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Lil’ Musa and The Valley of Shadows

by d.Forrest on 10/04/2016 at 09:51

I’m doing something different this year for #inktober. Like last year I’m doing a continuous story, but this year I’m concentrating on having a print product when I’m done. “Lil’ Musa and the Valley of Shadows” is the working title of this short comic. I’ll be doing the first 10 pages of it (black and white) for #inktober. The full story, will be a 20-24 page, gray-tone, print product funded by a Kickstarter campaign (knock on wood).

So 10 pages across 31 days means I’ve got to draw a third of a page daily. Thus my Patreon updates (this side of the pay-wall) will be every 3 days when a full page of inks is available. While my Tumblr updates will be daily (multiple individual panels) and include lettering.

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#TBT

by d.Forrest on 03/03/2016 at 00:00

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It’s time for another #TBT post. If you’re a Patreon Patron’s are invited to the voting thread to elect a future #ThenAndNow candidate.

I’ve always been fascinated by Jacob’s wrestling match with The Angel. This spread and the next 2 were some thumbs I did intending to one day convert to an animated short. I still would like to do that.

More of Jacob V. Angel.

The last page of Jacob V. Angel that I concepted, and a headshot of The Angel.

Some smoking dude, and a demon thingy. I was clearly going through a Joe Madureira phase.

I was obviously unhappy with something on the left facing page. But this I’m pretty sure is the full body sketch of the demon thingy on the previous spread. Yeah. Joe Madureira was clearly hanging out in my noggin.

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Next Update: 2016.3.31

by d.Forrest on 02/25/2016 at 15:02

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6 Months is probably long enough for a hiatus. It’s time to get back into something vaguely resembling regular updates. So after thinking about it, mulling it over and deciding how I want to proceed with The Legendary Sisters of the Laughing Doggebi, I’ve come to a decision.

Last December I printed the proto-canon version of the prologue for a local indy comic artist showcase. The impression I got based on the reaction to that book is this: long-form comics aren’t really suited to page-a-post updates. People need more of a chunk to digest. I have no scientific data to back this up… but since analytics suggest most of you binge read it at least feels like a sound conclusion. So going forward I’m not going to kill myself pushing weekly updates, both art and story suffer when I do.

Instead I’m going to release “scenes”.

A scene is basically everything that happens in a single setting, or in the case of a montage a single theme. So I’ll be scheduling updates by looking at the script and determining how long it will take me to finish a scene. I’ll put up a scheduled release for the next scene when I’ve made that evaluation. The next (as the title of this post suggests) is March 31st. That’s a way out, because I’ve got to finalize the script further in advance to facilitate this new system. Call it a buffer if you will.

Anyway I hope releasing in this format will engage more of you in the comments, given you’ll have more story to chew on with each individual post.

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#TBT

by d.Forrest on 02/25/2016 at 14:25

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Here are this week’s #TBT sketchbook spreads. If you’re already one of my Patreon Patron’s be sure to check out the voting thread!

Another character sketch for a player at one of my RPG game tables… Love that scar.

And an armor sketch. I must have gotten bored with it quickly.

David and His Mighty Men. David’s holding Goliath’s “There’s none like it” big ass sword.

Remember Gaius from the first #TBT post? Here’s another study I did of him.

And more western stuff I did for a Kiwi I know who makes movies.

A Rhino…

And some concept art I did for either an RPG or a Boardgame set in an Asian reform school… more in the next scan.

This scan marks a milestone in my attitude toward my sketchbook. It’s when I started “finishing” sketches. I jump around in a sketchbook, so there’s not a linear progression to be seen. Suffice it to say these poster concepts were a big deal in my growth as an artist.

The first is for the space-zombie-fighting-super-soldiers throught out this album.

The second for “IL-JIN” a boardgame/RPG concept I’ve been incubating for years.

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My First Lightsaber

by d.Forrest on 02/18/2016 at 20:55

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Jedi and bad-ass warriors make their own weapons. So I decided to make this…

I don’t think we can call it artisanal, but it was made with care and love. See I love Moleskine, if for no other reason than they lay the flattest on a scanner of any sketchbook I know. But sadly the paper isn’t Copic marker friendly. But Crescent Render paper is amazing with Copic, well any media actually. So I decided I’d hand-craft the bastard love child of the two… behold the coptic stitched Crescent render paper sketchbook. I’ve decided to dedicate this to my new Patreon theme: #TBT to #ThenAndNow.

And here in we find the first #ThenAndNow winner by a landslide vote of one single patron… Cyylwa and Gaius.

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#TBT

by d.Forrest on 02/18/2016 at 20:33

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Ok. Here’s another set of 5 sketchbook spreads for my Patreon Patrons to vote on (remember to vote in the patreon thread!)

Once again, I was drawing my space zombies before Dead Space was a thing. And long before The Expanse, which I recently began reading… that’s good. The fact there are more space-zombies out there means it’s being genre-fied, and I can one day (maybe soon) come back to this story.

A school girl and her mech. Because why not?

So you know those soldiers who fight the space zombies I keep showing you? I wrote a future Halloween Special that set them in the middle ages against non-space zombies.

Some armor concepts and helmet breakdowns for those space-zombie-fighting-super-soldiers.

Blind navigator Raan Jaani and the first sketch of the sword collector.

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#TBT

by d.Forrest on 02/12/2016 at 12:03

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Sorry I’m a day late on #TBT this week. I’ve been under the weather. But here they are for this week. If you’re a Patreon Patron pop over to the patreon post to vote on which spread should be a future #ThenAndNow.

Another concept of my space-zombie-fighting-super-soldiers and Azazel the shepherd of the damned.

Another character design I did for my son’s RPG character and a girl’s face.

Head-turns for my hebrew warrior and the first sketch of Saint Ran

A couple of character sketches for players of an early RPG campaign I ran.

A tech priestess and a sketch for a post-apocalyptic game my friend never finished developing.

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#TBT Sketchbook

by d.Forrest on 02/04/2016 at 08:45

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I’m test driving a new reward for my Patreon patrons. They’re going to get a chance weekly to vote on which #TBT sketchbook entry I should do a #ThenAndNow of. Here are this week’s candidates…

(Voting is limited to Patreon Patrons and done in the Patreon Post Comments)

An early sketch of SolHwa and a bunch of hand practice over-top of something I ws aparantly unhappy with.

Some soldiers I designed to fight those space-zombies I was playing around with. I still plan to do this story, but since Dead Space came out shortly after I began concepting, I wanted to wait until enough space-zombie universes came out to classify it as a genre.

Tactical armor concepts for those same space-zombie-fighting soldiers, and a little world-building fluff apparantly.

Early sketches of the tactical-armor-wearing-space-zombie-fighting Tyrell Vincennes and some cowboys.

I learned to run Dark Heresy running my son (10 years old at the time). Left is one of his characters. Right, more tactical armor designs for fighting space-zombies.

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