Promo 3

"Three rules you must follow to be Happy in life...
....n3.....

Page 3 Working Process

From a rough sketch I do clean pencilling, then I ink it using acrylic ink and a quill pen, I scan and do some quick color tests in photoshop and in the end I color the original one with markers and add white touch ups.

The ink is waterproof and somewhat marker proof too, it depends on how you rub the marker.

 I am drawing this directly on my sketchbook because I really like that paper and it takes both markers and ink very well and the way I like it :D

Pencilling 

Inking     

Color test

Coloring

Promo 2

"Three rules you must follow to be Happy in life...
....n2.....


The Flower and the Nose (coming in July 2012)

Dancing

Lani and Fiore dancing.

Color illustration done with markers and acrylic ink.

The comic is coming soon.... so soon! :D

Page 1 WIP

Page 1 Inking and Color test.

Promo 1

Color mapping

And after the value studies come the color mapping.

This is a very fast procedure, takes less than an hour. Exploits the value studies (and it helps figure out if the value study needs to be tweaked).

Pencilled Illustration

From rough sketch to pencilled illustration... to be inked. I will fix the lamp post to the right first though.
You can see the tweed pattern here.

Cover pencil sketch

Color scripts

Color scripts are something you need to go before you start anything in color, from comic to cartoons to movies.
They help you decide the mood of each scene and how the color transition from one scene to the next one.

Some scenes need to be represented by particular colors... pink for happy scenes, purple is something leading to a murder and dull color scenes depict the unhappiness, the lack of color in the life of the protagonists.

The bottom six are the ones I have chosen and the tiny arrow indicate in which order these colors should rotate.

Synopsis

A "nose" is the expert whose fine sense of smell and skills in smell composition brings forth the creation of perfumes.

Lani's nose did not come with just the ability but with a physical disability as well: the size.
It was forced on her, as a child, by the curse of a flower that only bloomed once every thirty years.

Growing up with a huge nose did not prove to be easy but, eventually, Lani managed to turn the disadvantage to her advantage and created a perfume industry whose perfumes and essences were number one in the world.

Nevertheless power and success did not take away loneliness and that lingering feeling that something really important had gone missing.

After thirty years it was time for the flower to bloom again.
The flower she hated so much, the flower she wanted to cut down... that's when strange things begun to happen and a mysterious man appeared in her life with the firm intention of changing her ways for ever!

Thus begins the struggle between the Flower and the Nose!

Fiore vs. Dan

My initial color study for Fiore vs. Dan.
I want of them to be quite handsome because, for the first time in a story, I'll have a love triangle.

Fiore Sketches

How about I share with you some random sketches for Fiore.
Now Fiore is a very mysterious character.

He is very cheerful and positive, most of the time and doesn't loose hope not even in the worst situation, not even when everything goes wrong, not even when confronting death.

In a way he is very straight forward and might seem a bit too linear... but he has a secret and it's an unbelievable one.

His personality is quite overwhelming. He is drunk with life and very passionate.

If you like sweet, understanding guys (kinda like Cat from The Pirate Balthasar) he is a bit like that too.

Character's color scheme

Some initial color tests for the main characters.

I am still torn on the color of Lani's hair though and I'll probably give Fiore white hair instead.
But here you have them: Lani, Sylvia, Fiore, Dan the Designer and the two chemists.