drawing board - thumbnails for Captive intro

did some more work trying to get the pose correct for the opening scene.

Eisner nomination!

Trickster got nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Anthology! Im a little stunned by this. Thanks to Greg Rodgers for letting me draw his story and big propos to Matt Dembicki for pulling this together and working really hard on promotion. Awesome job everyone.

Captive intro - thumbnails

bug bomb p 5 - more inks mo rinks

bugs page 5 inks

Started on the inks for pg5.should finish tomorrow.

bug bomb page 4 - speed lines again

bug bomb 4

worked on comics tonight. off to bed.

sketch

dragon cats or something....

bugzinks

Inks on page 4. Some of this is pretty good. some of it is lame. especially the spillage on the first panel. washes tomorrow or saturday.

page 3 - with speed lines.

looks better i think

Bug Bomb 3

More inks. brush and g-pen for the most part. The other day I decided to chuck the nibs but I just don't like the ink in my current set of markers/pens. So whatever. Im not setting any rules on what tool I use.

Bug Bombs 2

Spent most of the day working on the inks and washes for page 2. Pretty happy with this page. Especially the motion effect on Frankie's arm as he swings at jackie; the shot gun picture and the panel with all 5 Warlords with their hands up.

Page 1 - - Bug Bomb - - more inks

Got into a groove doing inks tonight. I liked everything but ran into an issue doing "speed lines" in panel 2. eeesh. buckets of white out needed....revisit that tomorrow with a fresh head.
added the black gutters in photoshop

and here's the same page as a double pager. just messing around.



I also had an epiphany about inking. and that's that I need to get a good technical pen and shit box trying to use dips and brushes for little details.

inks finally

friendly cove 10

It's been a month since I posted anything but I have been drawing. Here's page 10 of the, "Captive at Friendly Cove" story.

Bug Bomb page 24

last page of issue 1! Some touching up left to do tomorrow.

bug bomb 23

Bug Bomb page 22

page 21 more speed again

bug bomb page 21

I like some of this....

adding some speed

Kevin encouraged me to add some more movement into the drawings today. It's something I admire in a lot of comic art but don't really do it in my own work. So I figured I'd give it a shot.



Detail of the big kick:


more details:


I like this so far - maybe a bit too subtle. I'll be pushing this a little more as I go along.

Bug Bomb Page 20

this page sux a little but it's ok. Moving on. Attempting to do two more pages this weekend

page 19 - updated

Bug Bomb -page 19

page 18 ---again

here's page 18 (with the final 4 panels included)

bug bomb page 18

Did this page in one day except after I read the script to look for the next page I realized I left off three panels!!!! duh. back to the drawing board I gues.

page 4 friendly cove

New page scanned on my new scanner! 11 x 17 works great. Im pretty happy right now. More drawing tonight while I watch the orange bowl.

Bug Bomb page 17

layout page 17

layout for the next page...still mulling this one over. more tomorrow.

Bug Bomb Page 16

Bug bomb intro page 2

More pages...pencils seem to be working fine!

pencils FC page 2

Almost done with the pencils for page 2. moving right along.

Bug Bomb Intro page 2

First pass at page 2 of Bug Bomb.

friendly cove page 1

Getting going on pencils for Friendly Cove.

sketch

Warmup drawing I did tonight with markers.

Bug Bomb Intro page 1

References

Finally got some drawing done this week after a week in Orlando. Here are some references/sketches and models for the Friendly Cove story

Fly Ride sketch

ComicsComics

FOund this somehow and it's really interesting. Frank Santoro's ComicsComics Blog

bug bomb 13

Here's page 13. I drew and redrew this page 3 times before I settled on this layout. for some reason this page just did not want to be drawn. But It did so there. Some details to add but I'll do that tomorrow.

Friendly Cove 2

Bug Bomb page 12

Sketchbook: new junk

I got a new sketch book and a Pentel refillable brush pen in the mail today so I wanted to play with it. Did this sketch while the kids were taking a bath.

page 11 pencils

Ok. Here's page 11. Moving on to page 12 tomorrow.

Bug Bomb Page 11 progress

Bug Bomb page10: pencils

Some rough spots here but I'll clean it up under the brush. Pretty happy with a lot of this,

New Project

Here's a page from a new project I may be working on.

sailors and such

some sketches sailors. I may be working on a new story with Matt Dembicki set in the early 19th Century. This is a first sketch to get a feel for the fashion of the time.

pages 8 9 pencils