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Will I ever finish this page?!
there are just too many detals LOL.😂 Eve of Destruction.
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Inking over lightbox
I don’t do it that way anymore, LOL. Comic: Eve of Destruction.
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Me painting page 14 of EOD
Eve of Destruction comic.
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Noir Zagreb photos
Did this with my old DSLR camera. I set the mode on manual, and tried to get the exposition, aperture, iso settings right.
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Progressing on page 15
Page 15, EOD. Had to intervene with gouache both for the firmament and the tarmac. Wasted a lot of time, even though the value sketch accurately captured the tonal scale. Oh well. I started painting p. 15 by going in lightly at first, gradually adding darker values later. The value sketch serves as a guide,…
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Value sketch on p. 15
Thumbnail value sketch of p. 15 EOD with markers on a scaled down printout. I sometimes do that, when, confronted with mere clear-line inks, I have trouble in balancing shades and highlights.
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Christmas greetings and a Happy New Year 2025
The image here used is a piece I did for one of the previous Christmas seasons. It is supposed to depict St. Nicholas of Myra, the real “Santa Claus,” who was a 4th-century bishop renowned for his generosity, miracles, and deep compassion for the poor and vulnerable. Known for secret gift-giving, such as placing coins…
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A Sikorsky H-5 Christmas!
This piece captures the unexperienced nostalgia of 1950s magazine ads—images I might have stumbled upon as a kid in old, moldy books and magazines, but that I now actively seek out online, and in library archives. Here are some of the process stages:
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Page 13
More-less finished page 13, EOD. Well into the next page, but sometimes return to fix something on the previous one. I feel like I’m only now coming into my own with this type of comic art. There’s room to improve, yes, but I generally like the direction this thing is going. Unfortunatelly, some of the…
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What is it about the airports?
I was on my way to see Erik, with whom I’m doing Eve for a Weekend at Erlangen Comic Festival, Germany. The airport boredom took hold, so I sketched stuff around me to pass the time.
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