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’
