#blinking

[gameraboy2]

Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973), "The Pirates of Orion"

[weirdlandtv]

How to depict blinking in a comic? Oh hello, by the way. Yes, I'm still alive. I'm fine and how are you and all that but—how to depict blinking in a comic strip? Carl Barks used this method—

The ducks' huge eyes are split in two, with one set of slightly faded pupils in the top half (see image 1), and another of solid black pupils in the lower half, both sets cut off in such a way that the “stacked” pupils don't appear like one large elongated pupil (a thin white horizontal line separates the two states as well); and that, with the added "Blink! Blink!" gets the job done perfectly. Here’s another slightly different blink:

(Now that I'm writing this stuff about top half, bottom half I'm suddenly reminded of a Barks gag I came across: a file cabinet in the background of a panel with one drawer saying TOP SECRET and the one below it saying BOTTOM SECRET.)

Really though, Barks's brilliant stories are en endless source of great ideas, gags, splash pages, twists, visual tricks, pacing, phrasing, suspense building, the whole proverbial "shebang", whatever a shebang is: I've said it before on this blog but any budding artist or writer—heck, even a professional one—could learn a lot from Barks's best work. Fireworks of creativity.

Re-reading some of Barks's stories, as I sometimes do by way of therapy, it struck me that many panels consist of three main elements: a foreground element, a middle section where the action takes place, and a background:

This foreground element can really be anything. It can be a bush, a tree, a rock, even a wave:

It can be a chair, a table, or any other piece of interior:

It can be a character, or just their silhouette:

And of course it's also a good way to hide snooping villains:

In the Gyro Gearloose stories the foreground element is often Little Helper having a kind of silent slapstick adventure of his own (in Dutch here as it’s from my own copy):

…Also, how is this for dark:

[rosarrie]

[hl-obsessed]

just needed him blinking in slow motion on my blog

[dinosaurwithablog]

Meowy Christmas 🎄 ♥️ be joyful!! They're watching you. I love blinking lights, don't you?

[graphic--horde]

Angel blinkies

I just found a TON and thought it'd be cool to put em here

[temiree]

I'm starting a playthrough of Super Mario World tonight on my Twitch channel, so of course I had to dress up Tem for the occasion! I did have a Mario hat that I used to put on my default PNGTuber, but that one is four years old now and showing it's age artistically, so I thought I'd make something new instead. :3

The linework here is something I'm considering doing for a future comic project! It's done by cleaning up the sketch and hardening the lines rather than relining.

WIPs and a full-res copies of the art are on my Patreon!

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[darkfictionjude]

for wwc, on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being unblinking and 10 being a normal blinker) where would you put Crowny, Lorcan, Nia & Imre and the blinking scale?

my crowny personally doesn't blink but when he does there's a slight delay between his two eyelids :]

I’ve never thought about this before. Nonnie that’s a very unique question

Crowny: 3

Imre: 7

Nia: 9

Lorcan: 10

[scottapez]

does anyone knows hwo this fuckingcat is

[squilko]

talia my precious talia

[luzzarm]

06/22/1952 - US Olympic Theleton

It's something about the way Dean blinks ♡

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[fionaapplerocks]

[julialametta]

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