A miscellany of weekly ramblings on comics, art and film by Ted Mathot, storyboard artist and writer/artist/self-publisher of graphic novels and comics
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Alright then...

Sorry for the lack of updates lately..."The Making of Rose and Isabel Part Three" is in the works and should be up early next week, so for now here are some random rough panels from a recent Cora page layout.


Cora, of course, is going to run across some baddies along the way (they're in every western aren't they?) but I'm trying not to handle it in a way that would be expected. This is the thing that has been tough about the R&I story and now the Cora story; how to keep things fresh as well as character based, without relying too heavily on the tried and true (ie the expected outcome).

As much as I would like to see Cora whoop these guys' butts, it's most likely not going to happen in this scenario. My goal now is to come up with as many possible outcomes to the situation as I can with the hopes that one will lead me in the right direction.



Also, there is a review of CORA part 1 courtesy of the folks at INDIE•PULP.

Thanks guys!

5 comments:

RAWLS said...

Great sketches man!

Anonymous said...

I am feelin it. Nice job on the villian.

cK

Anonymous said...

Oooo -- those are gonna be some ugly & stinky baddies! It's gonna be nice to see Cora's world become increasingly gritty as she progresses through the story.

Yeah!

Moth

EL GRANDE said...

That's a really great approach to a scene Ted. Elio and I do that same sort of thing now. We didn't used to, but after you redraw a scene enough times, we figure it might as well be done that way from the the beginning.

Peace,
Joe y Elio

crylic said...

Loving these in depth posts, Ted. Keep 'em coming.