Sci-fi/Fantasy Webcomics
Page 12, Chapter 1. This page was made in the midst of technical difficulties, because the Solid-state drive on my desktop computer died. I worked on my laptop until the new computer parts came in the mail. Luckily I had my computer backed up (via BackBlaze), so I didn’t lose anything. My husband switched out the parts on my desktop and installed Windows 10 on it again, so it is up and working now, hooray!
Page 11 — Chapter 1. I put a lot of intricate detail into the characters in the third panel, but the details are lost and even look confusing after I resized the page smaller. I’m working to make drawings that scale down better in the next pages.
Page 10 — Chapter 1: For The Pelkern Cycle I’m working with a new style of inking. It’s a technique closer to woodcut printing, where I erase the image out of a black layer (rather than drawing black marks on white). Here is the inking layer from the fourth panel:
Page 9 – Chapter 1.
Chapter 1, cover page.
Prologue, Page 7.
Why yes, that is a Plague Doctor in Panel 3. Earth has always been shunned. Most attempts of travelling to Earth have ended in sorrow, and the last expedition fixed the taboo for a thousand years.
Explorers from Oborull traveled to a town dying of the Great Plague. They fled back to Oborull, but the damage was done. Some of the infection carrying fleas came back nestled in the fur of their faithful dogs. The devastation upon Oborull’s population was unprecedented.
The sign for Earth is the sun and the moon, with a skull to symbolize death.
We are in the midst of moving to a new house, so I am posting concept art this week instead of Page 8. Here is Ace and Carolyn, two of the main characters in the comic. Ace is Artor’s grandson (Ace is the baby in Page 2, actually), and Carolyn is Myles’s daughter.
Prologue — Page 6: This page took longer than I expected it to, but I’m pretty happy with how it came out.
More concept Art this week: These are the sketches of the two characters in Page 5 (and the next few pages) that I drew when I was designing the cast of characters for this comic. Artor is the one built like a grizzly bear. Myles is a Blacksmith, so he has a Blacksmithing apron and a hammer in this drawing.
Page 6 is shaping up to be a pretty cool page, I will be posting it next week.
I have had a crazy and stressful past week, and wasn’t able to finish Page 6. Instead, I am posting an overview of my comic process, using the 2nd panel of Page 2 as an example. This is Part 2 of my drawing process.
Next I do the inking layers for my comic. I start with a layer that is solid black, then I erase into black to create the woodcut-like outlines (Figure 5). I do the character and setting woodcut outlines on separate Photoshop layers. After that I block in the basic colors for the setting. In (Figure 6) you can see the setting has been blocked in, and that I added the lines for the portal. Next I color in the characters (Figure 7). I finish it all up by polishing the details. I added ground shadows, reflected light to the cave walls, and the shadow in the portal (Figure 8).