Category: Graphic Novels

Preview Page 4

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I know I am crazy to draw all this when 80% of it will be concealed by overlaid panels, but hey, I am nothing if not OCD. In other news, I might actually be ready to start posting at the end of January. Shocking. At least, I am shocked. :P

Posted 2012.01.01 19:05 | Last modified 2012.01.01 19:05 | 2 Comments

Preview Page 3

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This page definitely qualifies as Shit I Never Thought I'd Be Drawing. Seriously, this is why drawing a comic is so great! There is no end of stuff I've spent my entire life being completely uninterested in drawing (like cars and SNOWBOARDING, lol), and now I have to learn how to do it. Sure, I may suck. But I'm gonna learn. :)

Posted 2011.12.24 16:01 | Last modified 2011.12.24 16:01 | Leave a reply

Preview Page 2

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Another preview shot of the Next Project (which I am still struggling to name... urgh). I'm not particularly happy with the colors still, but then I never was with Maze either, so meh, I am still of the opinion that more pages > perfect pages.

Posted 2011.12.11 11:25 | Last modified 2011.12.11 11:25 | 2 Comments

Preview Page 1

Preview Page 1 (mleiv.com)
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Here's a peek at page 1. I haven't finished all the coloring/refining yet, but it's mostly done.

Posted 2011.11.20 12:39 | Last modified 2011.11.20 12:39 | Leave a reply

Preview Cityscape

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Posting this before I lose the nerve. It's a background spread from my Next Project. There will be other stuff over it, but I am a crazy person and always draw the whole bg first. This is supposed to be about halfway between Blade Runner and WWII-era Britain.

Posted 2011.11.11 20:59 | Last modified 2011.11.20 12:37 | 3 Comments

The Locked Maze 3: Page 45

The Locked Maze 3: Page 45 (mleiv.com)
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I have four pages left. And about three weeks to finish them in. So I will be very busy. Especially because I keep getting distracted with the website and other things. And then I have to focus on getting prints made for my conventions in the fall and starting up my fan sketches of tv/movies again, because there is a huge quantity of fan drawing which I have been promising myself and never had time for. A Farscape cast ATC page like my firefly one is definitely gonna happen. :) And maybe a smaller Middleman set.
Posted 2011.07.03 1:26 | Last modified 2011.07.03 1:26 | 4 Comments

The Locked Maze 3: Page 44

The Locked Maze 3: Page 44 (mleiv.com)
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If you want to read a breakdown on the Mormon afterlife, read: lds.org.

This is meant to be a physical representation of the metaphorical Veil of Forgetfulness (wikipedia). Using the word "Heaven" here is incorrect, as proper heaven is not entered until after Judgement Day. In the meantime, souls go to the Spirit World, which has a Paradise and a Prison. The Spirit World is just here on Earth, though, hence the need for the aforementioned veil to keep us from seeing all those ghosts all the time. Also, the word "angels" (since Mormons don't have the winged, genderless angels of Catholic lore) is Holly's grandmother differentiating between the newly dead souls and the older righteous souls present in a more official/on-the-job capacity.

Anyway, I was just trying to create a uniquely Mormon afterlife. I could have gone with the gates and St Peter and all that, and it would have been fine (apart from the Judgement Day delay and all), but I am nothing if not obsessive about the little details...
Posted 2011.06.26 10:12 | Last modified 2011.07.03 1:27 | 5 Comments

The Locked Maze 3: Page 43

The Locked Maze 3: Page 43 (mleiv.com)
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I am working on a site for Maze. Just so it will have a place to live when I am done with it. I feel at times like it is 1999 again: as in, I have spent a decade learning how to make huge glossy commercial pages that look like magazines, but now I am making a cluttered, overly-graphic, dark, un-tagged, linear site with less than 130 pages. It is just weird. But I promise, no blinking headlines and color cycling. :P And it will look nice on mobile phones. And maybe have swipe. :D
Posted 2011.06.19 11:22 | Last modified 2011.06.26 10:12 | 10 Comments

The Locked Maze 3: Page 42

The Locked Maze 3: Page 42 (mleiv.com)
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And welcome back to Morgan, Hyacinth, Poppy, and also Jay, Kestrel, and Tulip (who may be harder to spot). :)
Posted 2011.06.12 10:38 | Last modified 2011.06.19 11:15 | 10 Comments

The Locked Maze 3: Page 41

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Two pages in one week! OMG I haven't managed that in ages. Given that page 40 is just filler, it would not have been so painfully hard, but I was also helping the Significant Other finish assembling his photography final (link) and lord, I am soooo tired. I finally upgraded to Photoshop CS5.5 (wuvey-purchased copy, so I could read his camera files) and there is a bit of a learning curve, but I am giddy to report that the jagged line issue between CS3 and my tablet - which I have put up with for three years - is finally resolved! YAY! I can draw straight lines without zooming in to 400%. The downside is that the new smooth lines are so incredibly perfect that my old computer does not have the resolution to match. I keep clicking in the wrong place and getting crooked lines anyway. :/

I have been dreading this page for the last two months, but turns out that if you just stop caring and scribble in generic people shapes, and color everything in monotone, then it aint so hard after all. By my calculations there should be over 30 million ghosts waiting (thats for two years, and Morgan said it had been going on for longer). But I couldn't even draw 30 million DOTS, so you'll just have to imagine all the rest. :P
Posted 2011.06.05 17:56 | Last modified 2011.06.12 10:35 | 6 Comments

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