Thank you for the kind words, but I got to disagree with you about the pages...they are just not very good.
They look OK on boards, but once they got reduced and colored they lost a lot. I just was not ready for that when I saw the printed results. I was pretty pumped up when I finished the story, thinking that this was going to be the beginning of my doing some more mainstream work. When the comic book came out and I saw the results I actually went through a mild depression, I knew that I needed to learn how to draw for print, but I was kind of at a loss how to go about it.
Right at that point Jack and I went to San Diego ('94) and I met the writer and the editor on that short story. They talked to me about doing some Thor material, but I told them that I just did not want to pursue comics at the moment. After that I just kind of wondered around the convention floor and I stumbled on White Wolf Games booth. I loved the art that they were displaying and started talking to one of the booth guys (who turned out to be an art director, Larry Snelly).
When I got home I did not return any calls from Marvel, but about a month later I got a call from Larry about doing some illustrations for a Mage role playing game...and that was a start of about 6 years worth of work.
Working for White Wolf I finally started learning about the process of drawing for publication and I got right on at the very start of doing digital pre-press (with a lot of help from Leif Jones!).
So now I am hoping to use everything I have learned and try doing comics again :)
Great stuff, Alex! Why is it you didn't do more work for Marvel? These pages look awesome.
ReplyDeleteHi Jason,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the kind words, but I got to disagree with you about the pages...they are just not very good.
They look OK on boards, but once they got reduced and colored they lost a lot. I just was not ready for that when I saw the printed results. I was pretty pumped up when I finished the story, thinking that this was going to be the beginning of my doing some more mainstream work. When the comic book came out and I saw the results I actually went through a mild depression, I knew that I needed to learn how to draw for print, but I was kind of at a loss how to go about it.
Right at that point Jack and I went to San Diego ('94) and I met the writer and the editor on that short story. They talked to me about doing some Thor material, but I told them that I just did not want to pursue comics at the moment. After that I just kind of wondered around the convention floor and I stumbled on White Wolf Games booth. I loved the art that they were displaying and started talking to one of the booth guys (who turned out to be an art director, Larry Snelly).
When I got home I did not return any calls from Marvel, but about a month later I got a call from Larry about doing some illustrations for a Mage role playing game...and that was a start of about 6 years worth of work.
Working for White Wolf I finally started learning about the process of drawing for publication and I got right on at the very start of doing digital pre-press (with a lot of help from Leif Jones!).
So now I am hoping to use everything I have learned and try doing comics again :)