Monday, January 25, 2010

inks - AND color...

on what now seems to have become the first panel of the next strip - this one once again is gonna be about the careless way we tend to treat the air that we breathe - and how the bottom line almost always overrules common sense...

on an artistic note, i think that andrea faust works really well (the little professor thinks so, too) - only glitch is that i need to give her her cel-phone, because she will receive an important call in the very next panel...

;)

m

Monday, January 18, 2010

german genetics

i'm thinking about introducing genetically enhanced andrea faust into the comic book version of the hope universe - as yet another misguided omnicorp employee (the more misguided, the more determined they are...)

she is the head of omnicorp's dna-improvement unit in germany,
with identical twin brother andreas faust

here's the pencils (with the little professor being somewhat distracted)

;)

inks to follow soon...


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page 'o' sketches...

page four put together for 'atomic lead' , a little 'best of 2009' compilation page

onto something bigger and better in 2010!!

;)

m

"food for thought"...

done and done!
against all odds, and thanks to an ever stretching deadline (thanks, ed) i was able to deliver the last page on monday, AND an additional page of sketches.

i've seen the collected artwork, and it's gonna be a glorious book!!!

onward and upward

m


"never give up..."

"never surrender!"

keeping up the fight, both hope and me!
I'm knee deep into my third page, and it's looking pretty good so far - i should be able to finish it in time for the deadline, despite all the moving- and holiday-related craziness going on around us - and THIS TIME, hope will encounter a REAL monster - not some genetically enhanced bumble bee, or some faceless corporation - but a big ol' city-eating, tentacled comic book-type monster - OH YEAH!
And while keeping with the overall theme of environmental issues and challenges, this one will also be an homage to fantastic four #1 and little nemo full page sundays, all rolled into one - BOOYA!

;)

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page 2 ...

here's another little preview for the second 'hope'-page for atomic lead ...
you're gonna have to buy the book to see the final product...
- the backgrounds were more labor-intensive than anticipated (one would think that i'd have learned by now - but noooooooo!!)

it turned out quite pretty, i think - the panels were all painted in full color, as usual - but i also prepared a gray-scale version for atomic lead, taking a different level of contrast and the lack of separation through color into account...


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panel 2

main characters are inked:

shawanna closeup

she did not end up on the page after all, but here she is:

another floridian bird

background character (as in: "there is no such thing as a...")


EWA: 'egret with attitude'

enjoy

m




playing catch-up

hey y'all

haven't posted here in a while - lots of things have happened since then.

Mostly good things!!!

in the meantime, i contributed to 'atomic lead', a graphic anthology by the artists at Sucker Punch Studios.

i'm gonna catch you up to speed, and then keep on posting my progress with the ongoing hope strip...

promise!

;)

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