It was hard to keep things from getting too busy with all the monitors and glows and stuff. I think it works well enough. Love the last panel, it’s been one of my favorites in every stage.

Decided to post these as I go. Feedback is appreciated!

Promo piece for the pitch that will also be making some appearances in the backgrounds once it’s colored.

Being out at Amherst has helped me really step up my productivity. Here’s the finished inks for the After Tomorrow pitch. Colors to come soon!

I’m pretty happy with how these came out, and Frank digs them which is really what matters. As usual, I feel like these won’t really be done until the color is there. My inks don’t really stand on their own as much as they could. But then, that’s fine because in this case I have full control of the finished product.

For comparison fun, here’s the thumbs again:

Now that all the design work has been approved, I’ve moved on to working on the 5 page intro we’ll be using for the pitch. Working from Frank’s script, I’ve roughed out the pages to give him an idea of how I’ll handle the storytelling. I made several adjustments from his script to make it flow a little better visually, all of which have been approved. I’m pretty happy with how this sequence/story is fleshing out.

This is way beyond what I would do for thumbs/roughs if it was just for myself, but because I’m working closely with someone else it’s important to make sure I communicate my (and his) ideas across visually as best I can, and still leave room for some things to be changed if necessary.

I’ll post some of the other stuff I’ve been working on for a pitch soon, but for now here’s the inks for the Spiderman cover commission. Colors to come shortly!

The Hawthorne comic show I was at about a month ago, that Jason swore we’d make a killing at, actually went pretty slow. I did manage to make my money back this time, with a little profit. One guy asked me to do a sketch for him of Spiderman on a blank comic book cover, and when I was done he also bought a Spiderman/Rockwell print that I signed for his (currently gestating) son. I thought that was pretty awesome. Anyway, he found me online afterwards and sent me a message through my site asking about a commission. So Jan, if it’s cool with you, I’m officially counting you as my first non-family-or-friend-fan (although we are facebook buddies now). :)

The commission is to do an illustration redux of the Amazing Fantasy #15 cover, with Jan as the dude being carried by Spiderman. And in honor of receiving the first half of the payment for it in the mail today, I thought I’d share my pencils.

And in totally unrelated news, I got the John Buscema Sketchbook from my aunt for graduation today, courtesy of amazon. Soooo gooooodd…..