Sovena Red
Posted by johnamor | Filed under Art, Work
Below are a whole buncha pages from SOVENA RED, a lighthearted superhero fairytale by Rod Hannah. An entire first issue (with interior colors by Paul Little) is in the can and being showed off at cons. I had a lot of fun working on this, so hopefully these are characters I can play with again in the future.
Previous posts showed other pages, but the gallery has it all in order.
Cover Girl
Posted by johnamor | Filed under Art, Work
With SOVENA RED #1 in the can, I recently pulled cover duty and got to experiment with coloring techniques — a playground I don’t get to visit often. Here’s a closer look at the grayscales for some facial detail I tried my very best not to screw up. Click?
Show you guys some pages soon.
Tags: comic art, grayscale, inks, john amor, pencils, Photoshop, rod hannah, sovena red, superhero, toning
One Year Later
Posted by johnamor | Filed under Rants
Okay great. So I’ve been busy making sure a handful of projects got squared away and finished, complete with complimentary ribbons and back rubs. August and September was a time of reckoning of sorts, as it forced me to learn the pitfalls and perils of not paying attention to deadlines. I guess above everything else, though the indie scene has allowed me a broad playground to run around naked in, the fact that there are no deadlines has pretty much spoiled me. That dawg just won’t hunt, know what I’m sayin’? I’m just lucky I have enough work lined up to still be okay for the next coupla months. Gotta pick up the pace though. And no more whining. I’m lucky enough as it is I get noticed in such a fickle medium. No more whining.
So it’s been a little over a year since I started drawing comics full-time. I suppose it’s only fitting I mature somewhat at this junction, yeah? Do I miss commuting to and rocking a Joe job? Hellz no! There’s nowhere and no way I’d rather be than waking up at noon and sleeping close to dawn, hunched over my desk, drawing all the time. Nothing else could fulfill me more. But that being said, as fun as it sounds… it’s work. You screw up, there are consequences. You slack off, food and lights don’t happen. And it’s all on you.
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Fun Fact (because you can’t ever know too much about me and the universe does in fact revolve around my keyboard): I celebrated my birthday on 9 – 9 – 9. It’ll be a while before we roll back around to those digits again. Tell your mommies.
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I recently turned twenty-six, and Jad flew over to spend a few days with me. It’s funny how a whole year ago I would be going on about how cool getting to draw killer robots and alien monsters was… but now the work has a sense of meaning aside from the obvious story that simply has to be told. Know what I mean? I don’t mean to get all mushy and shit… but it simply feels like I’m now also allowed a story of my own. A good one at that.
So this second year is going to be about getting serious — sequential-wise, speed-wise, relationship-wise, even motherfuckin’ blog content-wise (maybe). So I hope you bastards stick around to watch the pastrami fly.
I don’t know what that means.
Howzit.
Judah
Posted by johnamor | Filed under Art, Work
Some approved pages from Will Prince’s quasi-religious fantasy tale JUDAH. I’m currently working on the rest of this and basically trying to wise up as best I can in terms of composition and lighting to suit the subject matter. Hope you guys dig these.
Tags: comic pages, inks, judah, lighting, sequentials, shadow, the lonely, William Prince
