Friday, December 26, 2008

Fubar - cover sketch

Firstly, happy Boxing Day everybody! Hope Christmas was loads of fun.

I finally finished all the pages of the first issue of Deadly Alien Microbots. Woohoo! Fully inked, scanned and cleaned up until I decide they need more work.

Unfortunately, now I need to start thinking about a cover (Urngghh!) so here is a sketchy first attempt with Fooba's looming tendrills approaching the hapless trio of microscopic robots. I really don't know much about comic book cover design so I tried to get all the elements of the comic in without revealing too much (i.e. what Fooba looks like). I imagine the whole thing to be mostly silhouette-esque black and white with the red of the blood providing a nice backdrop. I might make the heroes' stances a bit stronger, especially Ballistik.

So, is this any good? It's DAM hard (pun intended, hehe!) to come up with something eye-catching for all the peeps who have no idea what they'll be letting themselves in for if they ever pick up a copy. Being such a noob, I've got my work cut out...

-- UPDATE --

I've considered saving the window opening into a view of blood cells for a later issue's cover (yes, I am planning on this being a long running thing, if people choose to buy it, of course!), so I hastily drew some alternative ideas with some colour. This is all very rough, I might add!

I'm favouring the last one with all the characters in white, though I'll probably make the robots nice and metallic looking. But the first one with the bloodied background does seem to give off the unintentional image of a Western, which is also quite cool. Decisions, decisions...

Please let me know what you all think. Which one catches your eye the most?
Which would make you part with your pennies/dollars/euros...? :)

8 comments:

Ken said...

hello! Merry Christmas to ya, hope you had a good one. No snow up here unfortunately... we had our snow a few weeks back. Bad timing!

Hey Im liking the second cover... the one with the black and white characters. Though I am wondering if maybe the lettering would be cool being white too?

Peter Breese said...

Hey there Charles! How are ya broheme? I gotta side with Ken on this one (and you per your notes), the second cover is more powerful - good old black and white.

Perhaps integrate the title into the cover, a la James Jean Fables or similar, with a roboto feel to it?

Look forward to seeing it!

Charles Goatley said...

Well, all comments have been noted and the cover along with every single page, is now finished. It's got a lot more colour than I intended but I think it works. Anyway, I'm not ready to post it just yet, and wanna hold off on posting the whole comic too, so that means I need to stop cheating and come up with some new stuff to blog in 2009...

Happy New Year to you all anyways!

Mirella said...

that's cool:D

bog_art said...

Hey my friend!.. what a great post to finish 2008!.. I like the second one better.. although maybe you could mix both is you create a city in black shapes in the background with the sky with your theme.. just an idea.. Happy 2009!..

bog_art said...

I almost forgot.. I think you should try to do a still life sometime.. it is a great and fun study.. there are some good pictures on internet about fruits like what I used for mine.. cheers!..

robi pena said...

Hola maestro :-))!! Have you enjoy the Christmas Holidays? I think the second cover is more powerful and make the robots nice :-) and perhaps the lettering would be also cool being white too!! Cheers my friend!!

jeremy melton said...

The second one for sure. YOu have a great graphic sense and that one shows it off. Great job. Cheers!