This is a preview of the books ELEGY (working title) and THE VOICE that I'm working on with the infamous and prolific Robert Tinnell-filmmaker/teacher/writer/man about town and unofficial 4th member of the Studio (both projects Ade and I are doing are with Bob).
I've started showing art from ELEGY on my regular blog (under the working title THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY) and as Ade is doing a back up storyline in the 1st 6 ish arc (yes-this will be the 1st Tinnell/Vokes series!) it qualifies as a GOBSMAKT event!
UPDATE:
I've redrawn the page-I'm happier with this version-hope you are too...;o)
I've left the original page below as a comparison...
I will be posting more art from this series (and sketches,layouts,etc) as i get around to finishing it.
I've also laid out the 1st ish of another project Bob and I are doing- he wrote the script (actually a screenplay) several years back and I'm finally getting around to drawing it.
It's called THE VOICE and will be a bit of a change for us-or at least the books Bob and I have done together-there are no classic monsters-tho it can be safely said there is a monstrous character in the story-it has a central supernatural element but I think that it's much more of a psychological horror.
This is probably the darkest story I've ever drawn (and that includes PARLIAMENT OF JUSTICE ) and yet I find the story that Bob wrote one of the finest and most compelling he's ever done.
Because I'm very excited about this book I can't wait to share a few page layouts with you-I'm not revealing any plot details just yet- I don't wish to spoil it for you.
Here's an advance peek...
I hope you enjoyed that little preview of what I feel may-MAY-just be our best work to date...
But that, kind Vokes folks, is down the line a little-for now ELEGY gets top billing.
That's All,Vokes!
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Very nice...I remember discussing The Voice with Bob years ago and I'm looking forward to it coming out.
ReplyDeleteI also remember that conversation including "Have you been talking to my wife?"
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Wow I love that stuff. Its amazing to see the roughs- very inspiring.
ReplyDeleteOh yes! Looking forward to both of them,
ReplyDeleteand great layouts.
As always t'riffic Neil
You make it look so easy - so I assume a lot of work went it these:) Wonderful stuff.
ReplyDeleteThanks,gents- funny that you say it's "easy"-sometimes the layouts are the hardest step for me-not the drawing so much as the storytelling-that to me is the key of the book-if the storytelling is right the rest falls into place-and sometimes-with scripts like Bob's-it is really "easy"- at least the imagery comes to me quickly-in this case i did about 6 pages almost two years ago,when i was going to draw the VOICE script-then i just stopped for reasons too complicated to explain-suffice to say we call it a "block"-and i went on to other stuff-then a few weeks ago i was working on the layouts to ELEGY and i picked up the VOICE script again,and then the layouts-and BANG-it hit me-the dam burst and i laid out 16 pages in a few hours-that's the way these things work sometimes-it remains to be seen if i have to go thru the same process every ish of THE VOICE-if so i may finish it by...2020?
ReplyDeleteLet's hope not-lol