NOTE: This was sitting in my draft blog folder, since uhm 2020ish, so you’re getting it now because it’s got art in it.
Well, there’s been enough time, so here’s a few bits of art, for fun!
It’s been great fun drawing Chimpsky and seeing how much people have enjoyed a nice fun Dredd story.
Before I start every script, I sit and read it, then I fire up clip studio, create a new document with a couple of extra pages at the end (so a 6 page story gets about 8 pages of documents) and in those extra I do character design or layouts. So here’s all the layouts along with a shrunk version of the art so you can see where I diverged. Generally I stick pretty close to the layouts, but sometimes I totally change it – sometimes there’s something else needed, ep 1 page 6 of Chimpsky was like that, I had Dredd facing the reader but it felt like not enough. If I saw Dredd’s face, I wanted to see more of Dredd. So I flipped him. Seeing his back, meant we know it’s Dredd (who else would it be?) but he sits on that page like a ominous for-shadowing of what’s to come.
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