There is almost half of year since I finish this , but I didn't want to put it on the web before it was published . And finally there it is . There are more in book , among lot's of other illustrations made by other Serbian illustrators . I am very satisfied with this book , it's very nice designed and very well printed . I enjoyed working on this book , and I hope it's obvious on those illustrations .
I was sitting at my friends flat speaking about comics and philosophy . What else ? You know , who is stronger Zagor or Spider-man etc ... As I need third of my brain to speak about that ( because everybody knows that Zagor is stronger ) , I had mental space to draw something in a same time . And I draw this . A bit Moebius like , but it's always like that when I speak about Zagor and Spider-man . If you wander what the f... is this , don't bother just go on the next post . And than , when I was back home I did some Photoshop retouch and ta-daaaah ! And then I brush my teeth and went to sleep ...
My fan from Belgium , asks me to make him New Years card , and if it's not a problem , to make a scan of few stages of work . I said , that's not a problem , and what is even better , you can see now whole procedure how I make all this pictures . It's combination of techniques as usually .
This is a project that I made for Belgrade Comic Fest . The idea came after I made 20 illustrations for Victor Radonjic's poems , that can fit together to make one big illustration .
It's actually
a paper band 7m long and 7cm thick. Drawings are done with mixture of
graphite pens, air brush and white gouache. After that it is coiled on
two sticks and put together in wooden box, with rewind buttons. As I
like to say, this is a one picture comic (no vertical spaces between
pictures) and you need to rewind it in order to read it. Hence the title
"Premotavanje" - Rewinding. The story is about rewinding also,
rewinding of the whole life through series of flash-back's.
This
comic artifact is also adapted for "Stripoteka" comic magazine on four
pages with five stripes each. I received Grand Prix at Belgrade
comic salon 2012. for this, some would say, ready made or assemblage or
installation. This video version is made to create the impression of
watching real box and how it looks when you rotate the buttons.
The inserted music is : Nocturno Opus N°2 - Frederic Chopin
I made a cover page for new book of Nebojsa Romcevic . I must admit that I didn't have time to read it , but receive suggestion from editor . After I finish sketch , they said : sure go ahead . But they didn't accept my design solution ( the one you can see here ) . No worry's , their solution was very good too .
