Sunday, January 4, 2009

Graphic Novel Revamp Tests

With the graphic novel being underway for over a year now, I thought it would be a great time to think about re-doing all of drawings so far in a new style. Haha! Most of the work that's been going on has been story-writing, dialogue, and chapter planning. So with all that in mind, I'm interested in seeing what other stylistic options I've got right now before I really hit the boards and produce. So here are a couple different approaches. I'm leaning heavily towards the brush image. it's efficient, inexpensive, dynamic, and takes about a tenth of the time as charcoal. Any feedback from you guys would really help...I'll be posting more tests over the next couple days. So on with it:

This is the original finished charcoal image I worked off of:


This is just a re-drawn sketch from the charcoal:


Here is the marker study, using grey-wash markers, and micron pens:


This is the brush study. No preliminary sketch, marker study used as visual reference:


And last, a fun treatment to the brush study using halftone for background/shading: