Brock Beauchamp

Unsuccessfully tasing the electrical boy

Brock Beauchamp
May 27, 2011

This page makes me chuckle. We’re finally getting to the scene that inspired the cover of the book and the mysterious men are obviously trying to capture Blake, though their method of neutralization leaves something to be desired. Tasing a kid who survived two lightning strikes isn’t what I would call a strategy for success. Now that I’ve been forcing myself to add more background detail, I’ve been a lot happier with each of the ensuing pages. I’m getting faster at drawing and that allows me more time to add detail to still finish a page by the end of... View Article

SpringCon 2011

Brock Beauchamp
May 25, 2011

Over the weekend, Rachel and I popped into SpringCon for a few minutes to see what is the Twins Cities’ largest (non-indie, since I haven’t seen MIX yet) comic convention. I brought along a few promo cards and thought I’d see who was attending and just introduce myself. I was surprised by just how few webcomickers were in attendance. None of the “major” or even “mid-major” comics were there and the only person I immediately recognized was Fes from the Webcomics Beacon, a podcast I follow on a regular basis. Instead, I saw row after row of small press print... View Article

Introducing the faceless men

Brock Beauchamp
May 23, 2011

I’m really happy with this page and think it’s probably the best page I’ve done so far in the issue. As I’m hitting the home stretch of the first issue, I’m starting to lock down the stylistic differences I will introduce in the second issue. One of them is more advanced lettering styles that I’m starting to dabble with on this page. Up to this point, I’ve barely been cracking the surface of Illustrator’s power and now that I’m getting a little faster at drawing and coloring, it’s time to feed that time back into other avenues of comic creation.... View Article

Don’t tase me, bro

Brock Beauchamp
May 20, 2011

After all these weeks, we’re finally approaching the cover scene of the first issue. Blake is back home at this point and the bad guys found out about his accident in Canada and want to take a closer look at the boy. This arc carries through until the end of the issue and you get a better idea of what parties will become involved in this situation before everything (up to this point) is explained in the second issue. I’ve been taking longer to draw each page and while that’s preventing me from getting ANY kind of page buffer in... View Article

Issue 2, elbow pain, & my first con

Brock Beauchamp
May 18, 2011

For the first time in three months, I dusted off my outline for Variables 1992 and took a look at what is going to happen in the second issue. Though it’s still three months off, Rachel and I will have a lot of scripting, editing, and plot revisions to go (fight) through. I have a general idea of what will happen page-to-page, though much of that could change now that I’m over halfway through the first issue. More on the second issue as it comes together. As I’ve said earlier, the first few pages of Variables are establishing pages. With... View Article

Candice & Isabel, listening to the story

Brock Beauchamp
May 16, 2011

Another Monday, another page! In this page, you’ll see that Candice and Isabel are getting a little of the backstory of the break-in, as told by Mrs. Dumont. In this house, we have another case of the burglar walking around barefoot and leaving prints, this time in the kitchen. On top of that, something strange was done with the silverware… After this page, we switch back to Blake, where the Variables story really kicks into gear. It’s been fun drawing the detectives for these past few pages but it’s time to get the series going full-steam ahead and the Blake... View Article