Sunday, September 20, 2009

Over the hump...


Whew...

This was perhaps the most difficult (image-wise) page of the story to get through...
With the unsettling imagery and multiple effects, this page was really a true test of my newfound coloring skills.

It was hard to keep the color simple but interesting while trying not to over-accentuate the brutality of the action on display...
I'm happy with the results... but I'm still sure that I will be tweaking the image further as I push forward and better master the tools at my disposal.

The next page contains the last two video panels in the story... but I've got a good handle on them now so I'm not as concerned as I was when I began this sequence. Also, the following story sequence contains one of the most violent panels in the entire tale... but because those involved are less than savory characters, it doesn't bother me nearly as much these past panels where an innocent girl is terribly violated and I can really get into the intensity of the image.

Heading into the final stretch soon... but still have a looong way to go before I can begin to relax...

Saturday, September 12, 2009

"No... I'm not a real murderer... but I play one on T.V.!"



Wow... was this one a doozy!
So many goofy effects, one after the other... this page has so many layers to it that I spent more time struggling to keep them from overlapping or obscuring one another than actually coloring them!!!

Still... I'm quite happy with the results.
I'll be able to re-use the video timecode effect for the next page as well... that should certainly save some time.

Good fun, this one...

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

A spare glance...



Just a quick post to cover me until I post the next page or so of progress...
This was a quick 20 minute sketch I did a week or so back. The model had never posed before and was a bit skittish... but the image seems to conveys her modest elegance...

Please pardon the crappy quality... I took the photo with my phone because of the scale of the thing. Maybe sometime soon, I'll re-scan it in pieces and put them together for a proper image.

Page 17 is finished... I'm just trying to figure out how to add a simple finishing effect to a few of the "video" panels.
Once the problem is solved, page 18 is nearly finished as well;)

More soon...