Check out some behind the scenes type stuff. Here art the thumbnails for the first section of Northpark. Don't look too close, there might be spoilers.
So the series SAM. Kind of fell by he waste side. I worked on it for a while, and actually wrote a bunch of stuff for it, but once I got to the art, I realized it was going to take a long time for this series to go anywhere, and I'm a very slow worker, so I decided to scrap it. It's just another one of the many scripts I wrote that are never going to see the light of day. These were the other two pages I did for the series that I never released. I thought I might show them, since the series is probably never going to come out.
A graffiti sort of logo. You may have seen seen it at the bottom of one of the promos. Here is a color version.
Sorry I've been rather busy. This is something I did while I was bored at work. I don't know if I'll ever use it.
So here was an idea I had to help show off all the influences for Northpark Underground. They are kind of all over the place, some of the influences were tonal, and some of them style wise. The way I've been describing this series is Scott Pilgrim meets Fight Club. I'm hoping after section 1.1 comes out, you'll be able to look at this post and see what I was talking about here.
In the past I've always written myself into characters. In Neworld, all three characters were different parts of my personality. Usually when I wrote things that had multiple characters, I put one character who was very reminiscent of myself. But this is the first time I've basically written myself into a comic. The character Greg is essentially me, right down to his psyshical appearance. The way I've been writing him is a little bit more of a characture of myself, but still it's pretty much me.
I thought it was high time to get a new Blog Header. It was still the old Maladroits style one, and Maladroits is long done, so here is the new Northpark Underground one. This one will probably be up there for quite a while.
I fell off on the updates a little. So here's what's going on. I've already penciled, ink, colored and lettered the first two pages. The pages definitely take longer than any other comic I've done in the past. Between the larger format, and the more in depth coloring, It takes me a good 6 hours to finish a page (at least). So this won't be a fast process, but the page I finished today turned out really great, so I hope it will be worth it.
So I'm taking a break from inking the first page (woo!) to tell you about the Northpark's pet, it's a chimpanzee named chip. Here were some quick sketches I did for concepts. He'll show up super briefly in the first section. Speaking of which. I sat down Sunday night and wrote the first section. It's only 4 pages, so it wasn't a big deal, but I think I got some good stuff in there. There are a couple panels I really cannot wait to draw. I also came up with another idea for a real short story, which I wrote the other day at work. That story will probably show up after the first chapter is over. Watch for more stuff all week.
I'm trying to break up all the Northpark posts with other stuff. I bought this new calligraphy pen the other day, and this was an experiment with it. No.6 is one of my all time favorite characters. I thought I'd give drawing him another shot. I did a shot of Geoff from Tales in a prisoner outfit awhile ago, but here is an actual drawing of No.6.
Here was an attempted cover to Chapter 1, but I decided it wasn't good enough.
So I had to buy a new sketchbook yesterday. Up top there is the opening page. Whenever I get a new sketch book, I always do a little page and number it. I don't usually post the title pages up here, but I thought this one was particularly cool, and I wanted to color it. I also always try to decorate the cover of the sketch book, and on this one I decided to wrap the whole thing with one of my vinyl posters. I thought it turned out pretty darn cool.
Here's a new character sketch. Just another look at the characters a little farther down the road. So I fooled around with so many other schemes, but I think I'm just going to stick with this one. Just a fairly traditional color scheme. Here's the color palette I'm working from.
So here is the logo for the new series. My day at work was pretty slow, so I took advantage, and did a ton of writing. I worked out a lot of the character stuff (they all have names now, woo!), I established some of their back stories, and outlined the first 3 sections.
