From Pencils to Inks: The Sky Dreamers Page 13

Work continues on Page 13 of The Realm Ethereal: The Sky Dreamers, and I thought this would be a good opportunity to share both the finished pencils and the current inking progress. Building the Page in Pencil The pencil stage is where all the pieces of the page finally come together. The composition and storytelling […]
The Sky Dreamers Page 4 Finished Inks
The Sky Dreamers Page 4 Pencil Ink Progress

Keeping up with at least a panel a day. Every little bit of artwork completed, gets a page completed that much quicker, artwork-wise. Here’s some final inks, plus some pencil artwork and some tweaking of Baldor’s arm in the final artwork. The wide panel was done one one day, and the vertical panel was done […]
The Sky Dreamers Pages 2-3 Finished Pencil Artwork
A preview of the finished pencilled artwork for The Sky Dreamers pages 2-3. Approximate size is 17″ x 22″.
The Sky Dreamers Pages 2-3 Pencil Progress
The Sky Dreamers 01 Finished Inks

An advanced preview look at the raw inks (raw scan) of page 1 of The Sky Dreamers. You saw it here first! Want to know what came before “The Sky Dreamers”? Order a copy of “The Dream Awakens” at my online store.
The Realm Ethereal Just Got AI’d

I don’t have good or bad feelings about AI. I use it sometimes for my day job, but I think more and more people are anyway. I do edit videos and am always on the lookout for new tools. I found DeeVid.ai and was able to create what you see here. All in the time […]
The Sky Dreamers 10-15 Thumbnail Sketches
The Sky Dreamers 4-9 Thumbnail Sketches
Creating the thumbnails will give me a good leg up on planning the layouts for new pages. But they also help me to begin the dialogue in my head. While I’m drawing these, I work from a basic plot that outlines the gist of each page. An important step as I am both the writer […]
Nor and Kor Ink Sketch

I carved out some time to get back into inks with a quick sketch of Nor, the Ethereal of the Merging Stars, from my Realm Ethereal universe. This piece revisits the closing moments of The Dream Awakens and points toward my follow-up arc, The Sky Dreamers. I worked traditionally—minimal pencils, then straight to a brush […]