This week the theme was “Favorite Literary Character.” Growing up, I loved the The Stainless Steel Rat series of books by Harry Harrison. So it seemed like a good idea to draw Slippery Jim DiGriz.

I decided to sketch it out on real paper for a change too:

Here it is with a splash of gray:

Zombie Fairy

I figured everyone would go cutesy, so I went creepy. :-)

I was going to write up a blog post explaining how I go from this:

To this, using Manga Studio EX 4:

But I decided against it. If you’re curious, let me know. I might put together a screencast that would walk through how I use vector layers, 8-bit layers, and 32-bit layers to create the backgrounds.

A little scene from, of course, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. If you like it, and would like to wear it as a t-shirt, you can vote for it at Shirt.Woot.

Here’s another test page I did for my aforementioned star-trek-but-not comic idea called “Flight of the Icarus.”

As an experiment, I colored the last panel too. I think I like the B&W (more manga-like) style better.

Oh, and this isn’t the comic I referred to in my last post, sorry – Although I will probably wind up making a minicomic, or two, of this concept. Eventually.