COVER PART 6

First color test is looking pretty good. I'm going to bumb those mid buildings up a bit. Clean some stuff that showed up on the print test. But this might be what it basically looks like.



I'll sleep on it and start digitally assembling the book tomorrow.

COVER PART 5

The final inks for the cover for EMAW #8:



Now, onto the colors.

COVER PART 4

It felt like a good time to take five. Partially to step away from the board for a minute and partially to listen to Bowie's Lodger a little closer. And Low should be coming up on the itunes pretty soon too! The idea of doing a comic about Bowie and Eno in Berlin is one that's very appealing. One day...

Anyway, here's the cover inks so fars:



It's even got my first use of whiteout in a long while. Definitely looking like color.

COVER PART 3

Taking a moment of paws, now that the foreground inks are complete. Here's how they look:



I've got my work cut out for me on the backgrounds... but I want to get them done tonight.

While the interiors are likely going to be B&W, I think a fool-color cover will be the sweetness follows.

Let's here it for the long weekends! And the boy.

COVER PART 2

Finally finished the pencils on the cover for EMAW #8. I thought of the image and it gave me an idea for future covers, as well. The covers are going to address a major scene in the chapter, and also show you something that happens just before the chapter proper. That way, it actually serves a story-telling purpose. I'm not the first to do this, I won't be the last, but someday, I'll be the best.

PENCILS!:

INKS DON

Inks for the first chapter are done! 15 pages, lots of arguments with Hands, Mother Nature and tools are behind me.

It looks like it's going to be black and white afterall. I was working colors, textured and not-textured, different palletes and various approaches. None of them worked. There's nothing intrinsically 'black & white' about the whole thing, but it just FEELS black & white. Even though I left a lot open for color, and was thinking color all along.

There's something about sci-fi in black & white that appeals to me. I don't know what it is. Today, I'll blame Stanley Kubrick and George Lucas, who made me fall in love with sci-fi in the first place, and who had strong black & white sensibilities one time.

Here's the inked page 15:

ONE MORE BEFORE PUMPKINS

I was scanning the pencils for Page 15 of Earth Minds Are Weak #8 for some supplemental material anyway. So, here they are. Pencils. Page 15.

PREVIEW 1

What follows are the three panels from Page 11 of Earth Minds Are Weak #8.

There will be 15 pages of story, in total. I was particularly fond of the gags on this page, and hope to further them in later chapters. The images are not yet retouched, and probably smaller than would be optimal, but they should give you an idea of what to expect.

Panel 1

PREVIEW 2

Earth Minds Are Weak Page 11, Panel 2

PREVIEW 3

Earth Minds Are Weak Page 11, Panel 3

HER COMES THE TEXTURE TEST

This is the texture I blew last night. The paber bent in certain areas and the scanner picked that up.

So, I grey it out and use it as a texture. I'll probably reduce and tile it, maybe four to a page.