Things I'm working on

Hello, lost soul. If you expected any sort of salvation or salve that might cure your cancer in this little segment of the internet I'm calling my own, you are sadly mistaken. You've stumbled on the blog of an aspiring comic book artist and draftsman hopeful who doesn't do much else other than the usual crap. Y'know, stuff. Watching stuff, listening to stuff, reading stuff, going out with some friends stuff, buying stuff, getting tired of university and cursing at some teachers stuff, fixing stuff up, doing stuff, getting too critical over my stuff leading to mild depression stuff, looking for stuff to do. Y'know, stuff.

In this blog you'll see the various concoctions I'm mostly working on, mostly penciling, inking and lettering some comic pages, some scripts for comics I'll eventually draw, others are researching for scripts that I'll eventually draw. See a pattern here?

I do draw other things, of course. Mostly life studies in order to better learn the anatomy and form of the human body or master studies of the works of some of the greats who have interested me in some way. As a result you should expect a lot of brush-and-ink/pen-and-ink since I waste a lot of my time on comic books and have since become very familiar with the various artists working in the medium. I might do some watercolor stuff or some inkwash, who knows? Just expect lots of black ink and paper. You have been warned. Let's get on to the more interesting things.

The following pages are for an online anthology called Premier Comics. The latest issue they've published has some of my work, work I'm not too proud of since I did that a year or so ago and I've changed my approach and how I draw since then. At least some of my work is out there. Download it here: http://premiercomics.com/archives/1414

I drew these on some of Canson's student's watercolor paper, 200GSM.
Sorry I didn't scan these, they're rough sketches so there isn't a lot of detail on them anyway. There isn't much to miss.

You can see a fuck-up I did there in the third page. I made a few corrections in white ink but since I plan to inkwash these things, thus adding a color that isn't some form of black or white. I can't just turn up the brightness and contrast to hide little things like that. So I had to cut it out and replace the panel. 

 

The script was made by another (more) talented individual (with a lot more balls than I) whom I know of as Daze, which is obviously his online pseudonym. The pages will probably be lettered by myself, just like in Soul Food.

The process of turning the script into text wasn't too bad, seeing as it was complete by the time I got my hands on it. Unlike a few other scripts I've played around with before, this was the simplest since I wanted to adhere to the script completely, no changes. I didn't feel like doing something else with it, like what I did with that third page in Soul Food. The main thing that was off from the script, in Fair Winds, was my idea to make the bleed black and expand the borders of the final panel beyond the normal set within the issue itself.

I should be working on this again in a few days, I just need to loosen up my drawing muscles. I haven't drawn in some time since the final weeks of classes were getting in the way, but it's done already so there's no excuse. I can't wait to work on these again.


So this sums up my first official blog post with actual content. Woo. We just hit a milestone.