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Hey, everyone. The last day of summer. Halloween decorations are at the local CVS store in my neighborhood, and the autumn season will start tomorrow morning. Changing of the seasons. You can see it now. Sunsets around 7pm. The summer sun into the autumn glow.

So, let’s pick up where I left off. In last month’s newsletter, I was writing about working in the film industry, drawing storyboards and concept art for filmmakers. I thought it would be cool to go further with it, a breakdown of pencils and inks. Let’s’ start.

The photo for this month’s newsletter. A work in progress. Pencils and inks, unfinished. I always take photos of my work to show the stages of the art from layouts to being finished and completed. You can see the series of pencil and non photo blue pencil layouts. I did the layouts on an art board. Started with a non photo to draw them, then a 2H to tighten them up before I added the inks.

For the inks, you can see some line work and some solid areas being inked in. At this stage of the job, all brush. After the pencils and the inks, the next step was going to be digital colors.

I’ll show the next stage of the artwork in the next newsletter, to be published in October. Stay tuned for more.

Meeting with a client on Monday. Illustration job. Also, picked up a book by the great comic book artist Lou Fine. Produced by PS Artbooks, a complication of his work on BLACK CONDOR and THE RAY, two superheroes from the Golden Age Of Comics that were published by Quality Comics in the early 1940s. Scripts for the stories were written by Will Eisner, creator of THE SPIRIT. A fan of both Fine and Eisner. Both had unique, artistic styles: the expressive fluidity of character movement from panel to panel in Fine’s work and the design aesthetic in Eisner’s splash pages of THE SPIRIT, the combination/intertwining of text and visuals. If you get a chance, DC did a series of archive books of all the SPIRIT stories reprinted in a series of volumes. Highly recommend it. Also, you can get back issues of reprints of THE SPIRIT, published by Warren and Kitchen Sink.

Well, guess that’s about it. As I’m finishing writing up this newsletter, the fall will be here tomorrow. Weather will be getting cooler. Stay tuned for the next newsletter, where I’ll either riff about inking or something else. Talk to you soon.