Spirit #29 samples-pencils & inks
As previously mentioned, I’ve drawn the art for issue #29 of Will Eisner’s The Spirit, from DC. It will be out in June, and here are some sample pages (1 and 11) in pencil and ink form. In case it’s not self-evident, the wording is not final in the balloons, it’s just an approximation for the letterer, to indicate placement, style, and estimate how much room to leave for the type to be added comfortably. I’m doing the colors as well.
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Fabulous !
I love that crane on the dock – really establishes the environment.
Super job and it’s nice to see the pencils.
Thanks a lot for stopping by and for the comment Larry!
Hello from a few thousand suns ago. Happy belated 50th Paul, hope life is good & your family is well & treated you to a good birthday last week. As always, fantastic website & inspirational work. Hope you don’t mind me posting here & I will not take up too much space as I’ve lost your contacts, try my work email at the tragedy place – you remember? – as I do not often look at the one posted. All the best & hope to hear from you.
-Geoff
Nice to hear from you Geoff! Let’s talk more…via e-mail.
This is awesome. Were the inked versions lightboxed from the pencil drawings? I love them.
Thanks Todd. No, I did these pages in a manner that would now be termed ‘old school’–(although I detest that term, since there is nothing OLD about ‘old-school!)
I only did tiny thumbnail-scribbles to get the basic compositional shapes; then, went straight to penciling right on the art boards. But not super-tight pencils, as you can see from the examples. I pencil just enough to get everything down and solid and working, then stop pencilling. So there’s a kind of gap left, a purposeful unfinishedness. That forces you, when you ink, to leap across the gap and keep actually drawing as you ink, not tracing.
I find that if I fall into ‘tracing mode’ as I ink, it kills all life on the page. Just dead. Tracing is the enemy! Spontaneity is the goal.