Ship Scene

I'm working on a few dramatic at-sea panels. Here's one that's partially completed.

(click for larger version) Here's Martin in rough and less-rough versions:

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From Sketch to Colored, Lettered, Final Panel

I made a little video featuring one of the panels from The Adventures of Victor and Martin in The Hunt for The Emperor's Treasure. The video shows the process from sketch to ink to the slow coloring process to lettering to the final panel. The background music is a song called "Shasta" by my friend Kurt's band, Country Mice. Click on Full Screen if you can. The quality really holds up.

New Sketch - Nearly Under

One of the hazards of whaling. This sketch was done with PrismaColor markers, which I'm still not very good with, and some digital coloring and adjustment afterwards.

Color Mutation

I've been finishing up the current submission, and one of the things I've been doing is muting the colors a little. I found that in the original format my comic looked a little too kiddie. I'm trying to write an all-ages comic, but not a comic specifically targeted at the youngest of the young kids.

The original version just looked a little too crayola-bright, so I muted the colors by desaturating them a little. I'm not great with colors, so it took a while and I'm not 100% stoked about the results, but it looks better, at least. The original is on the left, and the yellow-green-blue combo was just too bright for my tastes.


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Arctic Exploration

It looks like a French animation firm is working on an arctic exploration-themed animated movie. It looks beautiful.

I only wish I'd been able to complete my first Victor and Martin submission, from 2010.



Well, this will only strengthen my efforts to get the first Victor and Martin comic completed.

Victor in the desert sketch

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Victor, lost in the desert. Pencil, pen, Prismacolor marker, digital clean-up/coloring.

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New Sketch!

Here it is!