Martians Go Home--Inks Done

I have finally finished up the inks on the first issue of Martians Go Home and I am now quickly moving into coloring and lettering and next month I'll be knee deep into penciling issue 2.

More Martians

Here are a few more pages of inks on the Martians Go Home project.

Martians Go Home Issue 1 Done!

I finally finished penciling the first issue of MGH last night after I came home from watching District 9, which was the second good movie I saw this week, the first being Inglorious Basterds.Next step will be inking this first issue up and then coloring and lettering it as I am doing the whole thing myself--something that makes me really happy!

Drawing that little Martian is really fun and I feel like I'm getting to know him as a real person the more I draw him.

Martians Go Home

Here is another page from MGH, Luke is really losing it here. I pushed the warpiness of the perspective in the last panel to enhance his drunken rage. A solid knowledge of perspective is a great tool because once you know it you can then break or twist it to lend the effect you want in your work. Artists like Gene Colan used that approach in his work to great effect.

I will be finishing the pencils in the next two day on the first issue and then jumping straight into the inking so I can try and get as much inked before school starts in full swing next week,

More Martians

Two more pages of pencils from the first issue, I will be finishing it up in the next few days....

Martians Go Home

Today I'm posting two more pages from the first issue of martians Go Home, which I will be done penciling this week. I'm really getting to do some fun acting and facial expressions here.

Martian Preview/Interview

Today over on The Comicon.com's Pulse News there is an interview with me on the Martians Go Home comic I'm doing for Sequential Pulp comics

Martians Go Home Pencils

I am working full bore now on my new series for Sequential Comics called martains Go Home, and like I said in a previous post I'll be covering my working process on the book. To start out here are 3 pages and you can see the thumbnail roughs above where I broke the script by Martin Powell down. For me this is the most creative part of comics, not that drawing or inking isn't creative, but figuring out how to show something, or why to show something is the most challenging part of storytelling. I was also thinking a lot about acting, how the characters act and their gestures, or Luke's gestures. He's a bit buzzed from drinking and frustrated writing his story, so i wanted to convey that clearly.
After I had the roughs done I went straight at the board and using a Col-erase 2004 Blue pencil I roughed in the page.



After I rough out each page I go in with a mechanical pencil with a 2B lead and tighten up the drawing. Now since I am inking this I don't need to go crazy-tight with the pencils, I can leave some finish for the inking stage. This is also a humorous book, so I can push poses and gestures which is a lot of fun.

After I use the mechanical pencil I use a regular 2 B lead pencils a put the bolder blacks in.

Martians, Martians Everywhere

Here are a bunch of sketches from my development art for the adaption of Fredericks Brown's book, Martians Go Home which I'm currently drawing for Sequential Pulp Comics.


I'll be posting art from my progress on the book as I go along.

Manley Goes to the Martians

This is the promo art for a post card to promote the new comic series I'm doing for Sequential Pulp Comics, an adaption of Fredric Brown's Classic Sci-Fi book, Martians Go Home. The first issue will be out in late spring or early summer an will be published through Dark Horse. I'll be penciling, inking and coloring the series myself and my best buddy Bret Blevins will be painting the covers. This will be the first comic series I have done in years and I'm looking forward to doing this series because it combines two things I love, Sci-Fi and Humor.