Month: May 2009

It’s Memorial Day and I’m in Louisville watching Land of the Lost episodes on SciFi. Right now they’re going absolutely buck wild with the prismatic effects in the ominously titled “The Possession.” Baby brontosaurus wheeling around logs while Chaka carries a hypnotic, power-transferring baton.

I’m buried in a ton of crap I wish I could bring back to Hoboken with me. Lots of manga. I mean LOTS of manga. The cons outweigh the pros, because as much as I love already being smothered by media in my thimble of a room, adding more to the pile doesn’t really entice me. I do, however, want to bring back a bunch of crappy old art/comics to scan and post. I have one scanned already that I may post later.

For now, face this new challenger.

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At long last, chapter 5 has come to a shocking conclusion! Stay tuned, though, because this baby’s tale has only just begun…

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One more page to go in this chapter!

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It was hard to find a teaser image that would not be considered a “spoiler.” This one kind of still is, but that’s okay. Chapter 5 is screaming to a close with just three more pages left, folks. In the meantime, I present to you an exciting bit of excrement I like to call…

The Making of Page 72
Here’s an intimate peek inside the process of creating a Gas Baby page. First, I start off with this extremely detailed script page:

Then I try to make sense of it with my Pilot Precise V5 pen. I should probably pencil this stuff out beforehand, but I haven’t penciled a single page of Gas Baby so I think starting now would be a mistake. Since I’ve been coloring with Prismacolor markers for this chapter, I have to keep the pre-color details scant. Then I add more lines after the markers have dried.

Here is page 72 before I started coloring:

The pages are mostly done by the time I scan them, but I add more details and fix problems/levels with Photoshop. I have to say, this is probably the only chapter I’ll fully color with actual markers. It’s not that it’s too time-consuming, it’s just expensive and I have to be a lot more careful while working on them. I’ll still be coloring them digitally, and I might actually have to do that with the very next page, so stay tuned!