Found this process image from 2015, trying to figure out if there's a good way to do traditional colors with my comics without losing clarity(hard for me). I ended up doing painted backgrounds and digital characters on this one. It was a neat effect, but I haven't used it since.
This was from a Peanuts tribute book to which I contributed an essay, about Schulz's impact on the popular awareness of flying aces & the foreign legion as adv. genres after they'd largely disappeared from the narrative market (@LexFajardoArt & @thegalorian brought me on board)
If you're perpetually low that Dreamwork's 2003 SINBAD doesn't have an art-of book to showcase its absolutely spectacular production work, REJOICE! Because Living Lines Library put up a TON of it about 10 yrs back. I look at 'em frequently, & so ought you: https://t.co/fYrdAjnCyi
Well, it looks like I finished this page 5 years ago today (according to FB). I love playing with lettering from a formal perspective and this page is probably the one I'm proudest of in that department (meaning the blinds/whispers at the bottom, but the middle SFX is fun, too).
This weekend, Richard Shephard, formerly the chamberlain of the York Minster cathedral, passed away. He was my dad's most frequent artistic collaborator, and one of his very best friends.
Thought I'd share my approach to placing figures in an environment, which I use a lot in wider shots that establish the location of a given scene and the spatial relationships of the characters to it, and to each other.
Today's Charles Schulz's 100th birthday. Peanuts means a lot to me and my family, but there's one factor of his work that I've thought about an awful lot, and which I wrote about in a (comics) essay for a Peanuts tribute book some years back. 1/2
My favorite prequel-era thing was when they had Obi-Wan go full Jedi KNIGHT, armor and all.
A quick thread comparing the ages of the characters in Alexander Dumas's THE THREE MUSKETEERS and the ages of the actors playing them in adaptations: 1/
Tightened pencils!
I got an ipad so that i can work not-at-the-desk sometimes (I've gotten to the point where I almost exclusively do my pencils digitally, so to do anything other than fool around I needed something screeny). First sketch on it that I'm pretty happy with (about ten sketches in):
Commission for a Patreon backer, from the HOLLOW KNIGHT game
Me and & @TheKyleStarks's newest, from @Skybound/@ImageComics: 6 SIDEKICKS OF TRIGGER KEATON When the worst man in Hollywood is murdered, his 6 former supporting actors (whose careers he tanked) have to fight stuntpeople, ninjas, bikers, & more if they want to solve the crime.