An assortment of characters to appear in upcoming Canaan stories.

Trade Cover.

An ink wash piece intended to serve as the cover to a future Knight of the Pawns trade paperback. 

Here's some untouched art that went into the Canaan Daily in the back of issue one.

A promo piece for an upcoming Canaan story.

Another promo made at the genesis of Canaan, this was originally a promo for issue two.

One of the very first promo ideas conceived for Canaan.

An unused ink wash cover for Canaan: Knight of the Pawns issue one.

The cover that almost was. Here's a painted cover that was originally meant for Knight of the Pawns, until we decided to take it in a different direction.

A character sketch for an upcoming short story you'll be able to read here for free.

A watercolor sketch of the Wolf.

An ink wash portrait of the Wolf.

Alternate Promo

Color variant of the first Knight of the Pawns promo piece.

Production on issue two has begun. Feel free to ask any questions or give feedback, and be sure to keep visiting our blog for updates.

 Little Bit O' Process

 

 Unfortunately, I didn't preserve my pencil work at all-it tends to be extremely rough, basically just capturing gesture and composition. Actually it might be a good thing you don't see the pencil work, it's sort of difficult for anyone but myself to understand what is happening.

Pencils are then cleaned up with ink. This is about the time I'll scan and prepare for color in Photoshop.

For Knight of the Pawns, Kyle and I decided on a desaturated blue/green color. We felt as though it would help convey the theme of the story and really set the tone for the rest of the book. We are going to continue a limited color palette throughout the rest of the Canaan collection.

Next come the speech bubbles and the addition of type. For this part of the process we bring our colored page into Adobe Illustrator, which is a great program for this kind of stuff. Once the necessary information is added and the type is just how we want it, we will bring the page back into Photoshop for final tweaks and level adjustments. The example below is from page 16, hope you like it!

Check out this neat sketch of the Wolf by Seth Kumpf. For more of Seth's comic book work, be sure to give Cowboy Mummy a read at http://www.cowboymummy.com/

A preview sketch for an upcoming short story called Hangman. Keep visiting for more details.

Take a look at the original version of the cover to Knight of the Pawns issue one. The cover was done with ink and acrylic paint. Be sure to check out the complete first issue available now as an e-book, hard copy, or digital download!

Here's the chapter cover to the first chapter of Knight of the Pawns, which is, of course, the first story in our series Canaan.