So I recently started working on what will be an 8 page ashcan; I have no idea why it’s called an ashcan but it refers to a lower quality published small comic. It’s going to be 8 pages, and really just serves as sort of a trailer to the full book. We are aiming to have it done before I go back to school which would also make it possible to have ready for Comicon in Chicago. See we used to go every year, but it got kind of lame in the past few years because everyone was blowing their wad at the San Diego con. So we decided a couple years ago that we weren’t going back to Chicago if we didn’t have something of our own.
Well things change; this year Chris has to go as he is doing some freelance writing for Comicon’s news site called the Pulse. He will apparently be reporting on a couple of the panels being held at the event this year. Which that also really means that we are going to probably going to be down there for the whole weekend, which we have never done in previous years. Actually I think Chris’s first article shows up on the site Monday or Tuesday. He got to interview a great artist and the whole thing is pretty cool.
I’ve approached drawing this ashcan; differently. I’ve grown as an artist since the last time I approached drawing a comic page, so my approach to this has changed. I spend a goodly amount of time each week looking at the various blogs and websites of comic book artists, some of them are very free with the techniques that they use to get the final product that they do. So adapted my approach to the page from what I had read. I can say without a doubt it is the be comic book art I have ever produced. Sure there are things that I would change looking at it now, but there always will be. No matter the amount of playing with some piece of art the person who created it will mostly likely tell you something that they would change. So I fully intend or what is on the page, staying on the page.
So I’m half way through page one, two of four panels are in the can and I’m putting releasing them out into the world for you to see, comment on, laugh at, or talk about at the water cooler.
Oh, did I mention, I will be doing ALL the pencilling, inking and lettering…
Now it’s off to make clothes clean again and have some breakfast.
