Sep 25th, 10
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Tonight was the second joint project between Whitney and myself. I drew the sketch this time, while Whitney handled all the painting in watercolors. The subject for this illustration was a character that I hadn’t introduced yet to the Chronicles of Ademar website: Nadja, the red wolf alchemist. She doesn’t appear in the series until the second volume (which will be about issue 6 or 7, estimated), so I hadn’t published any images of her final design prior to now. In the past renditions of the story she was actually a fox, and was much more slim in the waist while bigger in… other areas. Needless to say, I decided to make her more realistically proportioned, so I gave her more weight and curves to balance things out.
Anywho, hit the jump to view the process video — a full three hours this time, as it was an extended recording to fit the entire project into a single show — as well as a scan of the final product.
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Sep 20th, 10
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Part one of the painting of the second page of Ademar was done tonight on camera. I managed to get probably halfway through the page in one sitting tonight. It’s going to take a bit longer than the first page took since there’s a bit more detail — as well as multiple panels — but I shouldn’t have any problem getting through at least a couple pages by the end of this week. I doubt I’ll be able to finish all three. We’ll see.
Check out the video after the jump for the painting, a preview of a really awesome dinner, and a bit of piano at the end.
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Sep 16th, 10
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Tonight’s show started off with an hour of messing around on piano, followed by another hour spent finishing the inking of lineart for page four of Ademar. The next step will be to start painting pages 2-4 now that the inking is all done! Sweet.
Hit the button to check out the video.
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Sep 11th, 10
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Tonight was originally scheduled to be a day of drawing pencils for Peter & Company, but I wasn’t happy with the script I had written so I decided to wait until tomorrow. As a last-minute substitution, I opted to finish inking page 3 of Ademar and get about halfway through inking page 4.
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Sep 8th, 10
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After taking a week off due to craziness of the holiday weekend and my coming down with a pretty hectic cold, I booted up the cam tonight and got some good time in to resume working on Ademar. I cleaned up a few parts of the pencils that needed fixing and started the inking of page two. The rest of the pages will come over the next few shows. The recorded video from tonight’s session, along with the work-in-progress of the inking, after the jump:
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Jul 21st, 10
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As I had anticipated, I was able to finish painting the entire first page of Ademar in tonight’s session. This means my original estimate of 6-8 hours for the production of a single page of Ademar — from pencils to finished watercolors — was right on the money. If I can keep to this speed for the rest of the pages, I should be able to complete the first issue within two months’ production time (keeping in mind the amount of time I actually have at home — I do have a full-time job, too).
Catch the video from tonight’s session, for those who weren’t able to attend, after the jump.
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Jul 20th, 10
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Tonight, we begin the painting of the Chronicles of Ademar. The opening page is first on the slab, with the base layers of ink wash being put down before anything else. In two hours, roughly 75% of the washes were finished. I also took the opportunity to turn the session into a tutorial on my methods/approach to painting with ink wash (specifically with the technique I’ll be using to paint Ademar).
Hit the jump to see the video, for those who missed seeing it live. I won’t be scanning this page in until it is complete, so this will be the only way to see the progress at this point:
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Jul 18th, 10
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The inking of the lineart for the first page of Ademar was split across two separate nights — mostly because Futurama comes on at 10 pm on Thursday, and I ended up starting the show late that night anyway because I got caught in traffic. So I decided to swap out Sunday’s scheduled P&C page with Ademar, since I really want to start painting this first page as soon as possible. Now that it’s complete, I will be updating the schedule so that the first few nights are dedicated solely to painting in ink wash and watercolors.
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Jul 13th, 10
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Here we go, the last page of pencils before I start inking and painting these beasts:
I’ll be starting the process of finishing these pages on an upcoming show early next week. If I can get a good estimate on how long it takes me to paint the final product, I can get an idea for when the first issue will be released. I’m growing more and more excited about getting this story on paper after so many years of development!
Jul 12th, 10
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Wow, the last half hour of tonight’s show was something… uh, special. That’s a good word for it.
Anyway, I managed to put down the third page’s pencils for Ademar. Click the thumbnail to view a larger image:
And now, the reason for why the last half hour was so “special,” I present to you the new mascot for the webshow:
Someone asked me to draw a unicorn. So I did. I offer no apologies. Here it is in hi-res. Click at your own risk.
Also, the schedule has been updated with the new show topics for the coming week. Be sure to give it a look.
