The People’s Publisher

Rip Current is a story about a world covered in water (mostly) and as such the characters move about in vehicles which are amphibious.  They can hover in the air as well as move about under water. Unfortunately for me, (you’ll know what I mean if you read my last post about being stranded with a seized outboard last week) these vehicles don’t exist yet. As such they had to be designed and drawn in such a way as to be both realistic and beleivable. These vehicles are crucial to the telling of the story, so Page X, the first page of the comic that the art team produces, had to contain the main characters in the story, and these vehicles. Patricio Plaza, who is the penciller for Rip Current designed the vehicles or “pods” to show their function, making them streamlined and futuristic, and I think they are quite beleivable. They also had to stand out from the mostly blue, water and sky in the background  and since they are used to patrol the waters around the island fortress, they are given a bit of “coastguard ” orange as well as siver chrome. We got alot of great feedback from people on the pinup art and for those who requested more here is page X in it’s finished state plus for you process junkies, Patricio’s pencils, Christian’s inks and Aya’s colours without Ed’ s lettering.