20-MINUTE COLOR

Just a quick 20-minute coloring job of page 17. It's not going to b the cover, but there might be something in the fall where it will be in color. Obviously, I'll need to fix the dudes at the top of the page, but I just wanted to do something quick and painless while my brain is still mush after MoCCA.

LIVE FAST, DIE DUTCH

Page 19:

NEXT

Since I showed various incarnations of the bottom half of page 18, I thought I'd show the inked version of the top half which sets up the gag. Here are the two together in close proximity:

THIRD VIEW

Here's my own inking of the bottom half of page 18:



The original pencils are here. And Kenny's inked and colored versions are here.

There's a line from the original pencils that I need to remove. I drew it, Kenny inked it, Kenny colored based on it, I inked it... but it's wrong wrong wrong. And I'm not sure why a chunk of the right silhouette didn't scan. That's weird. My version is more chaotic, with the glass and all. It probably doesn't read as well as Kenny's. I just suck, let's face it.

TWO VIEWS

Kenny took my pencils from the previous post and did a lunchtime inking and coloring of the panel.

Did he do better than Vince Colletta? You make a call:

PREGNANT!

...with deeeeetail.

Page 18 is taking a lot longer to do than I thought it would. It's only two panels, and one is fairly simple. But the second? The second is going to be crazy and I really really really really hope it works. It's a crazy action scene of gun violence, kick violence and blood. Not my usual forte.

Anyway, I did a first pass with a 9H pencil to get the basic composition. Then it was ruler and 6H pencil time. Then I went in with the 6Bs for the figures. Then I went over that on a sheet of tracing vellum with a purple non-photo pencil. Then I went in with a non-photo blue for all the glass shards (they didn't photo).

I scanned it an blew it up big-times for YOU. Check it out:



Music for this? I decided to shelve the metal/post-rock/thrash/drone/noise/progressive/doom/death tunes for something truly violent:

Elton John's Greatest Hits. C'mon, who DOESN'T want to kick in a window and shoot lots of people when they hear Daniel or Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me?

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Well, I had three key images I wanted to get to when I started this issue. One is getting pushed back to a later chapter, one didn't turn out the way I wanted it to and led to me changing up my approach to the later pages, and the third was PAGE 17:



I'm pretty ok with that.

MINIMANIMALISM

PAGE 13: COMEDY!

BEN A. LONGTIMES

It's been freaking long since I last posted. Crazy. Been having the computer at the dayjorb for page layouts while doing the drawing at holmes. Also, the cleaning. I'm not sitting on those laurels (they aggravate the skin of my tokhes)! Spic and span, the abode is and shall ever be.

Here's a panel from EMAW #9:



Only 21 days left! Oh, my tokhes...