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<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\t\tI drew 3 original stories in ’93.
Story number 2 was a Gothic Vampire story (itself a redraw of an idea I developed and drew one page of 4 years earlier) that never made it past the layout loose pencil stage. I also stopped on page 13 without finishing the story and as I have no layouts or script in my files I imagine I was kind of making it up as I went along. I remember having fun doing it, but it was largely an exercise in doing single source lighting. Lots of extreme shadow and candle light!
I can only assume I moved on to “The Party” (story # 3 that I finished in December of this year) because I wanted samples to get work and figured a retro Gothic horror story wasn’t going to get me work at Marvel or DC, so on to the to the idea with super-hero action in it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, I’ve pulled out “The Vampire Story” periodically with the intention of finishing it, most recently the intention was to draw it from scratch using the original as a springboard, but there were a handful of poses I still like even 30 years on. Having finished “The Party” and still not having anything definite to work on I decided to import the original pages into Clip Studio, quickly trace them off, then start moving, cutting and adding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3 days later I have an expanded 18 page story roughed out, and surprisingly I’ve kept most of the original work though I had to move and resize a lot of it. Though, by the time I finish this will look like a new story even if the idea and some of the layouts\/posing are 30 years old!
Next, I have to write a script and do rough lettering and solidifying of the layouts before diving into the full pencils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More soon!<\/p>\n\n\n