Ashella no. 4 1/2

With finals approaching, the hunt for a job on, and other projects cropping up, I'm putting Ashella on hiatus.

Misc Mondays 4

I can't remember if I ever uploaded this to the blog, but it's the inks for a Star Wars mock cover I did to go along with some pencil samples I did that were my little reenactment of the end of Empire Strikes Back. I thought about taking the logo, banner, thing that goes in the corner (where they'd have a little Luke or C3P0 and R2D2 like comics used to) and just treat it as if Star Wars was a regular comic book series.

In the pencil samples (which, in retrospect, aren't that great, but I was proud of them at the time), I didn't go for a super-duper likeness of Mark Hammil, but tried to make him more of a Peter Parker type with a rather lanky body. More importantly, I wanted to adorn this cover with captions that say things like, "WHAT STARTLING REVELATION DOES THE DEMONIACAL DARTH VADER HAVE IN STORE FOR US!?!" and "WILL LUKE SKYWALKER BECOME AN AGENT OF THE DARK SIDE!?!"

Then would come the question of whether I wanted to treat it with affection or more of a satirical look when it comes to the coloring: should I go old school and do all of this by hand or do it in Photoshop? Should I have a desaturated cool scheme, or Make Mine Marvel with a red background and a blue Vader? I never found the answers, and really, that's that.

Ashella no. 4

I've decided to move Ashella to Saturdays for scheduling reasons. That said... I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Damn. I'm sorry.

Misc. Mondays 3.

Here's a line-drawing I did for a contest for a Go-Go's Reunion Tour that didn't quite come into fruition. I've done some color roughs, but I don't recall settling on anything before it was canceled. Jane Wiedlin broke her leg or something. I spoke to her at San Diego Comic-Con '10 and she said they might start the tour and the contest up again, and maybe this would disqualify it; but if it comes to it, I'll just draw up a new one.

Incidentally, this was around the time I was taking a Children's Book Illustration course, so that might have something to do with my choice of portraying them as fairies, though I gave Jane the pointed-ears more as a reference to her brief cameo in Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home which works because you can't see the others' ears anyway.

Okay, so a few hours late, but here's the latest installment of my strip.

Misc. Mondays #2

Here's a pen & ink piece I did for the 25th Anniversary of Crisis on Infinite Earths. Not much to say on this except that I wish I'd sent this in to the Comic-Con souvenir book for the 75th of DC Comics.

Ah well.

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