Phew! With the end of coloring for MARATHON, the bulk of the heavy lifting is done and boy am I relieved! Now all that’s left to do is the sound effects and the cover. Stay tooned as I’ll be posting updates on those as well. Thanks for the bananas and gatorade, folks!
So here’s the first fully inked, colored and lettered page of Marathon! The book will be black with one color throughout and for this test I used a warm ochre. I’m currently leaning toward this area of the spectrum but until I’m coloring the book in earnest, that decision is still not final. Thanks for visiting and stay tooned for more previews and process posts!
All 183 pages of Marathon are now penciled! It’s been a long process but it’s all the sweeter for the effort it took to get here. Next leg of this ‘marathon’ is inking but for now, it’s DRINKING!
As anyone whose been visiting this blog regularly might have noticed, there’s been a dropoff on uploads of my daily warmup sketches on Drawbridge. That’s in large part because I’ve been trying to ramp it up on my current graphic novel project, Marathon. The book is written by Boaz Yakin and tells the story of the first Greco-Persian war at Marathon. Above you’ll see one of the very first inked pages from the book.
Like the man says, it’s time. Over the last while I’ve been working on my next book project for First Second called Marathon. The book, written by Boaz Yakin tells the story of the first Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon in 490BC. It’s a sweeping action epic focusing on Eucles, the messenger whose run from Athens to Sparta to Marathon and back to Athens again is instrumental in the shaping of Western civilization.
Pictured above is General Miltiades, the Athenian military genius famous for this historic tactical victory over the Persian invading force.
The book is scheduled for release the summer 2012.
