I’m 2 pages into my Dog Breath strip and I’m finding the scale a little tricky, I hope small fonts print well because this is going to need one. Other then that it’s going well. The breakdowns seem to be working and there is some interesting page layouts coming up before the end. I’m feeling a little better about my artwork also, it’s creeping back to it’s angular shaded self again, but with improved anatomy and shading. I find whenever I put major work into my technical skill my flow suffers, the mark making becomes stiff and in places clumsy and my hands feel heavy. It’s as if the touch leaves my fingers and I’m left clubbing images onto the page with my giant fists.
Johnny himself is such a Carlos character that in my opinion only Colin McNeil has ever drawn him properly other then Esquerra himself. Both McNeil and Esquerra seem to hate the idea of men having lips and both take a similar approach to stylisation. My version of Johnny comes from Carlos’ Proposed TV series Character designs and from the realisation that in the real world Johnny Alpha would look like Rupert Evert. That’s not to say I based him on Evert because I didn’t it’s not like my artwork is realistic and it definitely isn’t photo realistic it just really helped me to realise that his face could still be his face and be a little more realistic.
