Update... Chapter 5

Just a quick update... As of today, Feb 28th I have completed the first 9 pages of the last Chapter, Chapter 6.

This is a pic of the first 5 Chapters (minus the additional 14 pages added through out the story... which I will add later).

Looking forward to wrapping up Chapter 6 and creating some proof copies to share with family, friends and artist friends.  Much more coming soon...

-Drew

Busy, Busy, Busy

So just an update on HERO...

Chapter 5 is complete and we have started on the final Chapter of book One, Chapter 6.

We also went back and added 14 additional story pages (3 in Chapter One, 3 in Chapter Two, 4 in Chapter Three and 4 in Chapter Four) to make the count for Chapters 1-5 a total of 125 pages.

This is the idea for the back cover and the pin up for Chapter 6.

More to come.

-Drew

HERO Update

Just a quick update on HERO.

These are the covers sketches for the first five mini comic previews.

We have finished Chapter 4 and have completed 90 pages... Penciled, Inked, Gray Toned, Lettered AND Edited.

Chapter 1: Our Hero gets a name
Chapter 2: HERO prepares to leave on his Adventure
Chapter 3: HERO starts his Adventure
Chapter 4: The 'Story Within a Story'
We have started working on Chapter 5: Where everything goes wrong!

Just a quick update on HERO.  I have finished all the art for Chapter 3 and have started on the lettering. I hope to have it all done and off to my editor by next weekend... And then on to Chapter 4. 65 pages in... still going...

Preview pages for Chapter Three

A special preview of the third chapter of HERO,pages 51-53.

More coming soon
-Drew

HERO is coming the NEW YORK SPECIAL EDITION 2015

Ayla and I will be in NEW YORK on June 6th and 7th for the NEW YORK SPECIAL EDITION show. As soon as I have a table number I will pass that on but if you are in the area, come by and check out the preview copies of the first two chapters (plus a bunch more) of our new kid-friendly graphic novel HERO coming out the end of 2015 (Hopefully in time for the NEW YORK COMIC CON in October... but we will see)/

Enjoy
-Drew

Finished Hawkeye

This is the finished pin up of Hawkeye in action... It will actually be a story page in the third chapter of HERO and there is a reason it is mostly black and white (with only a little gray tones...)

More coming soon

-Drew

Hawkeye in ACTION!

In the third chapter of HERO, Hero and Pudge meet a Ferritine Archer by the name of Hawkeye.  He's a rather charming character who has a knack for Tall Tales... including the one this image will show...

Stay Tuned.

-Drew

Hulk

I kind of made a deal with myself... If I did any non-HERO related art... I then had to do a HERO-related version.  I recently did a Hawkeye sketch but before did a HERO version of Hawkeye... who will actually make an appearance in the Third Chapter.  I also did a Hulk sketch so I did a HERO version of the Hulk.

First, I asked... what kind of animal could be a huge hulking creature... who is also Green?  Easy... A turtle.  Works out good cause there is a Turtle character in the 2nd book.  So here he is (at least a 'younger' version of the character...)

Sorry for the delay...

Wow, this has been a busy year.  I just wrapped up work on Chapter 2 of HERO (44 pages done) and I'm getting ready to tackle Chapter 3.  Chapter 2 took longer than I expected simply because I also went back and re-did all 25 pages of Chapter 1 (adding gray tones and fixing 'little' issues I had with the first 25 pages).

I'm excited about Chapter 3 because Hero and Pudge have begun their journey and there is a LOT of stuff I want to share about our little world.  Chapter 4 is also something kind of special.  Mike and I call it the 'story within a story' and I look forward to working on that chapter as well.  For now, just a peak at the last page of Chapter 2...

More to come
-Drew

Hawkeye

Ain't he cute?

my new favorite page

HERO page 15.

Not sure why but I just like the way this one came out.  This is one of two pages I really liked how they came out and I'm pretty happy with the progress on the book so far.  I hope everyone will enjoy it as much as I have... when its finally DONE.

HA

-Drew

Been gone awhile... but still working.

So after the New York Special Edition show in June, I have not posted too much here and I'm sorry for that.  The Show was fun, but a rather disappointment, and since I got back home I have been busy working on projects.

I'm heading off the the New York Comic Con in October but I will not have a table this year, i'm going as a fan and looking forward to hanging out, getting some original art work and seeing a bunch of old friends.  Next year I hope to secure a table, as well as have a new book to show off, so I will keep everyone posted.

As of right now, I am focusing on one project at a time withe the goal of actually FINISHING one of them by early next year.  My current project is HERO, the first chapter in an original graphic novel series created by me and my kids with illustrations by me and Ayla (if she ever has time!) and written by me and Michael. The first part of the story that introduces the main character is 14 pages and I am working on pages 11 and 12 now.  As soon as the art is done I will begin lettering the story.  I made a promise to my friend Todd in NY that I would have the first 14 pages COMPLETE by the time I saw him in NY, so that's the current goal.

More coming soon...

-Drew

April 11, 2012... character design too

One more sketch for the night... Hero's Mother.

This is just a quick sketch I did tonight of Hero's mother.  She doesn't have a name yet and this design also represents Hero's kid sister Missy.  She will show up in the third or forth book (yeah, I'm dreaming here... thinking I might actually get three or four Hero books done, much less ONE book) but she's the spitting image of her mother so there you go.

More soon
-Drew

April 11, 2012... Grannie Ora

 This is the beginning steps for a new character for my graphic novel HERO.  This is Grannie Ora.  She's loosely based on a porcupine.

more on Grannie Ora and HERO soon.

-Drew

 

Finished HERO illustration...

added some additional lighting affects, shadows and cleaned up a few parts...

and added his missing TAIL!!! Crimey... my daughter pointed out this morning I FORGOT THE GUYS TAIL!!!

he he
enjoy
-Drew

and a little "making of" HERO

I have wanted to post this for a looong time...

This is an image I had when I was sleeping... I could not get the image out of my head so I woke up and scribbled down the idea and just today I (almost) finished it.

This is the title character of a story I am working on with my children called HERO. More coming soon about all that...

This is NOT finished but I just had to share. I still have to crop the image to the right size, add some effects and clean up a lot of it but this is it...

enjoy
-Drew