Bryan Lee O'Malley's Blog, page 2

My next book, "Seconds"

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/comics/article/48040-bryan-lee-o–malley-takes-next-graphic-novel-to-villard.html

ummm… it'll be out in July 2013 from Random House / Villard. It is called "Seconds" and it's a stand-alone graphic novel. This is just a preliminary announcement, but I'm sure I'll talk about it a lot as I work on it over the next year or so.

happy potter day

someone told me it's the elder wand, not godric's sword… the only reason i started thinking it was the sword is cause the movie version of the deathly hallows icon looks like a sword! MAYBE MINE IS BETTER?

Monkey Manga interview

I did this interview with some Japanese comics heroes thanks to Phil Knall and it is now online in English (via Comics Alliance).

Exclusive & limited Scott Pilgrim prints for San Diego Comic Con

These will sell out – limited to 200, sold as a set (I don't know the price yet sorry), signed and hand-numbered. By meeeeeeee.

As mentioned, I will be signing at the Oni Press booth on Thursday and Friday.

SNA DIGEO

i'm going to San Diego Comic Con next week and will be signing at the Oni Press booth THURSDAY, 3 PM and FRIDAY, 11 AM and that's it!!!! if you want to get stuff signed and pick up kewl new prints, be there bright & early!!!!

toronto July 2011 + poster

so I'm doing another signing at the Beguiling in Toronto… yes, wah wah wah, I always go to Toronto, so sue me. I will always go there because I have lots of friends and family to visit there, and The Beguiling is a world-class comic shop.

We are also printing this poster and it will be available at the signing. Leftover posters may make their way to comic con or other events and the Beguiling will be selling them online.

Poster process animated gif

I slaved over a hot gif for hours to bring you this animated version of the previous post

Scott Pilgrim 2010 Poster development

This is the poster that comes with the Scott Pilgrim Box Set, released late 2010.

STEP 1: ROUGH SKETCH

Probably did some basic doodling in a sketchbook, then launched into this big scribble in Photoshop. I decided to do it this way because it would be easier to move stuff around and make changes and edits. So in this first sketch, a few of the characters are fully established and others are going to end up changing a lot.

STEP 2: SKETCH REVISION (1)

I changed Envy and Ramona, flipped Stephen's body, added a rough sketch of Joseph beside him, and redrew the Twins. At this point it became clear that I had a few too many characters and some major ones were getting lost in the shuffle.

STEP 3: SKETCH REVISION (2)

I pushed Scott and Ramona toward the center, requiring me to redraw Roxy and Patel. Then I went ahead and redrew the entire left-hand side, making Kim / Wallace / Lisa more prominent and making Knives Chau dominate the bottom corner, removing Mr Chau, Stacey and Joseph in the process, as well as spontaneously giving Stephen Stills a guitar. Still not satisfied with Envy Adams.

STEP 4: SKETCH REVISION (FINAL)

I brought everything in from the edges and extended the artwork a bit to make it feel less crowded. Envy still felt boring, so I gave her the hammer (from Vol 3) and redrew her yet again. I redrew Ramona's leg and brought the CN Tower into the foreground.

STEP 5: PENCIL CLEANUP

So at that point I printed the art out (in light blue) on a big piece of paper and tightened everything up in that form, then moved on to inks.

STEP 6: INKS (1)

This shows the inks having been scanned in (pencil roughs still visible) and a few additions in Photoshop. I mainly inked with a Rosemary & Co kolinsky sable brush, #3, plus a few miscellaneous pens and markers for small details. I meant to give Envy a bunch of jewelry and forgot to draw it, so I did that on the wacom. I also drew the CN Tower on wacom in order to get nice straight lines on it.

STEP 7: INKS (FINAL)

This is the final inks that I sent on to colorist Rico Renzi. Between the last step and this one, I erased the sword and hammer lines and redrew them (in Photoshop) to make them nice and straight. I also ended up simplifying the lace on the bottom of Envy's dress, and extending everyone's legs all the way to the bottom of the page.

STEP 8: FINAL FINAL

There were a few rounds of back-and-forth with colorist Rico Renzi, but it was a pretty painless procedure from my end and it turned out really cool!

Transformers book I did when I was eight

I forgot to post this here on my blog. Somehow in the meantime it made its way to io9 and boingboing.

I'm not actually sure where I put this thing (I took these pics back in November). I have a bunch of old art and comics from childhood stored in my garage and I keep meaning to scan more.

Pencils from this thing

Sketched on wacom, printed out blue lines, tightened up with blue pencil.