early pencils for an upcoming project...i wanted to do something along the lines of my lil' bastards comic strips. it's a style and humor that i enjoy working in and i believed i could create a multi page story in this style within the allotted deadline time. but how to elaborate a one panel comic strip into a story? i struggled with this for awhile as i didn't think a story about a group of kids being sadistically violent for no reason would work. the whole point of those lil' bastards strips is that the violence in them is meant to be a shocking (and hopefully humorous!) "one time only" moment for the kids involved. so then i came up with the idea of making the kids involved lil' monsters as being monsters sort of gives them a reason to be violent or at least more of an expected reason to be.
now how would i draw each monster?
this also took some time to develop. why are monsters, especially the classic monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein, so endearingly popular? it's because they are outcasts and misfits and everyone in some point in their lives could relate to that feeling of being an outcast. so i developed my depictions of the monsters as such. i made them nerds, freaks and geeks! the scenario of putting these monster nerds in a school specifically made for them developed after that and soon P.S. 666 and it's first class was founded. i tried to give each monster there own personality through their individual appearance and from there the gags in the story were now almost writing themselves!
finished color pages coming soon....
7 comments:
Looking pretty cool, Jason! My favorite part is those two little figures at the bottom! I love the dude on the right with his palms up! Muddy Lagoon is pretty cool, too. and Bobby DeZombi! What's up with the guy taking pictures? Is he some kinda robot?
the eyeball guy is whatever you want him to be!!
I smell FRANCHISE!!!
lovin the ambition on a page like this Jason!
looking forward to seeing it finalized!
great characters all! you must've had just as
much fun making up their names as you
had creating them!
Muddy Lagoon rulez the school!
thanks a bunch Glen my man!
not to toot my own horn or anything but i guess it is pretty ambitious of me seeing as how 99% of the time i prefer to do as little as possible! haha!
it was fun trying to come up with the some unique names to go along with their looks!
and muddy lagoon is one of my favorites of the bunch.
i really wanted to put a fishbone t-shirt on him but you really don't get a clear shot of his full body in the story.
NIce drawings and compositions on these past two pages, Jason.
thanks Dan!
Hey Jason, really nice character development, layout and overall creativity, dude. I'm really freakin' impressed! I like where you're going with this and if I were you I'd take it all the way! I see you doing your very own bi-monthly comic with these kids. Love the names as well, lol
Great stuff, dude, can't wait to see it all colored and the next page!
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