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  1. January 21st, 2011, 06:24 AM #1
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    Doug TenNapel: Graphic Novels, Inking, Stories, Characters

    Doug TenNapel
    I'm sure many of you know who TenNapel is already, but I want to plug him because he's very talented, inspiring, and I've actually learned quite a bit from him.

    He's probably best known for Earthworm Jim and maybe The Neverhood game, but I like him for his graphic novels. His characters are full of personality and his stories are usually original and extremely creative. His art style is great and his story telling ability and pacing is excellent. His art style takes some aspects from Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes) and some from Mike Mignola (Hellboy.) He also credits Jeff Smith (Bone) as an inspiration. He's also like a million feet tall.

    Tutorials and Interviews
    Making Comics with Doug TenNapel - Talks about inking, storyboards, etc

    Making Digital Comics with Doug TenNapel - Talks more about comic making but with digital methods.

    Only a few minutes of the following interview is about Flink (which wasn't my favorite story, personally.) The rest of the interview covers a lot of interesting topics about making comics and telling stories.
    Part 01 - Covers a bit of Flink, then his art style, then story telling.

    Part 02 - A possible Flink movie, B/W vs. Colour, more about story, artist/writer collaboration, brush type.

    Part 03 - Writing/penciling/inking time, pages done per day, his other work, advice for aspiring graphic novelists, final words.



    His graphic novels on Amazon
    If you like graphic novels or even just imaginative stories and characters, you should just get one of his later books and check it out.

    TenNapel on Twitter




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    (Oh, he also has a new webcomic up!)

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    And then God said, "Let us make man in our likeness and our image. Let us make him ridiculously hard to draw so that poor artists everywhere will have to spend 10,000+ hours failing repeatedly before they can begin to capture the form and likeness onto a two-dimensional surface." And there was man. And it was good. And artists everywhere lost their minds.
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    VERY cool. Woould not have known he did a comic!

    EWJ is a great fav of mine!
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    Quote Originally Posted by manlybrian View Post
    (Oh, he also has a new webcomic up!)
    So totally bookmarking that...
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    That was awesome-- doing my own graphic novel for the first time, this is something I really needed to hear!
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    Looks like somebody beat me to starting a TenNapel thread, and nice link selections.
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