Blunt Instruments, With Which To Crack..

I'm pretty deep into the first issue of My Neighbor Is A Psychopath! right now, having inked about half of the book, and even more than that by the end of the day. I originally wrote the comic and sketched it out probably.. two years ago, and was very hesitant on inking it afterwards, as inking other projects never seemed to work for me the way I intended. So I held off on that until a solution presented itself. The solution, as it happens for me, was to ink the thing digitally with my fairly new tablet in Manga Studios. A very cool program for making comic books. I should mention that at this point I am working harder and faster on comics than I ever have before, and if it weren't for school and work it is all I would be doing right now.

Aside from working to finish the first issue of my book, entitled 'A Beginning.' I am also editing the story and drawing out thumbnail pages for the second book called 'A First Impression.'

I didn't do this for the first book, but I like doing these thumbnail drawings of the pages because it sort of allows me to get a better idea of what the pages will look like as a whole. Included below are a few thumbnails I did for another project I may continue with called Meat Planet. At regular size I can't help but look at an individual panel at a time, and I really like the idea of keeping the entire page looking attractive, rather than a mess of nice looking panels.

There are actually a couple of those in the first MNiaP book. I know there is one page in particular on which I like the look of every panel on it, however, it really is too many panels for a single page. Don't get me wrong, MNiaP #1 looks more beautiful than I ever imagined it being, so far, but book 2 is going to blow that one away, and as I continue after that I can finally begin working on all of the other stories about all the monsters, villains and other sorts of antagonists in the world of Nailsville.

I'ma get back to work. More on stuff as it happens.

-Ryan!