Infographics

Last week I was working on my first infographic. It was just a test for a company to show up my skills that means to show if I'm the right person for the job.

 If you don't know what is an infographic you are at the same point as me last week. As you know, an image worth 1.000 words so better you check out some really cool stuff  on Dailyinfographic and find out for yourself.

In this panel i made a silly mistake that i need to fix. If you pay attention to the glass door reflexion of the guy with the gas mask, the reflexion is looking to the wrong side.

I 'm afraid i will need to stop smoking crack.

"A hole in the earth" is a personal project. Im still working in the last issue of "The Blackstone Chronicles" but i decided to start to work in something else.

There is not much of a script yet, but i started to work already in some of the panels. Even if i have hundreds of notes i don't think that if i put them all together they will look like a script. But i know what is going on (more or less)

Im planing to do just 1 panel a day (hard worker, innit?) and there will be only 4 panels per page.

I will draw at the same time that i'm writing or i will write at the same time that i'm drawing.

The same will happen with the characters, i will draw them when i need them to be on "screen"

For example , this to fellas....

I hate to develope characters, i really do.

I needed this two to appear on the 2 panel so i made this quickly to have a reference of them ( the girl is not really important in the script so  i thought it wouldn't be necesary to work to hard on her... When i draw her in the panel i already change the color of his hair)

This fella on the top will be more important on the story so it will have a better and proper development. But anyway, talking about this drawing is days that is better to leave the pencils on the side. I'm not really happy with him.

a hole in the earth? Oh, yeah

Half sleeping

Few weeks ago i was in bed trying to sleep...sometimes, when i can't sleep i make movies in my head (no, no THAT kind of movies) until i get tired and i felt sleep. That night this image came to my mind.

And it get kind of stuck over there.

For long time ( is been almost 6 months) i been trying to work in something that i really enjoyed...but i came up always trying to create something from zero, thinking about what someone else (mainly publishers ) will like.

I started and give up at least 4 times in this 6 months . Maybe is something wrong with me. Or maybe it was just that i was looking to the wrong side.

In the last two weeks i been thinking , writing and , for the first time in years, planing, about and around the that picture.

And i got the silliest idea ever.

But i like it . I like it a lot

I dont  know from were , Matt (Garvey) found the way to contact Pat Mills (yes, THE man) and ask him for some feedback about our baby (Infraction). Here is what he had to say about it:

"Hi, Matt,

It's a certain "2000AD style",  with elements of Blade Runner,   Brett Ewins/Brendan McCarthy - at a certain point in their career.  Not sure how if that's what they're looking for now.  Fashions change. Not sure. 

So 2000AD might be a place to try.  The hero could be visually more powerful.  He's freaky, but is he iconic.   I'd say no.  Maybe if you had an extremely  iconic title page of him as a page one , that could help its appeal to 2000AD and if the story could be wrapped inside a certain number of pages.

Outside 2000AD it would be tough to find a book publisher, I fear

Good luck!

Pat "

So we decided to make a new cover (first one was quiet ugly) and a new pag 1, to try to make the thing more "iconic". I'm not hundred percent happy with the page, but at that moment i needed to make a effort to find time for it.

The Blackstone Chronicles graphic novel Cover

The Blackstone Chronicles 4. Pag 1 (unfinished)

Creed Cover

We ( Matt and Me)( well, more MAtt than me) decided to give a new look to the mock up of the cover.Even if the second one is kind of more epic, i'm no sure wich one i like more.

Creed first 5 pages

Creed & Co page 3

Still not finished. I dunno why this pages are taking me to long to finish. I have all the time of the world for them and looks like is not enough.

Argggggg....now that i saw the page again, is NOT finished at all. Im already working in page 5, but this one still not finished. And the same with page 4....and 2....and 1.

Whatever i will do next, i will follow ONE rule and only one: finish one panel, and when is done jump to the next one ( i think i have a pretty bad habit, jumping in between panels before finish them)

Creed and Co page 2

One line here another there....

...et voila.

Creed & Co page 1

The egg....

The chicken...

Creed & Co