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Rhinosferatu Page 3

Notes:
Panel 1: I cannot draw parallel lines it seems.
Panel 2: This is supposed to portray the climbing of the stairs and the nervousness of the rhino, more or less at the same moment, I’m not sure if I pulled that off. I thought the stairs would be a cool graphical divide between the two images but it might come across as if there are two rhinos in the same shot?
Panel 3: This turned out better than I thought it would, with all the cross hatching. I always save the perspective until last.
Panels 5-7: These are four panels. Does it look like there are four panels here?
Panel 8: Probably my favourite panel of the comic. Definitely my fave of the page.
Panel 9-11: Just realized I forgot to put a white border between panels 9 and 10. Oops.

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Rhinosferatu Page 2

Notes:

Panel 3: I had hoped to make the croc darker to better illustrate the torch went out, but I decided that would be overworking the art.
Panel 4: I like the swoosh and splat supercede the panel border. I was unhappy with my inking technique on the croc here.
Panels 5-8: I did a little Mignolaesque trick of throwing in bits of stuff to take up unused space, since originally this was two side by side shots of Rhino face getting splattered, but I couldn’t get them to fit in the space here until I broke it up and put in the sword and splortch.
Panel 9: I thought this was going to look awful, but I kind of like it. I pretty much traced the pillars from some random jpeg on google.
Panel 10: I hemmed and hawwed about putting that ‘ouch’ star in. You’ll notice there is absolutely no sound effects or word balloons in this story. This is the closest thing to one.

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It's Free – It's Me – It's Comickee.

I bought a creator table for this comic con and it’s free so cancel your weddings and come see me. Ironically I have no comics.

Sunday August 24, 2008 from 11:00am – 5:00pm
Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby
Vancouver, British Columbia
Website: http://mypages.uniserve.com/~lswong/Comicon.html
If you’ve already seen the KRAZY! exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery, you know it’s an action packed visual feast of comix entertainment. Well, it’s going to get even better on August 24, when local comic artists roll in with their finely crafted comics for sale as the Art Gallery hosts the Vancouver Comic Con for the first time ever! One day only! Don’t miss this chance to support your local comics scene!

Comix & Stories
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
11am to 5pm
Vancouver Art Gallery

Special Guests:
Kim Deitch http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/graphicnovels/deitch.html
Derek Kirk Kim http://www.lowbright.com/
Jesse Hamm http://www.jessehamm.com/

Admission to the public will be FREE!

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Luccias page 1

Thanks for the comments, everyone – the comic is now in the hands of the publisher, and you’ll be able to buy it from my booth at Comix & Stories comic convention on the 24th of this month at the Vancouver Art Gallery! Admission is free.

Special thanks to Ed for the excellent lettering job!

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Rhinosferatu Roughs – Please Critique for Readability

If you comment on every single panel I’ll be happy. I’m having a few problems with this but the biggest is that for authenticity, since this is supposed to happen during the Third Crusade, the house and the furniture should be uh..Palestinian, or Holy Landish, or Jerusalemish, or Israeli…or whatever (history is my worst subject after sports), and I can’t find anything on google.

Uh…spoilers!

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Outnumbered Phase 4

I took the original art to Kinko’s and copied it onto some regular paper and also some cardstock so that I could do some colour tests. Colouring is not my strong suit but I’d still rather screw around on paper than on the computer, though the latter seems to be the way the wind is blowing with comics these days. Personally I find computer colouring to be unattractive, but I guess like acting, the best colouring jobs are the ones you don’t notice.

First pass:

Some revisions on target areas:

Here’s the final version. For some reason my scanner is pretty unfaithful to colour so I did way more Photoshop fudging than I expected. I knew that I’d do the background yellow/orange digitally.

Oh and I found a couple of sketches for abandoned cover ideas:

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Outnumbered 6 preview

You’ll recall I did the back cover for Outnumbered #5. Kevin has commissioned me to do another drawing for Outnumbered #6.

We had a meeting about all the different ideas – I won’t bore you with sketches especially since most have been thrown away – and settle on a duel between Orphan and Scoracle over the dead body of Lord Scratch.

Here are some of the photo references. Special thanks to Kolja.