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Trapped on Jupiter
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Trapped on Jupiter Page 3 of 5 (from Midnight Fiction #1)
Backstory
My earliest aims at professional cartooning where drawn using a crow quill pen. I used this technique on several one comix: Charlie in Church, Bull Shit, The Konvict, the Mashed Potatoes story previously mentioned, Strange Prospect, and Farlie Fan in Cream City. When I started my formal art training classes I was introduced to rapidiograph pens. The control and consistency of technical pens complemented my drawing style, so I immediately began using them for all of my cartooning efforts and later for the technical illustration work I did to make a living. All of the comics created for the first issue of Midnight Fiction were drawn using this new found inking technique.
Trapped on Jupiter was drawn on bristol board in pencil. I inked directly over the pencils using technical pens and then erased all of the remaining pencil lines. The size of the original artwork was about 13" x 16". The tints were added with zipatone adhesive screens. Originally I traced the shapes onto the screens themselves and cut them out before applying them to the artwork. You can see the less-than-perfect-fit on the first panel of the space ship. I soon switched to applying the screens directly onto the artwork and then cutting them out with an X-acto™ knife. This was a considerable improvement.