Under My Thumb

I know. I know. It's been a week since I posted anything new here. I'm sorry. It's been hard coming up with stuff to talk about, as I've been holding off putting any more Empty Chamber up. I don't want to show too much of it before it's ready to hawk. (insert wink smilie here)

But, I think putting up a rough layout is all right, yeah? This is the tentative rough layout for the next page. A. David still needs to sign off on it before I go to the penciling stage. He's such a control freak. (insert wink smilie here)


Sometimes, I draw the page as roughs on a thumbnail scale. Very rough suggestion of figures and locations. But most of the time, I do the rough panels on different pieces of paper and at different scales (usually close to the actual scale I want them for the page). I scan them all in and assemble them in Photoshop. This is where I'll make adjustments to the placement and scale of figures. This is the critical phase of the solidity of the page. So I take time to make sure the flow of the panels works with the dialogue and action.

As a sidenote, the Empty Chamber production blog (hosted by PopCultureShock) is shaping up nicely. ADL and I expect it to go "live" on March 1st! I do hope to see you all there. We will show you many a splendid thing each week!

Last post's title was a song title from:
Has Been by William Shatner

Ben Folds supplies the tunes. Bill supplies the words. There's a chilling song about Shatner finding his wife dead in their pool. You can tell he is speaking from the heart. Great album.