Borderless

 While fine tuning some of the pages I found that removing the borders might be the look I need. Still thinking on it.

Quick inks (ink-overs)

 I have such trouble with clothing folds, so I've started doing cheap inks over photos as an exercise, if I do it enough I may start to understand folds and how to ink them better. 

Color variants

 A slightly nostalgic tonal variation.

Pulp color hack

 Another quick color job before I go back to my day job for another week.

Page pencils tight enough to ink?

 "Pencil tight, ink loose." F. Frazetta aparently.

Some more inking progress.

 All I got done this weekend, two panels inked and another tightly penciled.

 

Page 4 current inks

 Everything looks too liney and thin, or is it me, looking at my own work so long, na, it's not reducing, needs spotting and some line strength.

Page B&W

 

The Day's Inks

 Why did it take so long to do three panels?

Quick color test before bed time.

 It's not a well considered color job, but it's worth doing.

Pencils page 4

 I think I got these done in just over a day. I'll be spending what's left of my holiday inking these two pages.

Page 3 pencils

 So, resolving to do tighter pencils from now on, these are the ones for page three of this Marlo thing.

Fortnight break - Trying to get some work done

 Two short weeks, and one almost gone, been attempting to hack out this comic thing, here's the first new panel of the third page.

I penciled the whole page quite roughly, then I did an exercise while trying to design a new ink brush that might serve all my needs. I thought it would be called the Kirby because I've been looking at a lot of Jack Kirby lately, and to that end I actually loaded in some Kirby art to ink over while designing this brush.

I just ended up inking over the art and never got around to designing the brush, it was nice just to ink over clearly defines artwork, and it dawned on me that I might have to start re-thinking how I do my pencils. Having then attempted a first iteration of this one brush to rule them all, I used it to do an ink-over of some John Romita art.

So once again, I was forced to consider how much better my own stuff would be if I put in the damn time on the pencils (and draw like Kirby and Romita).

Re-color

 

Hacking away at color again

 This weekend I finished the panels and experimented with golden age color treatments. 

It's a challenge for sure, I looked at a lot of Kirby work and I didn't realize how good that stuff is.

I'm sure I'll be re-thinking these choices.

Resolving the panels, re-doing some things.

 Got some things done over the weekend on this thing. Hope to finalize it over the week after work.

70's Hack comic color test

A late night alternative color test, garish old school dashed out who gives a fuck coloring job, for fun.

Inking the page, slow progress.

Well I only get some time on the weekend to do this stuff.

 

Slow process, comics are not easy.

 

Working on a comic?

 Just been messing around trying to get into doing comics and this scenario popped up, so I'm just following along with it at the moment, it interrupted another story I was fleshing out. below is a panel I'm currently working on.