A Silent March
…Or at least nearly silent. While the keyboard was lax this month, the brush was busy: beyond a few touchups, painting for our next batch of pages is finished. The work of nailing down scripts, layouts and characters for the next section continues, and some of our characters’ pages got a little bit of love. Check out The Beast, The Witch, …
A Bazaar Process
As we slowly grind through our current section, Mike and I thought it would be interesting to show some of the paintings as they progress. As such, here’s a small slice of the Bazaar, where the Witch searches for materials for her creation. We won’t do this for every painting, but every now and again it might be neat.
The Beast
Our Witch has a variety of little minions to do her bidding, and one not-so-little one: the Beast. In the original text, the Beast was a big hyena. I’m not terribly fond of them visually, and would rather not spend a lot of time painting them, so for my own sake I pushed for a more wolf-like interpretation. We toyed …
The Counterfet in the Graphic Canon
One day last year I got an email from the editor of an anthology called The Graphic Canon. It’s a collection of classic literature adaptations put together by Seven Stories Press. At that time, we didn’t have much concrete, but the editor (Russ) gave us a deadline we could hit. Eric proceeded to chain himself to his painting station and …
Ivory, or The Littlest Witch
I plan not to have to paint the Witch that small again. Preferably, no on who should be recognizable will be painted at that size. It seemed like a good idea during the sketch, though. I love painting deserts, for some reason. Maybe it’s the (apparent) simplicity, the feeling of expansiveness, or the desolation. Or maybe it’s just a passing …
Introductions: Eric Johnson.
I’m Eric Johnson (as the title suggests), primary artist and illustrator for The Counterfet. That sounds a bit posh on paper, but I guess it’s accurate. I’ll be posting selected tid-bits and teasers of both preliminary sketches and finished pieces as they’re completed, in addition to some images of the process. A note on media: the painted images thus far …