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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

Return to 1992

Brock Beauchamp
December 14, 2011

Before I had finished too many pages of the 2002 arc and completely changed both my drawing and coloring style, I wanted to return to the 1992 arc for a page or two so that the disconnect between pages nine and ten of the second issue didn’t become worse than it was already going to be. So here is the first preview of the 1992 arc since I posted page nine over three months ago. As you can see, my use of black is going to alter how the rest of the book reads a lot. In previous pages, I... View Article

Agent Orange

Brock Beauchamp
December 13, 2011

Yeah… there’s a lot of orange on this page. I wanted to brighten it a bit to make the action standout but by the time I was finished, yikes. Still, I’m happy with the page and it was fun to draw something outside of people talking or an enormous background. The page even has a punching sound effect, whoo! I’m already pencilling the next page so expect to see that preview tomorrow or Thursday. I’m gonna keep it short and sweet so that’s it for this morning. As always, click through the image below to jump to the entire issue... View Article

And… Action! Again!

Brock Beauchamp
December 12, 2011

One of the great things about this story (and the reason I started it in place of the 1992 story) is that it’s full of action. Shooting, jumping, punching, blah blah blah, there’s a bunch of it. Every few pages, something else is happening to Karter that forces him to physically react to the situation. Considering how little action I’ve been able to draw in Variables (almost none since the first page of 1992), it’s cool to get to draw something so comic-booky. Speaking of the 1992 arc, I will probably return to drawing it this week and will post... View Article

Jumping on rooftops

Brock Beauchamp
December 5, 2011

Here is the completed page. Once it has been colored, I think it flows better with the text placed in it. I ended up re-writing this page (and the following four pages) as I’m still not entirely happy with the script for the 2002 arc. I think it continues to improve, though. One thing I’m really happy with is my coloring. It continues to improve page-by-page and recently, I’ve started adding more highlights to objects in the background, which helps eliminate the flat feeling some of my older pages had in them. I still have a long way to go... View Article