This is the second cover idea for my comic book. it is of Lady Vengeance. I have done it as issue 17, to show she does not appear in the comic for awhile.

I have now finished the design for, a First issue front cover. The title font has been slightly modified and I have touched up the character and made adjustments to her, like shadow and made the eye on her more detailed  with extra highlights of light and strengthening the roundness of the pupil. There is also a company logo in the corner which is a prototype for a real company my friend and I are starting. Tendril will be apart of the companies comic series. I added a one liner to draw the viewer in further, it will also give the viewer more of the story when they are taking in, the different parts of the story, it is also the title of the piece. Last element I added was my name as a lot of comics and graphic novels have them.

"We Are One"

Cover for issue one (not finished), character done just need to work on font - I know I'm on the right track , need to work on background , liking the warm colour lighting on left on character. DC logo just there for sizing up the title text on the page and for aspirations lol.

Finished the piece. Had to tweak the background, saturated the colour; colour becomes less vivid the further back you go. this is increased if there is a lot of dust particals in the air, as the is smoke clouds I thought this was a must for the colour treatment of the background.

"Neo Livdon"

Very close to the end of this piece. Ive kept the colours to a minimum and tried to put life in the piece with the heavy rain and lights. they also help lead the eye around the page.

Started on my concept for the city in which Tendril hunts. It only has a base layer of colour and have done detail on the back ground factories. I'm trying to emulate comic book style and Ive noticed they use very minimal colours.

It is based off Liverpool as I live over the water in New Brighten (Spoiler- New Brighten will be named Old Brighten in the comic). My comic will be in its own world as well as our own. Like DC comics, they have Gotham and Metropolis that don't exists but at the same time they are in the USA and have all the world countries. Building my story like this will leave my world open for any designs changes as needed and will allow for new cities to be created. The main city where Tendril lives will me a mixture of a new york and final fantasy 7 style factories. It will also have slums and ultra modern houses showing the divide between the rich and the poor. i could not fit the entire city on without losing detail, so I chose to show the money driven sector. This is because the corporate body is a big part of the storyline.

This is my image for my fight scene that I decided to do for my concept.It is of the first moments when Lady Vengeance surprise attacks Tendril. I have tried to get across that these characters are very fast, in a split second they both have made their first move as well as their next is about to be played.

This piece is my mixed media experiment, I wanted to see if any particular media outlet would give my comic a style, look or maybe the reaction of materials would give my a seance of texture and help show depth and perspective. I have used pencil, ink, water colours, oil pastels and charcoal. I did like the way the charcoal reacted with the oil pastel, it started to speckle, (think it was the oil's doing in the pastel) and made a great effect for the metal in the image, giving a rusted or warn feeling.

                                                                   "Found you Sewer Rat"

This is the personal scene I wanted to get across in my concepts. The characters are deep in a personal conversation. I wanted to make this image dream like, so the viewer will question, is it all in her (their) head?
it is my first attempt of Canvas painting and Ive used water colour to get the base color, acrylic and pen inks to do the main fill of colour.

"We don't always see eye to eye"

First quick go on my new LCD tablet :). Just started to draw a face and it turned into Superman.I would highly  recommend this to any digital artist!!!

This is the finished inked concept for my villain Lady Vengeance.

This is my finished concept for my character Tendrill.

This is my last image for project Harlequin.

"Harley is gone, say goodbye Harleen"

This is my third image for my project Harlequin image.

"Didn't know anyone had a bigger smile than Mr J"

This is my second image form Harley Quinn Images. in this picutre she is in the middle of a crocodile infested waters, she is covered in chicken and has an expression of, 'why me'.

 

"Is it because Chicken tastes like Crocodile?"

The finished Ivy picture. I have used the shading method that I learned over the summer from Patric Brown. I found that sometime shading and highlighting a picture I could go over a little over board but Patric's method is very good at controlling and analyzing the shading process as it unfolds.

 

"No Temptation in the Garden of Eden"

This is the Poison Ivy picture inked and had its base layer of colouring.

I think the colour palette is not to over baring and doesn't confuse the eye. I kept to green  and a select few warm colours for contrast. the Batman mask that is on the mushroom and is the only true blue in the scene, I wanted to keep focus on the mask as it it a key feature of the story.

I was advised to look into my colouring and shading skills and see were I some times go wrong. I needed to make my artwork cleaner so I looked into a artist called Patrick Brown. His illustrations are bold, action pact and are present clean and professional.

I watched his guide to his work process.

Patrick's tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtHCLWmPpLg

My first quick attemped at using Patrick's method, already the picture holds its own. Like the muscles and the hair; clearly defined.

I had a picture i drew while watching Spartacus. Drawn in blue Biro pen, slightly ink to show form.

Here  is my finished image. This method of colouring is proving to be very helpful at controlling my image. Its the use of the gradient shading that gives that nice mix of hard and soft edges.

Over the summer I choose to start my own Batman project. i am drawing each female villain in a scene that would come about in a what if situation. What would the villain do after they killed Batman?

Firstly Poison Ivy - I feel she would become content and peaceful after the murder of Batman. All she wants is for her and her babies (plant life) to be left alone. if batman where gone there would be know need for her to go on a killing spree.

 sketch

I was influenced by an episode of the Batman the animated series (BAS) called 'house and garden' were Poison Ivy has a family and is good; long story short the kids are half human and half plant and Batman is forced to step in. it is very harsh on Ivy and it shows her sudden change between peaceful and all out tyrant.

Secondly Catwoman -  I placed Celina on top of buildings relaxed slumped and laid back, surrounded by her feline friends. she is holding a carton of milk as if to say cheers!

 sketch

My idea process in this image came from my cats. Cats are laid back chilled and take life as it comes. Even though Celina is close to Batman I feel she would just get on with life, raise a glass and make a toast. Thought the milk fitted her toasting profile more than champagne 

Adding another picture that relate to Harley. Joker is one of those happy but scary moods. this potrale of emotion from Harley could be useful in the project.

I decided for the first project i would enter the Harley Quinn competition, this is for a few reasons. Firstly I am a big fan of Batman and secondly i have been drawing the villains for a while now so this would be i good place to start the year. A few sketches i did on the train loosely Photoshopped in the same image.

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