Stop Making Sense

....or how I've tried to make a 'Talking Heads' page more interesting.  I'm sure that I'm not the only comics artist out there who struggles with making panel after panel of folk talking look interesting?  Please tell me I'm not?

This is a layout page from the mini project I'm working on which I mentioned here previously.  I imagine that I'm fairly safe to announce now that it's with writer Stephen Aryan and fabbo artist Adam Bolton.  Hurrah indeed.  Go check out their stuff and hunt down a copy of Adam's rather lovely looking 'Where's My Shoggoth?' book what he has created with Ian Thomas.

This mini project is currently being worked up into a pitch and rest assured my gentle reader, that I'll keep you posted about this one as it nears completion.  

Toodle pip chums,

RT

Sad Tooth Sign

Amongst other things, I'm currently working on a bit of a collaborative thing.  This is all at a very early stage at the moment, and so I don't want to reveal too much.  Nonetheless, I can probably scratch together a few things to blog about.

I'm working from a script (by A.N. Other) and putting together pencilled layouts for A.N. Other II to provide finished pencils and inks.  This suits me down to the ground, as I am (or so I've been told) quite nifty with page layouts / storytelling.  This also means that I can leave A.N. Other II to correct my slightly ropey anatomy.....

I must say that the finished tester stuff is looking super-duper so far, and rest assured gentle reader that as soon as I can jot a few more bits about this one, I will.

In the meantime, for those wierdos like myself who are interested in the stages that go into a finished comic page, I'll post a couple of panels.  Rough layouts at A4, blown up to A3 and then traced to make a tighter pencilled layout.

 

In other news, I've taken the plunge to join Curtain Twitter.  Shock! Horror!  Come follow me why don't you?

RT