Graphic Novel Deadlines: Drawing 6 pages and 54 monsters in a day.

[00:00:00] Welcome to Cloud Town Tuesday, the day where I share a page from my graphic novel, Cloud Town, and um, tell you about the process of making it. It's like a, um, editor's commentary on a DVD. So if you're a comics fan, if you're a friend of mine, if you are an artist looking for insights into the comics process, here it is.

Let's go. Let's do it. Let's fast forward to where we dropped off last time. So yeah, right now you have to remember. I'm working on the end pages. Uh, those pages that go in the beginning and end of the book. It's an element that I love a lot, uh, in, in the hardback books that I had as a kid. But I also have almost no time.

Because, uh, after waiting for months, I finally get, like, Hey, we need this, if you want to do it. Like, I did not have to do it. They could have just put blank colored endpages in. They could have had the case on the hardcopy of the book be the same as the general cover. But I really, you know, I wanted the book [00:01:00] to have as many bells and whistles as possible.

I spent a lot of time on that case cover we talked about and now i'm working on the end pages and I have like I don't know a day maybe two to do six pages and i'm very i'm already sleepy Here I wanted to make it playful fun And oh man, this was a really fast one so you can see i'm really uh, really moving through it.

Um, You The first monster I drew was a trace of the monster that appears as an action figure. Not action figure, sorry. Scale model in the beginning of Cloud Town. And then I, um, and just right now pulling kind of random ideas from my imagination, um, trying to make them, quick and clear and fun and kind of cute.

You can see the little monster kind of kicking over a house. I thought that was very funny, so I went with that. Um, thought of something a little dragony, a little fishy. Um, at [00:02:00] this point, I realized that I am short on time to like, uh, reiterate and do different random creatures. Um, often when I do a monster, I'll sketch a lot of imaginary monsters until I hit one I like, but I am again, on deadline.

So I I opened Netflix and I started pulling up every different creature show they had and I fast forward and looked at different creatures as inspiration. So you can see I have a shrimp creature, polar bear creature, um, and I would try to combine stuff, so there's stuff inspired by goats, um, and in the next chunk of this I'll have even more animal inspired creatures.

Um, alright, I don't know. Did I record? How was that? In other news, I am going to have, um, I don't think the next one, but in a couple of episodes of Cloudtown Tuesday, I do have a video I recorded with my friend Kirt, my friend Alyssa. New [00:03:00] Patreon! What up, Alyssa? Um, everybody say hello to Alyssa Appleberry.

She is a current employee of Mission Comics, uh, tattoo artist, and, uh, cartoonist. She's done her first few zines. So, um, congratulations and keep up the good work and, uh, yeah. If anybody else is working on comics and zines just holler at us And I can't wait to see them. Okay. Bye
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