Oh, except that the picture is in progress, working on it in photoshop.

Take a listen! (Will also posted under the music tab on this site.)No Rest for the Restless

It’s a cameo of Constantine the great that I made to cross promote my historical webcomic, Emperors of Byzantium, and my friend Irving’s blog, Neo Byzantium.

It was done with my favorite brush-pens, on a smallish piece of bristol board.

The point I’m at now is correcting my mistakes. I somehow used the color to edit some of the faces beyond recognition, so I have to go back and study the character sheets to figure out what the heck I did wrong. Should be interesting…  Gaaaaaah

I’m doing a group shot of the major cast members on 11″x14″ bristol board. It’s mostly going to be colored pencil, with some ink details. It’s taking me a long time. (>_<)

New character, new story (entitled ‘Empathy’), trying to do a subtly new style for both. Plus… new post! Gawd, how long has it been??

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More to come as I work on a cast group ‘photo’ art piece.

I tried to use under 5 colors but sort of went over that… it’s way harder than it sounds!

But at least I got to use my new Derwents and some of my favorite prismacolors.

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.

The first is the one I’ve been working on for a while, pictures of it in progress are in the post below. It really shouldn’t have taken me so long except that I had no time.

The second picture I’ve just started, it’s inked with a brown Sakura Pigma Micron pen and colored with prismacolor and derwent pencils. It’s also of Dove, the regular-looking girl from the completed illustration and she’s looking not-quite-so regular-looking.

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.