The guy who develops Comic Easel for WordPress is collecting drawings re-enacting iconic scenes from Bloom County to welcome it back (in the Webcomic Creators" group on FaceBook). So I did one:
Finally finished editing my new book! Here's the cover : Actually, it's last Monday's version of the cover. But I haven't changed much since.
The title. I changed that. I still like this one (which translates to "Holidy Fun With Conny Van Ehlsing"), but I went with a more straightforward "The World of..." now. Probably gonna regret it.
Here's a few in-progress pages from "Great Outdoors", using my patented mezzo-fumetti technique. The backgrounds are a combo of old vacation snapshots, plus some I took specifically for this on my most recent trip up north. Repurposing the old photos is the trickiest, because they were never intended to have people in the foreground... and I have to keep reminding myself that the focus of (most of) them needs to be on the figures, not the pretty scenery. I also can't use snapshots that have people in them, because the mix of real and drawn figures would spoil the gimmick. The last page shown here is the one I'm currently finishing up the pencils on.
My tribute to the Pulse/Orlando victims and their survivors. It's in B&W because it'll probably be in an indie B&W anthology fund-raiser. There's also a pro-league anthology in the works, and I'll convert it to color if they let me in.
These aren't real individuals. Since I don't know what exactly transpired, I created composite characters, whom you can follow from the top panel where they're dancing care-free, to the second as they initially react to the attack, and to the third, where their families (and a survivor) – and the LGBT community, its allies, and people of good character – react in the aftermath. I hope that the placement, skin tones, and my attempts at drawing family resemblances make it clear who's who in the last panel... color would help with that. And I wanted to include a reminder that this isn't the first incident of guns and hate taking the lives of LGBT people, hence the Harvey Milk quote.
Pencils for the wrap around cover to the Comixology edition of Wahoo Morris #10 (ignore the 7 in nmber box!)
This is a revamp of an abandoned cover from the original run that was half inked. I figured I'd just complete the inks and draw the back portion, but ended up redrawing the whole thing. And in my obsessiveness I had to extend the bottom of the canvas to work out the planes to make sure the perspective was working.
Inks are almost complete and I'll post when done.
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Here's a little thing that makes me smile:
Actually, it's last Monday's version of the cover. But I haven't changed much since.
The title. I changed that. I still like this one (which translates to "Holidy Fun With Conny Van Ehlsing"), but I went with a more straightforward "The World of..." now. Probably gonna regret it.
These aren't real individuals. Since I don't know what exactly transpired, I created composite characters, whom you can follow from the top panel where they're dancing care-free, to the second as they initially react to the attack, and to the third, where their families (and a survivor) – and the LGBT community, its allies, and people of good character – react in the aftermath. I hope that the placement, skin tones, and my attempts at drawing family resemblances make it clear who's who in the last panel... color would help with that. And I wanted to include a reminder that this isn't the first incident of guns and hate taking the lives of LGBT people, hence the Harvey Milk quote.
Pencils for the wrap around cover to the Comixology edition of Wahoo Morris #10 (ignore the 7 in nmber box!)
This is a revamp of an abandoned cover from the original run that was half inked. I figured I'd just complete the inks and draw the back portion, but ended up redrawing the whole thing. And in my obsessiveness I had to extend the bottom of the canvas to work out the planes to make sure the perspective was working. Inks are almost complete and I'll post when done.
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