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Greenie Hernie study

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For those who have dropped by my blog they might have noticed the timeline of making my book.

I came up with the story back in 1996 and for the next two years I wrote and storyboarded the full five chapters. Then I created most of the concept art that you see here in my gallery, and by 1999 I started making the first actual line art boards. In 2001 due to personal matters I put the project on hiatus, until I came back to it in full strength about two years ago (in the in-between years I refined the story, adding a few twists and rewriting/reworking some pages).
Since returning to the book not only I've been finishing the first 30 pages (which are chapter 1), but I also been working back to back on chapter 2 (the next 25 pages), to make up for the lost time. I've also ventured into most of chapter 3 layout pages.

The general idea is that each chapter is (slightly) stylized in different ways, the pencils/inks acting as a kaleidoscope of the comics art spectrum. As an example chapter 1 conveys the narrative closure with classic panel structure, opening up slowly into full bleed pages. When arriving at chapter 2 the full bleeds become double page spreads and the panel structure between something akin to manga and complete non-existence.

Greenie Hernie will not show up straight from the bat. He will first appear in a chapter set in Edinburgh! Where deeper shading and 'rotoscoped' backgrounds will be applied. This study is for that chapter and this is the latest concept art that I've produced for the book (there's a back view as well that shows his tail and the plethora of exotic spikes-I will eventually upload that one). Mass as well as general shape are the main objectives of this study.

I believe it is of interest to compare the 2 Hernies in the gallery, to see how much has evolved in terms of the application of the technique.

Greenie Hernie Copyright Miguel Ferreira 1998-2014
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nocturnalgeek10's avatar
So Clean! :) I love it! :D