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. Page 6 will go up next week as usual.   For making comics, I start by taking a planning… Continue reading Pelkern Cycle — Drawing Process A

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… Continue reading Pelkern Cycle — Drawing Process B

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… Continue reading Pelkern Cycle — Concept Art for Artor and Myles

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.

After a two week vacation and then being sick for a week, I lost my comic page buffer, and have run behind. I am still working behind the scenes though. I have been making the next two comic pages well as researching and taking scads of reference photos. In Germany and England I took over… Continue reading New Page coming Wednesday

I am taking a page break this week to finish my work on the thumbnails/prep work for Chapter 2. So here is a Behind the Scenes Look at Page 6. In part 1, I started by sketching the setting. In Part 2 I drew in character sketches that nail down gesture and size. In Part… Continue reading Behind the Scenes — Page 6 Part A

This is Part 2 of a Behind the Scenes compilation for Page 6. For the final layers, I started with the inking layer of the setting (top left). I then inked the characters in (top right). Next I put in the color for the setting (bottom left). I usually do the color layer for the… Continue reading Behind the Scenes — Page 6 Part B

Chapter 2 is going to be a longer chapter, so I am still working on thumbnails and color-scripts. Next week I will post Chapter 2’s cover. In the meantime, here is an old cover design for The Pelkern Cycle with fun mythological creatures. This is from 2012 (6 years ago at the time of this… Continue reading Old Comic Cover from 2012

I am finishing up the prep work for chapter 2 this week. The thumbnails, color-scripts, and other prep work have taken a little longer than expected, but I am pretty excited for this coming chapter. Stay tuned, new page next week! This is a rock formation photo I took while holding my camera down close… Continue reading Rock Formation 2

I will be posting Page 22 next week. Here is a preview: In panel 4, the setting has window blinds, so here are some of the perspective lines I’ve made to get the window blinds right.