Sketches and such

With the Indiegogo campaign coming along fine, I thought I'd post some sketchbook scans for those contributors considering the 3 sketches for $30 level. All pages have several drawings on them - in a variety of stages. I'll keep posting examples here to help pledgers pick a page... 

Here are a few scans from chapter one.

The Cover Materializes

Goodness, it's been a LONG  time since I posted. Well, here's a good reason: the semifinal version of the cover of the Lionheart special I will be self publishing via crowd funding. Though a "crowd" of supporters is kind of unlikely.
This is a semifinal, as in the Step Away From It For A While process I go through. I need a day to look it over, like it or tweak it, Try not to tweak it too much, or overdo it. Maybe even simplify it?? Ahhh photoshop is a boon and a curse at the same time.
It's almost time to set up the funding site, as all that remains is for me to create two new pages (Crazy Bob? Ed the Grocer?), color a breathtaking Stan Sakai original, and get the digital versions ready.
More details in the coming month.

BOB IS BACK

Well, here it is. I may yet revise a panel or two. But I can't resist sharing this at this ready-to-read stage. It's been twenty plus years folks, be kind. This was written in the early 90s. And drawn in the evenings after work.

Watch Me Draw Again

More vanity blogging - tried to record about 15 minutes of drawing but I guess there's a limit to the length of screen cap this lil mac can handle. I make plenty of mis strokes here but you'll also see me make good use of the "surprises" a tablet can give a leaden hand like mine!

Then a little peek at the black and toning process, all done in layers so it's infinitely editable, and never actually done.

Just for fun, you know.

Happy Easter, here's a rabbit having a nervous breakdown.

My Easter Gift to my few followers - the complete Floppity Goes Berserk strip from MU comics, little seen, personal favorite.
As always, click for large version, option click to open large in new window, or download and print.

page 3 pencils

Despite my fierce desire to get these characters mobile, Lionheart is still in the kitchen talking to his coffee maker. I am working my way towards something visually funny as well, right now it's shaping up to be 4 pages of Lionheart reacting to a sketchy appliance.

Exposition exposed

Here's page 2 of chapter two with the text all blurred. Astute viewers will still get the drift. I don't want to spoil the whole story before publication, so trying to hold back. This page is a big info dump, which came to be two ways: I wanted to change direction a bit, and I hate when mysteries that are posed at the end of an "episode" are not dealt with in the following episode. So I am happy to dump what was meant to be a whole chapter into one page.

Hopefully I can have Lionheart out of the kitchen in a few panels and get these characters a little action. Things are still Barton Finky in that department.

So, I had a plan - and changed it midstream. Not a news flash here.