The Card Cheat: Cover Pencils, originally uploaded by skelet0njones. I'm working on covers for The Card Cheat pitch. Marc and I have really strong (and sometimes contrary) opinions on comic book covers. Just a few of the things we've... Continue reading »
With huge chunks of development work behind us, Marc and I are going full steam ahead and finishing up The Card Cheat pitch. I'm lettering the book with Hedge Backwards from Comicraft. One of my favorites fonts, the letterforms really... Continue reading »
I'm working on inking pages for The Card Cheat pitch. Marc and I have had a lot of conversations about tone, attitude, and where The Card Cheat fits in the 'genre' world. Because of those conversations things shift a... Continue reading »
Using that same 124 (plus a few) color palette that I used on the re-colored steamboat page, here's Page 7 of Card Cheat. I needed to do a daytime/outdoors scene to make sure I can make this plan work.... Continue reading »
So, like everything with the Card Cheat, Marc and I are working to make it the best that it can be. I was becoming more and more unhappy with my coloring on the first couple of pages, so I decided... Continue reading »
Pencils from issue one of Card Cheat. It's the introduction of one of my favorite side characters 'Jake'. He's just really fun to draw, all hungover and what not. I letter at the pencil stage to make sure the... Continue reading »
Marc asked me to pump up the lightening a bit, which is no biggie at all and will give it of pizazz. Folks have been asking lately how I color my illustrations: The answer is Photoshop with some custom... Continue reading »
Started inking Card Cheat pages last week. Penciling takes me forever, which seems to be the contrary of a lot of comic book artists. I work out a lot of layout problems and details in the pencils, and then... Continue reading »
Reposted from my Flickr page: Lettering at pencils ensures that I've left enough space for dialogue, allows the writer (Marc in this case) to make any tweaks that he thinks it's needs, and let's me starting making design choices.... Continue reading »
