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Sabertooth Swordsman pages and a few other odds and ends for sale over at Felix Comic Art, go check it out or pass it along if you know someone who might be interested. Love ya!http://www.felixcomicart.com/ArtistGalleryTitles.asp?ArtistId=573&Ti=Aaron_Conley
Well everybody Damon Gentry and I created a little comic called the Sabertooth Swordsman that is finally being released tomorrow! It's been a long time coming and the 16 year old in me still can't even believe I have a comic coming out, let alone that I actually drew the whole thing! Please go to your local comic shop and pick up a copy and if they don't have one make them order you one!!!
I got to color these pages for Dark Horse Presents #28 featuring the amazing art of Aaron Conley! Aaron and Damon Gentry have a fun and totally gorgeous graphic novel out from DH next month called Sabertooth Swordsman which you should totally pick up. Its KILLER.
a thingy i can share in between stuff i cant!! colors by me, art by the amazing aaron!!! aaa!!!!!!!
I can't say enough great things about the colors Sloane did on these pages!
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Hey everybody The Sabertooth Swordsman HC comes out Nov.13th so I'm putting up the first 11 pages of 105. Go buy it and tell a friend to as well!
This a process post of how pretty much the whole of Sabertooth Swordsman was done...
Step 1: I basically laid out the whole 105 page book like this on half of an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of copy paper and pasted it in a little sketchbook that served as bible for the whole book, also because Dark Horse wanted to see the whole book laid out.
Step 2: I would then basically redraw the panels from the example 1 separately on copy paper, just trying to get really loose and make some shapes I enjoy. Then I scan the pages and assemble them in photoshop on this border grid thing I made. I'll do some adjusting if I think a hand or head is two big at this stage in.
Step 3: I then lighten the brightness/contrast and adjust it to light blue and print it out on an 11 x 17 piece of copy paper.
Step 4: I do my final tight pencils on top of the blue line from example 3! I'll rescan this, do some adjusting to sizes once again and blue line the artwork just like example 3.
Step 5: I then print example 4 out in blue line on the nice paper DH sends me and ink right on top of that which you can see here.
This page stayed pretty much the same from beginning to end. Some pages I would completely change the over all layout from example1 if I was trying to amp up a certain panel or realized I needed more/less to tell the story. Sometimes I would redraw a panel before I went to inks as well or even re-ink a panel and slap it in later in photoshop. Damon hated when I did this and refused to let me do it a few times, he said the first one was fine haha. I'll just cry a little when the book comes out.
I know a lot of comic makers would probably just go from example 3 to 5, but I think insecurity and experimenting a little bit makes me feel more comfortable doing those tight pencils before inking.
Hope you enjoyed!
So I have been getting a few requests from people interested in pages to see them pre-grayscale. I thought I would throw a few up here for the tumblr folk. I am selling pages from Sabertooth, if interested please e-mail me aaronconley77@gmail.com.
Another little art process. first we have the final pencils. then inks. I'm so glad I made Sabertooth's left arm a little longer and changed his hand to a fist, that whole forearm is looking pretty whack in the original pencils. I didn't like the line work on the Grasshopper god in the first inks either so I re-inked him and had Damon gracefully add him in photoshop later. I think I was reading the amazing Corey Lewis comic Sharknife which inspired me to give Sabertooth such an extreme perspective on this page. If you want to see the awesome grayscale Damon did you gotta go buy the book!
This was a blast to draw and color. Check out Sabertooth Swordsman if you haven’t yet!
I love characters with hulking bodies and teeeeeeny feets.
More Sabertooth fan art, this stuff makes me giddy!
Damon Gentry and I join Nick Marino on his podcast to talk about the making of Sabertooth. To top it off we were joined by our editor Brendan H. Wright who's sexy man voice just made for an over all pleasing experience! Also if you listen to the podcast you can find out a way to win free digital comics and a sketch by me!
Another sneak peak from the Sabertooth short for DHP. Colors bySloane Leong. What the heck is happening??!!
The amazingly talented Sloane Leong sent us over the first colored page for the DHP Sabertooth short last night and I just had to share a preview of it!
Here is the cover from original sketch to final. I wasn't digging Jolene as a full body shot so at the last minute I redrew her head separate and added it in on Photoshop.
We had the hardest time coloring the cover For Sabertooth Swordman! Matt Allison gave it a try with the first one here and I colored the other 3. Our editor Brendan was really worried we were not capturing the theme of the book with these colors and looking back I agree. Then Dave Stewart stepped in and handed us our asses. I still like number 2 a lot and think with a little more detail work it would have looked great just as a piece of art.
So the Sabertooth Swordsman actually first appearance will see print first in color in DARK HORSE PRESENTS #28 in september, strange that I actually drew this after the hardcover haha! but here is the previews thing for that...http://www.previewsworld.com/Home/1/1/71/914?stockItemID=JUL130068
