Stray Bullet pg.26
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Awww jeez! Almost at the "climax"!
So I am ready to launch into Stray Bullet #2, "Fire in the Rain"... but fair warning, it will be mingled with posts of various pages needed to round out this issue before it sees print, namely covers, a page of fake in-story advertisements, and a short back up story I've been cooking up. This one won't be directly related to the main story or it's characters (like "sidewalk sale" was in Damaged), but may feature the Ghost Skater in a narrative role and takes place in San Julio/Fogtown. It also deals with a real life gay horror story here in Los Angeles (specifically in West Hollywood) but I decided to fictionalize it rather than use any real names.
After that I will probably do some one pagers and maybe even a chapter of "Cahuenga" before committing to full time Feral... or I may bounce back and forth. If you've followed me for long you know I need variety or I get bored with the long-term projects.
Thoughts? Comments are always welcome, me Droogs.
Comments
I think all the love and rockets I read are to blame. Los Bros like to move back and forth between realism and cartoony depending on the tone of the scene
Dave Davenport (dogspunk)
2018-07-13 22:35:36 +0000 UTCI mentioned before i was gonna do a separate post about this but I guess I didn’t... Doug isn’t Feral. Grant is Feral. Doug has, in this story timeline, only just become a werewolf for the first time. It is explained in the next issue, but Feral infected him in Hard to Swallow #4. He’s a different werewolf... and the idea of an epidemic and it’s purpose is the main theme of this larger story arc of Stray Bullet (but that’s jumping the gun). As far as reference, there was an initial inspiration for Doug but he looks nothing like that anymore. I’ve found occasionally people who could be models for him but when I have drawn an actual person to look like Doug it looks really weird, lol.
Dave Davenport (dogspunk)
2018-07-13 22:25:58 +0000 UTCI'm reluctant to advise you to aspire to achieve this "deeper level" with all of your poses. I fear it might fuck with your process or lead to artist-block. Carry on as you are.
Bradley Rader
2018-07-13 17:53:26 +0000 UTCI was going to critique you for having Feral shrink to fit in this composition, but decided to re-read previous pages first. Glad I did; you consistently made Doug petite, something I've never noticed. I was also glad to have re-read because I realized something I like about your art: You draw consistent likenesses that rarely look photo-reffed. This is true of all of your characters but especially of Doug. Page 3, panel 5; page 10 panel 2: page 11, panel 2; page 12, panel 5, page 13, panel 2, page 14, panel 2, page 15, panel 4; page 24, panel 3, page 25, panel 2, all have Doug faces that pop into a higher level of realism and nuance, both in expression and form-construction, than the majority of you Doug faces, which tend to be simpler and more cartoony though consistent in likeness. I'm reminded of Jose' Gonzoles' Vampirella stories where there would be the obvious photo-ref panels and then the rest of the story(simpler, more cartoony, etc). It sounds like I'm contradicting myself; maybe I am. Your work is more constant than Gonzales'. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt very much that you have a real-life model for Doug that you occasionally photograph or sketch-from-life for the beauty shots; it's just that you sometimes click in to what I perceive as a deeper level with your character drawing.
Bradley Rader
2018-07-13 17:51:20 +0000 UTC
