http://ceaseill.blogspot.com/2010/07/dn ... -born.html
I'm going to slip some art into this thread, but decent pictures of most everything (not the hi-res I'm getting this weekend before press) can be found at this blog. We are drawing the last pages this weekend.

Judging from this, if anyone would like to render any time=honored comic book advice or simply share their enthusiasm for good comics, please hit us up here! Thanks, C Lue




http://tinypic.com/1r543eo0

http://tinypic.com/a/26ujo/1

D ‘n ‘a “the mountain” http://ceaseill.blogspot.com/2010/07/dn ... -born.html has link to beginning, early version of pages above


Chuck: (voiceover captions, as he looks into the mirror, holding a faded photo)



I have the face of a ghost!
If it weren’t for my fascination with his picture, I would look like no one I know at all.
It’s eerie to wake up with the face of a dead man, but no one else in the car will wake up at all.
Guess I should count my blessings, as well, as my curses.
For the rest of my life, when I look in the mirror I’ll see my great grandfather. That was the best the surgeons could do with the picture I had in my wallet.




P.2 Maybe curses only have power for those who believe in them.
They promised me if I left our cult I’d die. We’d laughed about our transgressions together. We’d responded to life in the Bible Belt with a gleeful kick in the crotch---so damned clever, we were, no fear whatsoever of the consequences. When you realize any Creator has abandoned the world to its fate---what a rush.
Turning my back on them was just one more act of rebellion against anything organized.

No wonder I’ve been playing at obedience now, up down up down kneel and recite...because maybe there‘s something to protect me from above, because I feel something very hungry for my soul down below.

P3
I don’t know if I buy the idea of a soul at all. Maybe that’s just my remorse for what I’ve done, and my fear of what I have to lose...like my friends Berry and Robin in the car with me.
How could they know? How could they touch me? I knew we wouldn’t hesitate to wish death on another---it’s naturally part of every one, death. I’d always been attracted to whatever I shouldn’t know, and went looking in the power of acknowledging we live only for ourselves.
I want to look inside of...something...and know when I can start living a life.
It doesn’t matter what you believe, though. Everyone in our car was supposed to die, and while they will never live for themselves again, I was breaking another rule at the time---no seatbelt---I was thrown free. The price I bear is written on my countenance; I will never truly face myself again.



Art is on http://ceaseill.blogspot.com/2010/06/dn ... e-two.html

Hi res photos coming next week!

I use a fold up table and layers of tentative objects in order to elevate my work, literally.
I am aware that if I could reliably draw with my hand completely OFF the paper, the
precision would greatly increase.

Is there a fold away option in drawing boards that anyone would recommend? Our creative cell here in downtown San Diego is living space and work space rolled
into what I would estimate is the tiniest of all IMWAN living quarters this side of the microverse.

Does anyone use Copic Multiliner pens, btw? I have a .7 remaining; I'd been using a .2 as well. Any advice as to useful sizes when one is making bare min.
choices? (When I bought them we also stocked up on various other pads, Prismacolor markers, watercolor, etc.) I'm sure there's no "one size fits all answer
here but I am interested in posting here and, in the future, exploring the Drawing Board.



I am thinking of trying brushes and India ink
for the rest of the inking, the last few pages. I also use Prismacolor Premier B and C type markers.

I realized I should open art advice questions on the Drawing Board! But I'm pretty excited to share my struggles with ya in the Playroom!

http://ceaseill.blogspot.com/2010/07/dn ... -born.html

http://ceaseill.blogspot.com/2010/07/dn ... l?spref=fb has photos of the comic. I'll post the second half shortly, as well as my scans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvU3iQRFKis Bob's posts got me to look up those old Marvel Super Heroes cartoons. I couldn't keep my mind very closely on much of it in my business, but here a couple of weeks later I am thinking of what we could do, say, with the first charity comic I made. So with no audio as yet, here's what I have to start (p.s. it was drawn as four mini-pages the size of a front and back of a standard typing paper sheet. I'd love to see it extended a bit!)

cover pencils. Advice? Feedback?

Trying ideas.

http://ceaseill.blogspot.com/2010/08/dn ... vered.html has the place I've taken it running darkened pencils through some Photoshop, but in a primitive sort of way, I guess.

I am scanning the pencils, and then I think I'll explore the water soluble effect. After I get this inked, then I'll return to this stage to explore again. That said, I'm prepared to release it as black and white. I wouldn't mind doing both, really, but we'll see what that would entail and how important it is right now.

First draft, photoshop experiments:

amanda




Dee Cee

Elements to cover of D'n'A #1

Ah, wait till you see...couple of surprises related to IMWAN...it will fire you up!

I realized my wish for constructive critique dictated a post over in the Drawing department. But I will listen to advice outside of the art as well, and then attempt Solomon-like decisions that should have nothing to do with slicing infants in twain.

If this speaks to you in some way, feel free to share. I don't want to press something that isn't all it could be, so I run it past you, the discriminating fan.