GAAHHHHH! I’ve had quite the day. Nothing going as it should. The Royal Mail, who I want to support, but, ironically, are the least capable postage service amazon uses. Went to collect a parcel that we missed. Came home to
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Day: 14 February 2024
All about the money
Here’s how it works: Commission, day 1. Work begins day 2. Work completed day 30. Invoice day 31. Invoice paid day 61. Cheque from US required to clear: 4-6 weeks (ie day 89 to day 103) Bills arrive: day 1
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Black Snow 1
Black Snow starts this week in 2000AD, here’s the pencils of the first three pages. Just a gentle reminder, if you sign up to the patreon you can see stuff like this AND MORE as it happens!
M
Things to never do: name a file “M” (the reason will become clear later). Then send a lo res off for approval. Six months later, after a computer upgrade and some faffing about with files discover that looking for the
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Ignoring the crowd
Sometimes a writers script will call for a crowd of people, or a crowd of tanks or some other crowd. As the artist your job is to make the final call on whether that crowd is absolutely necessary. Say you’re
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CRUNCH
I are have been drawing tanks. Lots of tanks. Working on episode 1 of a five part Tank story written by Garth Ennis. (Shh! still not officially announced) This past few months has felt like relentless crunch. Working on Dredd,
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In the eye of the storm.
Today has been an odd day. After months and doing two jobs simultaneously, one job finished totally and the other … well, the other was paused while I waited for approval. So yesterday I finished off a pitch thing, hopefully
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Thumbnails
Exhausted. 20 Pages thumbnailed. Find it totally exhausting. These are digital thumbs, which I tend to draw more detailed than normal thumbs (since I can really get in there). Having now drawn a half dozen pages of draw overs of
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Some behind the scenes stuff!
Here’s the pencils for a larger panel. Yes, my pencils have gotten even less detailed. Digital inks though…
Two things down…
That’s Dredd 6 parter finished! Hurrah! And some art for a pitch thing! Hurrah! Now just a five part 20 pages thing to finish, a seven page thing I promised someone ages ago, and uhm… I think I was doing
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