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Walkin’ down the street

Brock Beauchamp
January 17, 2012

One of the most irritating part of my mornings are coming up with blog titles for the day. It shouldn’t be that frustrating; they don’t matter. But I sit and stare at the empty field for five minutes anyway. I’m somewhat happy with this page. I like my new coloring style and think it will work nicely once I refine it a bit. On the other hand, much of the anatomy on this page is a mess. Overall, the page is a wash. I really don’t have much to say about it this morning other than “check back on Thursday”... View Article

Introduction to Nora

Brock Beauchamp
January 16, 2012

When I first started writing the 2002 arc, I decided early on that I needed a lighter character to compensate for Karter’s rather dark personality. Over the course of a few days, that character became the young girl Nora, a girl from an immigrant family in the Exarcheia area. She will appear a few times throughout the 40 or so pages of this arc and plays a key role in the end game of the 2002 story. I’m much happier with this page than the last, which is a little surprising. It has too many anatomy errors and by the... View Article

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