Author: beyondforward

Here’s two partially inked pages I’m working on this week. The Conan piece is a gigantic 13″x19″, traditionally inked at my drafting table. The High Strangeness page is digitally inked and I’m about 90% finished with. You can visit my livestream recording to see the Conan page taking shape.

I’ll be traditionally inking an illustration by Jack Kirby, so get ready for some Kirby Krackle…with a sword! This is a piece that I had begun digitally but decided it deserved the Windsor-newton brush treatment on paper instead of pixels. See you then!

Just a quick flip-through of my printers proof which just arrived in the mail today. Excited to share this because The Overman has been out of print for a number of years and will be available again soon! I’ll share details soon on the release date.

If you missed this mornings livestream where I sketched out these pages, you’re in luck because I’m sharing them here. These are very loose, very rough layouts that help me determine the over-all composition of a page as well as the balloon placements. This stage of creating comics is actually the toughest because it involves a lot of problem solving and referencing the script to make sure all the necessary information is on the page.

I’ve added never-before-seen concept designs for a few of the character from Saga of a Doomed Universe, plus poster art from Hark. The characters were drawn sometime in 2004 or 2005 and underwent quite a few alterations over the years. I still like these designs though and may integrate them into the sequel I’m currently working on. The Hark illustration is from issue 2 and is a double page splash.