The Forever Winter #1 title page complete with reference (Lansdown Street outside Fenway Parl) and creator/artist Joel Lolar.

- Rian

13 days away #Bostoncomiccon, swing by the table and pick up a third printing of forever winter 

Drawn and inked by Joel but Jacob “Kansas” rhodes made the sweet sweet colors 

Forever winter 2 cover art

Haven’t had a chance to get a good scan of the original piece, so this photocopy is going to make do for now.  

-Joel- 

So, this is another prime example of being in love with the concept, and not executing properly. I was kicking this particular pose/idea around for at least 3 weeks! This is as near as I could get it. It started off as a full body shot, and after trying to figure out how to make his legs look somewhat believable, I just went to this mid range shot instead, pose is still wonky though.

In case you’re wondering, this is indeed James. The idea would be he’s mortally wounded and wondering off into the darkness, the victor in some ruthless battle, but I don’t think it comes across as well. Perhaps someday I’ll try to get James right. BTW, I really like Jesse’s James, no pun(?) intended. Up and Atom!

-Jazzy Club

My final Novembrrr sketch is here, I actually made this one to resemble those old japanese samurai art scrolls.  added some colorful shapes in the background and wrote Forever Winter in Japanese and there you go!  It’s been a fun month full of snowy art.  Let’s just hope it doesn’t really snow too much this winter!

~Tony Sedani

For my final Novembrr card, I chose to draw fan favorite character: Oni. I say that because, by my count, he’s the only character that all 6 of us drew this month. Unless, of course, Tony draws Kry tomorrow or he and Kansas both draw James this week (which are distinct possibilities).

I didn’t want to be the fifth person to draw a bust of Oni (not that there’s anything wrong with that), so I set my sights on coming up with a different layout, and this was the third or fourth thing I sketched out. It’s a little like Kansas’ Kry card, but with more “stuff in the background” happening (for better or worse). Also, color. And a bloody club thing.

I thought it’d be cool to try to make Oni imposing without seeing much of him. Did I succeed? I dunno. As with most of my cards this month, I feel like this would have turned out way better if I’d drawn it at 8.5x11” scale instead of on a tiny little sketch card, but that’s what this blog is all about lately and a larger piece would just be even more work for me. So…there ya go.

As per usual, drawn on 2-ply bristol, inked with Pitt pens, and colored with Copic markers.

See y’all in December!

- Rian

So in a fit of Déjà vu, I WAS working on a James piece that just wasn’t feeling like I wanted, and ended up working this Noah card instead. Plus surprise visits from family around the holiday and work kinda made things fun.

I feel like I cheated a bit by how detailed this digital card is. There’s no way I could be as detailed on a real card, so I’ll scale that back next week. I just felt Noah had to have a ton of stuff and BE really detailed. I tried to stay fairly true to the original character though, which I haven’t been doing in previous weeks. So win/lose. I may throw up the character sans the messy shadow also.

-Jaik Cyub

We are almost wrapped up with Novembrr. Crazy. Here is my second to last card.

I drew a back up story in the first issue of Forever winter and if you haven’t read it then consider this card a spoiler. The dude without the head in the background is Oscar. The guy in the front is Gray. Let’s just say they have history. Let me rephrase that, they HAD history. AS I look back to the pages that I did for Joel I wish they were better. I see panels that I really missed the spot on. Oh well, maybe I will get a chance to redeem myself in the future. 

-Jesse

Well, I’ll just preface this by saying I feel I’m in love with the concept much more than my execution. I just couldn’t get it where I wanted.

I’m sure every artist has come across this a few times. What you’ve envisioned just doesn’t translate to paper, or in this instance, the screen. This take is a million times better than the first one I tried though. I kinda had envisioned Elrik here like Ewan McGregor from Trainspotting, only more of a sociopath. All I know is Elrik is a son of a gun though. Round eyes be dammed. 

So yeah, all digital as per the usual this month. Maybe the next one I’ll bust out my old trusty brush pen and go old school. Who knows.

-Jah Cube