Graphic Novel Progress 07/22/2009
 All four chapters  The whole volume  Size comparison Just finished up pencils for the graphic novel I'm working on. Here are some snaps of what I've done since March. 184 pages with layers. I'll explain later. I'm a Mac 07/06/2009
 Do you find this happens to you? I made this after attempting to dual-boot on my Mac. Needed like 14 updates before it would even start. Featured! 06/28/2009
 Today I'm the featured blog on Weebly.com. Spelled it wrong but the link works. Now to go blow my winnings on cheap candy. Guitar Break 2 06/23/2009
Taking a quick break from comics to play the guitar. This one's Rise Against's Hero of War. I like narrative songwriting. Fantastic Flying Four Process Pics 06/19/2009
 Premise: The Fantastic Four as a World War II era stunt flight group. After the accident, Ben is now too heavy to drive the stunt planes. He's relegated to being the disgruntled mechanic while hot-headed Johnny gets all the action. Reed and Sue run the business together. Reed's got dreams of out-inventing his rival Howard Hughes while Sue is more concerned with scheduling air shows and that they're falling behind in their finances. This is Reed Richards' Fantastic Flying Four.  Roughs. Throwing an initial composition together. Really rough. Blue pencil.   Pencils. Roughed them out on the same sheet and then did the individual characters to allow for some flexibility in the final comp.  Inked in Photoshop. Very quick. Not ideal, but it works for the cartooniness. Also recomposed a bit. Johnny stands alone.  Applied flat color. This is mostly so I can use my Magic Wand to select different color fields.  This is actually two parts. First: I hit the left with shadow and the right with light. Second: I used the Lasso Tool to make a frisket. Hit that with the hard light and shadow.  Added texture to each part of clothing or skin. Used the Warp tool and some general frankensteining.  Pulled in a background. Blurred it. Then added some smoke to the ground at something like 50% opacity.  Added an old photograph type of look. 3 layers of the same parchment texture with different layer modes.  Decided I hated Johnny's head. Put in real flame. Followed tutorial for some of it. Now I just hate Johnny. Thanks for taking a look. You can find the completed image in my gallery and soon at GameArtisans' ComiCon Challenge. Guitar Break 1 06/16/2009
Trying something new. Breaking out the ol' guitar when I need a break from drawing. I'll either try to learn something or write something new. Upcoming Process Pics 06/11/2009
 I'm going to post the process pics from my latest piece as soon as it's done. Until then, here's a teaser for the Fantastic Flying Four. Tate's review of Piper Construction 06/11/2009
Tate likes to make movies with PhotoBooth. More precisely, he likes to watch "Tate talkin'." These are his comments on the recent installation of a new banister going down to the basement by Piper Construction. Final Pencils Pt. 1 06/05/2009
 Mr. Fantastic and mechanic Ben Grimm. ComiCon sketches 06/05/2009
 First roughs of my sketches for the ComiCon Challenge. And I mean really rough. Reed Richards and the Fantastic Flying Four. | drew blom
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