April 5, 2007

Wooden Iguana

Here's a preview of the next page.

As always, click the preview to go to ComicSpace (and if you're a new reader ... there's navigation there to start at the beginning).

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April 3, 2007

Wooden Iguana

A preview of today's page of The Wooden Iguana. Click the picture to go see the whole page for today.

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March 30, 2007

Wooden Iguana

Well, it's been a little quiet around here because I've been drawing so very much lately. Here's the cover to the comic book I've been so diligently working on ... new pages will be posted over in my ComicSpace pages.

Ahhh, back to the days of elementary school and that HUGE rocketship slide and jungle gym thing we used to have ....

Anyhow, the rocketship playground equipment was sketched in pencil first, scanned and then I used Photoshop to colour over the top. The rest was done in Illustrator. Was a very fun project ... but I'm really glad that I'm not using that particular process for the rest of the comic book. It just takes too dang long to do. The rest of the comic will be black and white (a splash of colour now and again). If you're curious, head on over to the ComicSpace pages and read the prologue. It's short and explains the general direction of the comic.

I've got a page and 2/3rds inked already and I should be posting at least once a week a full new page.

Fun times!

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March 27, 2007

ToonCasting

So, I've decided to "ToonCast" some of my favourite stuff from ComicSpace.com ... I'll be adding a link, probably up in the top nav in the next few days. (Hey, I gotta lotta templates to add the damn thing too. I really gotta PHP this blog.)

For now, I've decided to ToonCast Eekeemoo, a really stunning little "sketchbook comic" which tells the story sans words. Catch up on the previous 13 chapters (or more if you're reading this after March 27, 2007) here. It's clever, it's really well drawn and the plot and characters will suck you in quickly.

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March 22, 2007

Welcome Home

My first attempt at ink and marker. I learned a lot by doing this and I can't say I'm exactly thrilled with all of the results ... but I do see nice segments of it that I'm quite proud of. A good exercise, anyway.

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March 18, 2007

The Absence of Me

So, I posted the Goth House/Haunted House sketch the other day ... Jodi from Looking Beyond the Cracked Window was working on putting together another poetry book and as we were chatting, she said something about looking for a Goth House to put on the cover. On a whim, I decided to see if I could sketch one up. I showed it to Jodi, not really expecting it to be what she wanted for the cover of her book ... but apparently I tapped into the inner goth well and she really liked it.

So ... now I give you the finished book cover (click to visit Lulu.com and see her book):

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