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Cat, page three

Brock Beauchamp
January 24, 2011

Here’s the second-to-last page of the Cat short story. One more Monday and then I’m dedicating my full efforts to the main book. These short stories have been great for several things: they’ve helped me get a better idea of how I want to represent the Variables universe, they’ve forced me to brush up on my sequential layouts, and most importantly, they’ve forced me to re-think how much space I allot to dialogue bubbles. Before this point, I was used to hand-lettering pieces, meaning that they were an integral part of every step of the drawing process. I roughed out... View Article

Trucking toward Feb 7…

Brock Beauchamp
January 20, 2011

That’s the date I plan to release the first few pages of the main book. Progress has been slow since I’m also working on the short story pages, which eat into most of my allotted time to work on the book. The Cat story will be wrapped up on January 31st so I’ll have one full week of working on the main book to wrap up any finishing touches I need to complete on the cover and first few pages. Right now, I have the pencils finished for the cover, the first page, and about half of the second page... View Article

Ecaterina, page two

Brock Beauchamp
January 18, 2011

It’s a day late but here is the second page of the Cat story. I’m playing around with different styles for these short stories; the Arnaud story had solid black backgrounds with solid panels while the Cat story is more open and colorful to reflect the more upbeat nature of the story and the carnival atmosphere. Hopefully it works… I was questioning how empty these panels were but it turned out to be barely enough because of the wall of text spoken on this page. I’m still getting used to computer lettering, having hand-lettered most of my old work. That... View Article

Understanding Comics

Brock Beauchamp
January 13, 2011

A week or so ago, I realized that I hadn’t read Understanding Comics in almost 20 years, just shortly after it released. To remedy this disaster and to reacquaint myself with the musings of Scott McCloud, I ordered a copy of the book and a copy of Reinventing Comics, a follow-up book by the same author. I was hoping to spend some time this weekend relaxing and casually pouring over these books but it looks like the USPS is going to thwart this plan by delivering the package on Saturday, the day after I leave. Then again, it’s the USPS.... View Article

New short story – Ecaterina

Brock Beauchamp
January 10, 2011

After wrapping up the Arnaud short story last week, I had two options for the next short story and decided to go with something completely different. It’s more upbeat than the last story and is considerably more graphically intense, particularly the first page. This one will be another four pager so I should have it wrapped up around the end of January, which is also the time I hope to launch the main book. Progress is chugging along on that side of things and this page ate up far more time than I expected this weekend, meaning the core book... View Article

Workin’ all the live-long day

Brock Beauchamp
January 6, 2011

The first issue of the book is proceeding nicely. I’ve finished the first page’s pencils and roughed out the second page. I’ve also started up a new short story so there is a lot of content just waiting for my left hand to get around to drawing it. Sooner or later, I think I’m going to have to find a colorist to speed up the process. It’d be nice to spend 10-12 hours on a full page instead of 20 or more on each of them. Ideas for the first cover are still coming rather slowly… I have the entire... View Article