Legacy Action Comics: Red Zombie p.7

This is a nice tranquil scene of a zombie coming upon a house.  Look at the unsuspecting people near the house preparing, and enjoying the nice fall afternoon...

More Red Zombie

This is the sixth page of my inks over Nate Hamel's pencils.  This will be published by Legacy Action Comics (twitter: @legacyAC) in their second issue as soon as all the other artists are finished with their stories.  I was hoping to have it by the time I went to NY next weekend for the New York Comic Con, but alas, it is not to be.  Also, I'll be at the con Friday afternoon and Saturday.  Follow me on twitter: @jpeteranetz to find out where I'll be when.  I'll be wandering around mostly, and getting reviews from editors, and networking as much as I can, but I have a couple of offers to sit at a table or two for a while, so I'll let you know when and where on my twitter.

Updates and Thesis Posts

So, I know I've been away for a while, but I've been working a lot on a series of projects I can't talk about yet.  That being said, my thesis from my time at the Savannah College of Art and Design is being used online by Making Visual Narratives exactly as it was supposed to be used, to help primary and secondary teachers get a start and a grasp on comics they can use to help their students read.  The site is administered by Grant Thomas, a teacher himself who attended the Rocky Mountain Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels with me last summer.  Check out the website and the link to my first post here:
http://makingvisualnarratives.com/primary/common-core-and-comics-little-mouse-gets-ready
He also introduced me here (and he spelled my name wrong):
http://makingvisualnarratives.com/general/introducing-jay-peternetz

I have also been contracted to do a monthly comic strip for Comfort Dental.  The first strip you've seen and is above.  The rest are coming soon....KEEP CHECKING BACK FOR MORE!

MMD Teaser 4: Final Colors

This is the final teaser I'll be able to put up for this project.  It is finished and submitted, we are waiting for the official announcement now. These are the final colors and shows how the project will look in print.  Enjoy!  And stay posted for more information and future projects.

MMD Teaser 3 (final Inks)

So, it's all coming together.  As I complete phases of this project I am learning more and more about the complexity of comics and how many different formats can be used for the comic medium.  Right now I am completing the final pieces of artwork for this project and am about to start coloring the comic portion.  I am looking forward to finishing this up and seeing the final result when it's all said and done.  It should be released before Black Friday this winter.  I'll keep you updated.

MMD Process (teaser 2)

This is another scene from the MMD comic I am working on.  I really liked the depth and composition I was getting with this piece, so I thought I'd show it.  I am in the middle stage of the inking on this panel and I thought I'd show some process and put this up again when I finish it.  It will have a good amount of black in it, and some serious blood splatter!  Fun!
For this project I am using a pentel stylo pen that mimics a nib, but you don't have to keep dipping into an ink well.  I don't like it as much as a nib, but it's giving my line work a good consistency, and allowing me to play with black and white shape to create eye movement and depth.  That is something Mignola does VERY well with his Hellboy work.  Enjoy!

Hellboy Interlude

I am still thoroughly enjoying Mike Mignola's Hellboy.  I would love to work on that property, so I am drawing him a LOT.  I hope you enjoy this one.  This is step one of inks.  I'll finish him when I have time and then post the finish.

MMD Teaser 1

Nothing is more fun than chains and torture.  These are a couple more teaser panels for my latest project.  I am nearly done with the black and white and will be moving on to colors next.  I know I should be my own biggest critic, but I think I am really hitting some nice line work and compositions with this project.  I hope you agree!

Back again...and with ART!

Well, I've been absent from regular posts for a while, and I am hoping to change that this month.  I have been busy doing a LOT of work.  The biggest of my projects I can't announce yet due to the contract I have signed on it, but I am allowed to show some images.  This image is for the main villain of the story.  When this project is officially announced, it's going to BLOW YOUR MIND!  At least I hope it does...it certainly got me excited about it.  Anyway, more to come in the coming weeks.

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A couple of variants of a logo I did for a rap metal band out of Atlanta.  They hired me to do this logo (this took about 15 minutes).  And then they took a hiatus....right as I finished this sketch...fun.

Hellboy

Just a quick sketch during lunch at work.  I am gonna try to do a few more of these as the days go on...but I am pretty busy...I guess that's good.  PS- sadly I got the right hand of doom wrong and I was reading a hellboy comic right before I drew this....sad sad Jay.

Wedding Daze...

A friend of mine from work is getting married at some point this summer.  Her soon-to-be husband is a marine and is getting deployed in August...when their wedding was supposed to be.  Regardless, this picture is her wedding gift to him.  It's done in ink with a slicci, a pentel stylo, and a pentel pocket brush.  It's about 11"x14", and honestly, captured their likeness pretty well.