Concept for Atrus - beards are a work in progress.  So are glasses.  Not sure yet if I should stick close to Rand Miller like some talented artists are able to do, or if I should pursue this "inspired by" route...

Quick sketch of the Witness while I had a few minutes.  Still working on the hair.

Also, don't use no.2 pencils for art - thick, greasy lines, lots of smudge, never an easy clean-up.

Witness Works - Chapter 1.1 "Glooming"

Ugh ... so I finished this and then realized that it was "backwards"; the bottom two panels are read right to left.  Whatever, I may just switch to the Japanese layout, since it feels more natural.

Witness Works - Chapter 1.0 "The Reveal"

In which the Artist is brutally reminded that hands are difficult to draw...

Yeah, Catherine (the woman in red) had a hand originally, but the nature of robes means that I could pretend that it was meant to be hidden all the while.

There may come a day (probably now, actually) that I will rue the quality of this pic.  But then, this is my first foray into 100% digital art, so I'll take it!

Witness Works - Prologue 11 "Light at the end of the tunnel..."

In which the Artist has learnt to illustrate hands.  There was much rejoicing.

Witness Works - Prologue 10 "Escape...?"

In which the Witness finds himself attracted to a strange light...

Witness Works - Prologue 9 "No Close!"

Armed and Armored

Dee is a diminutive brawler that I thought up a number of years ago, and has since gone through a number of revisions.  She's not a dwarf in the fantasy sense (not anymore, that is) though I'm not sure how dwarfism is applied to individuals that stand less than 5'.

Part of the inspiration for these pics came from an album of "common sense armor for women" on Pinterest.  It was full of photos and concepts of armored women that eschewed the Red Sonya nonsense completely.  In addition to that, I suppose there's an element of Suikoden III's Chris Lightfellow in Dee's costume here.

Witness Works - Prologue 8 "Voices" & a look at what is to come...

Hiatus

I'm back!  So a day or two before I was to post the next page of the comic, my Lenovo died...again.  It did so originally when the CPU literally melted while attempting to run Skyrim.  This was particularly irksome because I had purchased the Lenovo specifically to run games.  It was advertised as a gaming computer.

Except it turns out that gaming laptops are notorious for running hot - so hot as to melt a piece of hardware.  

So my Lenovo died.  I took it to two different shops, which both gave me the same diagnosis (burnt CPU), the solution being to "re-flow" the components - to melt them again and set them right.  The second shop got the OK from me, and did the deed, alerting me to the fact that the poor Lenovo could die in 5 years, or 5 days..."get a new machine ASAP!"

Naturally, I took me precious time, worked with a machine now slow as Christmas and unable to run games (while explaining the diagnosis the technician gave me a cow-eyed look and said with a knowing smirk, "all those games just burned it up!"  I smiled and nodded, internally seething over the notion that Skyrim (now a somewhat dated game) and Age of Empires II would destroy a machine designed to run games).  But upon "updating" to Win10 the machine once again gave up the ghost - and my old Dell (which no longer holds a charge) has lived 2-3 times its lifespan.

So here I am, now typing on a new machine!  I've decided to try out the Dark Side and work on a Mac - I love elements of the machines and the OS.  Now to run some Bootcamp and get Win10 (ugh) in order to run my precious Elder Scrolls and RTSs.

...Oh, and post comic pages!

Witness Works - Prologue 7 "Flashback to Galaxy Quest"

Perceptive readers will note the Bleach reference work in the upper left

Witness Works - Prologue 6 "...*sigh*..."

Bad decisions--every good journey begins with one.

(And the best ninja poof ever...note to self: come back and fix after rereading Naruto)

Witness Works - Prologue 5 "Don't do it..."

I'm please/not-pleased with the "windy smoke" effects - room to improve, I suppose.

Witness Works - Prologue 4 "Well...THAT's new"

So the text came out blurry - it says, "What on Earth...which language is this?  Clearly nothing western...maybe Sanskrit or Thai?"

Before everyone politely informs me that I'm an idiot for ignoring some sort of niche European dialect, yes, I am aware that some western alphabets may resemble that which the Witness is here reading - Albanian may be one example.

As for the poor quality of the text, that comes of having no Photoshop - the Old Lappy that has a copy no longer keeps a charge, so I'm relying on the dying Lenovo, which only has basic Paint.  So I copy the image into a Word 10 file, run it through a couple sharpening filters, then copy it back to Paint for the final edit to JPEG.  The result is a sharper image, but smaller dimensions.

Witness Works - Prologue 1-3 "Hop, Skip, & a Leap"

This is essentially a better scan of the page uploaded earlier.  I may come back and add some grey-scale shading, but first: I must get photoshop!

Rough of Page 001 of a project I've had in mind for some time now.  Stay tuned.