Script and Thumbnail Process

by on January 21, 2022 at 5:14 pm
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For this week’s post, I thought it would be fun to share some of the steps in translating a RUNNERS script to actual art. As always, I start with a fully written script, complete with all dialogue and stage direction. I then divide that script into actual comic pages, first by scene breaks and then by individual pages within those scenes. In some cases, I will further break the page down in specific panels if it’s important to know exactly how I will divide the various word balloons between them.

After that, it’s on to the thumbnailing process. I tend to do very loose sketches for the thumbnails in order to figure out poses, angles, and compositions. These sketches are so loose that I don’t think anyone would be able to read them without seeing the finished art next to them. But I guess they make sense to me! Below is a sample of the thumbnails done for one of the pages from the first scene from Volume 3, Chapter 1.

For a much longer post that covers the script and thumbnails for the entire 6 pages of this scene, please visit my Patreon. This will be a free PUBLIC post, so you will be able to read it without being a backer. It goes into the changes to the script as well as individual page breakdowns of the various challenges of doing the thumbnails for the sequence.

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Toned Paper Commissions

by on January 7, 2022 at 12:40 pm
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As I mentioned recently, there will be a short pause in new story pages for the month of January 2022 while I get caught up on the next chapter. In the meantime, I’ll be doing new posts each week featuring various bonus content.

Today’s post features some toned paper commissions I recently completed for my Patreon backers. First up is an 8×10″ piece with Roka in action, manning the consoles of the Khoruysa Brimia. I usually like to do head-and-shoulders shots, but I thought it would be fun to try something new and put the character in an environment.

And here are two smaller (5×7″) commissions of Cember and Roka:

The commissions were done as annual rewards for Patreon backers at the $10 and $20 tiers. As always, the pieces are a lot of fun for me and let me do something a little different to break up the usual production work. If you’re interested in supporting the series on Patreon ($1 and $5 tiers are also available), please feel free! All support is immensely appreciated, helps fund the ongoing creation of the series, and you’ll get cool exclusive content to boot!

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RUNNERS Vol 3, Ch 2 Done and January Break

by on December 27, 2021 at 5:12 pm
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Happy Holidays everyone and Happy New Year in advance! I am excited to announce that the first two chapters of RUNNERS Volume 3 are now completely up on runnersuniverse.com and Webtoon Canvas. So if you’ve been waiting to read the series in a large chunk and didn’t want to read a single page at a time, you can now read the first 64 pages of the story, starting HERE, with much more (five more chapters) on the way.

On that front, there is a tiny bit of bad news. There will be a brief hiatus in the story for the month of January 2022. The latter half of 2021 got away from me and I’m a bit behind on Chapter 3. Almost all of the 24 pages are finished through the coloring stage, but there’s still the lettering and various final tweaks that need doing, as well as uploading and doing commentary, etc. So I’ll be doing that in January. Once the story comes come back, I will scale back to one post per week instead of two, which should allow me to get ahead of the schedule again.

In the interim, for January, I will still be posting content here, but it will be behind-the-scenes material. But that should give me the time I need to get things back on track. It’s a real bummer for me to have to do this break, something I adamantly did not want to happen, and scaling back the regular posts is another bummer. If I can find I way to get back up to 2 posts/week, I would love to do so at some point. Anyway, sorry for the brief delay in January, but great stuff is coming! Thanks for continuing to read the series!

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Fan Expo Boston & ConnectiCon

by on August 30, 2021 at 9:52 pm
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This weekend (Sep 3-5) I will be set up at Fan Expo Boston in Artist Alley, Table A600! And next weekend (Sep 10-12), I will be set up at ConnectiCon in Artists Colony, Table AC-244!

These will be my first comic conventions since the pandemic, and I currently do not have any more on the schedule. I’ll be curious to see how they go. It’s very exciting to be able to get the series back out in front of people, especially with Volume 3 now in the works, but it’s still a bit nerve-wracking to be doing a big event. But I am vaccinated, everyone will be masked, and I’ll be hosing down everyone who approaches my table with a Super Soaker filled with sanitizer. So we should be all good to go.

Hope to see some of you at the shows!

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RUNNERS Vol 1 on Sale at comiXology

by on May 4, 2021 at 10:41 am
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RUNNERS Volume 1 is part of the Small Press Starter Sale starting today on comiXology! The sale runs through 5/27/21, and you can get the first book for half-price (just $4.99). And as always, you can read the entire series on comiXology for free with their Unlimited subscription.

Please keep helping to spread the word about the series, and be sure to check out some of the other great Small Press offerings!

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