New XD mann Pages

**darknite_johanne** · 07-09-2010, 09:07 AM

I've been busy in the past few weeks developing an art style that would be just right for the Graphic Novel. Check out the new pages here:

Tell me what you think.

**lin** · 07-09-2010, 04:19 PM

Wow, Johanne. You continue to impress my socks off. (Not that I wear socks here on the Mexico beach, but you know)

Zow. Zap.

I'm surprised, though. I thought the project was pretty married to the super stark B&W look. Which seemed to fit the idea of editing words.

This is a really nice look. As you know, I don't like the whole anime, big eye look, but this seems far beyond the manga cliche and into new territory. Maybe I just don't know what the leading edge of comix is looking like, but this seems really innovative and fresh.
Amazing job.

**alanmt** · 07-09-2010, 04:28 PM

very cool!

**darknite_johanne** · 07-09-2010, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by lin

Wow, Johanne. You continue to impress my socks off. (Not that I wear socks here on the Mexico beach, but you know)

Zow. Zap.

I'm surprised, though. I thought the project was pretty married to the super stark B&W look. Which seemed to fit the idea of editing words.

This is a really nice look. As you know, I don't like the whole anime, big eye look, but this seems far beyond the manga cliche and into new territory. Maybe I just don't know what the leading edge of comix is looking like, but this seems really innovative and fresh.
Amazing job.

The Stark B&W look will come back in flashback scenes. Although I think the abstract colored one may gain more mainstream audiences. (I've been asking around my fans on deviantart, and they preferred the colored one, which is not to say, the B&W one is not without fans, one of the wonders of real time feedback in the net.) I don't like to make it too much manga-ish style, as some of the things that comes with it (e.g. giant droopy eyes, large beads of sweat on the head) takes the seriousness out of it.

And I want to make a new style I could say my own. Thanks for reading Lin.

Is it just me or is Stephen King putting more and more of his Novels into Graphic Novel Form? I heard he's on Vertigo this days?

Originally Posted by alanmt

very cool!

Thanks for reading Alan.