hope@home INK

inked panel, and cropped image, ultimately making sure the composition works for special round frame (like looking through a porthole) and position on first page

harbour ink

inked panel, plus repositioned some elements, plus flipped and cropped image, ultimately made composition work for frame-aspect ratio and position on first page

hope at home

there is also the idea of her having a tiny room above an internet cafe somewhere in the middle of La Pacifica, but for this story (and for simplicity) i went with this - she lives on the Iduna, the Midgard Initiative's ship. Shes got her little corner there, her girly stuff, and we find her blogging - providing us with a voiceover that will lead into the story

oh, and she likes panda bears and horsies

;)

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harbour scene

here are the pencils for an additional shot from within la pacifica harbor, adding more detail information to the location of the anchored iduna, hope's temporary home...

this will probably end up being panel 3 on the first page, setting the scene...

SURPRISE!!

the moment before the frazetta-inspired panel, setting up the big reveal - what does hope see??

a monster?? her credit-card bill???

stay tuned...


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junk

not THAT kind of junk - the romantic type, the boat...

this is work on 'background detail', it will be part of the first page splash panel...


homage to milton caniff and his masterpiece, 'terry and the pirates'

La Pacifica

background work for the first page splash! Again, the architecture in La Pacifica, as well as OMNICORP technology is heavily anime-inspired, which looks great when rendered with the 'silver-age' color palette and spiced up a little with the classic 'ben-day' dot pattern.

i'm kinda proud of the line-work here, which is all free-hand, not using a straight-edge or anything, and not cleaned up in photoshop - gives it a nice, organic feel!

btw, i'm ALMOST done with the big 'reveal'-panel featuring hope's 'frazetta-pose', which will happen later in the story, i'm just posting this work focusing on outside environments in the meantime because of some necessary re-design concerning the holographic representation of OMNICORP's board of directors. It's much more ambitious now (go figure!)

;)

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