Pencil Layouts of A Comic Panel

Featuring a perspective aerial view of an owl walking through a leafy cityscape. Just a teaser of a comic book project I’m working on.

Character Design for an Upcoming Comic Book

A character design for a comic book (or graphic novel, if you will) I’m currently working on. Timid Mole is his name. As fitting his character, my goal was to make him as sweetly shifty as possible.

Success?

Gilded Woman and Talking Praying Mantis

Looked up the tag “European Comics” on tumblr and (not surprisingly) a lot of naked women showed up…but isn’t that why we love them? The “Valentina” by Guido Crepax series barely counts as “comics” in my view, it’s certainly not narrative, but boy is the line work pretty.

Whamming Posterity

One more manga panel for posterity. Sometimes relatively simple is the most satisfying à la Katsu! by Mitsuru Adachi.

Motion Lines, There Be a Lot

Hajime no ippo impresses with the sheer quantity of motion lines.

Manga Motion Line Study Two

Two days in to my theme week of and I’m already cheating! So not quite “action lines” but they do give the reader a great sense of movement. Both panels are from the awesome and trippy “Ultra Heaven” by Koike Keiichi.

Manga Motion Line Study One

Doing a study of manga motion lines. Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue has some great heavy duty action shots (above), but it’s the subtle effects that really stand out (below).

Surreal Hans Rickheit Scene

Hans Rickheit is one of my favorite graphic novel makers. His panel flow is akin to film language, lyrical and well paced. His narratives are mysterious and beautiful in their own extremely dark and f–ked up way.

And the ink work is fantastic.