USING THOSE SPIDEY SENSES: Experimenting Can Unlock Your Art

FRANCO’S FREE-FOR-ALL FRIDAYS!

By FRANCO

I get really bogged down in the day-to-day family things that happen sometimes. And creatively, when working on a few different things, my brain hits a wall and needs a hard reset. It will take different forms and I’ve learned to let myself go in those directions. Even though I know I should be working on the projects I’m supposed to.

Here’s a great example of what I mean. Cleaning out some art supplies I found this brush marker that doesn’t supply a fluid amount of ink on the paper and, seeing as how I have a hard time letting go of art supplies, I decided to explore what I could do with it.

Results of dry ink and some paint markers on colored paper:

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Franco and his forehead have traveled the world and he writes and draws stuff. Franco is the creator, artist and writer of Patrick the Wolf Boy and Aw Yeah Comics! Franco has worked on books/comics, including Tiny Titans and Superman Family Adventures. Franco was also a high-school teacher and is one of the principal owners of Aw Yeah Comics retail stores. Dan made Franco add that he has won three Eisners.

His new books, Action Cat & Adventure Bug: Let’s Do This!, with Art Baltazar, and Ninja Kaiju: Unleashed, with Scoot McMahon, both from Papercutz, are out now.

Author: Dan Greenfield

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