Monday Spaceholder: closeups of Elephant Town artwork (Patreon)

If you're reading this the moment it goes up, I've probably just gotten home from my final planned visit with loved ones this year, a weekend away with some of my oldest friends in comics, at a quiet little beach in New Jersey.

Between the beach and Luke's birthday on Friday, I knew this would have to be an actual Monday update (instead of my usual Sunday night goal). So I scheduled a little post to share in the meantime, so that you have something to enjoy Monday morning. :)

My pal NJGR asked me recently if I could share a photo of this original page, to see how different it looks in color...

Pretty different. :)

Here are a few more that I was happy with:

I decided to use a regular old graphite pencil (well, a Palomino Blackwing, so no ORDINARY graphite pencil) to outline the crowds on these two.

Really like the way it came out. Here's the earlier crowd scene, which I inked in black, because the crowd was meant to be the focus of that panel:

And here's a sneak peek at one of the next pages:

... which you'll see colored soon. :)

I try to keep my original pages as complete as I can, so that if someone buys a page, it still has some of the same atmospheric impact that the finished, colored page has. It makes some things a little more difficult, but I'm a lot happier with the originals in the end.

Hmm, maybe I'll show you what I made for Luke's birthday when I'm home...