Starting the final pencils of #ravencomic, the 48 pages are printed and panels have been lined. I probably won't start at page 1 but jump back and forth, drawing whatever I feel at the moment. Forests, horses, people, raven, toad, ... lots to choose from.
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Toad with wings bursting out of his back
Toad flying away
Raven's unconcious (dead?) head on the ground, someone singing a made-up folk tune in Finnish.
The corner of the last page saying Jatkuu / To be continued!
The speedpainting of my #ravencomic is now ready, time to move on to creating character reference sheets and final pencils. So glad things are movimng on! Here's a couple of panels from pages 44-48.
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a comics panel with the toad character standing over the raven character's corpse.
A comics spread with several panels. Toad-character picks up Raven's wings and (ew) eats them.
Two weeks since I last worked on my #ravencomic. I think I had a goal of finishing this speed painting phase by March, but by April is ok as well. These are pages 42-43, so only five more left!
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A comics panel where Toad smashes Raven to the ground.
Three comics panels. In the first something sharp is being pulled out of Raven's chest. In the second one Toad looks at something that looks like a giant, barbed nail. In the third one, Toad turns the giant nail towards their own chest.
continuing the #ravencomic by speedpainting two spreads. Here's a couple panels I'm (not so) secretly pleased about. I think I'm also closing in on the style I want the comic to be.
Only three more spreads + one single page left!
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a sketch of a comics page, there's a fight going on and Toad is jumping to Raven's throat
a sketch of a comics page, Raven hits Toad on the head, making a whump-sound
#ravencomic update, pages 34-35 quickpainted. Thirteen pages left, I should get through those in three-ish weeks. So, it's a goal to start the final pencils in March!
Here's some messy panels from today's pages. Fight fight fight!
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a comics page with six panels. Raven sits in a tree, hears a thumping sound. Toad launches his tongue, stealing something from Raven's hand. Toad examines the object, Raven screams in anger.
Two more pages of #ravencomic quickpainted. I'm now on page 33 out of 48, and Raven finally meets Toad.
A quick recap: they're both spirits of dead people, implanted by accident or sorcery to the bodies of two animals. No, this is not a romance story. Toad is out to kill Raven.
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A sketch of a comics page with lots of unclear details. There is an oval panel in the middle, where a ravenlike figure sits on a tree branch, looking at a city in the horizon.
Lots of messy details but we're on page 31, Raven has climbed up a tree and is now looking at a city far away. And there's something important hidden inside the tree...!
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A sketch of a comics page with two panels. A ravenlike figure trying to fly but fails and propels down to the ground.
a sketch of a comics page. A ravenlike figure caws in anger, and then realises something.
Hooray! I finally managed to open the Raven-comic's project folder and continue it for one spread. Quickpainted pages 28-29, they seem fine to me. To remind, this round is a checkup on compositions and contrasts etc., next up corrections and then final pencils.
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a comics print of a raven-like character, holding something shiny in their hands. A skull is flying by their head.
a piece of my latest thingy, a handout advertising my upcoming comic, 'Raven 1: Betrayal'! You can fetch this 2-page handout for free (limited amount) at #oulucomicsfestival 15th Nov, I'll be tableing with my friend @aelmgren.bsky.social
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Continuing the inks of Raven & Toad -trailer. I still don't know if that'll be the final name or not.
Here's the stream of souls, swooshing into the hands(?) of Spider Mother, who rips them all apart.
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inkdrawing of four charcters and a cat. The leftmost charcter is moulding something, the next character holds a book and something is flowing out from his mouth and flowing over the book, and the third character has spiderlike legs and rips something apart. The fourth character stands behind them in guard. And there's a giant cat lurking about.
Ink my love. Improvising a lot of this, might regret some choices later on but hey, that's what the white ink / Poscas are for and so on.
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a pencildrawing of a ravenlike figure holding some shiny object. A skull floats next to the raven's head.
Yay, managed to draw something tonight! Pencils for my Raven comic's little handout, can't wait for the inking part! 😍 But I need to edit & print these to a proper paper first, oh how I miss my scanner/printer now...
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A folder and papers with sketches of comics pages on them
Second draft, now in size A4. There's going to be a lot of introductional text (that I still need to write) and I want the drawings to have enough details & pull to make the whole thing still interesting to watch. Fingers crossed!
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