Hipp Man

I won a contest for a signed copy of one of my favorite artists Dan Hipp's new book. There's a picture of it the packaging and a very blurry picture of the drawing he did on the inside.

GYAKUSHU

One of my favorite artists Dan Hipp is launching a second blog to promote/release the 3rd volume of his graphic novel Gyakushu, and he's got a thing going where he wants people to post Gyakusu artwork on blogs and websites to help get the word out. So I felt obliged to help. I have been a huge fan of Dan Hipp and Gyakushu for a long time. In fact looking back I just mentioned a quote i read from him a couple of posts ago. When the site goes live it should go up HERE!

I also decided to do a drawing of a couple of characters from Gyakusu, and post the sketch Hipp did for me at comic-con a couple years back. It's probably the best sketch I've gotten from an artist, and Rob Guillory was really into it when he saw it.

NWU printing press 3

Here is your daily print update. Got one issue in the bag. And I'm working on the second one. I ended up doing a whole nother round of revisions on the comic. I tweeked another 10 pages or so. As for my palns for the rest of the week. I'm probably gonna take a break after tomorrow, and do the rest on saturday and sunday. And as promised yesterday here is the process for the cover.Here is the original sketch. I drew two or three designs, and fooled around with a bunch of other artwork before I came to this design. I actually flipped through some art books and web stuff till I remembered the cover that fabio moon did for the Myspace Dark Horse presents (link). And decided I wanted to do something like that. I remember reading this thing Dan Hipp wrote about doing covers where he said that the less colors you use the more it stands out, and that's always stuck with me, and decided I just wanted to do a two color type thing, which is when I came up with this sort of cascading idea, which I think turned out pretty well.
I wanted to include the just inked page because there is actually a ton of little details in the piece that kind of gets drowned in the colored back ground. Take a close look to see if you can find all the little references to the first chapter.