So yeah, sorry for the blog silence. Having a baby kind of side tracked a lot of things, but I've been working hard in the background and in tomorrow's 2000AD prog 1890 you can find the return of AQUILA in "CARNIFEX", written by Gordon Rennie, drawn by me, coloured by Dylan Teague and lettered by Annie Parkhouse!!!!
There's a preview of all the stories in the prog from a wealth of talented fellow droids on the CBR site HERE.
Here's the lovely cover digitally painted by Karl Richardson (with a making of it on 2000AD UNCOVERED here!). Always fantastic to see another artist's take on a character you've co-created, and he did us proud!
And speaking of a "making of", I've not done one for a while, so here's how the first not one, but TWO pages of the first episode were put together, starting with a brilliant script from Gordon Rennie....
After scratching my head a lot, not because of a rash or anything, but because I have to get back into Roman research mode, I created these loose pencilled pages. I was pretty happy with the layout of the first page with a nice dramatic opening for our hero. It's just a shame that the ferocious man-goat kills Aquila on the third page, making it the shortest series ever.... ;)
Inks....
Next up, we have Dylan Teague's gorgeous colouring. Particularly happy with the sense of depth on the splash page.
And then finally it goes to the marvelous, and recent True Believer Comic Award winning Annie Parkhouse, to letter!
Right, now I just need to finish the last few episodes....
BYYYYYEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
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