another New Cornerstone page

So, with this particular part of the story I am going a little 'Crime Noir' for the look... plus, one of my main characters actually has sex... oooh.

enjoy
-Drew

New Cornerstone Page Three...

here's page three (not actually page 3 of the book but the third page in Venus's story...) when the sound affects are added, this whole sequence will make a LOT more sense, he he he.

enjoy
-Drew

New Cornerstone pages... part 2

and here is the second page.

Venus!  Yeah!!

more coming soon...

-Drew

New Cornerstone pages... in progress

Been working on new pages for my Next Cornerstone OGN and I'm trying some new stuff with it.  Enjoy

-Drew

Coming in 2013...

An ALL-NEW Tales From The Cornerstone original graphic novel from creator Andrew Charipar.

Not one, not two, not three but four brand new stories set in the world of Cornerstone City.  A City filled with Vampires, Werewolves, Monsters and Witches, living lives side-by-side with the average people.

In the first feature story, we see everyone's favorite red-head witch Andi Wright in an original tale, eight years before the events of the first Cornerstone Trade and before she joined the Police's elite Midnight Shift.  A story that goes all the way back to the very foundation of Cornerstone City and touches the lives of some of the most powerful people in the City.

In the second story, a young Witch tells a tale of some of the most worthless people she has ever met, including people within her own family.

In the third story, an enormously wealthy old man attempts to use forbidden magic to trap a being that embodies eternal youth in an attempt the regain his own youth and live forever.

And in the fourth story, a ventriloquist dummy, trapped in the very pages of the comic, tells his tale of woe in an attempt to convince the reader to help release his "soul" from the comic book.

All this plus pin ups, sketch pages and much, much more... coming in 2013 from Misfit Corner Press.

Keep posted
-Drew

Progress... pages 1-6 and back up pages 1-2

So far, since I returned from NY I have done the first 6 pages of my Cornerstone story and the first two pages of a back up story.

More coming soon.

-Drew

Cornerstone Short Story... Page 01

This is the first page of a Cornerstone Short Story that will appear in my next trade... which I have not decided yet if it will be an Anthology of Cornerstone stories or One Large story with a back up or two... just don't know till it's done... ughhhh.

This page is not 100% done since I still need to "clean it up" a little but my kids are out and about for the day and they have my mini USB cable that I need for my tablet... waaa waaa, I know...

Anyway, this story was inspired by an audio book Avery and I listened to twice on the way up and back down from New York.   A book by Clive Barker called MISTER B. GONE about a demon trapped in a book who narrates his story to you through the book.

Now you might ask yourself what that has to do with a  ventriloquist dummy in a comic book... you'll just have to wait and see...

more coming soon.

-Drew

Back to work...

I made a plan that as soon as I got back from NY I would focus on my new Cornerstone trade... and I'm doing it.  Here are pages 1-3 of the new story.

I know I posted page one before but I re-did the whole thing from scratch.  The first time as all digital, this time as all traditional pen and ink.

I made another deal with myself to do at least 3 pages of Cornerstone before I do anything else... now, for something new...

-Drew

June 25, 2012... This doesn't count as sketch #1...

This is actually my first full attempt at using Manga Studio Ex... The first page of my new Cornerstone OGN (Original Graphic Novel).

I added tones to the picture but didn't like how they came out so I think I will leave this B&W.

I actually have 5 drawings on my table right now that count toward the 100 in 101 days... and I will post them all as soon as they are done.

Feb 24, 2012... ABC's

OK, here is a bit of a 2-fer.

First off, this is the rough layout for pages one and two.  Andi and Ms. Pennyworth and class are touring the museum.  More layouts coming soon.

And now, the ABC's.

I will totally admit this up front, what I am about to tell you I did not read myself.  A good friend of mine, who's a whole lot smarter than me when it comes to these matters, read about it and then told me about it.  Probably in a "How-to" book on storytelling by Will Eisner or someone like that...

From what he told me, the ABC's of storytelling are a principle, or a rule or something like that for storytelling.  In panel to panel storytelling, one of the best ways to tell a story is to move the flow of the images in a ABC pattern.  These two pages are a good example of that.

"A" is the dino splash page one.  In the next panel the "A" dino is part of the background and Ms. Pennyworth is the "B".  In panel 2, we see Ms. Pennyworth "B" and Andi "C" and then in panel 3, a closeup of Andi "C".  The story flows from A to C, from the dino to Andi.

People may not even see it but next time you are reading a comic, a good comic story, name the elements A, B C and so forth and see if the story teller followed this principle... or rule... or whatever it is called.

-Drew

PS thanks Todd... you are the smarter one here... I said it... now shut up!

Feb 22, 2012 ... panel work

OK, the fact that I have not posted doesn't mean I have not been working on it... it just means I've been too tired to post, he he.

Anyway, i am working on Cornerstone from two angles.  The first is the script.  I am still working on writing out the script for the first 8 pages, this is the exact opposite of how I usually work.  For my first two graphic novels, i drew 95 to 100 percent of the art before I even started writing the script.

A little messed up, I know, but that's just how my mind works.  This time I am working on the script at the same time as the art.

Another step in the process is sketching out individual panels separately then combining them all together on a single art page.  This is my second attempt at page 2 panel 1.

Page one has already been laid out I just want to get a few more pages setup before I scan and post it.  More coming, I promise.

-Drew

Feb 16, 2012... page layouts

I had to drive into the office today for my day job so I did not have a lot of extra time to work on this but I did start the initial layouts for the first part of chapter one.  Here is the first six pages (of what might be 8 pages).

Ok, let me interrupt myself for a second here and explain a little bit about my process.  First, I come up with an idea or a "scene".  Mostly just high points of the story, like a goal I want to achieve in the story telling.  Then I proceed to small thumbnails.  This is what I have here.

More tomorrow
-Drew

Feb 14, 2012... Happy Valentines Day

Tonight's post is about a new character who appears in the first chapter of part one of the New Cornerstone book.  Ms. Pennyworth.  She's a teacher at Andi's school.  Other than the fact she fits the "sexy teacher" model perfectly, I'm not going to say anything else about her just yet.  She's more important than she first appears and a pretty important part of the new story.

enjoy
-Drew

PS I hope everyone was nice to someone special today... tomorrow we buy candy, he he he.

Feb 12, 2012... Cornerstone Update

Not much happened today but I did finish writing up my proposal for my editor on what I plan to do for the third volume of Cornerstone.  This may not seem like a big deal but compared to what I actually wrote down the last two times... it's HUGE.

Tomorrow I work more on plotting out the events of the first part of the book.  It's a story that revolves around one of the main characters from volume one, Andi, the witch.  I don't know if I wrote about it before but in volume one her character was to appear one time, say one smart ass line and then be gone... but I kind of fell in love with her and ended up giving her a bigger role in volume one.  Anyone who has read volume one knows that it did not end well for her and I've always felt a little guilty about that.

This story brings her into the forefront, gives her a really great introduction and makes her into a much bigger, important character and going forward, she only gets more respect.  More to come...

-Drew

Feb 11, 2012... it has OFFICIALLY begun...

That's right folks.  The die has been cast.  The bones have been rolled.  My next volume of TALES FROM THE CORNERSTONE has officially started.  I will be posting EVERYDAY from now till the project is finished on my Blog so check back often.

First thing on the agenda... finish writing the plot for the first chapter and get it to my editor for review.

This is actually a very big step for me since both volume one and two of Cornerstone were done completely without a written plot, script or synopsis.  I simply started drawing and just kept going till it was done.  This time I am actually laying done the idea on paper, mapping out where everything will start, go to and end and making it just a little easier for me to follow.  Kind of like a blueprint, something I did NOT do the first two times.

You might ask yourself "how the heck is that possible?" and believe me when I tell you that when I tell people how I work on a project, most people think I am insane.  Well, "yes", I may just be... but what the heck... here we go.

more tomorrow
-Drew

just an old idea reworked...

a while ago, I worked on a T-shirt idea that showcased three of the four main characters from Cornerstone. I then re-did it with all four characters.

Then just the other night, an idea came to me... so I broke the four images into four individual images, added text and then inverted it all (thinking it would look soo much better on an all black shirt).

I don't know, i think they came out cool. Maybe I'm almost there with this idea... maybe.

-Drew

Venus DelMachio with text

Venus DelMachio

Venus DelMachio was originally introduced in Volume Two of Cornerstone but with what I am doing next, she will have a bigger part of the story. This is the forth of four images I had racking around in my brain for my new Cornerstone launch next year... more coming soon... I Promise.

enjoy
-Drew

Andi with text

and with text

Andi

My favorite little Witch from Tales from the Cornerstone, Andi.

This is the third of four images.

Last one coming soon.
-Drew