Posts Tagged ‘Dark’

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Doors of perception

by admin on July 5, 2010 at 12:00 am
Posted In: Comic, Transcript
Page 17 of the wychwolf story, see the transcript for greater detail

For those of you joining us from the Covered blog, welcome to Wychwolf. We are 17 pages in to the first story arc. It’s worth while skipping back to the beginning, but if you just want highlights I’d suggest pages 4, 7 and 13.. they’re he ones with punching and stuff!

The novelisation continues apace over at http://www.wychwolf.co.uk .

We publish every Monday, which is a bit slack I know, but at least it means it’s likely to get done.

Cheers

Rob

Art stuff. Still stumping away with a staedtler pigment liner, 0.5 is favourite currently, on Daler Bristol Board.

Soundtrack, Radio 5 Kermode and Mayo film review podcast

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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
Posted In: Blog

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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