Daniel Crosier, Illustrator/Comic Book Artist, Thoth Engine Productions joins hosts Scott Sheppard and Gene Gable to explain his background, work, and some tips about how he created a popular wood burned comic book series “Bartholomew of the Scissors“. This unique illustrative style and technique has opened doors to many collaborative opportunities for Daniel and his work combines his original creative visions and topic ideas based on direction from art directors and comic writers.

Daniel describes his approach to this technique which involve starting with a basic piece of pine wood and simple pencil outlines. He started his first project with a basic $20 woodburning tool kit but soon found he preferred to use a basic pen tip, replicating traditional mediums, rather than use a series of specialized burning tip shapes. He explains basic trial and error have allowed him to explore various effects and often builds upon the natural grains and imperfections of the wood piece to expand the final illustration.

Once the designs and art pieces are burned onto the wood, Daniel then scans the pieces at 300dpi for finishing and layout for print. Daniel has many other projects and pieces in the works but much of his woodburning techniques lends itself well to a dark, horror inspired creative theme perfect for the underground world of comics.

To see more of Daniel’s work, visit his site at: http://www.thothengine.net or find him on Deviant Art at: http://danielcrosier.deviantart.com/. You can also connect to Daniel on MySpace or Facebook.
Design News of the Week with Jay Nelson

Jay starts the year with a preview of the exciting design oriented conferences and events for 2009. Highlights include Macworld, Graphics of the Americas, Web Directions North & South, Photoshop World Conference and workshop events, Print Oasis, and many others.

Jay maintains a special industry calendar with more details, dates, locations, and links at: http://www.design-tools.com/events/

For more on Jay Nelson and his Design Tools topics visit: http://www.design-tools.com

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