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The fourth and final page of Shadow Talker I managed to finish before other projects became more pressing. Sorry it's being published here so many days after the third installment, but as I mentioned I had a massive computer failure here that kept me offline for days. I still want to work on this more and have been talking to people as possibly pitching it as an anthology project at some point in the future. I think it's good idea that people would really enjoy. And I hope you all enjoyed these four pages.
I'm currently up to my waist in the Maddy Kettle comic book. I'm working twelve hour days, getting up at five thirty every morning to get a good start before everyone wakes up. That's a lot of cross hatching. The good news is that I think it's the best work I've ever done.
This week I'm hoping to do a couple of posts about the tools I'm using on Maddy Kettle. So stay tuned.
Henry has decided we should all be up at 5:30 this morning so I'm here yawning and befuddled. Julie is " a bit of a mess" But the day has started with or without us so here I am.
Above is the Shadow Speaker from the comic I've been working on. I've made several attempts at this comic and so far nothing is quite how I want it but I'm still trying. I like the fully digital art I did but I find it takes too long, it's so precise. So now I'm trying a combination of pencil and digital. Hopefully this is something I can sustain. I'm also considering publishing and thinking about self publishing it in 30 pages collections as well as online. still thinking about it.
Struggling to get some work done is a usual Holiday activity for me. Just finished brunch and am now struggling against a looming nap.
My first try at the ghost story comic book I wrote, Tales From The Shadow Talker. There were a number of things I liked about this first attempt but all in all it was verging too close to a realistic style, which is something I revert to when I'm uncertain of something. I get too tight. When I went back and redid it digitally, the results were far closer to what I wanted. I also felt the rhythm was a bit off here. It often takes a few tries to get something. Whenever I go back to the drawing board writing revisions are also almost always inevitable as well. No idea why that happens. You can see the revised first page
here.
Right now I'm reading Dick Briefer's Frankenstein which is a wild fun collection of comics.
Ben Towle sent me
this link about it this morning. Interesting stuff!
Here is the first and only page I finished for the Shadow Talker webcomic I had planned to do this Spring. This page took about five days to do and I soon realized it would be a total disaster to devote myself to this project as well as Maddy Kettle, financially. So I shelved it more or less, I've been continuing to write it and even considering doing it as a middle grade novel. I think the core idea and story are really good and I'd love to tell the story in some way.
This is also the first fully digital comic page I've ever done. I penciled it on one layer and inked it in successive layers.
Second post today! Not because I have pertinent news you all must know but because I can't shut up. Here's a sketch of a header for my upcoming webcomic Tales From The Shadow Talker, which I'm hoping to start posting later in the Spring. It's a mummified monkey.
Here are some more sketches from the webcomic I'm working on,
Tales of the Shadow Talker. At the moment I'm penciling it, it's actually really hard to pencil because it depends on some more mundane imagery than say, The Situation or Maddy Kettle. It's a supernatural story where the supernatural elements intrude into the mundane world and a young girls life so I'm using mundane imagery to emphasize it. A lot of the scenery is actually pretty Gothic looking. It takes place in North West farm country and I'm really pushing the Gothic elements, big old buildings, tangled forests, overgrown graveyards. Really fun stuff to draw.
I'm currently considering ho to ink it. I want the darks to be quite dense and the balance of colours to be almost graphic and I would find this hard with the Micron Markers I used on Maddy and on The Situation. It just takes forever to ink that way with a marker. I'm considering using crowquill, which is also work intensive but might suit the book. Also, I'm looking at digital inking, which might get me closest to the effect I want. I'll be playing with a friends tablet for the next little while to see what I think ( Thanks Drazen!). I'll post about the results here.
This is great, Eric! I love your handling of the textures. I hope you find the time to finish the project.
Thanks Jeanie! I'll whittle at it when and if I ever have free time. I have an agent now so the possibility of other contracts is there as well, so it seems I'll be booked for a while.
This looks great! The shadowing sets a great mood. Ah your work ethic (12 hour days!) makes me feel I should put more time in at the studio.
Thanks so much Seth!12 hours isn't usual for me, but I've fallen into it more than it being related to discipline.
Lookin'GOOD! I esp like the staircase...GREAT!
Thanks Elizabeth! I had to draw the staircase over and over until I settled on something kind of expressive rather than overly literal or close to the reference.
Gosh that's great, eric. it's so moody and evocative. Don't work too hard. Remember to stretch and breathe. x
Thanks Jen! And always, I incorporate a lot of goofing off and aimless wondering around the house into my day.