Thursday, October 23, 2008

progress and the state of the story

Things are moving, even though it doesn't look like they are...

It's looking more and more like I'll be wrapped up with the bulk of the pages
by November 1st. How awesome is that?!?

For fun, here are some of the first sketches I ever made of Kurt back in 2003. There are of course, earlier sketches, but I seem to have lost the rest of them.




















Also, here are some early, early, way too stinking early pages before I had a concrete idea of where I wanted the story to go. These pages were really from a story I was working on at the time almost in 2000 called "The Secret of Neodyne". It was out of working on this story that ShadowLands came to begin to form itself in my mind. It's interesting looking back at these...
The visual and thematic overtones remain largely similar but the story and characters are much much different.