The whole of Heart of Empire - together with all pencilled and inked
pages, 60,000 words of annotations by Bryan and the whole of the Adventures
of Luther Arkwright is available on a CD-Rom
for only 18 US dollars.
Panel 1 of page
106 of issue 4 - static |
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Here is the first panel of this
page in very first rough draft form, mid quality black and
white form, and final, finished version in full colour.
The thumbnail, by the way, is my attempt to
show all three stages in one image.... |
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Animation of panel 1 of page
106 |
I tried this as an experiment,
loading all of the stages of the creation of panel 1 of page
106 into a gif animation, and the result is amazing! (but
owes rather more to Bryan's artistic skills than to my Photoshop
ones!)
Check it out - but be aware, it's a fairly hefty file at
approx 256k. |
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Panel 2 of page
106 of issue 4 - static |
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Here is the second panel from
page 106 in all three stages of creation - with me
sitting there in the background, on the far right.... |
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Animation of panel 2 of page
106 |
Here are the three stages of panel
2 of page 106 in another single animation. This is also the
first frame of the comic that actually has me as a
background character in it.... that's me sitting on the chairs
behind Gabriel on the far right of the row.
Check it out - but be aware, it's a fairly hefty file at
approx 256k. |
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Panel 3 of page
106 |
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Here is panel 3
of page 106 in all of its stages of production. Because this
image is so big, I have created the page in two different
versions: you can either see it all in one place - which is
admitedly a hefty download, - or you can see each stage seperately:
the first rough draft, the midway
through version, and then the final
coloured, printed version. Clicking on the thumbnail will
take you to the all-in-one page.
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Animation of panel 3 of page
106 |
Here's the animation of all three
stages of creation of panel 3: it's a large file, but I hope
you'll agree worth the download time.
And I am a character in this one too... as a thank you Bryan
drew me in as an anti-fascist, anti-Royalist, anti-racist
revolutionary...... yes! |
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Page One in full
colour |
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This is it: this is where it
all starts.... here is page 1 of the whole thing in it's full
colour form.... |
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Page One in first rough draft |
This is it: this is where it
all starts.... here is page 1 of the whole thing in it's first
rough draft form.... |
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Page 79 of issue
3 in colour |
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Here is another chance to see
one of Bryan's pages from Heart of Empire in full colour version
- and also in the first rough draft version (below)
I feel incredibly proud to be able to show
fans of Bryan's work this kind of thing - his work evolving
on the page.... |
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Page 79 of issue 3 in rough rough
draft |
Page 79 in it's first rough draft
version, on the way to becoming the masterpiece of the finished
version above... |
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Page 15 of Issue
One in rough version |
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This is Bryan's first rough
draft of page 15 of issue 1. |
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Page 15 of Issue One in colour |
This is page 15 of issue 1 in
full glorious colour, put up here mainly to show the way that
the page evolved as is went from first rough draft to this
finished version. |
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