I'm at work on a graphic novel (which I hope to debut here at some point). My first revelation? Writing is hard. Really, really hard. But I remain determined - hopeful that eventually the zillions of bad ideas I have will distill themselves into the good ideas I'll need to make my story work. Writing resembles illustrating in that, much like making art, when you attempt to fill up a blank page, there are infinite possibilities. For success and for failure.
It's maddening, but when it works, it's magic.
So along with writing, I'm working to create a visual style. This is a promo piece, hand-drawn and painted in Photoshop, which will go out to publishers. I feel like it has something of the look I'm going for. Maybe not totally there yet, but getting there.
3 comments:
I know what you mean about writing, for sure.
And this is a FANTASTIC visual piece--very dynamic and beautiful to look at. I could totally imagine a whole graphic novel in this style.
Gorgeous work!
Good luck with the graphic novel. Yeah, writing is hard. I love this piece. I saw it on Illustration Friday and had to check it out closer. Great work.
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