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Project/Comic- "The God Machine - Rough Cut Series."
Character featured- Guy Salvatore.
Media- Pencil on comic paper.


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About-

Where to start?

It's probably pretty obvious that I took more time with this one. I really wanted to nail this one as much as i could since this is setting the tone for the final scene in this issue/book/chapter thing. Probably one of the hardest things to do on this page was the monologue. It's hard to write for a grieving 17 year old without going super cliche, but yet having to bring in that cliched dialog because he is a 17 year old mourning the loss of his dead girlfriend. I had to get back into my head when I was 17 and how i would react, and how i felt back then when my world was falling apart (luckily I didn't have to cope with the loss of a close loved one.)

When it comes to cleaning this up I'll do a proper epitaph on Sith's gave. I'll more than likely drop her birthday year and death year ( 2/12/82- 5/27/99 ) so I don't date the book in any particular year, but i'm still thinking about it since I like having them in that time period. Though I kinda want them in the mid 90's. I'm thinking on it. Pros and Cons about what it means to date a book.

I picked out some depressing music to try and get in the mood as i was creating this page. I think it kinda helped.. but i dunno, this page needs to be darker and sadder.

I missed the time and location card. Which is supposed to be "Earth- 4am; North Salem Cemetery."


-Chan


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Nature of project-

The Rough Cut Series is meant to be a preview/web comic of my comic series, "The God Machine." It's taking the original scripts and draft pages, and translating them to pencil only comic pages. There are no inks, formal fonts, or even blacked in areas. The idea behind this is to get you into the series before it comes out to print. Now when the comic goes to print media, you'll see the art work polished, inked, proper lettering, extra jokes, re-writes of the script, sometimes re-ordered panel layout, totally new pages, and bonus material. That way if you really like the project, you won't feel jipped that you'd be buying content that's already free online. Think of this as a preview, and a glimpse into the process in how I make comics.

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Comments: 12

AJF-chan [2007-12-27 03:30:07 +0000 UTC]

That shot of him next to the grave is phenominal... This is quite a mood-setter.

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TheRaven-LENore [2007-04-26 22:00:09 +0000 UTC]

is this ever going to be published and put in stores? I would buy it in a heart beat.

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TheGodMachineComic In reply to TheRaven-LENore [2007-05-11 04:20:46 +0000 UTC]

one day. I currently have a publisher that's interested... actually 2, but i haven't followed up with the other one yet.

If that doesn't go through i will sell the finished versions online for cheap. But that's still in the air.

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nightmareprince [2007-03-26 10:59:08 +0000 UTC]

hehehehe i acctualy have to giggle at the idea of him getting coffee spelled on him

"..HEY HEY HEY! what are you doing?!"
Andrwe stood behind him with a big marker pen "Am spelling Coffee on your back now hold still."

ehehehehe maybe it's because am running on far to little sleep and over 4 days i've eaten nothing but toast and crackers, damn stomach.

hmmm I read Guy's lines a few times and something seems... I don't know it's like it works yet it feels a bit scripted like he is saying it far to easily... problem is when it comes to going through break downs and depression I only really hit it when i was 21, when i was 17 i was just lonely and well... that was it... So I do think it works but i feel it might need breaking up a bit, as if he's stuttering over the words because he isn't sure what to say.

otherwsie I do like the up on the imagery in this one, it feels quite creepy and haunting and erm...stuff grr i need energy, I want coffee >.< damn viral thingy my do...

I like it very much, esspecialy love his expressions and how they change with the dialouge

Ok am off to have...well toast proberbly >.<

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marylounatic [2007-03-24 05:13:06 +0000 UTC]

love the coffee bit. It's just the way, when you're sitting there moping about something, to get distracted by something so trifling.

Sith has a rather impressive grave, for this day and age hehe..

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SpookyChan In reply to marylounatic [2007-03-24 08:02:43 +0000 UTC]

she does! that bitch. ^_~

Her grandmother probably spent quite a penny on it.

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hpbutterbeer [2007-03-23 08:23:00 +0000 UTC]

love details!
spellings may be wrong on the
third and fifth panels:

"Andrew *spelled* on me"

(on the graveyard
"*ALEXADRA* 'Sith' RYDER"

would that be alexandra? or is her name really that?

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SpookyChan In reply to hpbutterbeer [2007-03-23 14:02:17 +0000 UTC]

considering i was running on 3 hours of sleep when i wrote that up yesterday, i'm surprised i didn't give her a whole brand new name.

you are correct, and you know, spell check will get all these when i do it formally- along with people re-reading everything i do. Even spilled.

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chromegoddess [2007-03-23 00:03:44 +0000 UTC]

Great detail as always! The first panel is spectacular... bet seeing it in ink would knock your socks off!

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ArgentBlaze [2007-03-22 22:38:08 +0000 UTC]

The detail is amazing. Nice job.

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kineticnovels [2007-03-22 17:48:22 +0000 UTC]

I really like this page--especially when he drops the soliloquy to sniff his shirtsleeve--but even though he doesn't believe in the metaphysical, I'd suggest you drop the quotes around the word soul. For some reason I just find those quotation marks to be a little jarring, and I think if you just added an extra mutter of him saying, like "My soul--if there was one--" would remove that problem entirely. But again, it's your comic, and it's up to you!

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TheGodMachineComic In reply to kineticnovels [2007-03-22 17:51:31 +0000 UTC]

actually that same thought came to mind. I was thinking of "if it actually existed" or something like that. I was just worried that it was wordy. I think i will do it in the future.

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