Posts Tagged ‘Black’

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Braiinssssss

by admin on May 31, 2010 at 12:00 am
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Page 12 of the Wych wolf story, see transcript for full description

Down, there in the dark, no-one can hear you scream, no-one but the eyeless, earless corpses, rotting in their tombs.

There’s some argument about what makes a Zombie… the zombies here are the result of fiendish experiments, more of which in future strips. But suffice to say there’s a tenuous link to scientific reality. The experiments on reviving dogs, replacing their hearts can be found on You tube, the chemical side of things, from the legend of the werewolf, which stems from ergot infection of ryebreads. These days ergot is used to create a drug that helps heart patients, Ergotamine, I had a friend who used to be a pharma salesman, and he’d say it had nutritional properties too.. If he sold it he got to eat.

Art stuff… Staedtler pigment liners on whatever paper was lying around, scanned and messed with in Photoshop elephants 4, on the mac.

Soundtrack: New Morning, Bob Dylan… Astral weeks, Van Morrision… Ingrid Bergman, Billy Bragg…

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Demon dog

by admin on May 10, 2010 at 12:00 am
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Demon dog

This page, just didn’t work, no matter what I did with it, so in the end I gave up… it is what it is.. a necessary step, a little further up the ladder before the roller coaster begins.

There are legends of strange animals on the forest, including the Kangaroos, which ended up in the Winnie the Poo stories…

Art Stuff: This one is tricky, as I fiddled so much, I’m not sure what I did where.. The demon was drawn on 250 gsm Bristol Board with a dip pen and DELETER No 4 ink, most of the rest was re-worked in photoshop elements… it’s strange, as I’ve been practicing and drawing things with various paper and inks, and the way I do things has changed quite a great deal over the last month. I’m inking up a page at the minute on A3 FRISK CS2 paper, which was what I used all the time for illustrations back in the day, as it’s very white.

Music: no music, I have the Hellboy Extras DVD playing in a tiny window in the corner of the screen.

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Whatever you do, don’t Blink

by admin on April 25, 2010 at 7:56 pm
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Last Night after a good three quarters of an hour of carefully crafted DrWho screenplay the BBC let Mr Norton contaminate things with a “coming up next, who wants to be the next celebrity dancing on Dogs?” lower third, dispelling all the tension.  (At least that’s what happened in the UK, I know a lot of you readers are from the US, so might have been saved from this)

Anyway, the point behind the post was that there was a lot of effort in the Dr Who show to get the set nice and dark…to set an atmosphere… it was riffing on the “Aliens” theme, a team of commandos working their way through the dark… It prompted me to work on a few backgrounds for the story and make them dark.

I too have a team who are going to be entering the dark, who knows what horrors await?

Nasty things hide in the dark…

In a dark wartime hospital ward light spills from an open door

are you scared of the dark?

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Pictures of the past

by admin on April 12, 2010 at 12:00 am
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Page 5 of the wychwolf story, for greater detail see the transcript.

Page 5, I thought the idea for looking into the eyes of a murder victim came to me from the Neil Gaimen Sandman story, but apparently Dom says something similar happens in the under-rated “Wild wild west” Will Smith steampunk cowboy epic. Oh Well. I nicked the opaque eyes from Heroes season one, where Mr Isaac goes into a trance. The whole thing is borrowed from elsewhere, perhaps sometime I’ll have an original thought.

Art stuff: pencilled on draper layout paper, then inked with a Rotring isograph 0.5mm, some of the thicker blacks added with a Letraset TRIA marker, and a Shinhan Touch twin marker . Scanned in to photoshop elements 4, on mac, with canoscan LIDE 25 at 300 dpi as Black and white. Tidied up, converted to greyscale, then RGB. Coloured using web safe palette, then given sepia effect by removing colour, adjusting further by removing blue, adding red, darkening and adding noise. I left the “blood” layer untouched by mistake, but liked the idea that there is sepia, and RED.

Soundtrack: Nick Cave and the Bad seeds, ‘there she goes my beautiful world’,  Tom Waits, ‘make it rain’, Elbow, “station approach’, Billy Bragg, ‘A new England’

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