Beauty and thew Beast thumbnail layout development

I have tried to give much more depth to my fractured Georgie Porgie in my story RVJ. By looking deeper in to the character of the duke of Buckingham (who was Georgie in the rhythm) and his relationship with king Charles the 2^nd and discover why all the girls cried. I find some useful information in to these two characters

The script for the story with 

pieces of text proving my point on 

Georges sexually.  

From now on I am using secondary and primary photos and images to aid in a stronger execution.

rough thumbnails

Final roughs 

Visually the comic will look like what i showed on my  pervious post on visual direction of the work. 

My final finish will be digitally coloured on PS seeing as that’s a media I am much more familiar and I believe i can be creative on. I did a quick colour test on page 1 to see how and what sort of atmosphere and style of digital painting the final will be.

I am hunting currently for other digital artists who expand Photoshop and tablet software to new heights to produce sharper imagery. Learn their techniques to make this much more enjoyable and experimental.

personally i think this could help in my ambitious
idea. 

Josh  

visual project concept and Colour tests

It’s been a while since I posted any work relating to my developing negotiated project partly because of the size of the idea and scale of research.

I essentially want to produce a comic that combines a roger Rabbit, Cool world vibe. Where reality and cartoons meet but my universe would be visually unique, animated, surreal, and geeky, while maintaining a sense of real life culture and people its quite ambitious to be honest.
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Cool world had such a haunting creepy atmosphere that works for its crazy cartoonly inhabitants sort of like Tex Averys work. Almost each animated back drop has a hidden face and twisted sky scrapper in it which 

Inspires me in the architecture aspect of the project. 

The idea of cartoons and reality blending together in a separate society really seems like an interesting angle to go with my developing practice could make for great comics if my narrative I choose is strong. But unlike Roger Rabbit my setting will be either present day or universal. Because i want a wider range of characters and environments then just the classics of the golden age era.

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My beauty and the beast comic and RVJs are working on this style as well.

here are some of my best thought colour tests and drawings so far from over the break 

i got one sped up recording of my working progress on one of the pieces. 

I found the interiors to be much more tricky to portray so i will use secondary resources like books and photos to improve upon this experiment and area of the visual language.  

I will post up my finished thumbnails and colour tests later on.

Josh

Zombies Don't Love

This was sort of like a side piece I was working on, tho I am working on a picture book (to be uploaded) for the Picture book blog.

I am messing around with textures digitally, but also going to try and continue some vector ones and overall keep up a similar style of work that I produced last year but definitely try and improve.

blublu

Hey guys, most of you probably now this website already. Still wanted to share the link.

http://www.blublu.org/ Some of the wall art can be found in Berlin :).

Junji Ito

I love this gruesome shit (read right to left cos it's Japanese)
http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2010/12/junji-ito-thing-that-drifted-ashore.html

The same guy has done one called Gyo that's even more crazy - I'm saying walking fish, gas powered corpse robots, the lot.

Beauty and the Beast/ BUTTON PHOBIA

Hey Guys, for my Beauty and the Beast project I had more than one story I would like to tell. The first idea was about the hairiest man alive, suffering in a circus. He gets saved by a kind clown woman. I will continue with the freak show idea when i'm done with the button phobia one.

For those of you who haven't been to the meetings, I thought of things that could be the beast, so I thought about a documentary I saw about strange phobias. One of them was button phobia which really effected people in their daily lifes.  They screamed, jumped up and down and started crying because of buttons. The phobia is the beast!

My story is about a woman that is terrified of buttons and I tell how her phobia developed.
I started all over again with my character design and focused on facial expressions. Also what expressive traits each character will have and which style suits my story. (Scott Mc Cloud's Making Comics)

I did some research for my character. the button phobia woman is either disgusted, or absolutly horrified of buttons.  Fotos by Hitchcocks films helped me to work on the facial expressions.

Marijpol inspired me for the style. She uses strong contrast through her shadings. (The shadings follow the object or the figure which creates dynamic). 

As you can see above I used strong shadings for my story. The character itself was way too "cartoony" so I changed to a more realistic style. Still I felt like something was missing and I disliked the neat and stiff look of my character. To break out of my comfort zone I continued to work with pencil. I haven't done anything in pencil in ages, but figured it will help me to get more lose and create a different style. The artist below uses pencil for his story. Also the unusual style for a graphic novel inspires me a lot.

I kept the hair in strict lines which is another contrast in style. It also stands for her compulsive way/ fear of buttons.

I will post more this week. Don't want to bomb you with my work. Thanks for your time and I'm always thankful for feedback.

Mmmmm pretty..

nice elegant storytelling and art work by Sarah Mensinga

thought peeps might enjoy

always find this site useful, thought i'd share

http://meathaus.com/

Help! - i need contacts / my new portfolio

Hey guys,

I am looking for professional contacts (writers, Illustrators, and publishers/ editors) to send out my beauty & the beast pages to.

I am struggling to build a good list of contacts, though i have a few, I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts and tips on finding contacts? any good resources for finding email/ post addresses, or even just names that i can start from?

Maybe it would be good to do some of this as a group? maybe build a shared database/ list of contacts? Dunno if peeps are precious about sharing this stuff?

On a separate note i have finally sorted out a couple of online portfolios, only on carbonmade and behance but its a start! There is a set of recent commissioned corporate/editorial pieces i did a couple of weeks ago on there. Would love some feedback on the portfolio - Not sure if it is too varied/ not specialist enough?

Cheers folks :)

Observer Cape Graphic Short Story Prize

I sketched these out for the Observer comp, having hit a bit of a wall with the Beauty and the Beast project, and actually like these more... So much so i'm tempted to work in another page and use it for the Beauty and the Beast brief.

They're a bit sketchy, didn't really want to devote too much time to it, and i'm already looking at better producing some frames, or sourcing reference for certain poses in certain frames.

Beauty and the Beast

Hey here's a concept illustration for Beauty and the Beast done using black ink and tippex and watercolour.

Enjoy!

Beauty and the Beast

This is really unique must have taken some intricate cutting skills and unfortunately the original book is destroyed but it looks really interesting.

http://talesoffaerie.blogspot.com/2011/07/beauty-and-beast-altered-book.html

Clint Magazine & inspiration

http://titanmagazines.com/t/clint/features/announcements/see-your-work-clint/

Check out clint magazine - run by folks like Joe Cornish (of Adam & Joe fame) and Mark Millar, calling for comic artists -

Magazine very much in the spotlight featuring stuff from Jimmy Carr and Jonathan Ross amongst many more 'real' comic artists.

also this vid/advert is really cool

thought this was really cool and need to share

i felt really inspired by this

http://emcarroll.com/comics/prince/andthesea.html

Beauty & the beast - finished(ish)

Howdy y'all

Here are my five pages for Beauty & the Beast.

They are 'finished' but I am still keen to tidy it up and make improvements - especially on the text, both actual dialogue and visual presentation.

Thoughts & comments please

characters and colour

Started drawing stuff and generating ideas, these are a few of the initial ideas and experiments. I will move on to developing a more refined narrative. Im unsure of what approach to take and would appreciate some constructive criticism/feed back.     

Creating Worlds

I've been focusing on the 'World Building' chapter of Making Comics as my environments are very lazy, but also trying to work on my making my characters more expressive, compositions more interesting and generally working on a more professional aesthetic.

Here's my (very) rough storyboard:

There are three environments in the story; The bar, the desert and the cave all of which I will work on before creating the final pages.

As for the mountains I like the one with the holes best, inspired by Moebius and Max Ernst who I'll look at in more detail when drawing them all proper like.

Pencil study for the cave:

And a pen one which I much prefer:

Finally I got a bit sidetracked by a painting of the bar scene, still not quite finished but you get the gist:

I stand by the fact that this was useful for refining the seedy bar characters and the environment of the bar itself, but it would be extremely time consuming to paint every panel in this way...