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SAW Graphic Novel Development Month 5/6
Character Redesigns and Styleguide RevampsAs I've been thumbnailing the script of Warlock'd as my self-assigned work during Sequential Artist Workshop's Graphic Novel Intensive, I've also had to sit and revisit my comic's styleguide. There has been some character...
Marginalia Studies
Skull BishopHours of Saint-Omer, France ca. 1320 BL, Add 36684, fol. 84v Illustration Style ShiftPrior to 2021, I used a more painterly style for my illustrations. I was frustrated by the amount of time it took to drag painterly illustrations out of the Uncanny...
SAW Graphic Novel Development Month 4/6
A Little Lettering over LunchRecently I had the very awesome and fun honor of guest speaking at a Kids Comics Unite Lunch n' Learn session on comics lettering. I was invited by Janna Morishima to do a presentation for those who don't know where to get started on this...
Carboniferous Friends
As it turns out, a person can fit a lot of stuff into an 11x14 inch double-page spread. How much, I didn't realize, until I set out to create an example illustration for a picture book concept that I thought up. The idea is for kids to browse expansive eye-spy pages...
SAW Graphic Novel Development Month 3/6
This month in the Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW), I explored making short comics as practice for the final pages in my graphic novel, Warlock’d. This comic in particular was completed for a Graphic Novel challenge hosted by the Society for Children’s Book Writers...
Of Pomegranates and Unicorns
Is this Paleoart with some Folklore, or Folklore with some Paleoart?I explored the intertwining concepts of misinformation and natural history in this piece. The story in my head recalled not only mythological hearsay, but also the idea of cryptids. What is Big Foot...
SAW Graphic Novel Development Month 2/6
A Tale of CynocephaliIn the six-month Sequential Arts Workshop (SAW) graphic novel intensive, I've been getting meaningful work done on my thumbnails and script. Soon, I will have a complete thumbnailed version of the graphic novel. As for the cynocephali (or medieval...
Ivalice Zine Entry
This is the work I did for the (completely free!) Ivalice Zine organized by Ashley Cope, whose work on the webcomic Unsounded has inspired me for years. When I spotted the call for entries I jumped at the chance. It was curated so it was a little nerve-wracking, but I...
SAW Graphic Novel Development Month 1/6
I signed up for a 6-month graphic novel course via Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW). It's very heavily focused on individual study and progression. As for the graphic, I got sorted into the 'orange' group, although it seems like I'm just sort of interacting with...
Aesop’s Crow Fable Comic
During a Push/Pull Graphic Novel Workout zoom class I took with David Lasky and Greg Stump, I was challenged to tell an entire story using only two pages. In this ancient story, a thirsty crow must be clever to survive a desert island.
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