Tuesday, March 1, 2011

It's been too long!

So I fell off the face of my blog for a little while, but I always come back. ;)  I've been taking Ty Templeton's Comic Book Bootcamp lvl's 1 & 2. Which is a good portion of the reason I haven't posted in a while.  It was an amazing course, and I'm somewhat saddened it's over.  It's definately helped cement my desire to work in the comic book industry, though, and I have plans to continue in that vein with the next courses I'll be taking through The Toronto Cartoonist Workshops. 

I've also had a few people fall through on me with their plans for colaborative works...  No worries though.  I have my own graphic novel very much in the works,  and with the tools provided by Ty, I'm much more prepared to move forward on it myself.  Remember my previous post about Merpeople being guardians of the Oceans?  Well it's along those lines, but has evolved into something much more complex, and fantastical.  I'll be pulling in a lot of mythos from various cultures; playing with the idea that every lie has it's base in truth.  It's going to be my take on the tale of Atlantis, with a modern twist...  Now, I can't give too much more away, lest my idea's be stolen. 0_o ...

That being said, here are a few of the characters I've designed thus far:




She is an example of one of the races I'll have represented. 
They are serpantine in nature, and reside off the coast of Asia. 
Possibly the Indian Ocean?  We'll see.




The lovely lady above is a sampling of the race of merpeople
that make the Meridean Trench their home.  Hence the larger eyes,
and red colouring, (Many deep sea species have red colouring,
as it acts as camoflage, much like infared lights are invisible to the naked eye) . 
This race will also be the race that currently holds the throne in my story.





The male and female specimens above are my Hyperboreans.
(google it. Hyperboreans were race of people the ancient Greeks believed in.) 
They will reside under the Arctic continent, and are part sea lion.  They are also
supposed to have a Norse influence to their appearance, determined by the frigid
environment they call home.  The coulouring clearly needs to be done still, but you get the idea.


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