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Azure Pages 62 Inks
January 16, 2010With completely digital work there isn’t so much a pencil or ink pass as there’s a “linework” or drawing pass. I generally start with a really rough, loose illustration that’s little more than a collection of gesture sketches and panel placements, with word balloon areas or as I like to call them “dead spots”. To show what is line work and what is done in my Black and White phase and what is accomplished when I start to put in colour passes; I’ve extracted all of the colour and overlay layes of my file for page 62.
Below is the BW pass for page 62 which you can click to enlarge – and no, it is not in full res, but large enough.
Azure Season 2 Begins January 12th, 2010
January 9, 2010
A long time coming due to prior commitments on my end, but Season 2 updates will begin next week. A good deal of time has been spent on honing the process for making the pages, and there will be a couple of special livestreams in the coming months where one of the pages I pre-recorded being created will be streamed the day of the page’s live update. It took me a while to get to the point where I could create an Azure page in full colour in about 8 hours, but I’m there now – whew!
The script for Season 2 is there, and I am spitting out pages twice a week, barring illness or loss of limb. Hope to see everyone around 10:30am on the 12th!
Azure Season 1 Brushes
January 3, 2010Here are some of the brushes I developed for Season 1 of Azure. Feel free to use as you wish – Just give me a nod or a mention if you find them useful!
At the middle of Season 2 I will publish the brushes I’ve added to the mix for creating the pages of the comic. Season 2’s brushes include a wave of brush sets for creating a rust look (when applied with certain colours/layers), and a set of “Ocean Surface” brushes.
(saulone.abr)
Season 2 Progress Update
December 14, 2009I’ve been plugging away on pages for Azure Chapter 2 and am almost ready to relaunch with the new season. I’m doing more refining this time around – showing a small group pages and getting feedback before going live. In other words, getting outside opinions and feedback. The slight delay in getting Season 2 underway was the script (there were 2 of them and we had to decide on one), and the fact I took on a zillion projects right at the end of Season 1 of Azure. Book covers have been completed now, and I am polishing off the last of my comissioned pieces, so It will be all Azure for a while as I bring my project load down to two major projects – Azure and something else I can’t discuss at this time.
What’s in store for Season 2? If you’ve been following the 30 Characters imagery you can see hints and pieces of characters that may or may not appear in Season 2. If you haven’t caught up on Season 1 – please do so now – and pay close attention to some of the things going on in the flashbacks.
Look for one final piece of promo art before the Season 2 launch 
Webcomic Overlook Reviews Azure Season 1
December 1, 2009
El Santo gives a write-up on Azure over at the Webcomic Overlook. Go take a peak and drop him a comment! It’s a fairly good recap of Season 1, so beware spoilers if you haven’t caught up.
