Well, I tried really hard to get this thing out last night, but as you can see the rocks disagreed with me. Cripes, that’s a lot of ink. Maybe next time I can try and actually figure out that particular technique before I apply it to an entire page. My process is ridiculous. Comics are ridiculous. It’s amazing to me that anybody can bully their way through the mire that is making a page of this stuff. Especially with any kind of time constraints. My appreciation for guys like Jack Kirby, Jack Davis, Kurtzman, Eisner, Ditko – any of the old sweatshoppers – has only gone up as I’ve made more comics, as has my humility level (however unwillingly). I need to work way harder if I ever want to become a true comics artist.
Ah well, tomorrow is another page. Or rather, next week. Not counting other stuff I’m doing. I guess it’d be like, one-and-a-half pages a week. Plus illustrations.
Whatever. I love this song right now:
Later,
J.
Postscript: I like this comic a lot better now that it’s all put together. I still think it’s a hot mess, but it reads well, and the hatching looks far less random than it felt while I was doing it. Still, I’ve got to bone up on my Bernie Wrightson and Jack Davis and get some control over that. Cuz if I could…oh man. Sky’s the limit.
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I don’t like the way Been is interacting with that worm/tentacle thingey. It’s too floaty. No sense of weight. Probably going to give that part another pass. Otherwise, going swimmingly.
Tonight I try and write the next comic. Hooray for that. Excited to get back to routine.
Later,
J.
Cleaned up a little bit of the new print artwork. Though you might get kick out of this if I document the process a bit. So far all of this is in photoshop:
So far my favorite part are the skull teeth on the worm-tentacle-thingey that Been is riding.
Yay for skull teeth!
Later,
J.
See, I told you guys I’d post something this week.
Sketches for the book are going swimmingly, and rather fast (thankfully. I’d prefer to not be drawing the whole time I’m visiting with my Army Bro and his family this weekend), so I took a little time to play with the Billy crew outside of the comic. This is what came out:
If you click on it, it gets much bigger.
Look, a picnic!
It’s been a loooong time since I went nuts on an image and just filled it up completely. And even better, I can make some wallpapers and prints using it. It’ll probably be a little while before it’s completed, but I’ll post at least once more this week with an updated image. Probably just cleaned up a bit.
And to think I was originally thinking of drawing Been as Batman. This is way more fun (and more original, too).
Later,
J.
This one makes a dozen — I’m actually up to number 14, and will start working on number 15 tomorrow. After that, it’s summer break. I’m definitely starting to get better with color, but I’m still nowhere near adept. I’m just glad that this gives me a chance to get better at it while making a little bit of extra money.
Click it, it gets bigger. Like pump sneakers.
For those of you not in the know, check out the Dartmouth Greenlite Program. You can find more comics (all by friends and acquaintances of yours truly), and see the work they’re doing to raise awareness of daily energy usage. It’s good stuff.
Later,
J.
It’s been busy around here lately, so I haven’t been as diligent as I could have been this last month about posting some extra stuff. This ends NOW! At least until I forget again. See that? I covered my butt with that. Because I’ll totally forget again.
Anyway, here’s the next Little Steps.
