New "Baeg Tobar" Art

Tom - Page one

This is page one of the three page warm-up comic that I mentioned previously. It was written by Martin Tingle. Here is the script, Tom V3.0.

I think it came out all right. It is definitely not going to be the style I use in the "Young Henry" story. It takes too flippin long! Or maybe I'm just too slow. heh.

I was initially going to do all three pages of this. I still may. But I did have an idea this morning that I may simply try drawing this page again in a drastically different style of two. Oh, I can never really get away from the way I draw, but I may be able to make my life a lot easier if I can simplify and still have it look alright. Right? Looser anyway.

Anyhoo, here is the piece...

My Kinda Dwarf

Before this year, I had never drawn a Tolkienesque dwarf. It's weird, but I got several commissions for them in 2007. This was warm-up piece that I did to find out how I would like to make a dwarf's figure look. The commissioners were more interested in short muscular human physiques instead. Ah well.



So now I'm making these dwarves play a big part in this personal comic that I'm fiddling with. In fact, young Henry is the adopted human son of a dwarf couple, in the washed-up dwarven boomtown of Hillbarrow. The Hill for short. Young Henry of the Hill.

Young Henry of the Hill

I’m always playing around with a comic book story in my head. I’m sure that we Stone Gazers all are. The drawings below are a “dump” of me coming to realize my main character, Henry. Oh, I could travel back even further, when the character was a sexy woman, but this I think is torture enough.

This character has ended up resembling my six year old son. On the inside however, he’s a lot like me. Through his arc, he will become the type of man I’d like to become; A truly heroic man, perhaps even fatally so (yikes). A Howard Roark type, for those of you who have read The Fountainhead.

Though he wears a wild-west hard-rock miner’s clothes, the story will take place in a land of fantasy.

More to come eventually. At the moment, I'm illustrating a three page story for a friend as a warm up to doing pages again. Cheers!

Yay me!

Today is my birthday. I'm 38. I'm hosting Thanksgiving dinner here at my house with 13 people coming. Tons of food. In fact, I'd better get after it!

I have an niece and two nephews that are coming. All three have had or are going to have recent birthdays. Should be crazy fun!

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!