Finished the Daughter of the Sun picture! The biggest change in my technique with this one is that I started coloring on a base of the light yellow, in other words, with a colored background as opposed to white. I feel like this could have used something more, but I got sick of staring at it and decided to call it done.

First is the sketch, looking pretty muddy and smudged, and second is the inks and the beginnings of the colored pencils/markers. It’s too bad I didn’t scan the inks, because they looked kinda cool.

With this picture I’m trying to establish a color palette and overall feeling for the comic that I’m working on for the iphone. You can see some digital panels here and here, but I’m considering a switch to mixed media on bristol board. I would use marker, colored pencil, watercolor, acrylics, construction and origami paper to make it more interesting and textured. At the moment though, I don’t know which way I’ll go, it depends on whether a publishing deal works out or not.

The interesting thing about the iphone comic medium is that I can make it work more like a movie than a comic. The story itself is more episodic than a usual story form, so I think it will lend itself well to the iphone.

The third is a roughed out panel, with the beginnings of the lines drawn out. As might be obvious, I started with a scanned paper sketch, messed around a bit to get the right layout and scale, then began inking with my tablet. I like having something more organic to start off with when I do digital work, though the few pictures that I’ve made entirely on the computer turned out fine.

So these? Yeah, the first three panels of the story, hesitantly titled “Failed Tales,” sans word balloons/narration boxes.

… Please keep in mind that they are not meant to be viewed on a computer but rather the comparatively tiny iphone screen. The rough-ness. It burns. I have to hold myself back from smoothing everything out, because then it looks like crap, (I’ve tested it, I know) and it takes way too much time.

Oh and check the Byz-ness out if you haven’t recently, it’s still going strong!