More published work.

More examples of my published work from the last couple of years. The fun part about doing these (& similar pieces) is that I get to handle the whole creative process, from pencils through to final colour, something I rarely get to do when working for comics.

Madefire

When the new digital comics reader app 'Madefire' launched last year, I was asked to contribute a few pages. This strip exists within the 'Captain Stone' narrative, & was intended to be a story within a story. In style, the intention was for the strip to look like one of those comics from the early 90's, when all comic heroes solved their problems with big guns, gritted teeth & (apparantly) no feet... or at least, they weren't visible through all the knee deep perpetual mist/dust.

As is the case with all my comic work these days, the pencils (such as they are) were scanned in then printed out as faint blueline images & the inking was done over these printouts (saves erasing, & also preserves the original pencil should I mess up the inking & require another copy to ink).

I coloured the art in a faux vintage approach, & dropped in a paper texture on a layer below the artwork in order to further enhance the 'old school' illusion.

Published work.

Here's some of the published work I did during the two years that this blog was in hibernation. I'll post more in due course.
 

Commissions

Here's some of the private commissions I did during the two years that this blog was in hibernation.

 

A public service anouncement

Hmmmm.... is this thing still here? Seems it is. Going through some old stuff recently I came across this item. I was asked to do a sketch on this blank cover comic at a Birmingham convention a couple of years ago (probably the last convention I actually attended). The guy who wanted the sketch didn't have time to hang around waiting for it to be completed so said he'd pick it up later in the day. However, for whatever reason, he failed to show up before I had to leave, so the item got thrown in my bag, & was forgotten about until a few days ago when I found it. So if this was yours (hopefully you'll remember), drop me a line at 'staz.johnson@yahoo.com' & I'll get it to you.