My new minicomic is finished! It's called All of this will crumble. You can read about the initial writing, designing, and drawing process in this post.
I went with a photo cover using a picture I took on the hike that inspired the book's setting. I'm pleased with how it looks, especially printed on the brown paper that I found and bought.

You'll remember in that last post about it that I penciled the whole thing in under two weeks, and inked and toned the first page immediately after. Well...the rest of the process wasn't that fast. At all. Which should come as no surprise seeing as how that was back in April and we're now into June. Toning was the roughest part, partially because I haven't worked in black and white like this in a long time, and also because it took so long to work out HOW it should be toned. I started off really simple, as shown with the first page in that old post. I realized that wouldn't work by the time I hit page 12 or so. 

Here's how it looks now, after multiple revisions:
That lead I was bragging about? I needed it. I REALLY needed it. I was so mad at myself for how much extra work I had to put into it, for getting cocky and thinking I could blast through the tones in the same way I handled the penciling. There were a number of nights where I just locked myself up and worked.

Here's another page:

It was worth all of that extra effort, I think. I'm just...really happy with it, you guys. I think it looks really good. I'm excited to take a bunch of copies with me to HeroesCon next weekend. 

Oh. And here's a hint at what exactly is causing the end of the world:
I've already got the whole thing folded and stapled. I'm going to submit it to ComiXology soon so that people can pick it up digitally. I really hope it finds an audience.

So what's next, now that this is finished? I'm working on a shirt design right now for my brother's band, an art trade with another artist I befriended on Instagram, and I've got script pages in hand for the next comic project. Plus, as a little side project, I'm looking back at all of the characters I've created since I seriously started making comics in 2010 and drawing them. I'll share all of those in a future post and talk about each one. I want to have a rough overview of what all I've done over the course of these 6 years and get a sense of how my creative process has morphed in that time. And then of course there's that figure drawing group I put together, trying to plan the next meeting for that.

All of which is to say: I'm hard at work again, I'm loving it, and I'm excited to show you all this new stuff. I hope you enjoy it.