Several coloured sketches for the new concept of my graphic novel. I just wanted something more suitable for computer viewing than normal comics pages, which I can't do properly anyway. I have problems with the composition, I'm never satisfied with it because it doesn't look compact - just pictures scattered on a sheet of paper. And the text is always too small. Plus it takes too much time even in black/white only, while I'd actually like to work in colour (though I always use only a limited palette for a scene).
So I thought I could use horizontally composed storyboard-like frames with speech bubbles in them and more text below and arrange them vertically for easy scrolling. And it's definitely going to be computer-coloured.
Original width - A4.
Drawn with various felt-tip pens, permanent markers and neon highlighters (...apparently it's impossible to scan them).


For a while I considered using the final version of this on the main page of my website.

Loosely based on a real existing place, though originally it was supposed to be the other bank of the river.

Yellow Machines: the painting in the background in its full glory is here.


Eh. Suddenly it looks somehow disproportional... And once more ruined by neon markers and also the translucent paper I used for corrections (which didn't fool the scanner).


Zum Schluss ein Kuss (but not for everyone). The pink marker didn't make it through scanning (again), so I recoloured it a little in Photoshop.

The girl was done in a few minutes, but the guy took ages. And he still doesn't look quite right.

A model. It was really difficult to find the right colour palette for this picture.

I saw this in a dream. By the way, I think I finally got hold of drawing a night skyline.


The reflections are totally wrong, I know. It's kind of a revised version of this. The white dress was too revealing, so I changed the design to match the character's personality better. I'm still not sure about it. And the hairstyle.

Saturday Night Fever. I saw a certain video on YouTube and then drew what I remembered of it. Sans green, yay!


I was just listening to metal, working on something entirely different... and suddenly I started drawing the singer and then added the other musicians and audience and it was done. On paper it has a really lovely shade of poisonous green.

Mad scientism. Totally ruined by the green highlighter.

I think I finally found out how to reconstruct the green highlighter. This is exactly the right shade.

It looks like he's holding a doll. And I'm a masochist, I just can't stop using the green highlighter.


The pose somehow reminds of heroic realism of the Soviet type - as if he's showing her the first tractor or something. The faces are completely off. He looks too effeminate and she is too butch, but maybe it's just the make-up (I've also redesigned the white dress again). And of course the green problem.

An idea for a short story with different characters. Somehow inspired by Christmas 2007 Schoener Wohnen Extra.


This frame is a part of an actual scene (from the short story mentioned above), but I don't think I want to display the following pictures here.


I really like the atmosphere of this one; it's exactly what I had on my mind. It's supposed to be a cemetery, but not a Christian one.


Inspiration from China Mieville's The City & The City.


Lookie lookie look.


Faux poolside glamour. The water is actually pretty cold.


The colours look really pretty on paper... I suppose it's not a good idea to scan coloured pencils and neon markers together.


Eight.


Some newly designed characters.


Another attempt at drawing reflections.


Underwater.


And out of water.


An abandoned archaeological dig, I think.
 


In the temple. Occassionally I think about drawing something in a more exotic and romantic and gothic style, but on the other hand I don't want to do classical fantasy illustrations. I don't like horses and primitive technology in general.
But I think the statue could make an appearance even in a modern setting. Perhaps in a museum or something.