Tuesday, May 01, 2007

making comics...








Here's a peek at how I put a story together. This one started with a sketch of an older man's head, but I ran out of paper at the bottom and decided to put him in the ground up to his nose. Then I added his house in the background, with his wife talking on the telephone.
This led me to wonder how he got into this situation, so I drew a rough storyboard to flesh it out. I tried to keep the pencils loose and only draw what was necessary to the story. I did get a little heavier handed than I intended in some spots on the backgrounds, but it's a challenge to try and keep it simple and basic.
I'm still working on the figures, and tweaking the dialogue, but I thought it might be interesting to show the story in progress.

I should have the final inks and color done by next week. Maybe.

(images above are all intentionally 'lo-res' and crappy...
I don't want to give too much away)

2 comments:

max said...

Oh man, what a concept! Fantastic!
I saw that buried guy as you posted it previously and it left me wondering what was coming next. Now I get it.
It looks one of those ideas that are so good that they need to be put down on paper at once.
Great stuff.

Vince M said...

Thanks for the kind words, Max. I hope you'll stick around to find out what happens next!