First of all, My website has been down for a while, and I need to renew it... For the time being, the Domain name MikeLuckas.com will redirect to here. Whenever I do manage to get my website back up, I'm thinking of editing the layout of this blog to use it as the homepage.
Second, Ive started another comic! Because of some problems with SVA that I dont want to get into right now, I'm currently taking a summer class to make up some missing credits. The Class is about the Horror Film genre, and theres absolutely no work besides the final, which is to make a piece of art related to the horror film genre and our major.
So I chose to do a comic obviously (and maybe some extra covers if I get the time). And I decided to make the comic an excerpt from one of my favorite horror/comedy movies, Shaun Of the Dead! (I know theres a full comic that exists of it, and im trying to steer away from copying it, but there are going to be some similarities that are unavoidable...) And I thought I'd share my progress here, step by step, since I dont update this thing nearly enough.
Step 1;
I grabbed a photo off google and tryed sketching Ed and Shaun. I'm very happy with how Ed came out, but I really think I need to work on Shaun. Which surprised me, since I thought it'd be the opposite. Shauns hair throws me off though...
Step 2:Then I decided on a scene; The one where Ed and Shaun throw shit at the zombies in their backyard. Always worth a laugh. I popped in the DVD and watched the scene a few times and ran some panel layouts through my head and thubnailed them out. I was pretty satisfied with what I layed out on the first or second go, which is very rare for me... so this is much cleaner than my usual panel layouts are (plus I only drew in one of the panels because the images were clearer in my head). The pages came out to 6 (ugh ive got less than 2 weeks to get this shit done.)
Step 3:Then I drew up my 'real' thumbnails and began tweaking the layout and thumbnailing the content inside the panels. I had to freezeframe and screencap the scene a LOT to get these how I wanted them. Page 5 has 2 layouts. I think I'll be going with the 2nd. Picking what to include, what to omit, what to abridge, and what to make look like a shot right out of the movie is difficult... (sorry if you cant tell what the hell is going on in any of these. My thumbnails are sloppy)
Since I spent a decent amout of time on these to make sure they're exactly what i want, the next step is to print these out full-size (about 8.5x11 is the size ill be working at) Then I can lightbox the roughs in and tight pencil the rest from there. I have no idea if I'll get all the way through inks by the time this is due.... but we'll find out as I update some more. At the least Im aiming to get the tight pencils done. Those could be reproduced.thanks for reading!
--MIKE!
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