New Samples for San Diego Comic Con!
Well those in the Shono Blogosphere…. The 1 living person, thats probably my mom, and the 3,001,238,491 imaginary readers in my head (yes I imagine half the population of the world reads my blog, thats healthy right?)….
Okay way to start of a blog post with a random rant. ANYWAYS I’m going to the legendary San Diego comic con! I’m leaving tomorrow and i’ve been busy updating my website and drawing new sample pages.
Though I have alot of line art this last year from the work I’ve done with Zenescope, their characters are not instantly recognizable. I like to draw easily recognizable characters for conventions so publishers can see how i will handle their properties. For example, EVERY publisher knows what Spiderman and Batman are SUPPOSED to look like. So if i draw those characters they know how my style will look, and they’ll know i won’t butcher their beloved properties. However if i draw my creator owned characters, or characters from a lesser known indie book, some publishers might not know if I’m drawing it right….. does that make any sense?
So this year I chose a Witchblade script! I’m a big fan of Top Cow, especially Witchblade and The Darkness, so i just jumped into this script!
The different in these samples, compared to every other sample i’ve ever done, is the process. I did something i’ve never done before, and that was a digital underdrawing. Typically i draw out a comic book page using blue pencil, that allows me to be as messy as i typically am. Then I pencil tightly over the blue lines and when i scan the blue lines disappear. But this time i did my “blue pencil” on a program called Manga Studio. This seemed to work alot better. I can fix drawing errors faster and easier. Plus manga studio has time saving tools like the perspective ruler, that allows me to draw perfectly in perspective! (cause i REALLY REALLY REALLY hate drawing perspective lines by hand.)
Once the Blue line is done, i print it out onto a comic book board and then I pencil tightly by hand, and scan it back in! I think these are my best pages to date, but what do you think?
Witchblade sample p1
Witchblade sample p 2
Witchblade Samples p3
Witchblade Samples p4
Witchblade samples p 5
Tomorrow I’ll show you this new Digital process i’ve been talking about before i head out to San Diego.
And if you’re in San Diego and see me say hi! I look exactly the way i do on my website…. except taller and….not a cartoon…
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