Book Three Is Not Set In Krakow

Hey there, deep into Book Three which is the one that surprised me most of all when I chose

to do it way back in May, this needs some explanation.

Homeless G-Men was the comic that I started, it was the first, there were some character concepts in place and two of the stories were kind of thought out in my head, as I worked on the book I was deciding if I wanted to commit all of my time to just doing issues of the HG's or maybe I should do two comics instead and I could bounce back and forth on them

So I wrote a list of six kinds of comic that I was interested in doing (I'll talk about this in another post)   of the six, Battle Rally was the most surprising to me, considering all the drawing that would be involved I could have skipped it - but I had an idea.

If you know me, you know I don't get bored I'm always doing something one of those things is build models out of wooden kits, we have a whole basement full of stuff like this crazy car here.

I decided it was time to put the vehicles into play and needed a concept that 1) I wanted to do more than one issue of and 2) would allow me to use a wide variety of vehicles

and that's how the initial idea for Battle Rally came.

The second part was the most important for me to commit the time to the book, what was it about beyond vehicle racing? I surprised myself at how quickly I got to the answer, the issues in Battle Rally are about corporations interfering in sport (Rollerball) vehicular combat (like Death Race) but it's a character piece first and it's the story of two women who are in competition for the same job.

This interested me, if I hadn't gotten to the two lead characters and what they were about I would have never committed to the commit.

I hate drawing vehicles, every artist does but this book is going to help me get over that and I can't believe just how much I enjoyed working on this one.

This may be the last comic before the end of 2014, I have a few jobs coming up that I'll need to commit my time to, two of them are comic jobs so I'll still be posting here at least twice weekly.

Hang On People of Buffalo!

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

 

Half Bad Ass/ Half Ridiculous

All villains must look half like a total  bad ass and half kinda stupid, that seems to be the rule- I mean look at Doc Oc or the Vulture or most of the villains in the DCU. I kept that in mind when concocting this bird of prey inspired armour.

This guy is from the THIRD book that I am finishing this month and sending to the printers so right now I will have three books available at TCAF (if I get accepted to TCAF of course) I figured it would be good to have more than one book available if I got a table and I think it will be very interesting to see which of the three titles is the most popular.

The Homeless G-Men proof is now going to print!

These are exciting times we live in, also be sure to head to the Cameron House (Toronto) to check out my show of paintings it will be up until the end of November. Check the Mad Craft Shoppe blog to have a look at some fine abstracts.

cheers, it is cold outside just ask my dog

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

 



Cover Sketch Process, Homeless G-Men #1

Here's a quick breakdown of the cover sketch. It's a very simple picture but still needed to be perfect, I've been struggling with the covers of two of the four books but I had to move on. I figured an images of the main G-Man and hero of the book would suffice for the first issue.

Top page is the first sketch, was pretty happy with it so moved onto cover weight paper and traced it on the light box and then (final photo) laid in the inks.

After this the drawing was scanned and then coloured and some of the blacks were touched up in Manga Studio 5 and then the lettering was added.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Homeless G-Men ready for proofing

After many, many sketches that used the whole cast of the comic ( none of which I was happy with) I reworked an older drawing of Swinnerton for the cover of the Homeless G-Men No.1.

I like it, I actually like using the while/red for the front and back covers. I'd thought of using black but it didn't fit. I think the blue buts up well with the red and white.

The pages are now in the capable hands of the folks at Print Ninja and I'll be seeing the final proof soon. Comics will be available in the New Year from me in person or you can head to my shop at storenvy (not open yet since I have no comics available to ship).

In the next two weeks I'll be finishing the third book and sending it off as well, I'll also be reorganizing the studio to make space for the stock that will be showing  up.

enjoy the Santa Claus parade

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Crypto-Zombic is off to the printers!

Very happy to announce that my first completed 32 page comic has been sent to the fine people at Print Ninja, I should be getting the preview copy on Monday (of course I spotted a typo after I sent it off) and I can't wait to sign off and sent it to press.

I'm allowing myself twelve hours off from work before getting to the next comic The Homeless G-Men, which has been drawn and coloured, I just need to add the text, that should take another week and then I'll be onto the THIRD comic which still needs a few pages drawn and coloured.

At this rate (and of course if I'm accepted) I will have three (and possibly a fourth) comic available for sale at TCAF in May 2015.

If you're interested in seeing some of my other work check out the mad craft shoppe in the links and you can see my show of paintings that is currently hanging at the Cameron House in Toronto for the month of November.

cheers!

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com