Latest Jam

I’ve been inspired and done some more pencils for my comic, Freedom Scorned. Part of my inspiration came from watching Made You Look – an excellent documentary about illustrators and creatives using natural or pre-digital materials in their work.

Pencils are that part of the comic book workflow that’s most alive with possibility – where words on a page become a tiny world of their own. It’s definitely my favourite part of the process, it’s where all the problem solving gets done – a fluid state before the ink sets it all in stone.

Another batch of six pages will see this complete, bar the lettering and inking… and maybe a cover design… In the meantime, here’s a couple of pages of pencils, complete with a halloween-y Devil Girl.

Now this is a bit of an oddity. Angel Falls is a detail from a larger project, the beginnings of which you can see right here.

The brief was to come up with a label for imaginary bottled water company Angel Falls. Within the narrative the company brand had be old fashioned, and more than a bit sexist. The label needed to be low tech, hand drawn, and a bit tacky. I’d love to have real briefs like this.

In the end I spent a ridiculous amount of time on this illustration, considering that in the final comic it will be a tiny detail – a fact that means that this illustration is far too complex when reduced. I’ve since done a much simpler one for final use.