Back to the drawing board
Starting a New Margo Intergalactic Trash Collector series
As temperatures drop here in the great Northeast, I begin my hibernation, starting a new Margo Intergalactic Trash Collector 3-issue story arc.
I know, I know, I have been promising this for a while.
Well, buckle up because from start to finish, over the next few months, I am going to be taking you through the process of creating the comic, marketing, posting art, Kickstarter, distribution, and printing the comic.
But first, a little background…
Even in space, someone has to take out the trash!
While my latest comic projects have been in the horror genre, I am enjoying returning to the Margo Intergalactic Trash Collector universe, my tribute to the comics I grew up loving to read until they fell apart in my hands.
The story…
Margo has inadvertently blown a hole in the universe swallowing up X15 and the Margo Variants. Two of these variants escaped the purge and are on a mission of vengeance. Meanwhile, Margo's corrupt employers, the IWM Corp, are using the rift to dump waste into another dimension. Taking advantage of the situation, Glom, Demonia, and her army of planet-burrowing He-Roidz are launching a full-scale attack through the rift.
Pencil to pixel…
I've completed my breakdowns for the story. As I'm also the artist, I work out the story beats visually first and add the dialogue later. I take notes whenever ideas pop into my mind, and I can make changes to the art during this stage to the sequences on the fly. I like the flexibility to change parts, characters, and panels as I go along. To begin the process of inking my pencil sketches digitally, I import my roughs into Clip Studio Paint. I prefer using Clip Studio Paint for this purpose because its comic page setup is user-friendly. This enables me to create and preview the entire book easily, and I can also create videos of my progress, which I have inserted below.
Breakdowns and inks…
On this page, the protagonist Glom recounts his journey to conquer the world of the
E-faro. The E-faro attack and overpower Glom.
The screen recording below, created in Clip Studio Paint, shows my progress and changes from my rough sketches to the finished inks.
In the next post, I will be diving deeper into developing my pages and refining my roughs.
Keep creating.
