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In Hindsight: “Hell’s Kitchen” Part 2 – Artwork

In Hindsight:

Here is the second and final part of this look back at the work that was done for the Hell’s Kitchen comic book pitch. I’ll be looking at the shortcomings of my own artwork here and hoping that enough time has passed since I actually did all of it that I’ll be able to look [...]

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In Hindsight: “Hell’s Kitchen” Part 1 – Story

In Hindsight:

It’s been a little over a year since Ray and I submitted our Hell’s Kitchen pitch (with little success unfortunately) and over the last few weeks, I’ve begun to think about what could’ve been done better, not just in terms of draftsmanship but also to better sell the concept as a viable comic book. I [...]

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Big Apple Con ’09

Big Apple Con '09

The update to what went down during last weekend’s Big Apple Con is on the Hell’s Kitchen website. We shot a few videos for fun so head over there and check it out. Stuff that happened at the Comic Con that’s isn’t on the website? Well, I got a signed print of the Week 11 [...]

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The Completed Pitch

After all these months it’s finally done: my comic book pitch is completed. Above is the proposed cover and after the break are the first 11 pages of issue 1 (only the first five are lettered and the last two are a WIP spread though) + a brief description of what the comic is about.

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Hell’s Kitchen – Cover, Linework

Or “potential cover” I should say. A little more info on the piece after the break.

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Hell’s Kitchen – Page 1, Color Test

This is a color test I did in Photoshop of page 1 from the comic pitch I’m working on, the same page I posted in black and white a while back. I wanted to take a shot at coloring this even if I, assuming this thing pans out, would never be able to realistically pencil, [...]

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More computer woes + Ninjas

I ordered a new computer from Dell. My current one keeps giving me problems and I just don’t have the patience for it anymore. I ordered a new computer with a good processor and I’m just going to gut my current one and put the RAM, video card, hard drive and whatever else I can [...]

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The Pitch

This is what I’ve been working on over the past few weeks. My roommate, an aspiring writer, had this idea for a story set in an alternate version of Hell’s Kitchen in his head and I, being an aspiring comic book artist, suggested for him to do it as a comic. We started going back [...]

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