The battle with the bear mole continues, and every page is a labor of love. Speaking of love, I love Kailey’s colors. She is killing it.
This scene has been a bit of a chore, but in a good way. I just really wanted my bear mole to feel real. So, for instance, I rough-photoshopped a star nose onto a bear for reference
I also wanted to get my perspective right on that splash page a couple weeks ago, so I used trusty ol’ sketchup to set up my scene and pose some crude 3d models so I could figure out where the feet and arms should go, then I rammed a bear into the floor.
I also was having a tough time getting that angle believable in the second-to-last panel on today’s page where Dickinson is holding a spear in the bear’s mouth. For reference, I snapped some picks of a toy bear with a pencil in its mouth.
Of course I had to add claws and a star nose.
Just a little behind the scenes to show you I am not nearly as competent an artist some of you may think. I still have to cheat quite a bit, but for the effect it is worth it.
Ethan
Hooray, Dickinson may survive yet! At least for now.
Cheating or no, the art in this scene has been amazing. You and Kailey have been killing it.
Cheating, research, the results still speak for themselves!
Punch it in the nose! It must be sensitive
Every artist uses some sort of tool to help them create. Do you think Michaelangelo painted/carved/drew entirely from memory? He used models too, and no sane person will call him a cheater.
At the time it was illegal to use female models, so all of Michaelangelo’s paintings/statues of women tended to be a bit masculine.
You should be considered a BETTER artist for going to the trouble of figuring out how things would look realistically instead of just guessing. I wouldn’t have guessed you could see that much of the room on that splash page!
Yay! Keller takes charge!
Well, sort of takes charge.
Man, those pink nose-feeler things look like they’re about to go up Dickinson’s nostril.
You may not be as competent a “3d graphics computer” as you may have thought we thought you were, but you’re still just as great an artist 😛
I wouldn’t call that cheating at all. That’s research, my friend! Thanks for doing the due diligence 🙂
You’re behind the scenes just legitimized pretty much every “technique” I’ve ever tried. I feel very encouraged. Great few pages last! I’m really nervous for Dickinson’s life!
*Your*. Ugh!
This is greatest sequence in the history of the comic.
AAWWW man!!! Those nose tentacles are just creepy.
If he rips them off what would happen? Is it similar to cutting a cat’s whiskers or would the bear just get really angry?
Wanted- Star Nosed Bear Mole T-Shirt! Or mug. Possible captions-
“You have your nightmares; I have mine”
“Ready for anything” (With bear killed & spears + Dickinson & crew)
“The lowest of all God’s killing machines, the Star Nosed Mole Bear”
“The reason the Mole Men are extinct”
“The Ursine Underground”
AAAAH the suspense is killing me!
Cthulhu always appears at the worst times.
Of course, the kind of cheating where you use every tool at your disposal. It’s okay, just bribe the French judge and she’ll give you a perfect 10 anyway.
You know, Norman Rockwell took a braziallian photos of his subjects in all sorts of different lighting and distances. That’s why his paintings have that mosaic feel because he chose the best shot of every square inch of them. Norman Rockwell, world’s greatest cheater.
I would not call that cheating! If anything, the research you do makes it look like even more work!