The last Thursday in May means the Monthly Montreal Comic Jam. I actually worked on some pages of comics, but it’s more of a get-together for local artists, to share and show off, and also collaborate on things.
I got my bud Rick Gagnon to colour this picture of mine above, which turned out swell. He also inked over my pencillings for the character below:
Another of my pals works at the studio that produces the cartoon Arthur. All the animation is done with computer now, but there were boxes of old-school cels and backgrounds nobody was using, so we got these as gifts:
Here’s just the background, without the cel on top:
It was done in transparent inks, against a background of yellow underpainting to make the greens show up better.
I like the idea of yellow under, because it gives the picture warmness and its own light. I tired the same technique in a sketch I did of a couple of personalities who died this weekend:
Tags: black and white, collaboration, colour, Film & TV, men, Montreal Comic Jam, obits, Richard Gagnon, sketches, wash, watercolour