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Sometimes a cover is best as a simple picture of the person standing there, or a dynamic action shot. Other times, a completely different approach works out better and leads to more interesting places. Here’s a case of the latter working out better. How did I end up with these circles?
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I had a few directions for this one, from the maximalist “just put everything in there” to a 3D one (using the model I made sometime in the middle of issue four of Skulldigger and Skeleton Boy and then promptly forgot to actually use for reference for the rest of the book.)
Sometimes the cover needs a twist, other times the best course is to draw the thing. This was one of the straightforward ones.
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Who knew that drawing an invisible monster would take longer than drawing a visible one?
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The second hardcover omnibus volume is out now, collecting the last (and best) volume I did with John Arcudi, Pirate’s Ghost and Metal Monsters of Midtown, as well as the first book, The Iron Prometheus by Jason Armstrong and Mignola, and short stories that were originally collected in the fifth paperback, A Chain Forged in Life. Roughly 470 pages of Lobster.
read the whole post —And to wrap up the archival Lobster week, one bit from the last story I did, The Empty Chair.
Continuing Lobster week and stepping a year earlier with this one. All the covers back then started as watercolor thumbnails. That was a pretty satisfying way to figure things out, as well as a good method of keeping it simple in terms of color.
Hey, pencil and paper. I don’t remember why this one wasn’t finished (or why it was started) – maybe I gave up when I got to the part that included any actual drawing – but it’s a view into how things were (not) done circa 2014.
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This is for a graphic novel that has so much going on that I thought the best course for the cover would be to include everything (or at least as much as fits on one page).
I don’t know why the release image is missing the Dark Horse logo in the top left corner, though, but the roughs below have it.
Edit: It bothered me so much that I went in and added the Dark Horse logo myself. (Why even bring that up? Because balance takes at least fifty times as long as the drawing part, usually– it’s a chronic cartooning condition that eats up the brain. See black areas below.)
When I have to pick a single favorite page of comics I have done so far, this is the only one that ever comes to mind:
Maybe there are some clues and lessons in there.
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One of those “gotta make something, anything, however small” days, so: one more of these.
(re-posting this since WP settings turned on hotlinking protection and made pictures not show up in RSS readers)
Cartoonist brain, at the end of an unusable day: “must move the pen. maybe I could at least draw some cars”
This one could qualify as archival too, since it was drawn in 2021, but it’s personal work, and not out yet, so instead it’s a peek at the ongoing present, as I rework some of it this morning.
Last year I spent a fun afternoon coming up with some “home-made” costume concepts for an IKEA ad. The idea was that the girl in it progresses from making cardboard outfits as a child to growing up into a career in 3D and VFX. The final commercial mashed together pieces of my other ideas, but these were my favorites as drawings.
(Free Halloween idea, and maybe the green screen one can work in some sort of St. Patrick’s Day scenario too.)
Colored this one while trying out a thing– the other one I already colored a while back. Good activity for bad days.
