Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Suite
I always knew this panel would be a bastard, and I still haven't peopled/ shaded it yet. I'm afraid my eyes have given up the ghost for this kind of thing though...for the next few hours, at least. All those lines...blimey :)
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
3 More to go...
Just a handful of pages left, then I'm pretty much set for the convention. The room is booked, weekend tickets are bought. Just the press-pack left to assemble. I'm pretty excited about it, actually :)
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
New Page One Finished
I'm much happier now with the way the story starts, and I've managed to sneak in some more back-story for the pages I'll be working on next.
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Friday, April 20, 2007
Page Zero
With the Bristol comics convention about 3 weeks away, I've my work cut out to complete pages 15/ 16/ 17 and 18, colour them, and also get a press-pack ready. I'm also in the process of re-lettering, and have bought 3 new fonts from here to that end. I've lettered the first 7 pages again, and they certainly help give them that professional finishing touch. Comic Sans isn't really the answer :)Looking forward to Sunday's life drawing sesh...As my ex work colleague Toni says, 'it must be nice swanning around drawing all day' Well, yes, actually it is :)
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Monday, April 16, 2007
Page 14...A Tricky Couple of Frames
It's taken 2 hours over the weekend plus most of the morning for this...setting up two very similar frames to show a transition from one scene/ time to another, but with all characters in the same pose in each. A cinematic trick, I guess. Anyway I think it's worked quite well, so I guess it was worth spending time on it :)
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Sunday, April 15, 2007
Life Drawing Session # 2
Today was a beautiful spring day, so we picnicked in the park for a few hours, playing tennis and exploring the woods with the kids, getting carried away. So I wandered into life drawing class about half way through the sesh. Still, I managed to get a good-ish stab at it. I'm so glad I found this class.I'm now on page 14 of Chickenheads...lots of perspective to render, and also the introduction of Bruno to the story. Cool, because I really like drawing the character. I managed to sketch the first 2 panels early this morning, so hopefully by the end of this coming week I'll be back on course for my six-pages-per-month target, with a bit of self-discipline of course. :)
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Easter Lull
I don't know whether to pencil all six and then ink them in one hit, or ink as I go as I have been...For some reason today I feel like drawing new stuff rather than embellishing very recent work. Then again, at the end of the pencilling, embellishing 6 familiar pages in a row might just blow my mind :)
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Sunday, April 8, 2007
Life Drawing Class
Jimmy also has alot of comercial art experience, even in comics, and has already given me a few real gems of knowledge to point me in the right direction. Today was my first session, and I can really see this helping with my overall standard of artwork. After all, it's about time I stopped faking anatomy :)
My first effort:
Second effort...and the one I was happiest with:
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Friday, April 6, 2007
Glad to See the Back of it...
Phase 2, that is :)Lettering over the remainder of the weekend, then I'll try and get the next six pages done and dusted for the convention. Happy Easter, btw :)
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Thursday, April 5, 2007
The Moody Blues
Just one more to colour, then I'll have to letter the last 6 pages. I'm not too convinced with Photoshop lettering to be honest, despite it being better than my hand-crafted efforts. It may just be down to the poxy default fonts it gives you. Maybe I'll have to look into getting some software designed specifically for the job?
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Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Page 10 Coloured. Featuring....
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Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Phase 3
So with phase 2 winding down (the finishing off of the second batch of 6 pages...colouring and lettering) I've actually scripted pages 13 - 18 already. This is an introduction to the Lion character, Bruno, and the story switches to his point of view for a bit. The sympathetic villain ploy. :) It is also the build up to the first major action sequence in the story (I am seriously looking forward to scripting/ drawing pages 19 - 24) and so I'm hoping to keep the pages churning out at a good pace to reach this point swiftly.There's a comics convention coming up in May in Bristol. But there's no way I'll have 'Chickenheads' ready for it, and I really wanted to show the whole thing to people, rather than half, backed up with a load of waffle and a few pages of left over script. Tough call really. Do I show it in part, or do I just go to the convention and soak up the comicky vibes? I'll have to think about this VERY carefully :)
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