Saturday, December 3, 2011



     I am still in the process of deciding what a typical page layout will look like and how I will present the text, but right now I am thinking something like this.  It has been pointed out to me that the writing might be too messy and rushed looking when compared to the drawings.  I borrowed some books on hand lettering which might better inform the text I make in the future.   

     This is a close up of THE ATOM VACUUM, the most critical part of a teleport machine.  I just got a new type of mid-tone paper which is more expensive but of much better quality than what I have been working on.  It is thick enough that watercolor paint can be applied to it, so put some venomous looking green into the light and a little blue-black in the shadows.  I am thinking about including color in certain drawings to emphasize particular elements of the story.

     This is Teletravel Incorporated during a normal work day.  The phone booth looking things are teleport machines and the signs inform customers where each machine will take you.  This drawing is larger than most I have done so far and will probably be a full page illustration if I ever get the story published as a book.  It took me a very very very long time, partially because I am obnoxiously perfectionist and partially because after I was done drawing I decided the whole thing needed more contrast so I went over it all again with charcoal pencil.   

I finally got around to finishing the Neopolis cityscape.