Doc Shaner

『ガメラ3』公開27周年

New book out very soon

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I know I haven't been posting much art lately, because so much of it has been commissioned I can't post yet, I'm doing the unemployed rice and beans thing hahah

I do have a Kofi if you want to let me have more spare time to draw more silly fanart 😌✨

ko-fi.com/jam_etc

octo-pest

PLANE TROUBLE

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

Oh man, 14?! Ooooof.

This is a very good idea, would definitely be interested were you to do such a thing.

If I offered 13 spots drawing your favorite musicians for 100 bucks a piece would any of you be interested? The original you'd get would be 4.25 X 5 and black and white. Willing to draw whole bands too for 250 (8.5 X 11)

People overseas love their kids just as much as you love yours. Your kids aren’t more special just because they were born on US soil

You know what you could do today instead of doomscrolling all day is go pick up a copy of Persepolis. It is stunningly good.

So sad to share that legendary colorist Tatjana Wood has passed away at the age of 99. Her pioneering painterly touch graced scores of DC & Vertigo series. She was truly one of a kind and a special friend. May her memory be a blessing.

Goddammit.

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img

acefoundationict.org

My cover for the BRAND NEW DAY Vol.2 TPB by various creators. Coming June 2 from Marvel.

god dammit Larkin

Black Canary

OAX 2026

It is a really sharp package, man.

In honour of the announcement of a new Doom Patrol title coming this summer from @dc.com, here's a cool Cliff Steele I snagged from @docshaner.bsky.social last year.

Dammmmmitttttttt

Copies of Darwyn Cooke's The Complete Spirit Connoisseur Edition and Batman: Ego The Deluxe Edition by Darwyn Cooke. Desk not by Darwyn Cooke but still very nice.

Coming to terms with the fact that if they're going to keep putting out new editions of this stuff, I (a sucker) will keep buying them.

Text: "Planes" are a depiction of anything that exists in a drawing at a FiXED spatial distance from the viewer, with each grouping of subjects at a shared distance overlapping the next in order to suggest the spatial relationship of each element in the drawing to the others. This image has three planes: (Image of a drawing with a scorpion on a rock, a cowboy sitting on a rock, and a mountain in the background). Each plane in an image signifies a different degree of distance, with the foreground SHARiNG the viewer’s spatial plane, and the background being the farthest from it. There’s clear distance between each plane; no plane “touches” another.

Text: why is overlapping the planes necessary? (image: a cowboy apparently close to the viewer, one a ways back, and then a saloon behind him). Unless one plane directly overlaps another, there’s no sure clarity that they are, in fact, suggestive of different distances. (image: the cowboy appearing to be closest is shown to be a giant, swinging the apparently midground cowboy by the head into the two-story saloon that's only about as tall as a person). it’s also important to suggest scale in each plane using subjects whose size the audience is likely to know. when that isn’t possible, try repeating the element-of-unspecified-scale (a) from one plane in another and have it (B) interact there with a subject whose scale is clear. (image: a small round cactus in the foreground, and farther off a cowboy sitting on a similar cactus)

Text: A perspective grid composition (A) suggests depth by progressive recession in space, while planar composition (B) suggests it with staggered recession in space. (image: a receding grid and a series of staggered planar elements) The principles of overlapping planar composition can be used with a perspective grid, especially if there are elements with right angles (like buildings). Rough your panel with plane elements in place first... ...then make/place a grid that fits your layout... ...then utilize the grid to make the receding angles match.

(image: a wanted man hiding against a wall while a cowgirl crossed the street, looking around). One of the most useful* aspects of a foreground element is to create a sense of immersion for your audience. by putting it on essentially the same plane as the audience itself, the audience becomes a part of the story, seemingly able to touch the foreground, to lean around it for a better view. (image: the wanted man is now decidedly a foreground element). *it also means less time spent drawing all of the detail in the midground or background planes without ever aesthetically shortchanging your audience.

Hey, friends! Here are some thoughts on using planes in your compositions.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

Yeah man, it’s called anything that can be useful and make my bills go down instead of a thing that can’t do anything without my help and doubles my electricity bill

Had to circle back and tell you this was a solid rec. Really enjoyed it, thanks!

Don't worry, you'd have plenty of time to get away from me.

thank you!

Then it worked!

Hahaha yesssss there he is

Haha, I saw it! It rules.

Thanks brother!