In Episode 12 of the HTDC Podcast, Ric Bulow and I discuss the many ways in which you’re able to feed your creative mind to instantly come up with classic ideas that grab the attention of your audience and leave them craving more.
If you struggle with artist block or generating interesting ideas for your characters and stories, this Episode will reveal the tactics needed to begin brain storming potential avenues for idea exploration right away, so that you don’t have to sit there any longer with an underestimated imagination.
The Album Art I’ve created for Episode 12 “Expanding Your Visual Library,” represents the place in which every grand idea begins – our mind’s eye. Creative people are naturally pre-disposed to being excellent visualisers.
But when you’re able to build upon that mental imagery and bring your ideas into focus, they begin to grow into more than you literally could have imagined. So what we’re ultimately looking to do is expand our visual library, so that we’ve got more to work with when it comes to writing our stories and envisioning the cast of characters that’ll play a role within them – and in this episode we’re going to talk about how to do just that.
As you listen and take in the insights shared in this Episode, you’ll also be able to watch the recorded time lapse video for the Album Art “Visions” showing you the illustration’s entire creation from start to finish. So whether you want to listen passively or watch and learn new techniques for your approach to comic art creation, the choice is yours.
This is something we’d really like to do for all our Podcast Episodes in the future, so that you’re getting even more value out of the time you’ve taken to learn about the topics we’re sharing with you.
I hope you enjoy Episode 12 of the HTDC Podcast and get a ton of value out of it. Ric and I had a great time putting this one together for you – and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute I spent illustrating the cover. Leave your thoughts and questions in the comments below and remember to share if you found this week’s Podcast episode useful!
-Clayton
Software Used: Manga Studio 5, Photoshop CS6
Hardware: Wacom Intuos 3
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