Something

 This is what I think, when people say this phrase.

Maybe I should do a whole series of portraits of goofy-looking schmucks,

saying things that annoy me.

More realistic take on Eve, in the style of renaissance portraiture.

Pencils

After about six hours on one page, I decided to go ahead and scan these, in case I screw up when I get to the inks.

Keep in mind these are still pretty loose, as I'll be doing hatching, feathering, and texture in ink.

Promotional Image

Two posts in one day? Truly the world is at an end.
Anyway, yeah, something that makes a nice promotional image, all texted up to be one. Now I get to go ink some more pages.

A Taste

Some new artwork for chapter 4 of I Am Rage.

 Going less cartoony with this final chapter, the tone of it demanded it. I've pretty much given up on the idea of writing it as a comedy with action. This chapter is darker, but still not entirely serious. It will also work as a stand alone; you won't have to read the first three chapters to follow the story, but if you have, the exposition/summary of those is only about two pages.
It will also be 64 pages, counting the title page, but not the cover.

First Issue Done

First issue of I Am Rage is done, the PDF is uploaded, and I'm just waiting for conformation from Drive Thru Comics. I will probably upload to the Kindle store, also, but I'm tired. I've been making PDFs and going over legal stuff and reading regulations and requirements and torturing myself over the description, so I'm a bit worn out. I don't feel this drained after a 12 hour work session of writing, drawing, inking, clean up, and/or coloring.
I really wish I could pay an assistant; someone to do all the tedious jobs like scanning, color flats, lettering, etc.
Tomorrow, I'll probably torture myself some more with the Kindle store set up (at least this time I'll have a little better idea of what to expect - this is all new to me) and try to get some writing done. Though I'm still kicking myself because I had a really good idea that I didn't write down, and I forgot it.

Been Busy

Doing the color rendering (where it goes from flat to fully highlighted and shaded) on the last few pages of the first issue. I should have a link up, some time next week.

Extras

More character design and an unused page with black and white/color comparison.

My stuff always focuses on the disenfranchised in more positive roles. I'm not the "every-person" so I find stories about them, usually, boring. I also have my "liberal agenda" of inserting transgenders as positive role models, not ew jokes or porn. Not that I have anything against porn, but there's a time and place for everything. There's a lot of positive gay characters out there, not so many transgender. Ugly Betty was the only thing I can think of, off the top of my head. And it's cancelled.

I like to do these comparisons between color and black and white. Originally, this was a prologue page, but I went in a different direction. You can also see how the way I draw the characters has evolved. I've gotten more loose and cartoony with them, which is the idea. These were very conservative and still too bound to illustration.

I Am Rage Cover Mockup

A cover mockup, with logo, for I Am Rage.

Pages!

Enjoy this teaser of I Am Rage.

New Techniques

Trying to get a more traditionally painted look. I downloaded some neat sponge brushes and toyed and tweaked the setting. I did this a lot like I would watercolor, in the background - working in gray scale first, then adding color with an overlay layer. Not exactly the same, obviously, but there are similarities.