Newness

Friday, November 6th, 2009 | Art, Comic, Empathy | No Comments

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

(click on the thumbs for larger images and semi-explanatory text)

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

Tags: Art, Character, Comic, sketch

I said I wouldn’t but

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 | Art | No Comments

I did anyway. I colored Soggy Zariel! I think it looks better.

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.

Tags: Art, Character, Complete, illustration

Not quite right, but…

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 | Art, Failed Tales | No Comments

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.

Tags: Art, Character, Complete, illustration

Pictures completed and begun

Sunday, June 28th, 2009 | Art | No Comments

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.

Tags: Art, Character, Complete, illustration, in progress

WIP Maiden & Ogre

Monday, June 1st, 2009 | Art, Comic, Failed Tales | No Comments

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.

Tags: Art, Character