Creating a Graphic Novel : Art – Food – Photography

Was clearing up some files for my website and found the original preliminary sketches for two artists featured previously. Have a look at the updated posts complete with the preliminary sketches : DC Trinity by Luis XIII Spiderman by GW Fisher

Whew . . it’s been an interesting week and a bit but I’ve covered the entire design process for my Tango 8 submission from beginning to end. I’m pleased as a first attempt to get published! There’s another project (actually 2 other projects) but still very much in the scripting / design phase. Anyway follow […]

This is where it all comes together. Inking and lettering were digitally done. Unfortunately the picture is a little distorted after shrinking to fit the site but the words are still “just” legible. Enjoy!

Some of my initial concept sketches for the piece. The top right showed the layout I envisioned for the page. My main aim was to get the woman’s body angle correct. I was lucky that the initial sketch kind of turned out the way I wanted it to. Decided against using the full body in […]

I had hoped to find a collaborator to do the artwork so I wrote a panel by panel breakdown. Unfortunately I couldn’t find someone to complete the works so I ended up with the pencils. I’ll show the artwork in an upcoming post. What’s in a Sauce? Panel 1 – Long panel. Woman (short spiky […]

The submission was only going to be 1 – 4 pages which meant the story had to be very quick and to the point. More like a comic strip rather than a standard 22 page story. Had a couple of ideas come up but I came down to below three to fit the theme of […]

What am I working on? I’ve completed a submission for a romance comic anthology called TANGO 8. It’s a one page story and I will be posting up the full design process over the next week (including sketches and script). Information The anthology is called TANGO and this particular issue is based around love and […]

Check a recent post of mine: Idiot’s Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel. Now check the comments. I’ll wait . . go check . . . Nat Gertler, author of the book posted a comment on my site!! I have to admit I was a little sceptical that it was actually him to start off […]

Finished reading the TPB of Daredevil Father over the weekend. (One of the comics I borrowed during the Comic Crazy Weekend).The artist Joe Quesada seems to be following Frank Miller’s Batman in terms of character design giving Daredevil a bulkier and heavier body type. I didn’t particularly enjoy that approach he took. Otherwise I really […]

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel by Nat Gertler and Steve Lieber is an absolutely instructive read. There are heaps of great pointers even where to get ISBNs from. It’s definitely very very helpful in my dream to “Create a Graphic Novel”. It’s written in a fun and engaging way. I’m still […]