Palle here, with a little look behind the curtain on the visual side of creating Thomas Alsop. Hidden in all 8 issues are gems you probably missed. Here’s one of those gems. In issue #2, Thomas is awoken from his drunken sleep and summoned to Alsop Manor to face the music. So off course he […]
Another look at the process behind Thomas Alsop. Here the rough layout for page 20 of issue #2: And here’s what the looks like after pencils and ink wash:
Chris: Palle used a few different buildings to piece together Alsop Manor, all or which worked perfectly. He set the mood and tone of a spooky home base for this family, utterly believable and beautifully drawn. I think the best part of taking him to the Alsop family grave might have been the look on […]
Here is a little timelapse video of Palle’s sketching process, previously posted at comicsforbeginners.com.
Palle Schmidt says: I always start out with a rough layout of what the page will look like. I do that on A4 format paper, since that’s the standard where I am. I do it with a blue pencil so I can easily sketch on top of it later. This is a rough page from issue […]
French illustrator Elisabeth Neveux is blogging about comics and this week she wrote a great review of issue 1. But apart from the nice words, she also posted a nice piece of artwork inspired by the book and it’s characters. So here is the first bit of fan art we ever saw, featuring Alsop manor, […]
Our friends at Bleeding Cool have dug deep into the nature of Thomas Alsop and put up an excellent SPOILER-FILLED review of the first two issues. Miskiewicz and Schmidt’s story begins in 2011, with Thomas living in decadent indulgence. His celebrity has provided him with the means to buy enough alcohol and drugs to numb him so […]
Comic Bastards have been quick to read issue #2 and put up an excellent review which you can read here. An excerpt: When you pair the art with the fact that Thomas is hiding his true personality suddenly you begin to see and understand the body language that Schmidt is giving him. His “nonchalant” stroll […]
