more griffin story!

Yup! Still working on this thing-that-might-hopefully-become-a-comic-or-something. I actually just had a major breakthrough on some huge story problems recently, which drove me to draw all kinds of concepty things for it. And then tonight I decided to have some me-time and play around in Photoshop with them. Here's a couple images - more to follow later (sketches are all scanned, I just want to splash some color on more of 'em!)

Did a quick paintup of a major location in the story, as well as a tiny little map of the island/small continent/whatever the story all takes place on. There are also tons of little notes everywhere, but the fog is covering up some of 'em.

Some further notes on the city and its inhabitants.

The first 6!

Pages of my griffin comic, that is. That's a full half of 'em!
I think I'm going to try to do it the traditional way - ink and paper all the way - mostly due to the fact that my computer is acting old and sick. Or something like that. So these are just the pencils... and in real life they're red. :P

Fresh Air! Thumbnails!

I'm in such a good mood today, even though I only slept 2.5 hours last night (and that because I didn't have the stamina for a proper all-nighter) and haven't eaten for a long time. Must be the sunshine and the fact that I learned I have a whole week to finish my English paper. Feels so good.

So what's in it for you are (hugely blown up) griffin comic thumbnails! Hooray!


This is for my restart - especially if we end up taking our stuff separately to Comic-Con, I'd rather my story start from the beginning than be a vignette from the middle of the story. What was I thinking?

Also, to put all the fire stuff in the beginning in context, this is the main character's first day as an apprentice, and his master spends the first page blacksmithing in high-contrast firelight. Then he goes flying and runs into a buddy in the air.