What the Hell?

This next page is killing me...
More specifically, by the time I get back from lifeguard duty, I'm completely spent both physically and mentally... I don't seem to have the inspiration/facility to move forward at any decent pace with this page.

If I can just get the basic character colors set up, I can more easily move ahead... but for some reason, the blue shift has me a bit befuddled.

I'm happy with the first panel though... hopefully, I can realize the rest of the accursed thing soon. Only the first 2 panels are finished in this scan... I'm slowly fleshing out the 9 figure panel as I write this.

Wish me luck...

Calm before the storm...

Ok... now we get to the nitty-gritty, as they say.
From here on, we introduce a new assortment of vile characters that only last a few panels past their introduction.

Soon, the main protagonist will be introduced... and the true tale joined.

"Plug-licious..."

Popped by the MoCCA Festival at the Armory downtown this afternoon...
It turns out that the cover for "City of Fever" doesn't look too shabby after all!
They managed to get at least close to the tone of the original painting. Very surprising...

Sure... the very first interior credit page has two misspellings ("penceled" and "writen")... but at least my name is spelled correctly;)

All and all, worth the effort.

Back to the grind now...

"Lucky 13"

OK... another page in the can.
This photo-to-location transition page turned out fairly well, I must say. I'm just hoping that it jives properly with the next page's imagery... only time will tell.

The madness really begins in the next few pages... the part of the book that I've been waiting to get to while wading through all these transitional sequences... the carnage fraught studio-turned-abattoir that provides the climax of the tale!

Onward...


PS: Dig the coffee stain on that photo, baby...

Shameless Plug #1...

Just a quickie post today...

I painted a cover illustration for a friend's first graphic novel to debut at this year's MOCCA Festival this coming June.
It was a terrible rush job, given the circumstances... but in retrospect, I suppose that some of the loose spontaneity of the piece was only possible this way.

I hope that it's crude charm helps his sales somewhat...


I'm also including some interior color sketches I did for background elements for his editorial/intro page.

"1/3"...

12 pages in the can now... what a relief.
Still, I've got a looong way to go yet... but now I'm at least moving at a more confident pace.

This page was a bit tricky, but I'm pleased with the results.
The next page is the last "set up" sequence... it's all action from there on out.


Thank goodness, eh?

"Dumbbells"...

OK... here is 11 in all it's desaturated glory...
I hope that the spatter effect works well enough without it being overly gratuitous. I must admit that it went better than I had initially hoped.

I was also pleased with the panel where the titular character is escorted through one zone into another through color cues. This is the sort of transition that I spoke of in my last page entry as well...

Moving on...

The Coming Storm...

OK... I've got two new pages to post soon.
Barring a disaster, I'll have them both up by this weekend... I just need to adjust a few niggling details before I'm comfortable seeing them here in their full pigment-drained, lackluster glory.

Here is just a teaser panel I'm putting up just so I can say that I have an April Fool's post...