Cover Update.

Page 15. Getting there, one page at a time.

Page 14: Work in progress. Heh, getting my stride back after a too long break.

Another DA contest entry in progress. Mostly done, just need to make some design changes.

Page 12. I re-did the entire background for these panels using a new trick I learned in "The DC Guide to Digital Comics.".
I used the paths tool to create the image of the building, changed the perspective a bit, and used stroke path to put it in the panel. It's an awesome method when you need to recreate the same background over and over. It really allowed me to put in a lot more detail then I would have time for by hand. Plus I'm saving all of these paths in master library files as I create them, so I can re-use them for other things in the future. That trick alone was worth the price of admission for the book Heh, which I guess was free since I bought it with a gift card my Mom got me on my birthday. Thanks Mom!).

Dead Kittens page 13 in progress.

I've been moving for the last few weeks, so I haven't made much progress on the comic. However, I couldn't pass up doing an entry for a contest with a top prize of 1000 bucks and some Scott Pilgrim swag. It was to design Ramona's 8th evil ex. If I win I'll use profits to fund the comic.

Page 12 WIP

New cover design. Still need to add the title and such, but I think I like it.

Dead Kittens with lettering preview. (This is not final lettering, I just needed to test for space)

Just sketching. Not at all Dead Kittens related.

Page 11

Page 10 pencils.

I decided that since I had four layouts on hand that I would work pencils first before going back and inking. It's nice. I feel like the whole thing is moving more quickly.

The official Dead Kittens "You Could Be Here" contest.




Okay, so I've decided to run an official contest to try and raise awareness for the comic. It's pretty easy. You want to leave your mark? Don't want to fade away into obscurity? Want to see your ugly mug in print?

Well you can accomplish all of this by simply entering the Dead Kittens, "You Could Be Here" contest.

Here are the rules.

1. Join the Dead Kittens Facebook group, here, ----> http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=145986615417802&ref=mf

2. Send me a message through the Dead Kittens group with the title, "DK you could be here contest"

What to you get for all this effort you ask? You get a walk on roll in Dead Kittens issue 1. That's right, every time you open your very own copy of Dead kittens issue one, you can take in the gloriousness of you immortal visage.

So, what are you waiting for? Get to it.

~ Jeromy

P.S. This contest will close on August 17th. A winner will be drawn at random.

6 and 7 with script



PAGE 6

Police cars dot the lawn of the expansive grounds of the Wellington mansion Their lights cast the walls in haunting hues. The first signs of dawn can be seen in the sky.

Inside, detective kite watches on as a CSI team works the crime scene. He looks completely out of place in his button up shirt, jean jacket, and cowboy boots. A pair of Aviator sunglasses hangs from the breast pocket of his jacket. Maxwell, the other detective assigned to the case stands at his side; pristine in a size double XL suit. Maxwell holds a cup of coffee. A pistol and badge are clipped to each man's belt.

Mid shot of Kite as he lights a cigarette from a pack of Nailcoffin brand cigarettes.

CSI

You can't smoke in here.

Kite

He doesn't mind... He's dead.

Maxwell wafts the air as he stairs at Kite who is in the middle of a long exhalation of smoke.

MAXWELL

Thought you smoked those faggy long cigarettes?

KITE

Trying to quit... and if you use that word again I'll shoot you. It's offensive.




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Maxwell motions towards the corpse. Two of the CSI men kneel by the corpse. one holds a camera up in front of him.

MAXWELL

Fine. Maid discovered the body. She's gone a tad wonky.

The second CSI approaches the two men. He's holding a clipboard that he studies as he speaks.

KITE

What do we have?

CSI

Three to the head, two to the chest. Good sized gun by whats left of him. You know who this guy is?

Close on Kite as he ticks off what he knows on his fingers. He points at his ring finger.

KITE

Samuel Wellington? C.E.O. of the Snapp-E-Freeze refrigeration company. Investor in about every major start up in Seattle, including Ahab's...

Kite motions to Maxwell's coffee as he continues. Maxwell stairs at the cup.

KITE

... Probably the most important man to hold a standing res at Canlis.

Kite kneels next to the body. Maxwell and the CSI hover behind him.

KITE

You guys finished here?

CSI

Like Shyamalan's career.

Tight on Kite and Maxwell as Kite dips one finger into the black substance with a grimace. Maxwell is now kneeling next to him.

KITE

You thinking what I am?

MAXWELL

Bit over the top for a professional, isn't it?

KITE

Depends on what was paid for.

Stay tuned for more pages with script excerpts.

Pages eight and nine. Not completely finished, but getting close to having finished pencils. I decided to do the pencils for both pages before moving to inks.

Finished cover inks.

More work done on the cover.

You know you've been ask to accomplish too much in too little time and work when you bleed through your sock. Ouch.

Still working with the cover design. Headed toward a more pop art feel to vibe more with what the colorist (Jakob Darq) will do with it.


On a personal note... If you ever walk into a convenience store and see that it is nice and clean, as well as well stocked, an there is only one employee on, realize that that employee works to keep it that way... a lot. If said employee is standing behind the counter eagerly awaiting your arrival it is not because he/she has nothing better to do. It's because he/she is

A) providing excellent customer service by making sure you do not have to wait when you reach the counter...

B) making sure you don't stuff your pockets full of Skittles and Ho-ho's (before you say, "but I'm wearing a suit and tie!" yeah, they steal too... Butt holes)

So, if you then proceed to spend the next fifteen plus minutes talking on the phone, re-acquainting yourself with an old friend, scratching lottery tickets, or staring at the chip display to decide between crunchy or puffy cheet-os, you are probably a douche hammer.

If there is more then one employee on staff all bets are off.

Cover Sketch.

Gave the dog a hose bath today, now he's standing in front of the fan to dry himself. Good old fashioned summer stuff.

Page seven, pretty much done.

Page 7 in progress. Hate panel one, so I'm redoing it. I also might still need to correct a few other things. Nearly done though.

Another quick practice piece .

Just a few things I did today to work on my use of black and white. Both are from reference. Page 7 is nearly done, and then I have a few corrections on page 6 before I move forward.

Page 7 WIP. I figured I would start posting my work in progress stuff again. This is the beginning stages of page seven.

Page 6, completed. I decided to really push myself towards a more noir style (which had been my intention from the beginning until I realized I was terrified of shadows). I'm going to have to go back when all is said and done to add more shadows to earlier pages, but I think it's worth it.

Page the fifth. This one took, longer because I had to spend a lot of time this week working on my Jeep, which got broken into a while back.

Sketch I'm trying to find time to work on for a friend. In progress, obviously.

Page 4- Layouts by Howard Simpson.

Haven't posted in a while. I have a new layout artist. His name is Howard Simpson and you can check out his web page here, http://abbadabba.com/. That being the case I've started over on sequential pages. I'm posting the page 2 and three works in progress today.

Page six.

5 finished

Page 5..

Page 4

Page 3, potentially done if I don't get any feedback that requires attention.

Page 1 & 2

Progress

Page 2 progress. This is going a bit slow, but I'm happy with the results.

Progress on page 2. I wanted to finish 2 before inking 1 so that I could get at least 1 page of actual sequentials done. I felt like it was crossing a hurdle.

Cover- colored by Jason Boyd > http://sagehazzard.deviantart.com/

Page 1

Inked Cover.