First Attempt

This is the first attempt at a page layout based on Chapter 10/11 of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. For now I am satisfied with these panels. Hopefully this has been a bit of a break through for me and I can begin to make some head way. I don't envisage it having this obvious noir look though and the characters are very much place holders.

I'm looking at a lot of Golden Age Illustration at the moment, especially Al Parker, JC Leyendecker and Bob Peake. I hope I can get that to feed in to the look somehow. I am a bit saturated with influences at the moment though I read too many blogs, books and comics. I could probably do with looking at other peoples work a bit less for a while and give all the stuff in my head a chance to settle.

More Sketches

I've been quite busy sketching and not working today. Really enjoying it at the moment. Having fun trying to work out frames for a short comic. Previous attempts have been a bit of a battle but so far this is flowing along. I hope I can maintain the momentum.

Doodling and noodling

Scanned, printed and drawn over. Just messing around.

Some thumbnails I did on the train last night for a 2 or 3 page version of Dorian Gray story. I wounder if it will go any further. Enthusiastic at the moment so I'll work on it over the weekend. This is the first time I've done thumbnails and feel that I knew what I was trying to achieve and that it might lead to something :)

Beauty and the beastly sketches

I'm not really sure why I'm posting this now. Perhaps it's like a confession. This was supposed to be something I was working on for the Beauty and the Beast 'challenge' over on Fourteen Nights. I was trying to do a twist on The Portrait of Dorian Gray. Thirty nights have passed and it's still just a mess. I'm quite depressed by it. There is potential there but I can't seem to get in the right frame of mind to grasp it . . . the rough sketch with colour almost offends me, so many bad choices.