Chiaroscuro
CHIAROSCURO is the story of Steven Patch, an unemployed artist with a single blank canvas.
Steven is busy living the introspective, angst-ridden life of your average twenty-something; drinking too much and complaining about his situation while doing little to improve it.
A case of mistaken identity pushes Steven into a flow of events that brings him places he’d never imagined and forces him to make a choice between art and mere existence.
MAKING COMICS
/kee-ahr-uh-skyoo r-oh/ noun
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1.(Painting) The use of deep variation in and subtle gradations of light and shade to enhance the delineation of character and for general dramatic effect.
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2. Use of contrast in literature, etc.
“... it’s a strangely compelling, mostly picaresque slice-of-life dramady about an artist/slacker named Steve, but the story abruptly right-turns on twinges of proponquity, synchronicity and quasi-paranoia. (Creepy, bizarre events occasionally leak into the narrative, and drive it by their absence.) Good storytelling (A lot of both Eisner and Sim in there, I think), just the right dose of poignancy; it’s not so much that Little makes it so entertaining, it’s that he makes it look so effortless.”
- Steven Grant
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