Month: May 2012

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Welcome To London Chapter 1 Page 12

Want to see the one of the first attempts at a Shiver Bureau comic from 4, yes 4, years ago?  Back then it was called ‘Pickle and Todd’ and things looked way different.  Click the vote button below to check it out.  I’ve got the first 2 pages up and will be posting the remaining 6 in the following weeks.  These are unlettered, though if there is some demand I will provide the words.

Anyone going to see Snow White and the Huntsman this weekend?  Usually I am pretty wary of Ms. Stewart and her school of stammer, but I’ve been in the mood for some swords, sorcery and monsters.  Since The Hobbit is 6 months away, I think I may be heading to the theaters this weekend.

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Shiver Art – Birth of Pickle

These pages are some of my very first sequential pages I ever drew.  I had just recently discovered Mignola and Hellboy.  Not only that, these pages birthed Pickle.

I thought these would be fun to share.  Pickle and myself have really come a long way.  He’s been with me since the start and I am glad I get to launch Shiver Bureau with him…even if he is a little punk.

The first appearance of Pickle.  What happened to his green hair.  Who knows, but he has a green tie.

Hey look.  Page 2 and I am already redesigning characters and changing styles completely.  These pages were only a few days apart.  And there’s Pickle’s green hair.

What this?  Another style change?  Pickle is looking pretty sweet I got to say.

Hey, only a slight style change here.  Below are some cover ideas.  Did I say I had recently discovered Hellboy?

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Welcome To London Chapter 1 Page 11

Spoiler Alert – New character introduced and her name’s Trish. About time we got some XX up in here. XX chromosomes that is.

Give us a vote and get a sneak peak at next weeks page.

Anybody watch Game of Thrones?  Joffrey needs to die a painful death, am I right?

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Shiver Art – Concept Sketches

Below are some concept sketches for Pickle and also a test page trying out a really quick and rough style.  I was also playing around with the idea of a simple color technique.  I really do like that 2nd panel of the hallway.  It’s always the simple stuff that is cool.

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Welcome To London Chapter 1 Page 10

Give us a vote and see the page progression of this page (Digi roughs, digi pencils, trad inks/wash)

In case you thought I couldn’t take the ghost rodeo any further.  I think Pickle got about 8 seconds.

Did you know DeviantArt lets you change your username now?  Pretty freaking sweet.  You can find me at http://ostlie.deviantart.com/

SlideStudios is dead!  Long live Ostlie!

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Welcome To London Chapter 1 Page 9

KA-BLOOOOEEEY!

Give us a vote and in return I shall give a digital splatter and halftone tutorial.

Who saw Avengers?  Pretty awesome, right?  I love the flavor that Whedon brings to his projects.

Speaking of movies, I recorded my coloring and lettering process for page 13 and 14.  So once I post those pages, I’ll toss those videos up.  Once I can figure how record my traditional process, I will start recording those.

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Bandes Dessinées

New month of voting at TWC. 2 clicks and you can send a vote my way and give me a little bump.

I’ve recently birthed an obsession for French comics.  This is actually kind of a problem for me because I can’t speak or read French.  So I have 4 French graphic novels that I can’t read and several others that I’ve barely restrained from buying.  The 4 I have I got from Amazon.fr, so I had to use all my experience of Amazom.com purchases to decipher what I was doing.

If you want to share my addicition then turn your browser to http://soleilprod.com/ and be prepared to choke on all the inspirational storytelling.

I’ve actually started trying to learn French so I can try to decipher some of this awesomeness.

So here’s a few of my favorite artists I’ve stumbled upon so far.

Joseph Lacroix is actually working on an American comic via DC comics.  It’s a comic adaption of Diablo.  The writing is a little word heavy, but the art is amazing.  He has a bit of Mignola flare to him.  His French comic is called Pythons and those are the ones I really want.

Patrick Boutin-Gagné Oh man, this guy, just makes me sick.  His panels glide from one to the next.  It’s like a roller coaster for your eyeballs.  He has two books, both of which I want really bad.  Brogunn and La Bete Du Lac.

Pierre Alary was the man that made me buy my first French books.  There is something kind of like early Disney in his art, not only the charm but amazing, spot on storytelling.