Lore the Prisoner Ink Project: Ink Sketch

 Lore Prisoner Ink Sketch, to try and figure out the composition and figure placement.  This image has all of the elements I just need to adjust the composition for 11x17 inch format.

Next week: Pencils

Lore the Prisoner Ink Project: Concept

 The new project is Lore the Prisoner.  I want to practice everything that I learned from a month of inking to this project.

So, for the concept, I want a full body image of Lore, in a dark prison cell with a monstrous unicorn relief behind the character.

Let's Go!

Beautiful Beast Kiss and Friends Inks

 Beautiful Beast Kiss and the Characters for what comes next...

Take Care and Keep Shining

Trey

HBH Project Characters: Hidden

 Hidden: Inking process.  For this on I went ink wash with textures and an old brush and correction fluid for details and highlights.  

So what is his story, well... he is a mystery, even to the group.  Hide or the Hidden is a cursed man, and a great danger to others which causes him to shy away from people.

However, Dog finds him living in a trash can, and wanting to help, brings food whenever he can.  Eventually, Hidden came to live on the fringes of the crew, mostly because he smells very unpleasant, but he has a joyful spirit, though he doesn't say much.  

In terms of the crew, only Dog and Love have seen his true form, and Love loves him , but she loves everyone, and gives him a flower every time she sees him. Dog, doesn't know what to make of him in his true form as it doesn't seem that odd, but hide has a calm aura, and (when Hide is clean) Dog is just content to hang out for hours, both not speaking.

As for Kerberos, he can turn down his smell receptors and will have long one side conversation while doing maintenance  on himself and his weapons.  Fatal and Hidden ... don't really interact and when she is around Hide, Hides.

That is the Main Cast of Heaven Between Hell

Take Care Keep Shining

Trey

HBH Project Characters: Kerberos

 Kerberos: The Cyborg inking.  So for this one I use only Micron Pens for inking because I wanted to try something different in look.  

Story wise, Kerberos is a veteran of the Robot Wars of 25 years earlier, that lead to the shattering of the Moon.  The name Kerberos is a reference to the three headed dog guarding the Gates of Hell, but it was the three brothers War Band Name; of which Kerberos is the youngest and the only one left alive from the war.

Now, he is a wandering mercenary and can work on both sides of the rift of NeoLA.  He meet Fatal while doing a job and our hero Dog later.  For Dog, Kerberos starts as a foul mouthed, gruff mercenary, but eventually a teacher on how to survive in a ruthless world.  He also has a soft spot for Love, calling her little bird, for whom he tells stories about he and his brothers childhood told as fantasy tales.

Next Week: The Hidden

Later

HBH Project Characters: Fatal

 Fatal character inking.  I like the look, fatal is a combination of film Noir trope of the Detective and the Fem Fatal into a singular character for this Cyber Punk story.  Still needs some work but, I like the look.  

Story wise, Fatal starts on the glittering city side before moving to the slums of the NeoLA where she meets Dog, and in the coarse of the story, Fatal become a sister figure to Dog, and a priceless member of the crew/family.

Next Week: Kerberos the Cyborg

Later

HBH Project Characters: Dog

 For the Month of October let's do some Inking.  So I will be inking the characters trying to refine their look; starting with the main character, Dog.  My focus for dog was to make him more youthful looking.  I imagine his a an early teen (14, or 15) and I wanted a look that demonstrated that.  

Next week: Fatal

Later

HBH Project Comic Panels

 Using Clip Studio Paint to plan out my comic panels. This is fun and it start to feels like a comic.  

Next week we start a month of inking; I think we will start with characters of HBH.

See ya next week!

HBH Project ruff sketch comic version 3

 HBH Comic Pages revision no. 3...  Focused on perspective to solidify the backgrounds.

Keeping it moving, Later!

HBH Project ruff sketch version 2

 HBH Comic Pages revision... a long way to go.

let's go!

HBH Project Title

 New Title Card... still needs work but I really like it!

I'm late on this project, but the summer was magnificent.  Now, it's a race towards the end of the year.. and a lot to do.  So let's Go!

Keep Shining

Trey

HBH Project (A Tale of Two Cities) part 2

  After the Great Earthquake, Los Angeles became NeoLA divided by the great rift.  The Rift is a three mile wide chasm of an unknown depth, separating NeoLA the Glittering Heaven of Stars from the Pandemonium of the southern territories.

Today, Let’s look at the Glittering Towers of NeoLA; where whispers say the Government officials are just puppets, the Corporations hold the true Power.  These Corporate Caesars, Tsars, and Kaisers control everything from utilities, food and food processing, to even controlling a corporate military called Knights.  Most everything is in the hands of Corporate Kings. 

Amongst the Glittering Tower of Glass and Steal, crime is rare and the knights patrol the streets in relative safety, because of the Hidden Ones.  No one speaks of  them, all carry on as thought everything is normal, but every action, every word is closely monitored.  On this side of the rift everything, from the finery, pleasantries and plastic smiles, everything feels fake.  

All in all, behind the glamor and gloss hides a different kind of secrecy and savagery.

HBH Project (A Tale of Two Cites)

 After the Great Earthquake, Los Angeles became NeoLA divided by the great rift.  The Rift is a three mile wide chasm of an unknown depth, separating NeoLA the Glittering Heaven of Stars from the Pandemonium of the southern territories.

Today, Let's look at the wild and rebellious, Southland, also call by the numerous Gangs as The Jungle.  The Gang leaders, calling themselves KINGs, are always prowling their territories for any opportunity to gain any upper hand over any and all rivals.

The Police, meanwhile, are fighting an endless war to stem the tide in a city that seems to be spiraling toward complete anarchy.  Heavily armed, highly aggressive, and fighting for survival. The Police, assaulted from all sides in a wild lawless land, employ headless automatons for frontline altercations.  These walking tanks are the first line of defense; walking shields against the battering waves of chaos.

Welcome to the Jungle... Hope you Survive.

HBH Project Main Cast

The Main Cast

So.. in the making of a comic it helps to know what the characters look like as the pages get more developed.  So, here we have a better renders of the main cast, well except for kerberos who needs work haha.

See ya Next week

HBH Comic Ruff Sketch (Week 2)

 Page 01 thru 04 of the comic

So, the only text for this is the  “Los Angeles 20XX” or maybe “The Rift, Los Angeles 20XX”  so I need to make sure the panels are clear in narrative.  We mostly follow “Dog” our lead through pages 01, 03 and 04. With only page 02 being about the rich and powerful on the other side of the Rift.

Some slight changes are to be made.. but this is the concept for the comic.

See ya next week.

HBH Project (Release Season)

 

It’s Release Season, and I have a lot of work to do. 

So, a change of Direction, first I want to get a 4Page Comic; I’m calling the HBH Project done.

Let’s start today, with the project Logo (top), color character mock up (middle), and ruff character sketches (bottom).

Note: I want to get at least the pencils done by September 6th, then we switch to something totally different…

Let’s Go!

Lore Full Inks

Full Inks made from the hollow inks with ink washes and well,  ink... I like these, so let's keep going.

Enjoy Summer, Later

Lore Journey (Shifts)

 Hello again,

So, I'm trying something a little different... usually I've been drawing on top of the little blown up thumbnails (bottom).  But, this time I took the thumbnail into photoshop/clips studio paint and did a ruff sketch on top, then did some inks over a print out.  So far, I think these images are a bit more solid and grounded than the last post.  I'm going to try this out for a bit, see how it goes.

Take Care and Keep Shining

Trey

Summer Time! Lore Inks

 Some Quick Lore Sketches.  Honestly, I think I'm starting to exhaust my own ink level; I'm thinking about how to advance.  So, my thoughts are to look to the master and see about replicating really great inkers.

Other than that, it's SUMMER TIME!  So, go out and enjoy the great outdoors.  I look forward to BBQ's with friends and family.

Take Care

Keep shining