Edgar Rice Burroughs' Monster Men

[Shadowflash]

I just wanted to let everybody here know that, beginning in august I will be penciling a weekly web strip based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel, The Monster Men.

We will be updating a full color page a week along with 11 other weekly comic strips based on other ERB properties. Including John Carter and two Tarzan strips.

Please come and check it out. If you like action and adventure you will love these comics.

The comics page is here - http://www.edgarriceburroughs.com/comics/ and I've included my pencils for the first 4 weekly pages below.

Thanks for checking it out!

Erik

[Downwinder]

1. Think you will find a fan in,

Kentucky State Sen. Brandon Smith (R). He seems to have gotten all his Mars information from John Carter.

[Xyzse]

2. That is gorgeous!

Thanks for posting.

[Shadowflash]

3. Thanks

for the compliment. I hope you'll check it out when it goes live next month.

~e.

[Xyzse]

4. I kinda like the pencils more than the colored images.

I don't know why.

Don't get me wrong, I think it is well done, I just have a personal preference for less use of color.

[Shadowflash]

5. I absolutely agree

I've always liked the raw penciled pages from the artists before there is any ink or color applied. I think they just have a nicer quality.

[Xyzse]

6. Yep. Since I feel like a lot of things are lost when color is placed in.

I feel like it loses something in the translation, where the color tends to flatten things out.

Unless it is fully photoshopped color, but even then, I ust like the penciled raw images.

[Shadowflash]

7. There is something beautiful

about the graphite that you lose when putting ink on it. It may just be the depth or the various shades of the darks. I can't really pinpoint it but, it DOES lose some quality when the penciled pages go down the assembly line.

My pages are no different. I've always been slightly disappointed after seeing the finished pages from my pencils. I always thought it was just me.

[Xyzse]

8. Yeah, I think it is the variation of the shading, since when you go with pens, you tend to lose some

Sharpness. It also doesn't allow for as much changes in the point's width.

Not that I am an artist or anything.

[FSogol]

9. Wow, looks awesome. n/t

[Shadowflash]

10. Thanks!