Another rough from today. I wanted to design some female characters and thought I would make the first one a sergeant. With the roughs, I'm just trying to get a feel for the characters and style of the art I want to do. It's coming along.
We've already got an idea of what the flow of the first three issues of Space Corps is going to be. I roughed up covers for the first three issues. I won't do anything polished until I have a good feel for the characters, but I can already tell that this is going to be a fun universe to play in.
Here is a cover I penciled and inked recently. I did the pencils as part of the Intro to Comic Art class taught by Robert Atkins. The class was outstanding; if you want o read a full review of the class, click here: Link
Kyle Tobin did the colors on this. Kyle and I have been working together for years on t-shirt designs and are just now starting to collaborate on comics projects. Kyle and I also just finished Chris Sotomayor's class in comic book coloring, which was also fantastic. We've got a few self published projects in the works, so we took the classes to make sure we can bring our A-game.
More concept work for the story I'm working on. Just have to keep fleshing out the universe visually. I'm getting more of a feel for it as I go.
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This story was written by Amy Chu who I met through the Comics Experience. It was written for the October Challenge. The challenges are nice to illustrate because they are complete stories that are usually short, so I can do roughs like these a single sitting.
Be sure to check out Amy's blog to see what else she has been working on: Nerdygal.com
And here is the story:
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Rocket Town is written by Joey Groah, my new-found collaborator who is also working with me on several other projects. Joey and I are talking about making a pitch comic out of Rocket Town and the following pages are where we're at in the process.
If you want to see more of Joey's writing, be sure to check out his Dry Seasons website: Link
Here are the Rocket Town roughs:
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I'm currently enrolled in an Intro to Comic Book Art class at the Comics Experience. I'm two weeks in and I don't think I've ever enjoyed a class at any level as much as I'm enjoying this. The class has top notch instruction from Robert Atkins and a smart use of internet technology. Furthermore, the education philosophy of the enterprise fits in with mine. Here is a tidbit from the syllabus:
HOMEWORK:
This is entirely up to you. I don’t give speeches about it. As an editor, I expect you to meet the deadlines no questions asked. Our class outline is tight. You miss a week, I don’t know how you’ll be able to make it up. You get as much as you put into this course.GRADE:
I don’t give you one. You’ll know what your grade is when you go out into the world and start to pitch stuff.ATTENDANCE:
Come as often or as little as you like. I obviously suggest that you come to all six sessions.
Not getting grades is actually very important. It frees student artists up to take risks without having to worry about being punished for them. If I want to go out on a limb with something experimental, I'm free to do so.
Below is the pre-critique version of our first assignment. We had to take a prose novel and covert it into a three pages of rough layouts. I chose to do Fight Club, which was one of our options. It turned out to be much harder than I thought it would be. In a novel, the author has to tell you everything. In a comic book however, the creative team tells you some things, but shows you others. The story telling medium of comics is unique. Distilling the novel into words and pictures took a while to wrap my brain around, but I was pleased with the results. Robert did a great critique on this to show me where I can improve. I may use his notes to make this into a more polished piece.
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