Amateurish Beginnings

(Dec 23, 2009)

If you listened to our interview with Jeremy Massie a while back, you may remember he mentioned a comic we’re working on together called Amateurs.  Well, I’ve now started drawing the book, and I thought I’d post the first pencilled page which I drew last Monday.  Yeah, there’s not much to show in terms of characters and plot, but we wanted to start things off with a bang.

When I was looking up reference for the bomb tower in the above page, I came across a couple of photographs that I thought were interesting:

I like how everybody looks chilled out and casual in these photos.  Just lounging around in short-sleeves in the desert… it makes me imagine a Science Camp… A bunch of geeks in the middle of nowhere doing experiments, singing ’round the campfire at night and drinking hooch that somebody brewed up in one of the labs.  Then in the morning everyone stumbles out hungover and blow stuff up.  The American dream!

Finally, I wanted to draw a something “Christmas-y” since this is my last post before the holiday.  Since Jonathan and I plan to celebrate the holiday by watching the Greatest Christmas Movie Ever Made, I thought I’d look to that for my inspiration:

Truly, John McClane battling terrorists is the reason for the season!  Hope you all have a happy holiday.