Friday 28 December 2012

The Fly

I'm a big baseball fan and have a short story I want to work on once I've finished my current project. Here's some doodles for warming up to it.

Wednesday 12 December 2012

Friday 16 November 2012

Friday 9 November 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg22

Here are three stages of page 22. Pencils, inks and finally colour and copy. The drawing and inks are done traditionally on paper, scanned and then coloured using Photoshop. Copy and word balloons are then added in InDesign.

Wednesday 17 October 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg20 completed

There are only eight more pages to go to finish the story with a lot to happen. Hand on to your hats.

Friday 12 October 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg19 completed

Did I mention yet that this story is a Romance? Hard to tell so far. Here's page 19 completed

Wednesday 3 October 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg18 completed

Here is another example of rethinking a page. I got to fix some of the drawing plus add a bit more drama to the scene.

Wednesday 26 September 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg17

The lads finally arrive at their destination. Will Tommaso's plan work? Who will survive? I'm getting there, I promise.

Wednesday 5 September 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg16 completed

I decided to redraw this page as well. It works much better this way as a complete unit which I always try to attain with my layouts.

Tuesday 21 August 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg15 completed


I ended up redrawing this page as well as the last. Found I'd rushed through a bunch of pages and didn't like the result. Will probable redraw a few more.

Friday 10 August 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg14 finished

I'm half way finished now. I actually redrew two thirds of this page because I didn't like what I'd done originally. Kind of boring and bad drawing.

Monday 6 August 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg13 completed

Went away for the weekend. Had a great time but as promised here is page 13 of The Lost Island of Dreams story.

Thursday 2 August 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg12 completed

Here's page 12 of The Lost Island of Dreams. Page 13 is almost done but going away for the weekend. See ya.

Friday 20 July 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg 11 completed

This one was slow going but here's page 11 of The Lost Island of Dreams. The sailors discover that "The Farmer" did not drown but is still alive and not who they thought he was.

Monday 9 July 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg10 completed

Here's another page from The Lost Island Dreams story, Page 10 to be exact. (I will finish it this year).

Friday 22 June 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams page 8 finished

I've been very busy of late with commercial projects, so this story is taking a long time but here is page eight. Will be illustrating a children's book soon which means I probably won't be pumping out the pages for this story any faster. I'm not complaining, just not getting any momentum going.

Thursday 7 June 2012

Viet Nam documentary

Had to take a break from The Lost Island of Dreams for some storyboard work. Here's a scene from a Viet Nam documentary.

Tuesday 29 May 2012

Sunday 27 May 2012

Inked page 6 of The Lost Island of Dreams

Going to be up to my eyeballs in alligators this week so I won't be able to get to the color on this but here's page six inked.

Friday 18 May 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg5 completed

The sailors have found themselves alive and well but Tommaso tells them they need to worry about survival still.

Thursday 10 May 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams page 4 finished

I might still add sound effects to this. Haven't made up my mind if they're needed or not.

Saturday 5 May 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams page 1

Finally completed page one of The Lost Island of Dreams. I still have to finish penciling the last seven pages and hope to get back to it soon.

Friday 20 April 2012

Storyboards


I've been very busy with storyboards and composition shots lately but will return to The Lost Island of Dreams very soon.

Friday 13 April 2012

Tuesday 3 April 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg 20 pencils

This never happened to me before. I wrote The Lost Island of Dreams as a 24 pg story but condensed it to 16 pager as a backup. Getting into it however I restored it to 24 pages but I was having so much fun I've now expanded it to 28. Thankfully I self-publish and have no editor. Here's page 20.

Thursday 29 March 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg19 pencils


There are a few things that bother me about the storytelling on this page but I'll deal with them when it's time to ink. For now, it's on to page 20.

Tuesday 27 March 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg18 pencils


On page 18 our hero Tommaso has a plan but one of the sailors becomes impatient. Not always a good way to go about things.

Monday 26 March 2012

Aurora illustration


Here's the finished illo I did for a story written by Calvin Daniels for Randy Pare's ezine.

Thursday 22 March 2012

Wednesday 21 March 2012

Sunday 18 March 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg16 pencils


The sailors encounter a sabre tooth tiger on their quest. They scare him off... for now.

Tuesday 13 March 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg2 finished

 
I've mostly been penciling this story but here is a look at how the finished product will look.

Friday 9 March 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg15 pencils


The sailors are off on a mission but some of them are plotting something. Meanwhile something stirs in the bush.

Wednesday 7 March 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg14 pencils


On this page the sailors turn down a plea by the Wizard to what sounds like a suicide mission. The hero of our story though, says he will do it, prompting the rest to wonder if he is up to something and so change their minds. The Wizard is happy.

Friday 2 March 2012

Wednesday 29 February 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg12 pencils

Pencils are half done now for this 24 page story. Things start to heat up again soon.

Saturday 25 February 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg11 pencils

Hey, kids. Remember the seasick guy from page 2? Well here he is again appearing as the wizard.

Thursday 23 February 2012

Pencil drawing

Taking some time out from drawing The Lost Island of Dreams story to do a couple of illustrations for a writer. Here are the pencils for one of them

Saturday 18 February 2012

Sunday 12 February 2012

Friday 10 February 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg2 inks

 
Three pages inked so far and working on page 9 pencils. Will post again soon.

Wednesday 8 February 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg8 pencils

 
I seem to gravitate to eight page story arcs so I might take a breather and start inking.

Sunday 5 February 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg7 pencils

 
I've decided to do this as a twenty-four page color story in Drama, Drama #5 so the next Code Name: Pearl story will be delayed a bit.

Monday 30 January 2012

The Lost Island of Dreams pg5 pencils

Took some time out to do some inking but here are the pencils for page 5 of my latest story.

Tuesday 24 January 2012

Meltdown now online

Due to some technical glitches this story was late going up but it's now online. Check out this 8 page thriller at the link below.

http://www.steveleblanc.ca/shortstories_ws.html