Added 1 new A* page:I think as I was drawing Selenis' jacket in today's page, I was thinking of this recent strip of PvP; I don't follow that comic, but the author is doing a retro look right now, and he's really captured the elegant lines and heavy inks of the classic adventure strips (although from his blog it sounds like he may be borrowing pretty directly from old sources); the one I have on hand is some of Sydney Jordan's Jeff Hawke (I wrote a bit about that here, but there were plenty of others from that era with a fairly similar look).
I thought it was interesting that the PvP blog entry also mentions Chris Samnee as a contemporary dude who knows how to do that old look, as I follow Samnee's work on deviantART, and he really does do some great black and white work with modern brush pens. The rendering of the vest and pants here, for instance, is both impressive and reminiscent of the classic style--they really knew how to draw suits back then, that's for sure. And if you want to see how Samnee does it, this entry in his blog has a video of him at work; and you can tell he's a pro--he currently works for Marvel Comics--because he produces a nice, fully inked drawing in under half an hour, whereas something like that would probably take me half the day. :P
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Speaking of stuff that takes me half the day, my weekend fairy tale comic, "The Princess and the Giant," hit its 100th strip last Sunday! Yay. :) Here's a teaser / clickable link image to it:
And of course I'll be doing another one this Sunday--kind of let off the hook since my parents are busy and decided to postpone Mother's Day, which for the rest of you is also this Sunday!
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