4th hurdle

Ok, this was an interesting one. The Owl is meant to be a Eurasian Eagle Owl, though as long as he looks like an owl thats what matters. I thyink the composition works, and I think I actually have the scale between the Crow and Owl correct... Lots to fix in photoshop though, made lots of smudges whilst working, need to tidy up the tippexed areas and add some FX lines to the first panel, because the ones I did originally were shat...

Third Ink

Surprised myself, managed to get a third bit of inking done today. Less panels though, no wonder it was a quicky.Also, please remember tone will be used to fill in a lot of hte white space when its photoshopped, and I am going to stretch out the headrest of the professor in frame three... I still have issues keeping scale consistent...

Second Ink

Right, so I got the second page inked, half at home, half at uni. this is the first real set of panels I have inked... theyre not too bad. I made a fair few shifts for the positions of the crow/stag beetle, butI think I pulled it off. I HOPE the final frame comes across as its meant to, and is not just a mess of black ink.

Lettering and tone will be photoshopped in sometime next week...

Wuv,

Dave

One Page Down

OK. So today I actually got around to finishing the pencils for my project, enlarged about 20 pages, and have set about to inking. It took about 3 hours to do a page in a3, which I hope is worth it. Still have to scan and edit it. I am certain I can get at least 6 of these done by submission date, and will ofc aim MUCH HIGHER.
Anyway, I also think this took so ong because I was taking odd breaks here and there, and because of how much details went in to those fucking cables. Anyway, Might make a start on another one tonight... PS sorry for crappy photo

Chat Roulette

Got chatting on the roulette for 5 hours last night. Good times. When I was able to hold a conversation for more than a minute I got these two drawings done. MAybe this will be a side project of mine, if I continue going on to chat roulette that is...

Here we have Dylan, 22/M/Oregon and Diandra, age and location unknown but YES she was female. They do exist on chat roulette.

Sorry for down time

Hoy, I havent been upping anything since last week as I have been concentrating on getting the story fleshed out. Way I see it, I have some rough characters to play around with in my head, then I need the story in order to realise settings and things which may need to be edited for character designs (such as, if a character is going to have matrix-style access ports across their body, this needs to be reflected in the character design blah blah)
So now I have my story, I am creating a 'name', its essentially super rough pencil page's showing layout and snippets of dialogue. Everything is changeable, but by getting this done it also helps me realise a. if the story flows well and b. roughly how many pages the final version will have.
For example, two paragraphs of the story I have written have translated to 7 comic pages.

This does not bode well, as my story is 8 pages long.

Quick 'Bot + nasty colours

Titles says it all, was waiting for hot water to warm up, decided to doodle a robot.This one is better than the last 4-legged, but its arms are like little chicken wings. Once again, a weakness to exploit, but if I was to redraw this I would probably use almost the whole circumference of the body armour for an arm... This reminds me of Metang...

Random designs (update E-102 rip off)

These are a bit random, but are for Pinnochio. There is a possibility of hover bikes in this future, and a strong possibility of a combat robot which Pinnochio will fight against. This is me having a little doodle. The second, grey version is top heavy and awkward looking, but I see that as a good thing for a possible fight sequence... Except the small under-torso mounted triple barrel gun ... I wanna cut that... Add's nothing to it.

I might theme the robot designs to appear like Chess pieces, so that even if he only fights one or two, there are other versions sitting in the background which are alluded to be other training versions...Like a Rook-type would be good at direct combat, but come unstuck from a blindspot... a Knight would be acrobatic but loses track of its opponents easily... Bishop could have a good peripheral field of vision, but is shit up close... Queen is fantastic up close or afar, but can be 'out-danced'... King is a powerhouse but slow... Pawn's are small and direct on their own, but when teamed up with another unit unlock their true potential... And thats just what I came up with whilst blab-typing.

Oh and the top left hover bike is badly drawn... its just this idea I have had for a bit... a guy face-on... still havent got it down though... but this will serve as referece if I ever get around to developing the image... MAYBEITNEEDSSPEEDLINES!?

Bah, did a doodle hoping to imitate the 4 legged walker from Akira, ended up looking like E-10FUCKING2 Gamma from Sonic Adventure. Still, maybe I should consider that robot for ref... I did like him...

Self Portrait (so-so) (Edit+ new portrait)

Another off-topic post...

Nose is too long.
Chin isnt big enough.
One eye is marginally smaller than the other.
My hair really looks like that today.

And I did not much like that one, so I re-drew it after layering the original over a photo of me in photoshop to see just how much I was going wrong. AndI needed to take about a third of my nose off, trim the lips a little...

Chin could still do with a bit more.. chin.. tbh

Old Work - Owl and Pussycat / Deep Space.

From my first year, the Owl and the Pussycat project. The text is still a bit rough, but I am happy with the style and narrative.
From my second year is the image at the bottom, the 5 stages of Grief, a collection of images which I believe convey the emotional and mental breakdown of suffering.

I am upping these as a little reminder of my love for narrative. After some late night discussions I might have an epic Pinnochio story down, just need to write the treatment...