"No Cure"- First Four Pages

Six more pages to letter by tomorrow, but that means four down. So I thought I'd put them up to see, hopefully for your enjoyment.

Of course I realised I made an error, so need to go back and fix some pages up, so I guess they're not quite the finished pieces, but they're pretty close.

No Cure W.I.P.

I've pretty much finished the comic, except for fixing up some panel borders and putting in the word balloons, so thought I'd show off a couple of favourite panels.

"No Cure" Work In Progress Page 8

This is pretty much what I worked on tonight. I'm really enjoying working on my Cintiq, being able to zoom in, but anyway...

Actually, looking at this, I still need to work on the character design for the bear, make him look like  a bear, rather than a teddy bear.

"No Cure" Work In Progress Pages

So I thought I'd show some of the work I've been doing over the last couple of days. I've been working on the line work and final inks and trying to work on the tones. I settled on using the waterpaint brush tool (in Corel Sketchbook) and just the black, and trying various weights on the pen. It's working out ok, but one day I'd really love to work with screentones like I grew up reading.

In these two pages, I can count I think four influences or people I'm ripping off/riffing on. This comic really is a homage/love letter to the manga I enjoy. The story and setting are inspired by Tsutomu Nihei. The bike is inspired by Katsuhiro Otomo and Akira. The display map is inspired by Ghost In The Shell, probably more the animae than the manga. And then the costume is directly ripped off from Mobile Suit Gundam Seed 00, which I was really struggling with.

Helmet Design For Upcoming Comic

Right, I'm setting myself the task of working a minimum of an hour a day on my comics, with the hope that I'll be able to do 10 pages a month, equaling 120 pages by the end of the year. I was working on a page for 10 page story I'm currently working on, when I realised I hadn't really settled on a design for the helmet. I think I'm closer now, so should be able to move forward, though I probably still need to finalise the rest of what he's wearing as well. Also, just came up with the insignia as well. I'm quite pleased with it, riffing on the medical symbol with a more militaristic feel.