Copy+Pasted right from my Blog. I don't think anyone's reading it anyway. Also I feel like making a new journal.

Sorry, this entry has absolutely nothing to do with the Mighty Boosh. Though I do really wanna draw Howard and Vince. But I'll have to do that some other time because I'm busy as hell right now. (COMIC CON IN LIKE 2 WEEKS :D)

First, My website has been down for a while, and I need to renew it... For the time being, the Domain name MikeLuckas.com will redirect to my blog.

Second, Ive started another comic! Because of some problems with SVA that I dont want to get into right now, I'm currently taking a summer class to make up some missing credits. The Class is about the Horror Film genre, and theres absolutely no work besides the final, which is to make a piece of art related to the horror film genre and our major.

So I chose to do a comic obviously (and maybe some extra covers if I get the time). And I decided to make the comic an excerpt from one of my favorite horror/comedy movies, Shaun Of the Dead! (I know theres a full comic that exists of it, and im trying to steer away from it looking the same, but there are going to be some similarities that are unavoidable...) And I thought I'd share my progress here, step by step, since I dont update this thing nearly enough.

Step 1;
I grabbed a photo off google and tryed sketching Ed and Shaun. I'm very happy with how Ed came out, but I really think I need to work on Shaun. Which surprised me, since I thought it'd be the opposite. Shauns hair throws me off though...


Step 2:
Then I decided on a scene; The one where Ed and Shaun throw shit at the zombies in their backyard. Always worth a laugh. I popped in the DVD and watched the scene a few times and ran some panel layouts through my head and thubnailed them out. I was pretty satisfied with what I layed out on the first or second go, which is very rare for me... so this is much cleaner than my usual panel layouts are (plus I only drew in one of the panels because the images were clearer in my head). The pages came out to 6 (ugh ive got less than 2 weeks to get this shit done.)


Step 3:
Then I drew up my 'real' thumbnails and began tweaking the layout and thumbnailing the content inside the panels. I had to freezeframe and screencap the scene a LOT to get these how I wanted them. Page 5 has 2 layouts. I think I'll be going with the 2nd. Picking what to include, what to omit, what to abridge, and what to make look like a shot right out of the movie is difficult... (sorry if you cant tell what the hell is going on in any of these. My thumbnails are sloppy)



Since I spent a decent amout of time on these to make sure they're exactly what i want, the next step is to print these out full-size (about 8.5x11 is the size ill be working at) Then I can lightbox the roughs in and tight pencil the rest from there. I have no idea if I'll get all the way through inks by the time this is due.... but we'll find out as I update some more. At the least Im aiming to get the tight pencils done. Those could be reproduced.

thanks for reading!

--MIKE!

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