11 pages and counting

page-1, originally uploaded by MDTSHORT.

Photo set of the first 11 inked pages put up on flickr for sharing etc. I have pencils scanned for p12 (but not for 13) and am working on p 14 now. Moving right along. Anyway I was playing with various venues for posting/viewing this stuff and flickr seems pretty good. Tell me what you think - either here or there.

Process page 14 - sketch

Here is the first pass at page 14. sketch the whole thing with light pencil (2h or 4h). Making sure everything is ok before adding any lines or tone. (The big ugly gray streak in the middle is due to my small scanner.)

Kitchen links

Links for research:

Kitchen 1

Kitchen 2

Kitchen 3
lots of kitchen pics here

Darkness is Spreading!!!

This is supposed to be a night scene so here is the first cut at making the street dark....I will do the othe half of the dbl page tomorrow

He's the DJ I'm the Rapper

Its DJ MARKIE and Chubbystubby

my last FM site

yeah these are the last 10 songs I listened to...

go to last.fm to see a little more

less blurry...but also less interesting

here is another less blurry pic.

Bollocks!!

Took a picture of all the pages we have so far......and it's friggin blurry!!! Oh well, I had some beers when I took the pic so I guess it's not all that surprising!!! anyway....more later.

double page spread

first double page layout I've ever really done. here are just the first draft pencils. Still need to go back and add shade etc.. This took me a long time to even begin but I am pretty happy with the results.

Chef Special

Picture I pencilled and Bruce inked last week. This was sort of a prelim/practice for doing a scene in a casino kitchen.

Page 9

Here are the pencils from page 9 of the comic. Starting to draw and compose better I think.

Sketch 2

Another Sketch....

Sketch

Just started a comic project with a guy from work. Here are some sketches. Tell me what you think.

pages from Hank's war

Last night I scanned in the old pencils and parital inks of the comic we did with April back in early 1997. We are close to the 10 year anniversary of this work. Also these are the first comic pages I ever did. The cover is an add-on I did a couple months ago after a cover from the Losers.


Hank's War

Process...

the pic below was an attempt to draw a nice background and then more cartoony characters. I think it came out pretty good. Here I have put the original photo background next to the drawing I did of it and added a photoshop combo of the two pieces...

Drawing more

comments welcome

psion sketch

Reading the "Buy my Books" column on CBR...Kirkman was hyping up his collaborator Cory Walker. Walker has an easy cartoony style which inspired me to draw.

Alexander...closer to great

Finally got to work a little more on this and then my computer died. I had to rescan and recolor the entire thing. Tell me what you think?

Alexander the Great

Here is the first draft of the Alexander drawing I am doing for Koli. Still haven't finished rendering with color and need to add the title. Comments welcome.

interesting article on work for hire rights

Started doing a little research on the whole ownership of creative property . The Star Wars dude asked if I'd do some concept art for a movie he is pitching to some "Hollywood Execs." Riiiight. Anyway, I humored him and said I was interested just to make sure I'd get the stupid stormtrooper helmet. It sounds like anything I'd create for this guy would become his property but I could retain rights to any original art. I THINK that means that if that guy wanted to take that Star Wars drawing I did, mass produce it, and sell it, he could do it without me seeing a single penny. I could only take the original drawing and sell that if I wanted. It's a shitty deal for an artist, particularly if you design something like the Terminator endoskeleton for a movie studio, the movie goes on to spawn sequels, merchandise, comic series and you never see another cent more than your original fee.

In this case, the guy hasn't offered anything yet - just asked if I was interested. In all likelihood, it'd prob. be for another homemade movie prop. Sounds like a lot of work for little reward. If the guy asks for a design for a cryogenics technician without much more description, the artist is doing all the work: costume design, chracter physical attributes, etc. Not sure it's worth it, other than the slim chance of having something you design get put into a movie.