Notes: I'm
still pretty happy with the way that city-scape looks. I have to tell you,
I'm not really big on architectural drawing, but I wanted to do something
to re-establish the fact that this was an alien setting. With comics being
what they are, just having weird-looking characters is not enough ... there
are too many really great cartoonists telling stories of monstrous (or
just bizarre) characters in normal settings. It's important to create a
world for the characters to live in ... and that's really not my forte.
When I was taking
basic drawing classes the instructor often scattered boxes, mailing tubes,
and other items around the room and made us include them in our drawings
of the models. More often than not, these shapes took on the feeling of
architecture. So I decided to try an experiment with my city here. It is
built from shapes that happened to be sitting on or near my desk when I
drew this page. There's a bottle of prescription medicine, a ballpoint
pen, an air freshener, and a tube of crazy glue in there (and probably
more things that I can't recall any longer). The crosshatched background
buildings turned out okay ... but I think I'd like the effect better if
it was done with flat color or a 40% gray zip-o-tone.
Oh, just so you
know, the building on the left side of panel #5 is a real structure I used
to pass when I'd walk through NYC. I think it's on 42nd St across from
the public library.
Finally, as I
look over these pages I'm reminded again and again why it's important to
take your time while lettering! In my current work I'm DESPERATELY trying
to find a way to do my lettering electronically. (I know how to ... I just
don't have my home office set up so that it's at all easy ... I'm working
on it, though.)
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