both keeping everything in the right proportion and keeping your vision in tact. If you have a picture in mind and one part of a layout isn't what you wanted, it's very easy to correct the layout rather than correcting a character that's drawn on that looks off. A loose layout is also preferable. That way an artist knows where to draw but can put his own details in the character like others have said.

[dagouch17]

Yup yup. I helped Rich a bit but hes done such a great job on it.

Yours is pretty badass as well.

Mike

[Simplyrob]

the jam. kinda like having a whole team sign a baseball? i think im more of a sweetspot 1 signature kinda guy. not sure what id do for an invincible jam. most of kirkmans characters are all in each others books at some point i guess. unfortuantely, i dont think most artists would be familiar with most of those characters. ask somebody to draw an allen the alien in between eve and oliver, i can just imagine the looks id get. not sure i have the patience for this either. am i nuts?