Brock Beauchamp

Laughing at the cops

Brock Beauchamp
January 11, 2012

This page’s coloring and lettering went much faster (and better) than I expected. Initially, I really disliked this page. Now, I kind of like the first panel. I think I did an okay job on the buildings and they came out pretty realistic-looking. Overall, I’m happy the page is done and I’m (mostly) not ashamed of it. This week, I’m getting back on schedule. Expect to see the next page preview on Friday or Monday (probably Monday) and then the full page on Tuesday. After that, I may slip in an extra page to try to catch up on a... View Article

Scene change

Brock Beauchamp
December 27, 2011

Strangely enough, the hardest part of this page was to find pictures of the uniforms of the Hellenic Police. I searched for nearly an hour before coming up with one image to show the upper half of their uniforms. After spending another half an hour looking for a photo displaying the lower half, I gave up and winged it. Sometimes, a guy can get stuck on the stupidest things that slow down production. Originally, this was going to be a two page week but with the holidays and family visiting, I doubt that’s going to be the case. Hopefully I... View Article

Cops!

Brock Beauchamp
December 22, 2011

I’ve been trying to see how much content I could produce for Variables on a weekly basis and after trying to draw, color, and publish two pages a week and failing at it for about a month, I’ve settled on a three pages every two weeks schedule for the time being. One week (like, say, this one), I’ll publish a finished page on Tuesday and a preview on Thursday. The following week, I will publish a page on both Tuesday and Thursday. That schedule seems to be my limit for production now that each page is taking me close to... View Article

Karter looking tough.

Brock Beauchamp
December 20, 2011

Here is the colored and lettered version of page six. I’m pretty meh about this page but considering the lack of action drawing I’ve done over the past year, the practice was sorely needed. Getting the poses correct was almost impossible and I had to give up at a certain point to prevent the page from taking 25 hours to finish. Next up is another 2002 page. Keep an eye out for the preview tomorrow or Thursday. I’m not very wordy this morning so that’s all I gots. Click through the image to jump to the first issue of Variables... View Article

Pow! Bang! Ker-thunk!

Brock Beauchamp
December 19, 2011

One of the reasons I wanted to start this story was that it finally allowed me to consistently draw action scenes. Variables will never be like a typical Spider-Man or Superman book with the amount of action it contains per issue but the first 30 pages of the 1992 arc were almost completely devoid of it, which kinda gets boring to draw after awhile. Plus, while intrigue is fun to read, it should be broken up now and again with action sequences. It’s one of the reasons I decided to re-write the second half of the 1992 storyline. Anyway, before... View Article

Return to 1992, colored

Brock Beauchamp
December 15, 2011

Here’s the finished page ten of 1992 #2! It’s kind of comical to flip back one page and see how much my coloring and drawing style has changed in a mere three months. I’m pretty happy with how the page turned out and while my next page is going to be a return to the 2002 story arc, expect to see another 1992 page posted within two or three weeks. I will bounce back and forth like this until I finish the first issue of the 2002 arc, at which point I will finish this issue and then, I’ll return... View Article