Page 4 finished...

Just got this page wrapped up, I buzzed off doing the bottom left panel so thought I'd throw it up. Im about to start into a new story for the Tales of the site so expect some early crimbo pics- sorry to the scrooges of the world......

Page 4 under construction.....

Really enjoying doing these pages, I think I'm starting to convert to ways of ze digi-tall?....

Page 3 finished.....

Zener...a story begins...

Over the last week I found myself with a bit of free time between projects, and well I couldn't have that! So I used this time to improve the digital drawing skills, and the best way to do that was to dive into a story. This I do a lot, just start random stories, no script or anything just decide from panel to panel- its about improving the visual story telling and I find this the best practise.
Zener was the character that it would involve, I have always buzzed off Zener- to be honest I think its because I had alot of input on his creation compared to some of our others.
The first page here is over worked with the effects, but I seen that I was doing too much and stripped it back on the second and third. The thirds not fully finished, but it will be as I really enjoyed doing it.....

Cancertowns' Crosshairs......

Not feeling to great today so I took a day off work to lay in bed and come round. Finished reading Cancertown, great story, and like all great stories it left me wanting more. So I decided to do a digital sketch of one of the characters- Crosshairs. Liked doing this as he has a real creepy feel to him and it gave me the chance to use some of the texture brushes in manga studio.

ahhhhh...

.. Its great to get stuff finished, especially when its been hanging around for soo long. I'm on about my contribution towards the 'If stones could speak' anthology. With that complete, its given a chance to reflect on what I want to do now. The story for 'I.S.C.S' was only 12 pages long, its still a rite bit of work when your doing the most of it on your own but it shouldn't have taken as long to do as it did. Recently having completed the 'How'd you get here?' story for T.O.T, it was 9 pages done in a much more simplfied style only took me 6 weeks and I done all the processes on that meself.
        So basically I want to be quicker, but I also want to do more!! My next target is a 23 pager at least, and I hoping to find a middle ground so I can do it with speed and good quality of art. Having spoken to Danny about it earlier, there already a story brewing.....so over the next few weeks you'll probably be seeing alot of development stuff.

Also I'll be working on a T.O.T 'Christmas horror', but more on that closer to the time.

One last thing, the 2dcollective sites back up and running, and we've decided to tackle themes- the weeks being "gothic", stop over by clicking here to check it out.

Tales of the.........

Second story just went up online, you can you check it out by clicking here

Processed fun....

If I ever make an album, which is highly unlikely considering me guitar has become a strange shaped ornament in a cupboard somewhere, that will be the title. Naw actually scrap that- that would be a shit album, it would be like the chemical brother remix of cbbc tunes. Rite enough of my hungover ramblings.

I wanted to post this yesterday but blogger was acting the complete fry and wouldn't load any of the pics. On friday I got my story finished off for Tales of the, which will be up online at some stage today, so make sure you check it out. Its called "How'd you get here".  Saying I got that finished I gave myself a wee break from project related stuff and done something for fun. I've said previously I wanted to work on more poses so I rough up this piece....

I used a bit of reference for the pose, I knew even from this that there was anatomy problems but I decided to go ahead with it anyway. I wasn't sure of who I was drawing, then remembering the first strip that I done for the CADI course, I reinvented 'Hunter', a werewolf hunting half werewolf trained in the arts of black magic. Using the light box I penciled up a slightly cleaner version then inked over the top of it, making minute adjustments........

This is it scanned in as a greyscale pic. I done this to try out a new way of cleaning the pic up. For anyone interested- I left the penciled lines in, no rubbing out, to see how well it work. What you do is after its scanned  as a grey file, go to edit> adjustments>  levels. A window will appear with three small triangles along the bottom of a sort of graph thing- you move the black triangle over to the left until it becomes really black then move the grey one over on top of the black, this should remove the majority of grey from the piece, and ends up looking like this.........

... definately alot tidier looking. Because there wasn't alot of planning in this piece, I dint turn out to well, not enough definition and slightly over worked so I added some basic colour to help it out abit...............

...well thats all for now folks. The deadline for the "If stones could speak" book is this thursday, so I probably won't be posting anything this coming week.