![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In comics, this is often referred to as ligne claire (“clear line” in French). He hasn’t indicated lighting and shading with hatching or spotted blacks or anything like that. Or maybe he’s just a sloppy penciller and this is the best he can do.Īs you can see, Burnham has inked the piece with a dead line (a line that has no variation in its thickness). I think it keeps him more interested and engaged while inking and keeps a certain amount of energy and vitality in his finished work. These are kind of rough, but Burnham inks his own work, and he likes to do a fair amount of drawing and detail work right in the inking phase. (Oh, yeah, the original working title for the story was Xibalba, the Mayan underworld, or roughly translated, 'place of fear’.) The last design is quite strong, but it was unanimously agreed that the first was the real winner. In our story, the ‘astronauts’ are covered in ancient glyphs and sigils to ward off evil, and they are not exploring the depths of space, but the depths of fear itself. My last process post on Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's Pax Americana went over pretty well, so let’s try that again, shall we?įor the cover to the first issue of Nameless, the new Image comic by Grant, Chris Burnham, and me, the concept was to reference the iconic scene of astronauts striding purposefully forward from The Right Stuff and to subvert that with our own spin. ![]()
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