I managed to squeeze in some time to ink a few panels from the Hell’s Gate short story. Uh oh, looks like someone is going to jail…
Jailhouse Rock
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Category Archives: Digital Webbing
Suicide In Progress
This is a drawing I’m working on that was supposed to be for a draw-off over on Digital Webbing. I say supposed to be because it’s taken me too long to do and I missed the deadline. And as you can see, I’m not finished, yet. I need to tighten up a few spots and I want to tone it, too. So please consider this a work-in-progress. I’ll post the final version soon.
Oh, yeah… I did this all on my Cintiq.
File It Under Fun From The Past
Here’s the inked version of a Hell’s Gate rough page that I posted a few weeks ago.
I’m now moving into the style/process of drawing that I want to make my own. From that rough to this page, no other tightening up was done. All the lines are fast and dirty. I’m leaving some of my “mistakes” in. Almost no brush was used, just to fill in the heavy black areas.
Yep. Drawing is fun, again!
Happiness In Slavery
No, I haven’t gone off to San Diego for the legendary Comic-Con International. I’m still here in Vancouver and slaving away on comic pages that I hoped to have done, last week. I’m about to dip the pen/brush into the ink but I thought I’d poke my head in here and post one of the Hell’s Gate rough pages I will be tackling.
Break In-City (Storm The Gate)
I’m doing the layouts for Hell’s Gate, now. Ian and I are working “Marvel style” on this one, meaning that I’m working from a basic plot outline. No detailed panel descriptions or dialogue. It’s a tricky but fun thing to do. I get to choose the shots. That makes it much easier to choreograph the characters.
Here is what the rough layout of page 2 looks like. Some of the panels spill over and out of the page. No worries. I’ve roughly calculated the scales of the panels and will make them all fit by re-sizing them and move them around using Photoshop. I will be inking directly from this rough.
Delivering The Goods
Last Leaf, the story that was written by Jason Mullikin and drawn by me, has moved further down the production line. A few weeks ago, friend/writer/artist Bernie Gonzalez took up the challenge of making me look good in colour. And, man, has he delivered! Here is a page from the story in its 4 colour glory… well, maybe Bernie used a few more than 4 colours…
The story is still slated to debut in the Digital Webbing: Future Fables Anthology. I’m unsure about the time line for it, though.
Tones of Home
Here’s one of the designs for the main superhero of the Hell’s Gate story. I drew this at work today and then added the tones once I got home. Nothing is finalized, in terms of the character’s look, but I thought I’d share it.
Ink and whiteout on paper. Tones and a little bit of digital drawing done on Photoshop.
Song For The Asking
Starting to work on a new short story called Hell’s Gate. It’s written by Ian Ascher and will be part of the Digital Webbing 2.0 anthology series. Although this is the opening scene of the story, what I’m showing is really just me working on a look and some character designs. I’m not sure what Ian will think of the style I am employing here. I guess I should ask…
Mostly ink and whiteout on paper. Tones and a bit of digital drawing all done in Photoshop.
Baby Can I Hold You
Most of the weekend was a Mother’s Day blur, so no Perhapanauts drawing got done. That’s not to say that I was involved in zero comic making shenanigans this weekend, however!
I have been talking with a few writers about putting together some short stories for Digital Webbing Presents v2.0. As a matter of fact, one of those writers, James Powell, and I are going to be collaborating on one for DWP as a warm up for our Yet-Untitled sci-fi/crime project. And this one story is actually a springboard for more stories. So, anthology work may be in my future for some time to come.
If you had said that my semi-immediate future would include doing more anthology work, I would have said you were on smack. You see, a few weeks ago, I swore off doing any more anthology work. Don’t get me wrong… I’ve been part of some amazing anthologies like Trickster, Postcards and Zombie Bomb!. It’s great to get to work with a variety of writers and get stuff in print but it feels like I haven’t really got anything substantial to show for all my hard work. Nothing I can just point to and say that the art in this is all me (Well, the Perhapanauts one-shot was all me… and there may be another one coming but aside from that…). I need something that I can hold and say “This is my baby.”
But, the announcement of DWP v2.0 has me feeling nostalgic (I was in a early issue of DWPv1.0, many years ago) and I thought, “What the hell?”. In addition to the story with Powell, I might be doing another DWP short with writer Ian Ascher, creator/writer of The Last Paladin, which had a number of appearances in DWPv1.0. What Ian and I have cookin’ up is going to be fun to draw, too!
So, that was my Comic book (non)creative weekend.