Here are the final, lettered pages of the Scragg story. When creating this story, I sort of aimed for the mythical idea that this was an early Mad Magazine parody by Harvey Kurtzmanand Wally Wood, of a Conan story drawn by Frank Frazetta, as interpreted by me. [click to continue...]
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Next I began to rough out the final pages at full size. Some people rough on the final art pages, in light graphite, then add the detail. Others rough out in non-photo blue and tighten up in graphite. As for me, I personally get the best results by roughing out [click to continue...]
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Okay, after figuring out the basic beats of my story, I made some loose roughs in my sketchbook. Here they are:
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For the final version of the pulp cover parody for Hoverboy, I first created a logo by hand. In the 30’s and 40’s, of course, all the logos were created by hand and I just couldn’t get the right feel from computer lettering even when manipulated. So I knuckled down and whipped this up. [click to continue...]
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Here’s more on the pulp style parody cover I created for Hoverboy Returns.
In Figure 1, I began to paint in full color. First I painted in the sky and moon, then began on the foreground figures. I tried to keep the colors bright and garish, in [click to continue...]
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Okay, I’m taking a little break from the storytelling workshop to throw in a little piece about some art I recently completed for inclusion in the Hoverboy one-shot comic, coming out from Mr. Comics in the spring. I want to show you the evolution of the piece from idea to final execution.
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