5 posts tagged “comic”
Alright, so inksville arrived a bit quicker than I was expecting. I just couldn't hold back from inking this piece. I had a brand new pair of Faber Castell PITT brush pens (my old ones were getting... old), so I hit it like whoa.
Woosh! Long time between posts, huh. Alas, 'tis the season to be lazy. Incidentally, a Happy Festivus to alla y'all!
So okay, here's a new sketchoodle.
I used photo reference for this one, as I've been doing a lot lately. Here's a quick Photoshopped merge of the two photos that I went with. The dude is a photo the guy himself posted on a design forum I sometimes frequent, and the bird is some anime fan cosplaying the day away, by the looks of it. Google Images is a wonder.
Both of the guns look pretty bad right now; I kind of forgot to finish those off before scanning the sketch. That's okay though, I'll tweak those a bit before this piece goes to ink. I'm not 100% happy with the girl's torso; it's very bare down the centre. I wanted her to have smallish breasts, so I can't just go filling the space by squeezing her wee boobs together. I'll come up with something. Or maybe I'll just leave it. I dunno. What do you think?
Learning and experimenting with markers. I really should use more appropriate stock; tracing paper may be good for setting up the drawing, but it's not much use for colouring on! It's got no bleed/absorption, so the marker ink just sits on the surface. If I try to do any shading, it just creates a pool of ink - even if I wait for it to dry! I have a solution in mind though, and I shall reveal it later. It involves the misappropriation of employer supplies. XD
Okay, some test colours for the bad guy. This is my first time working with markers, so please forgive the fact that this isn't awesome!
I used Pantone markers for this, which are an alcohol-based professional quality set of markers, and they're quite expensive. Think AU$60 (roughly US$45) for a box of 6! We've got 5 boxes so far, heh.
Alas, I don't yet have as many colours as I'd like, and the guy's hair turned out a bit orange. He'll have darker brown hair in the comic, but maybe blonde. Not sure yet.
Anyway, I hope you dig it! The final colours in the actual cover will be much nicer, I hope. This is all practice. :)
Alright, the comic now has a name! I was aiming for something that embodied the silly, almost Engrish-like qualities of most Japanese manga titles - Initial D, Wangan Midnight, and Over Rev! being the standout examples in the world of car-related manga! Alas, I couldn't come up with anything, so I put it to the gang over at the JDMStyleTuning.com forums - my online home away from home. You'd think my online home would be some sort of art-related community, right? Ah well, my first love has always been things wot go fast, hehe.
After a lot of misfires from most folks, one of the members came up with Endless Spirit: Final Evolution Z. I just can't put into words how perfect that is! It means almost absolutely nothing deliberately, but at the same time it could mean absolutely anything I want to. That's perfect Engrish. I've put together a bit of an early concept for a logo, and it follows in the path of the Wangan Midnight and Initial D logos. As you can see, I am unashamedly ripping off every car manga I can think of!
The next sketch is the bad guy, with one of his slags clinging to him. I haven't got a name for him yet, and he's not technically a "bad" guy. You see, Alex and he were racing one night about 5 years back - before Alex got the Demon Z - and the bad guy had his younger sister in the passenger seat of his car. Something happened to Alex's car, causing him to collide with the bad guy's car. The bad guy's car went careening into a power pole after a couple of spins, and his sister wound up dead. The bad guy has sworn vengeance, and in the 5 years since that night, he's become quite the rough nut.
Anyway, that's the idea at this point.
So these two sketches will be combined into one piece, with the comic's logo mixed in somewhere too.
I hope y'all dig it!
Both of the above sketches, as per usual, are from photo reference. I can't take credit for the poses, only for the faces and the general cartoony style.
