EricZ

GW Noir

For the past couple of years, I’ve moved over to a strictly ‘line-art’ style for sequential page renders. My very early sequential work had a distinct noir, heavily shadowed final rendering. (as evident by my pages for “The Killers: Wars End”) But over time, I grew concerned over the necessity to complete a page a day and found that taking away all that time calculating shadows would allow me to be able to make such a deadline. Also, with the emergence of artists like Mike Choi and Sara Pichelli in mainstream comics, I see a growing trend towards more of a collaboration with colourists. This is the future of mainstream comics. I predict that over-rendered images are going to be seen as very dated to this current era of comics. While we’ll always have ‘noir’ styled comics out there, I believe that they’ll be pretty rare.

Nevertheless, it’s been years since I’ve drawn in a ‘noir’ style, so I decided to give it a try the other day. I think I’m a little shaky with it, but I’m happy with the final result. The benefit here is that it doesn’t need to be coloured to fully appreciate it. I find my ‘line art’ sequentials look kind of naked without the colour.

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I’m currently competing in the July Zuda competition with a comic I illustrated and co-wrote called “Metropolitan Siege.” Please vote for me at the site so I can continue the story!