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I just found this on my computer: this was a panel that was going to be in issue #3 but never got used. December Sun, returning from his epic loss to Bullbeast, loses his direction and hits a tree. I think I cut it because, at that point, I felt the character had had enough abuse, so I never bothered using this particular panel.
What’s odd is that this was at a time when I was really experimenting with the medium, and this panel was inked on a piece of scrap paper that I was going to scan in and use for the issue. I’ve since learned that (duh!) medium IS important and that all I use now is illustration board.
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Here are some images that I cut from issue #4 of December Sun. I’ll try to post a bunch of these over the week, if for no other reason than the fact that they are just taking up space on my hard drive.
Two panels today were some experimentation that I did on newsprint. I used a LOT of newsprint paper in college, as its an excellent medium for charcoal and conte chalk. In terms of sequential comic pages, though, I wasn’t crazy about it. Here are some panels from a page I started and quickly lost interest in.
A couple sketches and ideas I rejected. Another couple cut images, then issue #4….
Another deleted panel. Deleted this because it’s just plain awful artwork, and it’s likely why I’m not a pro, and why I still work full-time in tech. At least it never made it past the pencils stage.
Years ago I had an art teacher who taught me that, if you’re working on a painting and you start to get discouraged or dislike what you’re doing, you should just destroy it and move on. He emphasized this point with a painting I was working on. I told him I was getting tired and disinterested in the particular painting. He asked if I was sure, I said yeah, and he then took a pair of scissors and stabbed/destroyed the canvas before my very eyes. It was a pretty strong lessons, but it got the point across not to linger on art that you’ve lost interest in. And while I think there’s something to this, another art teacher of mine said that if you give up on a painting or work of art, just toss it to the back of your closet, and then revisit it later down the road and maybe you’ll have a new interest, or know what to do.
Currently, if I hate an image I just delete it, but I find that I do tend to to save a lot of stuff on the C drive, and lately I’ve just been dumping a lot of old stuff on my miscellaney blog.
Another deleted panel, for obvious reasons: in this panel, December Sun goes crazy! Actually, there were some panels I was drawing in which December Sun manages to briefly overpower the Appalachian Shadow, but I opted to drop these. And this panel just freaks me out.
I cut this from issue #3. It’s December Sun, following his fight, flying home and hitting a tree. Seemed a little bit overkill.
One more deleted page from issue #2. Bullbeast gets knocked back by a blast of energy. It didn’t fit so I cut it.
Happy Memorial day!
Here’s a deleted concept, one that I ditched in the early stages. Bullbeast is a toxic monster, and here I had him breathing in some nasty chemical to give him a “power-up”. I think this panel could be read the wrong way, so I nixed it. It never made it out of the sketchbook, but all the same, I thought it might be interesting to include here as part of the creation process.
This is another panel I decided I wanted to cut. The idea is that John lunges with a punch, Bull intercepts it, and then John blasts and damages Bull’s hand. It seemed just a little to cocky, and a tad morbid, so I removed it from the final version of the comic.
BTW – if a panel is deleted, it can be assumed to be NON-CANONICAL content. Meaning, this panel never happened, even in deleted form. I know that some deleted scenes in films COULD still fit into the film’s continuity, but not so with the December Sun deleted material. There’s no cannonicity to this stuff.
This was an opening page for DS#2 that I actually put a lot of time into (the buildings in panel #1 were drawn by hand too, and not just lazy Photoshop manipulations like I do now, so that should tell you something.) The idea here was to bridge issue #1 and #2 with some dialog to sort of connect the two separate issues, and also build the city-specific setting, but after awhile I decided to just nix this page and go right to the face-off introduction page as it appears now. The top panel took me forever to draw, and I really hate drawing buildings. I know, the dislike of drawing buildings is a bad attitude for a comic book artist…
Another thing I was uncertain about is that, in panel #1, there’s the slope of a mountain to the left of the panel. I wanted the suggestion of mountains flanking a medium-large city, but I don’t think I went far enough.
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