Sketchdump+stuff

Okay, time for a general update on pretty much everything.


Fathoms of the Sky III, excerpt from page 13.

Fathoms III is progressing quite well - 22/24 pages are pencilled, and I'll start inking it soon. I've also plotted out the big picture-stuff on what happens in the rest of the comic. Some of it is still very rough (like, "Gale mopes. Talassa gets lost."), but I've got the final chapter+epilogue pretty much clear in my head. I've done some calculations, and arrived at the conclusion that it'll be 200 pages or less in total.

I've also started thinking about how I'll publish the thing; right now, it's published in pieces by the chapter, but it's really one of those comics that needs to be read as a whole. So I'm thinking of collecting it in one bigger volume once I've published a few more chapters; that is, I'll publish perhaps up to chapter 4 or 5 separately, and then take a break until I've drawn the whole thing and release it in a collected volume.

Of course, this means that people will have to pay at least in part for what they've already bought (the first couple of chapters, that is), but I'm intending to go back and fix things, so that the first half won't just be a re-release of stuff people have already bought. I know there's a mistake in the inking of Gale's gloves in part one, for example, that'll be corrected for the final version. I'm also intending to have some extra material in the volume - concept sketches from me, fanart from friends of mine if they've got the time, etc., etc.

... I'll also be doing smaller print-runs of the separate chapters from now on; 100 copies of each is a bit too much.

Okay, on to the pictures (which is probably why you're here, after all):



New character for the frowny-samurai-story - his name is Tsuda, I think.


Character design for the lead in a short horror comic I want to draw some day - it's full of spooky Edwardian houses and murderous cats.


Costume re-design for Munya, from Golem-verse. I'll be doing minor re-designs of Orme and Auga too; they're being appropriated by Fathoms-verse, which is kind of good for them, because before, I had the characters and a story-theme, but no world to set it in. Now I've got characters, theme and universe; all I need is a solid plot.


Photo-reffed environment practise; really fast, but it felt good to practise the stuff I know I'm not brilliant at.




Mini-sketches that I will be selling att UppCon 2012 for cheap (like, $1 each-cheap), or handing out free to anyone who buys Fathoms I+II as a package. 

Sketchdump

Sketch-roundup again:


Munya from Golem-verse in a new outfit; it seems to be migrating into some sort of strange North African/Middle-Eastern steampunk territory. Hmm.


Practising Khazri, who will be turning up in the next chapter of Fathoms



Kuro and Banri, because mobsters.


Kuro and Banri as teenagers, because it's fun to explore what your characters might have been like at different ages.

Warm-ups, round the nth.

More stuff, but not so very much stuff; I'm busy drawing bigger things for UppCon, and working on a few things.


Possible character design for future chapter of Fathoms of the Sky. Subject to change, as always.


Practising drawing Orme - for some reason, his face/head is really tricky.


Quick background practise, because I suck at backgrounds.

Warm-ups

Since a friend of mine decided to draw Terra from Final Fantasy VI, I decided I had to draw one of my favourite FF-girls.


And that's Faris, because girls crossdressing as pirate captains well enough to fool the boys into gender-confused crushes is awesome.


Also Auga, because the idea of a golem playing cat's cradle is one that will amuse me for a long time. I think I've already posted another version on the blog.

Only a small post today - I think I'll post my warm-ups as I go along like this.

More Comic Royale-stuff+sketchdump

Been a while since I updated this blog - but that's because I haven't really been doing anything sketchdump-worthy lately. It's been comics and posters and more comics and more comics.

But finally, I've got enough stuff to warrant a post. Let's start with the CR-comic stuff:


The sketch for the second page of my comic - everything is subject to change up to the moment I submit it, but this is pretty much what I've got in mind. Except, you know, properly inked, with grey tones and dialogue and stuff.

Swedish intermission: på tal om Comic Royale - är det nån som vet när deadlinen är? Vem fan ska man lämna in till? Jag har mailat info@comicroyale, men har inte fått något svar överhuvudtaget. D:


Nila Thane - actiongirl! She'd totally give Indiana Jones a run for his money.


Old envelopes are perfect for scribbling on.


Sketchdump:

Abarat-fanart+sketchdump

I've recently read Abarat, and it's two sequels Days of Magic, Nights of War and Absolute Midnight, and got into the fanart-y mood.


First up, the girl from Marapozsa Street, "A woman was studying at an upper window with her hair like a thicket filled with little coloured birds."


Christopher Carrion, Lord of Midnight, whose nightmares escape from his brain and swim around his collar.



Leeman Vol, the Insect Man, whose entire person is home to a multitude of insects. "Sometimes they bit him, in the midst of their terrritorial wars, and often they burrowed into his skin to lay their eggs."


Malingo the Geshrat




Also, two sketched - I need to practise my inking skills; they've fallen into disuse lately.

Daily sketchbook dump Sept. 23 - 26

Lagging a bit behind on the daily sketches, what with Fathoms and 24 Hour Comic Day.

Speaking of 24 Hour Comics, most of today's post is focused on it. Mostly concept-sketches of the main character, and a bit of planning of title typography, though I'm not sure I'm keeping that idea, or running with another one.







And then there's some assorted sketches of golems and Moonfaces and a grouchy-looking man with a huge fuck-off sword. 'Cause sometimes, you just need to draw grouchy men with huge fuck-off swords.

I don't know why, but the thought of Auga playing cat's cradle amuses me. He'd be so dead serious about it.

Daily sketchbook dump July 21-August 1st

I'm stepping down my daily sketchbook-habit to only one page a day instead of two. I've fumbled a little over the last few days (I'm blaming the good books I'm reading - the hours just seem to disappear), but I'm keeping it up. I might substitute the sketchbook with digital sketches some days.