Patience, Wondercon, and Tales of Banyan

by on February 12, 2009 at 15:06
Posted In: Hockey, Love, & GUTS!, Random Sketches

I’m still not quite there yet, but I promise that very soon I will upload some comic pages. A few factors are preventing me from fully delving into that world, and while I could list all of them, I’ll say this: 1:  drawing with a tablet is NOT the same as drawing with a Cintiq; 2: developing a process for writing and drawing comics is still new to me; and 3: it takes a lot of patience to draw nice looking lines with a tablet. This is not to say procrastination doesn’t factor in, but I don’t know if I would constitute looking for a job and promoting my short film as procrastinating from doing comics… maybe, or maybe not. Either way, I’m still incredibly excited about the characters I’m developing and just storytelling in general.

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Kelly Dodger

by on February 1, 2009 at 22:12
Posted In: Hockey, Love, & GUTS!
So I’m getting close to uploading some rough comic pages, and while Kelly doesn’t appear until later in the story, I decided to introduce here. I’m hoping she’ll end up becoming another major character because she’s kinda made up from a combination of girls I knew back as an undergrad, and I think they left a certain influence over me – ironically, they were nothing more than acquaintances, but still, impressions are impressions I guess. She’s the strongest of the bunch, at about 6′ in height, and a laughter that is often condescending and yet contagious. Oh, and she likes fighting games too. You probably know who her favorite character is… Kikooooooouken!
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Kelly Dodger

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For Dan

by on January 18, 2009 at 22:24
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Get well soon Dan, we miss you.

Peace.

Ré

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Pearl, Heidi, and Pasquale

by on January 2, 2009 at 02:50
Posted In: Hockey, Love, & GUTS!

Development, development, development… While I continue to write, I continue to design, and the toughest thing sometimes is figuring out a final look for things. Obviously none of this comes close to what I want for the final art of the comic, but it serves as a good exercise in grayscale, and ideas for character expressions and moments. Supporting characters are sometimes tougher to write for than main characters, and I think that also applies for design. Heidi and Pasquale are friends of Pearl, but I gotta make sure they don’t become redundant. Alas, I again feel I’m showing too much, especially when I don’t see a release of this comic coming anytime soon. Anyway, this is how I think about it sometimes.

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Heidi on the left, Pearl on the right

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