I’m working on a comic book for a small, new publisher. It’s a fun project, and it’s one I didn’t write, so that’s extra exciting. But it’s time consuming. I’ll post a link to it when it’s time, and see if you guys are interested in a comic book about a ninja.
So… how many mirrors in YOUR car? And if you had to get one of them out of there to hold up next to a possibly dead guy’s mouth, could you?
Several of you have said I need to create a little video of my drawing Hubris (and/or The Buckets) so here’s one-
I will say that, if it seems rushed, that’s only because I already had it written (and lettered on the pencil layout sheet) before I started the camera.
All you get is me doing the pencils and then the ink work. Hope it’s not too dull.
I can’t recall if I posted this before, but for anyone who is entertained by such stuff, here’s what an unfinished Hubris cartoon looks like:
I print out these 8.5X14 sheets with boxes of the right height and width, divided into quarters and thirds. There are also lettering guides printed all over the space. I lay out my lettering, draw in the balloons and boxes, then fill in the space left with little drawings.
Then the thing gets slapped onto a huge light table drawing board that I have. A nice clean sheet of 100 lb, hot press surface slick thick paper gets laid over the penciled page, and all the ink gets put down. And the white-out. And then the correct ink, til the whole thing is done.
Then it goes in the scanner, it’s colored in photoshop, I save two different sizes, and I post the smaller one to the web here.
And if all that stuff sounds like it ought to take an hour, tops, well it sounds that way to me, too. And we’re both wrong.
So at the convention a few weeks ago, I was giving away Hubris and Buckets pencil pages. I stamp the backs of them with the web address and use them as freebees. A friend of mine (who does real comic books) said I could be selling them, but I think they’re better used as marketing tools, especially since 1) I still have the finished art on another paper altogether and 2) my pencil pages are so loose as to be offensive. Wanna see?
Here you go:
I change things on the fly- the spacing and size of the characters, the words… weird stuff. Fast and loose is my game.
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