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Christmas Eve- Before you say goodbye

Merry Christmas gang

Cover stage 2

I went back to the drawing board a little bit on the background for this piece. I didn't think I captured The heading into Boston vibe in the first highway backdrop. Bean town has some really crazy highways as you head in to different parts of the city. A lot of big looping around over passes dipping down and going into underground tunnels. tightened up the main figure a little bit, but went back and erased his legs (they seemed really long)

the black bars along the top and bottom might stay I like the widescreen effect it gives and will leave me space for the logo and all that fun stuff.

more to come on this stay tuned.

Page 1

you serious?!

Yesterday

Katherine and James going through some records and kicking some sweet tunes, in a simpler time.

Katherine is holding: The beatles "Help"
James is Holding: Atmosphere " when life hands you lemons paint that S**t gold"

both albums contain songs called "yesterday"

other albums in the clutter. in no real order.

Funeral for a friend " Hours"
Johnny Cash "American IV the man comes around"
Beatles "Let it be"
Gorrillaz "demon days"
Flogging Molly "Swagger"
Coheed and Cambria "second stage turbine blade"
coheed and cambria "Good apollo I'm burning star IV volume one: from fear through the eyes of madness."
The way of the gun soundtrack
rolling stones "let it bleed"
20th century Masters-The millennium collection motown 1970's vol 1
Thrice "the artist in the ambulance"
Thursday "war all the time"
cowboy bebop "CD-box"
Metallica "death magnetic"

James remixed

wanted to pay tribute to the first Forever winter drawing with this remixed version. Seven years is a long time.

from the vault.

This ladies and gentlemen was the very first piece of Forever winter related artwork. Finished (well as finished as poor inks and some lazy marker work can be considered) for One of Alec steven's classes my first year at the kubert school back in 03, the assignment was using a mathematical equation to rule out and place objects for the viewer.

quick google search I believe its called the "golden mean" or the golden ratio. thanks google.


there was no story at this point Just a dude with a sword walking in the snow, but look at that sweet cape...


till next time

-Joel-

ps. I almost drank my dirty ink water twice as I was typing this.

soup at Il tramonto

A panel from the fifth page of Forever winter, trying out a new inking style. seemed like as good a panel to start the hungry samurai blog with. Soup at Il tramonto. There is no restaurant in Boston called Il Tramonto the title comes from a song on the soundtrack to the classic film "The good, the Bad and the ugly" which I would definitely list as one of the inspirations for the book.