Royal Vape labels

If you smoke electronic cigarettes (and live in Saudi Arabia), you can now buy vape liquids with labels illustrated by me:

The complete Dinos vs Tanks series

Roll of the Die preview

The first four pages of ROLL OF THE DIE, the comic I drew for the Death Saves anthology! (Story by Michael Sebastian.) tumblr

DEATH SAVES: Fallen Heroes of the Kitchen Table

edited by Josh Trujillo is a successful Kickstarter campaign. It collects 16 all-new comic book stories about what happens when fantasy gaming characters run out of hit points.  

Recent fantasy commissions

I have neglected this blog for too long. I have to make up for it!

A couple of latest fantasy commissions:

Commission for David E. White's RPG race, the Ashenja.

 

Commission for Michelle Murrain's character, Daneli, the protagonist of her House Trageri Saga.

Rafe fb cover

Yesterday I quarrelled with Photoshop, trying to settle on a background for this...

I tried following a tutoria for colouring the character, but my skills with Photoshop are still a long way to go. Eh.

The Endling collection 4

Cover for The Endling Collection 4 (featuring issues 13-16 + bonus material) now available on ComiXology.

Off topic: Snow White

In Absentia pages 5-8

Four pages instead of two today ;)

There have already been some extremely generous people who have already contributed to the Indiegogo campaign to support me while I draw this, so this message is for the rest: please visit the page, share it on your social network(s) if you have one, and contribute if you have the possibility. Now, we are talking with my studio mates about the possibility of going to the Kapow Comic Convention in London next May, so I'm beginning to think about printing some copies of the comic (it will be completed by then, I hope) and to sell them at the convention (if we go, we'll probably book a table at the Artists' Alley). In such case, your contribution would also go into printing the comic. Thank you!

In Absentia p. 4

Page 4. Pages 5-6 will be online next Monday.

Please support the Indiegogo Fundraising campaign

Colouring Dr. Muscles #4

A couple of days ago, I finished colouring Dr. Muscles #4 (drawn by António Brandão and written, as usual, by Austin Tinius.) To colour it, I adopted a method used and described by Alison Bechdel to colour Fun Home.

I printed the inked pages in double copy on a normal sheet and used one copy as background layer. On it I stuck a Fabriano 4 rough sheet, and coloured with watercolours on it with a light box. In previous situations, if I coloured directly on inks printed on a rought sheet, I had found out that watercolours often were repelled by the printed inks (as if there was a slight film on the ink that prevented them to be touched directly by colour.) So I decided to colour without any kind of immediate ink, keeping them as a background lightened by the light box.

This process lasted some two hours. When the watercolours were dry, I scanned the page and edited it with Photoshop. This time I added the inks on the colours as a layer set in Multiply. I adjusted contrast and layers settings, adjusted the colours, and everything else that was needed before reaching a result I was pleased with.

The Photoshop process lasted another two hours, more or less, including cleaning the spaces between the borders and so on. 

Dr. Muscles should go in print next week. Stay tuned!