Posts Tagged ‘gun’
Dakota Rawhide: A Cover Girl
Saturday, June 5th, 2010
At long last the cover for Dakota Rawhide Book II is just about finished. By tomorrow night, the finishing will be complete. If that makes any sense. The text is not decided on as yet and some minor tweaks to Dakota are in order, but hopefully nothing to hectic. I changed the format of the book from landscape to portrait. It will be standard graphic novel dimensions. I don’t know about y’all, but I can’t wait to see the final presentation. It’s nice to be excited about my own projects. It makes it easier to work on them every single waking hour… somewhat easier. I kid. It’s been a grueling blast the whole way. I’ve learned a lot, as usual, as one should on any project to which they commit themselves. I’ve had a lot of fun planning out the book, writing the story, projecting ahead to the future stories, as well as a couple flashback stories in the works. I’ll detail some of that out in the near future.
Dakota Rawhide Book II:
Cheers,
~D/L
Dakota SDCC Banner Tutorial
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
I decided to put up a step-by-step of the banner image I created for San Diego Comic Con. So just click on the image and hopefully you will find the results helpful or at the very least, mildly interesting ;P
And this is the final image… for now…
Cheers for now!
~D/L
Dakota Rawhide “Deux”
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
I’m going to venture a wild guess and say that my host’s server crashed last night because I could not access my website. Further more my last post is now gone. Disappeared. Floating vaguely in the ether of cyperspace. It’s too bad really because it was no doubt clever. Written in the moment. Zen, even. Because I cannot remember what it said. I simply remember its function: introducing the progress on my banner for Comic Con 2010 and displaying little Dakota Tayler in all her interstellar outlaw hotness as she acts the gang-sign-throwing harbinger of BOOK 2… just before she shoots you twixt the eyes. Don’t fuck with her. She’s not having a nice day.
This is not the final. The template for the banner will change, I may add some little details to her, I may change the background completely but I’m liking the lost edges this one produced so I may keep it just for that. At any rate BOOK 2 is moving along and I will soon jump fully into illustrating it. Expect to see more full color pieces this time around, but probably fewer illustrations proportionately as I’d like to give the writing a fighting chance. Many people seemed to think that BOOK 1 was about the art and so thought they could get away with just looking at the pictures and giving a crit. It was about the story. The story was told in the writing. It was about the writing, first and foremost. The writing in BOOK 1 was so-so imo. BOOK 2 is way the hell better. No doubt. Y’all will dig it. Assuming you like stories that take characters to dark places. ‘Cause I do. So! Enjoy the painting so far! Dakota, like Natalie Portman, is a badass bitch. You’d pay for her dry-cleaning too.
Cheers,
~D/L
