Like many such talks, the discussion ended with a lot of back and forth discussions about freelancing, and business, thus Mike's hilarious response above.
Just before the deadline, the client said they had expected color comics (they neglected to tell me that up front!, so I did this test (which I still like)...
I did this (mid 90's?) to illustrate the concept of a commercial artist's lifelong deadline. The halftone was that cheap old zip stuff you had to rub to adhere the dots to the paper. I think you can still buy stuff like this because of the popularity of Manga. It gives a sort of imperfect-but-mechanical look. Thank God I found Wally Wood at a young age!
This was the splash page for my self published comicbook, Junkyard Enforcer, #1. I'm glad I did it, but there is no money in comics like this, so I had to go back to work. But it was fun. This was Prismacolor pencil on some slick pen paper. Then I switched to very smooth bristol, I think.
Even though the newspaper business is imploding, I still think there is a market for a daily newspaper strip about the day to day drama of firefighters. A few years back I wrote six weeks of dailies and Sundays, but realized I like freelancing, and don't want that kind of commitment. Here is me fooling around with the strip - even some old school duo-shade!
This was a mini comic I wrote, drew and xeroxed in 12 hours, once when I was stuck in a hotel room on a job in Richmond, Virginia. I didn't really plan the story much, as you can see, but finally decided on only including pages 1 through 6. This was back in 2002. I have to make some time for more comics work!
I try to get to life drawing workshops when I can. It often reminds my how shaky my anatomical knowledge is, so every once in a while I copy from my books. The color keeps it interesting...
I wish I'd gotten my head around this stuff a long time ago...
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