Eve of Destruction, page 17. Well, I’m not gonna do this again. I will post below the inks page where you won’t see the wide-angled landscape in the big panel. I decided to do it afterwards directly in color. Well, I laid out the sketch with watercolor pencils hoping these would later disolve. I had to resort to gouaches in the end, because I really didn’t know what I wanted to do. You may see both the inks and the early color WIP below:

From now on, I will put it in drawing wherever I can, even if it means extra work on foliage, branches and stuff. Well, probably won’t ink clouds and stuff, but all the other tangible stuff I probably will. As I write this, I’m doing page 18 in which I’d like to think I’ve laid out the more detailed inks. I’m also viewing one of Moebius’ Arzach albums as I’m going for more clear line + flats feel, which is crazy, since I went from Juan Gimenez to French BD ligne claire. To be honest, I always loved Juan Gimenez, but I’m not sure I really wanted to emulate him. I always thought he’s one of a kind. Still, as the opportunity presented itself for me to directly paint over my linework, I thought, heck, I might give it go.

BTW, speaking of Juan Gimenez, I’m almost certain he used airbrush for his Fourth Power album, although our story being about Vietnam, Apocalypse the Eyes of Doom is where you want to be. However, I prefer the style of the former despite the greater relevance of the latter. And the paintbrush… I don’t know. I’d have to try it sometime to pass judgement. Could be fun. It certainly lends itself well into the worlds the late J. Gimenez was so fond of creating.