I recently discovered a large series of articles concerning artistic theory, by the author of Dresden Codak. Most all of these are worth looking at and discussing, and they come with helpful illustrations throughout that show good or bad art and indicate why it is good or bad. Given the breadth of these articles, a particular one is being used for the opening post, though one thread should be enough for the lot of them. Some of the key conceptual illustrations are below, though these are more to pique interest than anything else.




Note that these images are very rough sketches, and not indicative of the comic as a whole. As far as discussion goes, I consider most of the analysis brilliant, and immensely helpful to artists.

I agree. I remember when he posted that material. It's really good stuff, very reminiscent of the sort of analysis given by Will Eisner. I like Dresden Codak, but it comes out so far apart that sometimes it's hard to remember what's going on, especially since it can be pretty opaque to begin with.

http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=333

Related. Also: Lackadaisy is my favourite webcomic by far. I love cats, I love the Twenties, and this is both.