Sketch Fridays #82 – “Call Me Home” Page

Dec18
by on 18 December 2020
Sketch Fridays #82 – “Call Me Home” Page. Drawn in Procreate on the iPad Pro.

This is the first time in about twelve years that I’ve drawn an entire page digitally, from start to finish. I think, in the long run, it was faster than how I normally draw comics, but I think for this mini-comic––a story called “Call Me Home” (a piece of concept art was a previous Sketch Friday)––I’m also being less precious because it’s a black & white comic that takes place in the snow and is much more of a tone piece than the plot & continuity-driven story found in Long John. Overall, it’s been a fun muscle to stretch and may be a tool set I use for future comics, though Long John will remain pen and ink on paper through to the end.

Also, it’s really cool that Procreate records a playback of every file you draw, allowing me to continue producing process videos even though it’s all digital:

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Con Artists #06 – Tickets & Tables

Dec14
by on 14 December 2020

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As the pandemic rages on, more and more independent artists are left figuring out how to manage their careers in the absence of in-person events, specifically exhibiting at conventions.

The pandemic is also a time for reflection. As the big conventions struggle to give fans some semblance of the con experience through digital-only replacements, independent comickers D. Bethel (of the webcomic, Long John) and Kyrun Silva (of Taurus Comics) come together to discuss the difference in experiences, expectations, and realities of what going to a convention means for fans versus what it means to creators and how the chasm between the two experiences may be larger than they thought.

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Quick Shots #4: “Dead Words”

Dec11
by on 11 December 2020
Chapter 4, Page 16 – “Dead Words” (click image to go to the full page)

Chapter 4, Page 16 – “Dead Words”

This is a fairly simple page, but I really like how it captures the mundane: a busy bar on a rainy night. There’s a lot of importance to this page; it’s the title drop, of course, but it’s also the start of some of the deepest (implied) backstory we get to our title character so far in the series (the writing––and holding back––of which, I write about more on the notes for this page).

The line art from this page. Click image for a larger look.

What I like most about it is that I feel the atmosphere of a warm, lively, but welcoming room is captured pretty well in the first two panels, something that needed to be nailed after the very menacing tone of the previous scene.

Fun fact: the two folks in the extreme foreground of the second panel are the same drunk buddies seen walking around Lundy at the beginning of chapter two.

The two laughing friends in the foreground of the second panel are seen at the beginning of Chapter two walking around Lundy while a bit intoxicated as well.
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