A Ship on the Horizon...

A concept sketch for the Elwood story I'm currently writing. Pastels on paper.

I Like My Slicker

Sketching ideas for the comic and decided to ink this sketch. With actual ink. I'm getting too used to using my Wacom tablet, I rarely do anything on paper beyond pencils. There's a certain charm that comes from real ink... the texture on the paper, the pen/brush tip imperfections... the pen control... I don't know what it is, but I like it. I just wish Wacoms didn't make things so damned quick, easy and beautiful!

(Origin of the post title...)

Guest Story Arc

After doing the Island picture, I decided to go back and improve this one. Added some more shading, texture and editted a few bits. See a few posts back for the original.

Island

Explorer Elwood Sketch

Story Arcs - War & Guest

The remaing pics have been done. I drew over my sketches in Photoshop with my tablet, as opposed to Flash as I did the previous ones. None of them have been inked with actual ink. I may be inking the Elwood comic in Photoshop so these were kinda like practices.

Movie

The cover for the Elwood story arc 'Movie' features what is probably one of my favourite Elwood drawings. Sadly, it was obscured by the typography (which I do like however). Here's the pic without the text, and click here to see the final thing.

#2 Lost

I should mention, I'm doing the majority of the work in these pics in Flash. This one was entire done in Flash, the last one had a little Photoshop work.

#1 Treasure

Elwood Story Arcs

I'm doing some poster/comic book cover style pictures to represent each of the bigger story arcs in Elwood. I'm making a second archive for this, where viewers can start reading a particular story, instead of picking out comics from a complete and unclear list.

Here's some (very) roughs of my ideas: