Just playing around with the Bamboo tablet. Boy it’s going to take a long time to figure out how to do this stuff right, but it’s pretty fun.
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I’ve been going through the archives doing a little project and I’ve been working on the Marooned universe story and characters. Here’s a piece of artwork that came out of that.
Took some time this morning before work to draw up some fan art for Tony Piro’s great strip Calamaties of Nature. I had always wanted to draw his characters and wanted to try a new coloring style. If you haven’t checked out Tony’s strip you really should, the characters are fun and his writing is funny. Plus, he just re-did his site and switched his format.
I had the idea for this strip a year or so before I actually began to seriously work on it. At first, I was going to do it as kind of a sprite-based strip in Illustrator. As you can see the characters look nothing like they do now. Asimov (who was not yet named that) was a TV-type guy (although still wheeled) and John’s (Then called Ron) helmet completely covered his face. Kind of hard to make facial expressions that way.
The strip below was kind of a rough jab and seeing what it would look like. I did two of them and then shelved it for awhile. When I decided I wanted to look at it again, I knew I wanted to draw it traditionally and that the characters had to change.
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Kind of interesting to see where the strip came from. I also did a more realistic drawing of a space captain character, but there’s no way I could pull off a comic in this style, it would take forever.
Here’s a little sneak peek of a character you’ll be seeing in an upcoming strip. Frightening eh?! He’s going to throw a little wrench into my continuity, which I am going to fix, but we’ll discuss that later.
And apparently I don’t have as many readers as I hoped – or ones that at least read my entry below my comic, because there aren’t that many entries for the Barnes and Noble $25 gift card in the strip comments for this week. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, read what I wrote on this weeks strip.
Here’s the sketch:
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