Ongoing project

Well....more stuff NOT related to my comic book! But hell might as well post it anyways! I will eventually draw more stuff for my comic...well actually I have, I just have not scanned it yet!

Anyways first, a rommie, gotta love the rommies. But this ones a redhead...why? Because thats why..lol... Anyways messing with my new copic markers here. I am pretty happy with the results! They are AWESOME!

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...olor_final.jpg

Next is a quickie I did last night while at the coffee shop. Some random Starfleet flag officer type person..:P

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3.../comoFmono.jpg

Anyways. thats all for now.

[evil_genius_180]

Originally Posted by Fëanor

But this ones a redhead...why? Because thats why..lol...

Well, anything's possible. I mean, they found a way to make blond hair and blue-eyed Denise Crosby a Romulan. I'm sure you could always BS a back story like they did for her.

Originally Posted by evil_genius_180

Well, anything's possible. I mean, they found a way to make blond hair and blue-eyed Denise Crosby a Romulan. I'm sure you could always BS a back story like they did for her.

Oh yeah, of course. Hell could be from one of the farther off planets in the empire :P From a group of redheaded rommies that the Feddies have never seen LOL

[evil_genius_180]

I have a couple of books from the '80s written by Diane Carey where she has a Vulcan character who has red hair. He's supposed to have been from a smaller, lesser-known province on Vulcan. Maybe your Romulan's ancestors came from that province when they fled Vulcan after the war.

Hehe thats a cool idea. Which books was this character in? I am curious now....

[evil_genius_180]

They're called Dreadnought! and Battlestations! and they're two of my favorite ST books. Dreadnought! was the first ST book I ever read, when I was in about the 7th grade or so.

Ok, so I am done being lazy and getting back to work on my comic :P

So here is some more concept art. Not very impressive I know, but I will have some much cooler stuff to show you guys soon!

So to start off the main characters laser pistol. I went through quite a few concepts before I got to one I liked that was easy to draw. There is some homage to Han Solo's blaster for sure, but I think it's nifty :P

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1234689212

Next, interior concepts. I know one of you guys wanted to see that stuff. So we have some of the planning for the insides of the main characters ship (posted back on page 1). First the general internal layout

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1234689350

Next are some concepts for the main control panel in the cockpit. I am torn between using idea #1 and #2. 1 has the futuristic fighter plane thing going for it, but 2 makes me think the dashboard of a 70's muscle car, which I like.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1234689350

Some more spacecraft concepts. First some various good guy ships

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1234689515
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1234689519
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1234689523

and various bad guy ships

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1234689592
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1234689589

Some more sketches of the main character. I just like drawing her so :P

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1234690791
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1234690792

And finally the layouts form pages 10 and 11. (see 1st post for layouts 2-9)

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1234690715
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1234690717

[Lee]

some nice concepts...

Not a huge update, but I think I have FINALLY finalized the main characters ship's bridge. Took a lot of revisions and crumpled up papers, but I have a sketch I LIKE :P

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1235623542
chairs on the left were omitted from the sketch so that they would not block details.

Also the ship has been named, Fenrir, and I have been revising the eterior design as well.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1235622800

I will have some cleaner sketches of this stuff sometime soon.

Just read through this thread (and the comic pages with the psycho tribble)... fun stuff!

I personally like the anime styling of the characters and comedic action in those pages.

Be interesting to see this modeled out with something like DAZ3D or Poser.

Keep up the good work!

Thanks Rook3 I am glad you like what you are seeing.

I doubt any of this will ever end up in 3d. I am terrible with 3d programs and just don't have the patience for them lol! But expect plenty more drawn art to come

[gmd3d]

I live the ship concepts there .. and the project look to great fun

[evil_genius_180]

Originally Posted by Fëanor

I doubt any of this will ever end up in 3d. I am terrible with 3d programs and just don't have the patience for them lol! But expect plenty more drawn art to come

Besides, I was just thinking recently about how much of a pain in the ass it would be to do a comic or graphic novel totally in 3D. I think animating a movie would be easier. With a both, you have to build everything, but with a comic, you have to position each piece for each panel precisely and render them separately. Plus, since it's a still image, you have to do everything higher quality than you do for animation. And then there's the post processing, trimming and resizing the panels, repositioning them, which could take a long time if it's a really huge comic. And all of that is before you even add the speech bubbles and story boxes. It would probably take less time to draw, ink and color a comic by hand.

Yeah, trying to do a comic in a 3d program would be a total pain in the backside, wouldn't it? :P More fun to just draw it hehe

Anyways! Working on designing the cover for issue 1 now. Did this sketch up tonight and decided to throw in a splash of color :P

http://fc79.deviantart.com/fs44/f/20...by_jrl3001.jpg

[evil_genius_180]

Interesting cover design. It tells you very little about the comic, but I guess that's what the inside is for.

Well I wouldn't want to give too much away huh? :P

[evil_genius_180]

That's true. My comment certainly wasn't meant as a criticism. I think there are a couple schools of thought in comic covers. Some are almost (or even are) a panel in themselves and give you an idea of what's inside. Others are just a simple image or two to get you intrigued by what might be inside. Yours is definitely the 2nd.

Never took it as a criticism man And yes the plan was for this cover, and probably the ones to follow, to be more eye candy than hints at the plot. I want to leave the interior art for the interior for now. though later I may change plans on cover design *shruggs* will see how things go hehe

working on the pencils for the final cover drawing. Note that this is on much larger paper now, so the top and bottom are chopped off...my scanner is smaller than the paper LOL!

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1236421543

in the process of sketching in cool details and such before I get down to inking it

[evil_genius_180]

Nice. I already see a lot of details that weren't on the first one.

hehe update! Inking is done. In the process of cleaning the line work up

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...U_Cover_0a.jpg

also, the comic now has a title graphic for its site and the cover pages

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/membe...tle_copy30.jpg

[evil_genius_180]

Nice work. I'd suggest cleaning up the edges on the lettering (they're kinda like sawblade edges right now) but other than that both the image and title graphic look great.

that was intended actually. I had it smooth originally, but liked this better :P call me crazy but it reminds me of the title graphics on some of the old console games from the late 80's

[evil_genius_180]

In that case, nevermind.

:P

Well, we now have technicolor! Working on putting in shadows and highlights now. And the backgrounds not there yet either.



Going to also add a bit of a 'hair light'...yes photographic term here... to the left side, After getting into the coloring, I noticed that the main characters arm vanishes into the others hair with the shadows and dark hair :P

More updates! 3 new page layouts hot off the scanner

Really had fun drawing these ones today. Getting to some of the fun ship action, which is just a blast to draw

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...Comic/pg12.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...Comic/pg13.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...Comic/pg14.jpg

[evil_genius_180]

That's some great stuff.

Alrighty! the cover is FINISHED and has the tentative start month for the comic! I scrapped the original color work in favor of a different style, which I am liking a lot more and able to output a lot faster :P So here it is, the cover for Shattered Universe Volume 0

[evil_genius_180]

That looks awesome, dude. Great artwork and color work. The way you did the colors really gives it that great comic feel, IMO.

Thanks! I'm glad you like how it came out too. I just cannot explain how happy I am at how this came out, and how excited I am. I have been working on this for a long time (very slowly) and having this cover image done just makes me feel like I have cleared some massive hurdle :P

[evil_genius_180]

Yeah, that's a big step. You're doing great work on this. That cover looks pretty damn professional, IMO.