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My Drawing Board

Between cons and my website, Intensity!I've been taking commissions. It's one of my favorite parts of doing conventions these days. I just completed a bunch of them, so I'll be posting them the next few days.

Here's the first, a Power Girl commission. The request here was to "show her defiant but not ticked-off". The commissioner was pretty happy with this one.

tags: charlotte, Commissions, power girl
categories: Commissions, Drawing Table, General, Hotsheet, Love and Capes
Wednesday 06.16.10
Posted by Thomas Zahler
 

Cover's Got Back

Yes, it's true, I've been bad about posting artwork lately. I'm trying to break the story for my next project, which is not going well, but I'll wrangle it down.

In the meantime, I've been working on designing the second Love and Capes collection. (What's that? You want a link to pre-order? Here you go!) It's not just dropping the pages into inDesign, but reformatting the covers, writing and creating the back matter, and designing new sidepapers.

I don't know if sidepapers is even a real term, but that's what I call them. My stories are 24 pages (with #10 being 26 and #12 being 45) which means that if you want to maintain the page-one-on-the-right, page-two-on-the-left reading order, you've got a blank page on the back side of the cover. Not wanting to have a completely empty page, I designed some filler art for each chapter. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now it means creating them for this second edition.

I don't know if sidepapers is even a real term, but that's what I call them.

In the first trade, there were six images (Crusader, Abby, Darkblade, Arachnerd, Charlotte, and Amazonia) but in this one there are only five. The back of the issue #12 cover is the alternate cover. So I drew these.

All of them are original, except for Amazonia which reuses the art I did for the Comic Creators Alliance's art jam to end human trafficking. (By the way, the art raised over $10,000, and that is all kinds of awesome!) The art is below, and feel free to click and embiggen!

CrusaderTitaniaDarkbladeAmazoniaCharlotte

tags: amazonia, charlotte, crusader, darkblade, Love and Capes, titania
categories: Drawing Table, General, Hotsheet, Love and Capes
Thursday 01.28.10
Posted by Thomas Zahler
 

Page the Third!

Walking and Talking, it's like an Aaron Sorkin showI went ahead and got page three done, which follows The Quest for the Dress a little more. The Dress will be a huge part of issue #11, and it should go in unexpected ways.

I'd like to get page four done by Wednesday, too, so that I'll only have twenty pages to go before my self-imposed end of June deadline. Especially with the traveling I'll be doing for FCBD and a trip or two afterward, it's best to get as much banked as I can.

I'm especially happy with the outfits Abby and Charlotte are wearing. I think they look nice, and are very much in character for both people.

I also like the line about "Presidents' Corner." It's six words, but it serves to create an entire desirable neighborhood for Deco City. Naming it was the hardest thing, since it had to sound like a portion of a city. In Cleveland, we've got Old Brooklyn, but if I'd used anything like that, it would have read as a separate city, not part of Deco itself.

tags: abby, charlotte, Love and Capes, quest for the dress
categories: Cartooning, Comic Book, Drawing Table, General, Hotsheet, Love and Capes
Monday 03.30.09
Posted by Thomas Zahler
 

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