Another page, one that took me longer than perhaps it should have.

For those of you who are interested in these kinds of things, I inked the fourth and fifth panels mostly using a brush, which is a new thing for me.  Reading stuff by Fabio Moon, Becky Cloonan, and Vasilis Lolos has finally got me interested in the possibilities contained within those fancy little bristles, so I got myself a Windsor Series 7 (surprisingly cheap on dickblick.com) and have started having a crack at that.  I am mostly happy with the results, though I believe I still have a lot of practicing to do.

He’s in for a bit of a shock.

As usual, I’ve been making the mistake of reading really good comics work lately (particularly Mark Millar and JRJR’s Kick-Ass and Casanova: Gula by Matt Fraction and Fabio Moon), which causes me to reflect dimly upon my own project.  But then I remember that I’m doing this both to learn a few things and hopefully tell an entertaining story, and there’s still plenty of time in my life to work on meta-diagetic plot devices and the like.

“I came up on books like Chaykin’s AMERICAN FLAGG! or you know, WATCHMEN. These comics refused passive consumption. I’m showing my art school here: I reject passive consumption. I reject the premise. I will have no passive consumers. Casanova will not stop and explain itself to you. It will not allow you to flip through it while you’re dropping a deuce and waiting for Batman to show up.” - Matt Fraction

New page coming soon.  Promise.

…but it’s a double-page spread, so perhaps that makes it okay?  Regardless, this took me way longer to draw than I had anticipated.  Plus, it’s one of the more ambitious things to which I’ve ever put my hand, so give me a break, okay?  Of course, I also failed to anticipate that the current site design would have problems displaying a double-wide page.  I may get around to addressing that.  Later.

So week three and I already failed.  But maybe it’s good to get this out of the way early on.  No waiting for the inevitable first slip and such.  Now we can start waiting for the second!