Thursday, 15 December 2011

Logo

Okay, so I need something to identify my work, something to let people know who's stuff they are looking at/through, so a logo is a must. I played around with a few concepts and found two I like, one you can see as the banner for this here blog you're reading, the other is right here:


As you can tell there isn't a large difference between the two, the only actual difference is the swirl on this logo, but I like it, makes it look arty and what not. The other one looks more professional so I will probably only use the swirl for an artsy type of business card.

Magazine Cover

Every good comic needs a cover of some sort! Something I must admit I overlooked until recently and am ashamed of quite frankly, thankfully the matter has been resolved and a cover there is... Ta-Da!
I struggled for ideas to begin with but eventually came up with this idea of the zombie bursting out of the ground. I feel this cover is exciting enough that it could attract people to perhaps take a peek inside and see what the story portrays. Or even just to find out the meaning behind the random name I've given my comic. But therein is another nugget of information that I cannot divulge just yet. Maybe someday soon.

Coloured Magazine



Magazine




 It's that time boys and girls! The moment you've all been waiting for. The time for me to work on my magazine! Yay! Wooo!..... Ahem.. Sorry about that. Where was I? Ah yes, the magazine. Since deciding to do "Good vs Evil" I had the storyline in mind for the magazine, noted it all down and now have finally got down to drawing it, it's only a small comic, but maybe if the mood takes me I shall do a next issue! You know, once I finish the first issue....

Poster

So I have both forces done and both charging and looking angry, or in the "Evil" case, looking dead, which I suppose is a good thing, being zombies and all, I digress. I put the two forces together and it didn't look quite right as it was so I put in a horizon line. In keeping with my theme of using appropriate backgrounds I decided to have a middle ground flooring and then portray the sides using the sky, that way the style is still there and it doesn't look like the figures are "floating in space". Wow I dislike that phrase, cannot believe I'm using it, next thing I'll be saying "less is more". Oh well, I nearly went a full post without going on a tangent.
I have looked more at the poster now, trying to get a fighting scene of some sort together, I experimented with the pictures I'd already drawn to see what sort of fight scene I could create (as shown right) but I feel I would be better focusing the fighting in the magazine. That and the picture didn't turn out quite how I wanted due to the different perspectives from each drawing I'd merged together so looks like I'll be drawing something else for the poster and saving the fight for the magazine, so I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. Kay?
For the poster, I decided to have the lead up to the fight, with the charging, and the angry pouting, and the weapons and the... No actually that about sums it up. So I came up with this lot all looking evilly at each other and what not, to make it easier identifying sides I've even put headers on them to show who is who, cause I'm nice like that.

Postcards

 I finally abandoned the random drawing and focused on the outcomes I need, starting with the postcards. As you can see from the images I kept the same style I have used for the random drawing of characters, and also kept the characters as that's who I practiced the style on. I decided as I'm doing "Good vs Evil" I would have my set of postcards as just that. Two good and two bad postcards so that it is obvious who is against who. Can you tell which postcard is which? If not, I clearly didn't label them well enough..... Yeeahh, that's why you couldn't guess...