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I’ve also always admired the Asian sense of line and negative space. I was very fond of many of the late 19th to early 20th century graphic artists and illustrators, and I realized that much of what I enjoyed about their work was the direct influence of the woodblock prints being imported from Asia in the 19th century. They were a huge influence on Toulouse Lautrec, Alphonese Mucha, Vincent Van Gogh and others. Van Gogh’s famous painting of iris is very similar to a Hokusai print of iris, and the graphic line of art nouveau is the direct descendant of the fusion of Western form and Asian line.
Work in progress Stealth Tribes at Newsarama.
Stealth Tribes requires some sort of reference on virtually every single panel. The backgrounds in Stealth Tribes make the backgrounds in Orbiter look like child’s play. There are numerous sets and locations, some of them pretty complicated. There are many characters. The detail is kind of brutal. And this time, I used a good deal of figure reference, lots of photographs of people.
Podcast Interview at Word Balloons.
Podcast interview at BlogTalkRadio:
Set dressing of a Colleen Doran comic booth on the set of the Numbers television show. From the Warren Ellis blog. Photos courtesy Will Wheaton. Alas, the shot was cut from the final broadcast.
This page was updated 3-14-10.