Posted By Mark on August 1, 2010
After coming up with a new cover for a series I did three years ago (and hadn’t really done much with since), I forgot how much I loved these characters. All the time I spent putting the layout together for the new book and revising the logo and what not gave me a chance to rediscover them, so I decided to take a fresh look at the characters.
I attribute the more streamlined look to:
1. Quicker to illustrate, but an equal part love of the Avatar series (which I just finished) and Bruce Timm’s animated series.
2. My newer art is leaning more toward the cartoony, mixed with more realistic, or at least highly textured backgrounds and monsters. I’m really getting into the contrast that creates. It makes the characters pop that much more, but it also creates a greater visual difference between the human and monster characters. Another influence in the distortion of the characters stems from by magazine illustration work, which is mostly caricature, so I’m over exaggerating a lot and going with the big head, little body look.
I’ve got a new story outlined for Curse… so we’ll see if I can work in another project this year. With how quick I did these, it may be possible.

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