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Actually, this was all done in Photoshop. Originally I was determined to do it in gouache or watercolours, but due to the limited time and space I had to work on it, a digital medium was a better choice this time around. One comment I often get is how my digital stuff often resembles traditional media, which isn't something I intentionally set out to do, but I do treat "painting" in Photoshop much like I would regular paint on paper, mostly in how I use specific brushes for specific purposes and so on. So the end result sometimes has a pleasantly organic feel that kind of shows up by surprise.
FOLLOWUP: It does resemble a mix of watercolours and digital, but was just the colouring on the computer? You started with inked pages right?
Some people look at me funny when I say this, but the entire thing was done on a computer without any scanned sketches at all. All the "inking" was done in Photoshop with the help of a Wacom tablet. Basically all I did was just slop around some flat black shadows and lines until I got what I wanted.
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So, no, Wyit and Sidna are a little more than something I use when I need to tell a quick story. I do have a much, much larger story in the works, which I plan to be a full-length graphic novel in the future. But for now, I'm getting things started by introducing the characters through Flight by a small 'episode' for each volume possible, which has been a really great time for me.
FOLLOWUP: I’m guessing the story of how one came to serve the other is significant to the story you want to tell as well?
Man, you're reading my mind like a Tijuana Bible. Yeah, there is a lot of stuff to be told throughout the story about what it means to serve. If it were being written by someone else, Wyit would just be a sort of background character or sidekick to Sidna; the anonymous big-eared awkward fox who carries the heroine's sword for her. That's fine, but the reason I wanted to make the story told with more emphasis on Wyit serving Sidna rather than Sidna being served by Wyit is because I think it resonates better with people that way. Everyone can relate to having to do some sort of chore or work for somebody else, not everyone can relate to being the powerful knight girl with rad sword skills. Everyone WISHES they could be the badass fighter, but not everyone can relate to being one.
For me, I spent most of my life in middleschool and highschool kind of feeling in the background while everyone else was more talented and popular, so it's easier for me to write about a character like Wyit because he's material I know from personal experience.
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Sometimes, yeah, but it doesn't bother me. Right now I'm trying yet again to get into art school, but I'm not worried. Despite having little professional education, I learned an awful lot by simply teaching myself and listening to more experienced artists, as well as learned lots of stuff from my time working for Armor Holdings Inc. My boss Rod Dornsife has been an excellent on-the-job teacher for me, showing me the do's and don’ts of good visual communication in the corporate world. So I don't feel like I'm that out of place when I'm hanging around the rest of the Flight crowd. Still, I do want to go to school! The more experience, the better.
FOLLOWUP: Luckily you can always point your professors towards the bookstore to see your work now.
Yep! That's one thing I'm definitely going to have fun with. The closest thing to having anything influenced by me being seen on a store shelf were a couple cover illustrations done by my friend Sean Rubin for Brian Jacques'
Redwall audiobooks, which I gave Sean a couple small suggestions about painting clouds and stuff for. So whenever I went to a bookstore with friends, I'd pull one of the
Redwall audiobooks off a shelf and say
"See that tiny cloud there?! It wouldn't be there if I hadn't suggested it to the artist!". But now I can finally pull a whole freaking book off the shelf that has my name on the back cover AND my own small story in it. It's pretty thrilling.
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Thanks for taking this time, Jonathan. Amy and I are constantly impressed by your thoroughness.
