Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Batman SNOW 192 page 19

Tip 12: Draw fingers independently for more natural hands
Tip 24: Showing depth in the faces with lips and eyebrows

Hands and faces. Without the word balloons the story is still told clearly through very expressive faces and hands, as shown by this page. The second panel especially shows Batman making his play for information, while the man he is talking to smokes his cigarette and remains uninvolved. The interplay between the two is elegantly caught in hands, brows, and "camera angle", and though without the words we can't know the subject, we can see the tension.

I was going to use this page just to talk about hands and eyebrows, but I see that perspective plays a big role here also: perspective and the setting, a gritty area of demolition and construction, where no one is around at night except for feral cats and miscreants--and Batman meeting an informant.

1 comment:

j_ay said...

I was going to use this page just to talk about hands and eyebrows, but I see that perspective plays a big role here also

That’s one of the lovely things about Seth’s pages: *every* page has many, many engaging qualities about it and clearly several examples of his guidelines within.