Before launching our kickstarter for the Downfall project
last year, we put together a little 10 page promo issue to test the waters and
really show people the comic we wanted to make, albeit in a very small slice of
the world. But it was enough fun to create and such a departure from my usual
work, that I thought I would put it on here and talk a bit about the process.
The first page was easy. I'm an illustrator after all, and
doing a full page, establishing shot is the kind of thing I've been doing for
years. So this was the first piece I worked on, and easily the fastest from
start to completion. I knew it needed to really encompass the world and its
themes, but still read easily. So this is where I decided to do the classic
post apocalyptic wasteland, broken buildings and scattered signs of a
civilization long gone.
The second page was a little trickier, as I had to show the
character close up, and set the scene, and show the alien in just a few panels.
The alien by the way was a fun creature to design, and I will be getting to
draw them quite a few more times throughout the rest of the story.
