Well, after quite a bit of thinking and tinkering with the final chapter of FDTN. I ultimately decided the firt book would be better served if I ended it in about fifteen pages. Thematically the original ending of the book just felt off when you saw it withink the context of the rest of it. […]
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As a part of finishing up book 1 of FDTN I felt pretty adamant that the original four pages needed to be updated to match the quality of the current pages. Much of the early stuff still holds up, but that scene feels so off compared to the later work. Like the characters don’t even
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Inspired by my experience working on Amulet 2 and the great fun I had getting to know the other artists, and the same experience my friend Josh Ulrich has had working with Dave Riddick on Legend of Bill: We’ve decided to join forces for one super comics creating monster. Because of my work schedule and
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I just heard the terrible news today that Professor Jeremy Mullins of SCAD’s sequential art program passed away this weekend. I am a big fan of the Seqalab podcast and losing him moves me deeply. I never went to SCAD, but it is the school I always wanted to attend. He seemed like the kind
I feel a little guilty showing this off so early, like I’m spoiling such a great moment, but I figured I gotta show it to wet your appetites. This is a double page spread that is coming up. I’m so stinking proud of the original art on this! I look at it and think of
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I recently tried approaching the creation of my comics from a different angle and the results have been positive so far. Before, I would create a simple thumbnail drawing to get the jest of the scene down and see the flow of the storytelling. I would then create the finished drawing on the final page.
Well at last I am posting some of the sketching I’ve been doing. I’m trying to get back into the feel of some of the characters we haven’t seen in awhile. Mainly Thomas. He features pretty heavy in the end of this book. So, I figured I’d better get a grip on how to draw
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I went in today and imported all of my posts from The Unknowns Production Blog, to this one. So if you want to read the history of project from a little further back, just click on a post with the tag “Unknowns” and you’ll get all of my posts. Such as at the bottom of
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Naoki Urasawa is one of Japan’s all time great manga artists. The first real splash his works have had on the states is a series call “Monster.” In its American incarnation, the series was dulled out of 18 volumes. I’m currently reading 14. As a writer who LOVES thrillers, Monster is the prime example of
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