Hi. First of the free monthly wallpapers. These will all be panels from the book but to start with, a double giveaway. A 1920×1080 screen size version plus the superwide version that I use for headers etc. You can download the attachments or download from the links.
Next month? who knows.
Enjoy
1920X1080– https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZJAzwkZf8Ie9qr4k4pYq8sJ3cRWO0gurH8V
1080 SUPERWIDE– https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZv0RwkZ0TYEvkVgiMHpSab7oDaJ4XRy7xeV
A colour design as a reference for the colourist. This is our hero in his ‘flight suit’ and very relevant to the title of the first episode. We see him like this for the first 12 pages of book one, but after that, he is in his spacesuit.
You know how stories go, they start small and build. So here is the opening panel of OXYGEN book one. Not completely finished, there will be book titles on the spines of the books and there will be a narrative box or two on the panel but there ya go. Blast off. And it is going to get more exciting 🙂
All a bit surreal and ethereal and any other words that mean you don’t really know what is going on. But this is the three panels for page 3 of the first book. Needless to say a bit more clarity will be added by colourist supremo, JP Bove and words will give a hint to what is going on. But it is deliberatly vague at this point. The next page will bring us properly into the drama.
It has been a while since anything has happened with the OXYGEN project. Occasionally I would get a chance to draw another panel but it wasn’t enough to be able to realistically make significant progress with the book to reach a point where it would ever be published. Then something changed.
The Lockdown that has occurred for us all created a silver lining. I had to decamp from studio to home with minimal equipment. One desktop computer and my Cintiq (drawing tablet). Most of my work is as a storyboard artist. I was busy drawing ‘Dennis&Gnasher’ using my storyboard software when it suddenly occurred to me that I could draw panels for OXYGEN that way. I did a test and the results were amazing. Within two weeks I completed all the panels for the first chapter!
This is really satisfying and has lit a huge fire under the project. Colouring is in progress and I am already starting to thumbnail the second chapter. I have also restarted the Patreon page I had for it and am uploading news and short videos of me talking about the project. Please check it out. Most of the content is free but there is the opportunity to support it if you choose. You can find it at patreon.com