Friday, July 11, 2008

Jack of FABLES:Gary Does Denmark;Pencils and (some) Inks

I've a little free time so let's catch up on the rest of JoF#21. The breaks have been posted, so let's look at the pencils and inks (which I got to do myself for the first time on this series).Notice the inking is a little tentative until I recalled that I really like using a brush (Series 7).
Again, I apologize because the organization the files is very disjointed and I've consumed the better part of the day tracking jpegs attached to emails sent into DC/Vertigo. So bear with me.

Matt's (Sturges) story about The Pathetic Fallecy's ill-fated production of "Hamlet" takes place within the security boundary of The Golden Bough camp BEFORE Jack arrived. So I imagine that those days were filled with such manufactured distraction for the inmates. If you're from the Chicago area and have attended the Ravinia Festival, I imagined a beautiful Summer night, lawn seating and some streaking.



Note here, that this is a different layout from the printed version. Editorial nixxed this layout as too cluttered.














Here's a sample of Alex Wald's color work. He's up for an Eisner this year for Best Colorist: SHAOLIN COWBOY. Alex did this as a sample to land some other work at DC/Vertigo. Great work,no?







This is only the scan of a partly finished spread. Jealous?







H.E.

4 comments:

TMALO70 said...

Uh-Yeah...

Alex kicks some Serious Bootay with a Digital Brush... Tell Your Bosses at Vertigo, if They're Smart they'll let Alex douse Your Sweet-Ass-Sweet Pages with Delicious Hues... Unlike the Guy they have now...

Later,

T...

clmcshane said...

I love the glimpse that you give us into the thought processes. So how do you decide where you want to use the spot blacks?

Tony Akins said...

Spotting blacks is precog; I start a drawing thinking, "If this is black, then I won't have to put any detail there." :~)

Mello said...

Awesome work as always, what else can I say!?!