Catching up

I kinda remembered I have this blog! Mostly I've been posting the new stuff over on the Crashland Studio page. As great as it is there, There's sometimes multiple posts daily, so it can be hard to follow a continuing story like this one. So here I'll mostly post the newest pages, with some behind-the-scenes stuff occasionally. If you just want to read the story, look in the archives for the page numbers, oldest is 1st.

Page 8

Page 7
Art by Jaems Sutherland

Page 6

Page 5
Pg 5 & 6 art by Dan Barlow

#3, page 4

Page 4 here of Children of Light 3. This one took maybe the least time, but was kinda hard emotionally. When I write, I try to dig inside myself to find parts of myself to put into the characters, and poor Scott here has a lot of my pain and hurts. I also made a censored version where I cleaned up a few words. I didn’t use language to be shocking or gratuitous; it seemed most appropriate for the character and what he’s going through. At the darkest times of our lives, we hardly care to censor ourselves. I may have gotten too into the character during this page, I started to share some of his feelings! But I remembered the voice of the Lord, who promises renewed life, just as he offers Scott. No matter the past, long ago, or recent, God can make all things new!

This took about 8-10 hours total. Used sharpie, brush pen, gray tone marker, and sponge with ink. I enjoyed a Great Lakes Elliot Ness beverage during the inking.

Comic show!

I had a table at a local comic show today, went pretty good! Talked to some nice people, sold a few books and sketches, enough for me to get a few things at the show, and a few groceries on the way home even.

I did a sketchbook drawing of Iron Man for a little girl, I hope it didn't make her cry. I don't do good under pressure! I also did some sketch cards below. I did a better version of the Wonder Woman, and a Wolverine that got bought. I gave an Iron Man to a 5-year-old boy who was with a fellow vendor. He said it was him in his Iron Man suit. Good enough!



Got to meet and talk to Eric Adams who does Lackluster World. I was pretty impressed, and laughed out loud reading it there. I finished #1 at the show and had to get #2. It's not for easily offended religious types (language, indecent acts with a clown, extreme fundamentalism).

Sketches of upcoming art by Dan Barlow! Can't wait!

page 3

Hey, that wasn't too bad! 2 weeks, right? I know it'll take longer to get the next one, so hang in there!

Also, you didn't miss page 2. 1 was actually page 1 and 2 of print, so It's easier for me to keep with that numbering.

Used ink brush for the characters, ink wash for shades & backgrounds. I tried a paper towel dipped in white and black ink for the bg's.

New style for the lettering. Let me know how you like it.

Tommy

tonight's workstation

Hope I don't dip my brush in my beer!

Children of Light 3 page 1

Here it is! Pages of Children of Light #3 will be published here as they're completed. Something cool I'll be doing again is inviting other artists to join the fun, so soon we'll be seeing some good stuff! Page 2 will be done in hopefully a week or so, no more than 2. Ok, 3 at the most. I'll try for 1.

I only sketched this one out before inking. Used a lot of different things here: brush marker, brush & ink, sharpie, light ink wash, digital touch up with Gimp.