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.
