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Just posting a panel from a page I’m working on this evening. It’s a relatively small one from the page, but I feel pretty good about the mood of it. My style most often gets me some pretty light-hearted projects, so I don’t get to play with heavy shadows as often as I want. So yeah. Looky.
Continuing what I had started back in October, I’m going to lift the curtain on the thumbnail-to-inked-page process on PLUCK, my weekly webcomic for Zuda. The whole season is going to be some 60 pages long, so if nothing else I’ll have a collection of fun little posts to look back on and be ashamed of learn from.
Picking right up after page eight’s quaint little cliffhanger, our POV switches over to Pluck’s on page nine (above), and we see the king for the first time. I originally wanted to show some sort of banquet right behind the king’s throne, but as I thought about it later on it made less and less sense for the king to let his subjects see he was all human like that.
With Pluck getting a little too cocky on page ten, I wanted the king to put him in his place and to have a somewhat sinister air to him, hence the heavy shadow obscuring him in panel 3. I changed character sizes in panel 4 and 5 mainly to make room for word balloons, but the layouts from the original thumbs are pretty intact.
Panel 3, I felt, needed to be punched up a bit to give a bit more immediacy to the king’s words, so I scrapped the original shot and zoomed in on the king doing his best Uncle Sam. I then made the amulet panel out to be the only predominantly black one in the page, to give it a bit more weight. To mirror it in panel 7, I made Pluck’s frock blacker than usual, letting the amulet stand out a bit more in the overall layout of page eleven.
Once I started page nine, it had already been agreed that Gabe’s brother Matt would be coming onboard to provide lush colors for the comic. So there’s a steady and very slow transition of me doing less and less blacks so that the line art can let a bit more color in. Gabe is pretty hands on with the layout process and usually does his own set of layouts that I later build on, but we’ve gotten to a point in our creative relationship that we can pretty much riff on each other’s ideas very freely. We’ll probably be moving in together soon as well.
Be good. Go here. Read PLUCK.
It took me a coupla tries before I got to a version I was actually happy with. Managed to solve the asymmetry of the first version and ended up with this. After magically avoiding an alternate version that came dangerously close to looking like “Prick,” I think I’ve come to a final draft.
I like to fiddle with ambigrams and word art sometimes, so I figured I’d do a test logo for PLUCK, the series I draw for Zuda Comics. Obviously I’ve taken a few liberties in this case, as the closed belly of the “u” prohibits any effective 180-degree flippage, but I find it neat anyway.
Read the webcomic here.
This is my interim piece before i plunge into another ‘poster project’ … I’ve always held a fascination for World War II history and have long thought about doing a piece showcasing its top political and military leaders.
Below is one of my brother Roby’s new sketches featuring selected historical figures. You can see the rest of the art here.
My brother Roby just recently finished his special tribute poster for the Edward Zwick film GLORY. Took him about five months to finish the piece, what with juggling between his day job and roles as a father and husband. I’m not going to blab on about this because I’m pretty sure the art speaks for itself, but if you’re interested in reading about his process, follow this link. Comments are much appreciated.
Out this week from Image Comics is the 25th issue of Alex Grecian and Riley Rossmo’s cryptozoological indie book PROOF. There’s a pinup gallery in the second half of the book that includes such talents as Tim Seeley and Andy Kuhn. I somehow weaseled my way in with a shot of the Dover Demon. The guys had mentioned that they found my Horror Classics portrait-style illustrations interesting and asked if I was up for doing a page for their silver anniversary issue. Me being me, I jumped at the chance to just draw another cool monster. Up there beside the cover is a little peek.
Here’s a page from JUDAH. Immortal undead. Fallen angels. Shady dealings. And of course, boobies.
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