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So let me tell you, we’ve been awful busy lately putting together the book — super busy, crazy busy, so busy, in fact, that I [...]
Articles in category '"A Shot in the Dark"'
So late last year, I was chatting with my buddy and colleague, Tommy Roddy — he’s the creator of Pride High, a series of comics about gay teen superheroes in high school… (C’mon, y’know you’re curious — click it! ;-)) — and he turned me on to this guide that comes out once [...]
Here are the finished inks for the first comic in our upcoming book of yaoi short stories: Yaoi 911™. It’s called “A Shot in the Dark” and was penciled by Karla Diaz C. and inked by Winona Nelson. In its 16 comic book pages, a Junior Apprentice must save his now helpless boyfriend, [...]
In previous articles, I’ve been discussing the process of creating a graphic novel using, as an example, the first comic in our upcoming Yaoi 911™ short story collection, “A Shot in the Dark.”
I’ve covered writing and formatting the script as well as using thumbnail sketches as an aid to creating final pencils. [...]
I finally have some pics to share with you with some hot guy-on-guy action! (Alright, fine, sweet guy-on-guy action, but still, the shirts come off… )
(UPDATE: And now I have even sexier pencils to show for our next comic, “Artifice”!)
Here are the finished pencils for the first comic in our upcoming book [...]
The process of creating a graphic novel goes through many stages. First you write a script. Then, working with an artist, you come up with character designs. The next step is for the artist to create “thumbnail sketches” for each page. (And based on those, she creates the finished pencils.)
Thumbnail sketches [...]
Here is the complete script for the first comic in our Yaoi graphic novel — “A Shot in the Dark.” In its 16 comic book pages, a Junior Apprentice must save his now helpless boyfriend, a Senior Apprentice, from a tremendously powerful and crafty demon after a summoning goes terribly awry. [...]
So, you want to create a Yaoi short story (or graphic novel!) Where to begin?
While you might have a bunch of cool images in mind (perhaps of cute boys fighting monsters and then making out…), it all starts with words on paper — a script. And in [...]