Styles of Drawing

I picked up an old copy of "The Vacuum" paper I have. (The Vacuum is a free bi-monthly newspaper published in Belfast by the arts organisation Factotum.) As it was a copy on design and the cover got me thinking of how I would like to approach the next part of my project and that is the "development work". I want to first look at a few different styles of drawing and get a better idea on how I would like to advance with my own drawings.

I like this as it looks manageable and feasible for the time constraint I have in both my timetable and the 3 minutes for the animation. Also looking at the content of my moving image it will take alot of drawing, so I don't want anything too complicated to draw. I want to keep my drawings clean and simple.

Which got me thinking about my old annuals and comics I used to read as they used minimum amount of colours, were clear and could tell the story without even having to read the words. So I thought I would look at them for inspiration (or should I say this gives an excuse to wile away a few hours looking at my old comics).

My favourite was the "Beezer" even now the cover still makes me laugh.

The memories that come flooding back when I open these books. "Pop, Dick and Harry" were my favourite. I just have the whole annual memorised from my childhood.

The colours are amazing they just pop right out at you. But it is the colours in "The Dandy" that I want to concentrate on.

They tended to use one other colur along with the black of the ink drawing and the white of the page it was drawn on, (or more yellow by the look of these pages as the books are so old).

I just think this blue is so appealing and adds to the over all look of the page. I also love the orange as I think it is really retro looking.

So I think I would like to do something like this, do my drawings in ink pen and then just add one other colour.