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I am really having fun playing with the shadows, the play between black and white. As I said in an earlier post, I wanted to make it look like an old noir film. Let me know if I am succedding.

another warm up drawing

I might turn this one into a painting. I just like the simple composition, and a robot eating a sandwich is a fun idea.

Page the Seventh

Introducing the first villian of the story. His name is Vinny. He likes to smoke. And I suspect he sounds a little like Peter Lorre with a cold.

Practice drawing

One more for now. This image really isn't connected in anyway to the story, as in Skullduggery there are no robots, but I love drawing them. I also love drawing cops, and figuring out how to have the dog cop have the cheesy aviators and moustache was fun.

I will ink this later, maybe tomorrow, see how it turns out.

I think I will take away a little of the curl on the cops moustache as he looks very spanish, not cop-ish.

A lot of work

This is page is a good example of the style I am calling comic book rodoscoping. I am using photo references, heavily mishmashed until I get the look I want, then I use photoshop filters, and the brush tool to put it all together. Not my usual style, but I wanted to give this story the look of an old noir film. So the backgrounds are grainy and heavy and just interestin to look at, at least in my opinion.

As for the mix of 'real' people and animal people and animals. Blame my Disney upbringing.

The introduction of...

...Stewie Sponte. He is the real star of the story. He, like most characters in the story has a slight law tint to his name.

When on the cover I call this story; Skullduggery: A legal fiction, it is a play on words, as much as this story is fiction and has legal aspects, and a legal fiction is also something that only happens in the law. I hope when I get this comic published in 'floppy' form that I will include a legal dictionary in the back of each issue that will define each law term used. I think it would be fun for the reader to learn something from this book.

Anyway, more pages to come soon.

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I may have to change the middle panel, it seems very talk show host (David Letterman) to me. Let me know what you think.