The Masked Mummy 2

Here's some more of one of the new characters I'm designing for Nightmare Pro Wrestling webcomic. The Masked Mummy!! I did end up changing a few things from the original design,

1. The left arm in the pencils, as I stated in my last Masked Mummy post, was a bit off. I changed his arm slightly and ended up with something I was really happy with. subtle but noticeable.

2. Added a few more bandages and tore them up a bit.

3. Stretched out the image a bit to make him wider than I originally had him.

The colors are not done yet and I'm just messing with colors to see how they look. I ended up with this color scheme and like it so far. Not completely set on it, still gonna mess with some other color ideas.

Alright, hope you all enjoy the beginning stages of the Masked Mummy.

Cheers.

The Masked Mummy

Here is the beginning sketch of one of several new characters I plan on adding to the roster of my Nightmare Pro Wrestling web comic.

I did this sketch early on in the development of the Nightmare Pro Wrestling comic. Not sure how happy I am with it yet. The left arm bothers me a bit. Before I put it up I'll probably tweak it a bit till I'm happy with it.

Anyway I plan to post blogs about the development and proccess of this character all the way from beginning sketch to finished and painted image. So check back often! I also plan on posting up some more characters soon.

Later.

Nightmare Pro Wrestling Webcomic Page 24 and 25 Inks

Well here are the Inks for Nightmare Pro Wrestling webcomic pages 24 & 25.

Talk about posting something late, lol.

Well I have developed an inking process that I feel suits the comic better. What I do now is go over my pencils again loosely and add a bit more detail. After that I scan in the pencils and put it through a couple of filters. I use the poster edges & cut out filters to get the pencils where I want them. I then touch them up a bit until I feel they look right.

Once I'm happy with the way they look I bring them into photoshop and put them through Livetrace and TA DA!

The new Inks look a little grittier and hand touched which I think adds to the whole atmosphere of Nightmare Pro Wrestling's world of monsters.

Cheers.

Nightmare Pro Wrestling Pages 24 and 15 Pencils

Well it looks like my update schedule is still suffering from the Holidays. Hopefully everything will be back to normal soon.

Here are pages 24 and 24 of the NPW webcomic. I'm excited to finally be getting to the action portion of the comic.

The pencils are done a little tighter this time around because I've changed my method of inking, which you can check out on the last two updates on my website. This new inking method is quicker and I think more suitable for the feel of the comic. I'll explain further about the new inking process when I upload the Inked pages on Friday.

I'm pretty happy with the panel layout as well as the action going on. I'm not to sure about Devastator Dragon though. I originally wanted a upshot of him but I feel like I've had a lot of those in previous pages. I think he needs to look more menacing so I might redo the image.

Well come back on Friday to check out the Inks and be on the look out for great things from Nightmare Pro Wrestling in 2010!

Later!

NPW Page 20 and 21 Inks

Here are the Nightmare Pro Wrestling inked pages 20 and 21.

If Nightmare Castle's Dining Hall looks a bit different that when you first saw it, it's because it is. The old version of the Dining Hall was taking way too long to do. So I came up with a simplified, cleaner version of it.

I'm not sure if the backgrounds will take away from the characters interaction with each other in page 21. I'll test it out and see what it looks like.

Quick note, I made all the outlines of the foreground characters thicker and the characters that are more in the background have thinner outlines. This is just something subtle that helps establish depth. Just a little advice for you aspiring comic book artists out there.

Alright, have a great weekend.

Later.

NPW Comic Page Pencils-pages 20 & 21

I'm finally getting back to my blog. It's been a while but now I'm back, a lot of stuff has been going on but let's not get into that. Here are the pencils for pages 20 & 21 of Nightmare Pro Wrestling. These two pages came out really well. I'm especially happy with the acting of the characters.

After drawing these pages I have discovered that I really like drawing the Beast. He was originally going to be a minor character but now, I feel that he deserves a slightly bigger role.

These to pages are also the last pages before we get to the pro wrestling portion of the comic. Now that's really exciting.

Make sure to check out the Inks of these two pages on Friday, here on my blog, and the complete pages on Monday, at the website.

Cheers!

Technical Difficulties

It seems like it's just been one thing after another lately. First we were sick, then it was Thanksgiving (not that our Thanksgiving was bad, but delicious foods and spending a wonderful long weekend with family is not conducive to frequent blog posts and producing comic pages). And last week the wifi signal we've been using was suddenly locked. Boo.

But we'll be getting our own internet this week and then we can be back to our regular scheduled programming: 2 new comic pages on NightmareProWrestling.com on Mondays, upcoming Comic Page Pencils on Wednesday, upcoming Comic Page Inks on Friday, and warm-up sketches in between.

-N