Page 49. Ace, Carolyn, Myles, and Sol are coming back to Ace’s house at dusk. I found the lighting tricky to paint.
Page 50 goes up on the 26th. 🙂
Page 49
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Line-art from Page 51
Page 49 goes up next week (on Wednesday the 12th).
This is my favorite line-art from one of the upcoming pages–I especially love how Sol turned out. The three have walked into a worrying situation, and I feel like I captured that in their body language.
You can find the most recent Page of the Pelkern cycle Here.
Concept Art: Anatomy Study
Over the holiday vacation, I took the opportunity to brush up on my human anatomy. I read and sketched the diagrams from my favorite anatomy book, David K Rubins’ Anatomy for Artists. This is one of the sketches from those studies.
I’m currently working on Pages 49-50. Unfortunately I won’t be able to post Page 49 until January 29th. Until then, I’ll post some more concept art (including some reference photos that I took in Costa Rica). The most recent page of The Pelkern Cycle is Page 48.
Page 48
Page 48. Awkward hug time! Artor hugs his grandson about as much as he apologizes to his grandson, so Ace is a little confused here.
The lighting was tricky on this page. Also I do not like drawing cars.
Page 47
Page 47. Thanksgiving put me behind, but I’m pretty pleased with how this page turned out. The last two panels are some of the best drawings of Ace that I have done, I think.
Close-up of Lineart: Ace and Carolyn
I got a new digital drawing tablet in an early Black Friday sale, and I am loving it. I can get more fluid and dynamic lines with this tablet than I could with my last one. This is the line-art of Ace and Carolyn from an upcoming page. I am also getting better at drawing the characters, in general. Hooray!
Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers. I hope you have a good time with your families!
Page 46 is my most recent comic page. Page 47 up next week. 🙂
Page 46
Chapter 3 begins! I am hoping the two shadows–Artor’s shadow, and the receding memory shadows–make sense here. I like the version without Artor’s shadow too:
In other news, I got a new Wacom Cintiq 16 (from the new affordable line), and I am loving it.
Close-up of Characters on Pelkern Card
Week 3 of the three week break between chapters. Next week I post Page 46, the cover page for Chapter 3.
This is a close-up of the characters from the Pelkern card. I’m especially happy with how Carolyn turned out. I partially based her pose off of Caravaggio’s painting David with the head of Goliath (the 1607 version).
Pelkern Card
We’re on week 2 of the three week page break between chapters. I’m still busy as a beaver with the prep-work for Chapter 3. In the meantime, here is the Pelkern card I handed out at Hutchmoot (an arts conference). Drawing the setting on this reminded me how excited I am to get to Pelkern. 😀
My Favorite Drawings from Chapter 2
There will be a 3 week page break while I do the prep work for Chapter Three. For this first week, here are close-ups of some of my favorite drawings from Chapter 2. 😀