Ok Ok Ok! There’s a whole lotta shakin’ goinn’ on! Do this! Do that! Don’t do this! Don’t do that! What’s a fellah to do? You gotta take it alll in stride… just roll with the flow as Mike Nesmith sang. So I’m rolling along, down Moonlight Bay, contemplatin’ and figuring out this week’s agenda. As a freelance jack-of-all-trades every week is different.
But there is, was and always will be the funny books. The graphic novels. The comic strips and comic books. This is Blake Undying Week 5 and Krazy Kuba Kujawa is painting a storm.
Below is the first version of Page 03. Though not technically done in pencils, I as editor used the term in order to monitor the page’s progress based on conventional comic creation techniques: pencils, inks, colours, letters.
Blake Undying creator Jazzy Jason Cook suggested some revisions and after a couple more passes through the so-called “pencils” stage, Kuba refined the art to the “inks” step.
A few revisions later and we found ourselves at the “colours” step of the process. The changes are somewhat subtle, but required in order to make the action more evident to the reader.
So close… just a couple more tweaks and the page can go for final detailing. Kuba’s first revision in the colours stage has resulted in this piece:
So Kuba will have one more go over it, touching up here, adding a little dab there, and then the page will be ready for letters.
And, if you go to zeros2heroes.com and review the galleries in ZedWorks you’ll find that each one of the editors has created a gallery for the various books we are putting together. So there is plenty more stuff to see to get your eyes ejacu-bobulating.
But, as I mentioned at the top of the page, this has been a crazy week, Ladies and Gentlemen. I’dlike to list for y’all the number of projects, gigs, performances, demonstrations, ad infinitum I have on my plate. I’ll format the interview with Kuba for next week’s blog. Until then…
I’ll see you in the Funny Papers.
Julian
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