Soaring Silversparrow

[eliseu gouveia]

Heya, folks,

Guess what I do in my self-imposed lunch break, to take my mind off of....er, making comics?

Yes, yes, backgrounds are the one part of this that I trully invest the most in, but nevermind that.
It´s just some brainless fun to vent out some stress and I´m making up the story as I go, drawing the pannels one at a time (one each meal, give or take).

Don´t be too harsh, remember that it still beats reading "Complete Course of 3DStudio Max" ´s 520 pages of technobabble while I´m eating.

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Last note: This is no Watchmen, or Sandman, so don´t expect the ultimate comics experience; as I said, I just decided to start drawing sequentials instead of random drawings when I´m munching muh corn flakes.

[Ra Havok]

Hey eliseu! It has been a while since you've been here, huh?

This clearly hasn't affected your talent in any negative way! Excellent pages, except for -as you said- the lack of backgrounds.

[Bruce Lee]

Yep. You certainly need more backgrounds. The reader has no real idea where the characters are otherwise. Also, let me comment on the lettering--It's far too small. Not only is it an eye strain to read, but it gives the impression that the characters are whispering.:confused:

Food for thought.

Take care,

Loston
http://www.lostonwallace.com

[EddieChingLives]

Really great stuff. Outstanding. Very professional looking. Now get good at backgrounds and become pro.

A nice establishment shot, showing 2 walls of the rooms would help so much.

Try looking at furniture ads in the sunday newspapers for reference. Also, I've found that just drawing a door, window, or stairs can help so much. So take a panel, and put a door, window, and stairs in the panel some-how. See all the ways you can sneak them into a panel.

[eliseu gouveia]

Hi, folks,

thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it.

I´ve addressed the ballooning bit because it can ease the reading exercise but unfortunatelly, i won´t be able to invest too much on the backgrounds;

as I said, I´m doing this in my (very short) breaks, and that means that if I wanna tell a story and I don´t wanna sacrify the characters, I´m gonna have to go for the minimalist approach since backgrounds eat too much time.
Sorry......

One more for the road:

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[JEFFE]

Damn fine job.

Love that last panel. You're cool. :) Rock out!


steph

[eliseu gouveia]

Thabks, JEFFE :) .

One more, still hot from the oven :)

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[eliseu gouveia]

Fresh News:

Somewhere between pages 4 and 5, Epyphany struck me and I already know where I wanna take this lil´story.

An interesting development for someone who was contemplating killing off Silversparrow Jr. here in her first superhero assignement and dropping the ball to her big sister´s park (Yeah, yeah, I can already hear you screaming: "- Starman!!)

Not I KNOW where I wanna take this short superhero tale, prob is how to get there.

That´s usually the fun part :).

[Agent Fire]

I'm loving these pages.... I have always been interested in your style. Keep it up.

Is Silver Sparrow a character of yours?

I love the sibling rivalry... Its beautifully executed.

Can't wait to see more!!!!

[Folgore]

I gotta tell you...I'm getting a little emotional here.

[eliseu gouveia]

Thanks, Agent Fire, Silversparrow is one of a few dozen characters I made up many years ago; she was a starfighter pilot for a Galactica-like space opera that I never got to make and she had a wingman called Lovegun. :)

Thanks, Folgore, I have to admit Silversparrow is beginning to grow on me :) .

Edit: Well, page #2´s updated.

[TheWraith]

They look as god here as they do on DW, Eliseu. Great stuff :)

[jv7x]

I say your doing a damn fine job so far. I can't wait for a new page. I'm already hooked on your story and wanna know where it's going (but don't tell me, just keep drawing!)

The characters look amazing, I can live with the minimalist backgrounds and the colors are outstanding; are you doing those too? Lastly, you say you're doing these in a lunch hour?!? Even if I had 5 hours for lunch I couldn't produce something this good! JV

[eliseu gouveia]

Thanks, Frank, I´m having a blast drawing this. :)

Thanks to you too, JV7X, I´m doing each pencilled pannel in my lunch breaks, yeah, but the compositing, lettering and coloring are done after work, in my own leisure time (hey, it´s still more productive than watching Gasaraki or playing Metal Gear Solid for the nth time) :) .

[Roguehill]

Well I'm lovin the hell out of this! Woot!

[eliseu gouveia]

Thanks, Roguehill.

Here´s a new one. :)

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[eliseu gouveia]

Heya, guys , sorry for not giving signs of life in the last few days, trying to catch my breath here after going from a Celeron 700Mhz running WinMe to a P4 2400 Mhz running WinXP :D

Aaand I had to make a litle choice here, between colour and background detail... and I chose to start portraying Jessie Wright/Witt/Childers/Ryder´s adventures in BW format again.

Hope ya folks don´t mind it...

Okay, enough yapping, here´s the continuation of Silver Sparrow´s Baptism of Fire :)


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[Mike]

:eek: :eek:

Wow.

[eliseu gouveia]

Thanks, Mike :) .

Boom!
Another one; this sucker took me 3 hours, 40 minutes to pencil, scan, clean and lettter.

I´m on a roll!! :D

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[eliseu gouveia]

Geez, the man just won´t sit still, :D

Hey, guys, here´s a new one, 2 hours 10 minutes this time-though I have to confess pannels 1,2 and 3 were partially done last night- :)

Hope ya like it

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[EddieChingLives]

Wow. It's incredlibly amazing how fast you are cranking these out. Compared to how long it takes me to finish a panel on my One Eyed Jack story using MS PAINT.

I officially hate you.

But don't worry. It's just out of jealousy.

And you're right. Getting there is the fun part.

By the way, don't color these. They hold their own on black n white.

[eliseu gouveia]

Heya, EddieChingLives, thanks, but there´s nothing that special about my speed since I´m drawing these pages on regular A4 machine type sheets :D.

Here´s one more to thicken the plot :) .

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[PimpChimp]

Ha ha, you're extremely good at this. I'm enjoying every second :)

[InkDrop]

!!W;onei;W!! Lov'n every minute of it. Fantastic costume design on the sparrow. The colors over it on the first page Rock the House. More Please.

PEACE,
Drop

[MR.G]

Very impressive stuff!!!:eek: :cool:

[eliseu gouveia]

Hey, thanks, guys, I´m really glad you´re enjoying Jessie´s baptism of fire here.

Been kinda lazy today, just staring at the walls and cleaning up my Dungeon of Doom, but managed to crack some more work (most of it done last night anyway.... gawd, this heat is hideous when it comes to torpedo one´s creativity...)

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Geez, do you IMAGINE the trouble I went through to create a fancy name for the reactor? I thought of Hypermater... but there already IS Hypermatter. I went for Hyperlight, Metamatter, Metalight, Negmatter, I tell ya, ALL the good names are taken.

Good gried!

Oh, well.....

[eliseu gouveia]

More.

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[eliseu gouveia]

Well, that´s a wrap!

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Thanks for putting up with my stuff, guys, you´re the best :) .

[Mike]

For something you do over cereal, this is really interesting! Loving page 11.

[eliseu gouveia]

Heya, Mike, thanks :) .

Actually, I left the dinner table stage a few pages back (I´m STILL drawing it there, though...) and since I´m kind of in unofficial vacations, I´m just using my leisure time to draw these instead of hitting the beach or playing the likes of Metal Gear Solid :) .

Okay, ready for round two?

Ready, set..GO!

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[caanan02]

simply...amazing.:eek: ;cap;

[The Cancerman]

Wow! I've been just browsing over these for the past coupla days, and I just finally read em' today. Definitely a very cool story, especially for as fast as your putting them out. Your definitely proving your ranks as one of the best artists here.

[xadrian]

Stop it. Stop it now. Just freakin stop it.

I can do a page a day too, but it's mostly covered with tears and torn edges from eraser rips.

I will have to say I wish it had more BGs in it, but your clothing and figures are really top notch. The fact that you say you do this over breaks from work and breakfast just makes me want to kill a kitten.

[eliseu gouveia]

Thanks, guys, I really appreciate any input you may have.

There´s no special trick to the rate at which I´m drawing these, because it´s really simple and boils down to this, I´m using standard A4 machine type paper instead of those official 11x17 sheets.



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[chynco]

AWESOME!!!!!!!! i did an improve comic too... it's fun! i can hardly read anything but its still AWESOME none the less.

[eliseu gouveia]

Thanks, Chynco. :)

Okay, here´more. Sorry for the Frank Miller blatant ripoff on page #6, but drawing at these speeds sometimes I find myself putting on page the very first thing that pops in my mind.

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[jv7x]

Good Lord, Eliseu, I'm tearing up over here. This is one of the best stories I've read in a long time. I love it! I want to see more! I want to know more, like what's the deal with Sparrow's Aunt and Major Evil, who were the other heroes in the Skylair, and how in the name of all that is Holy, do you squeeze all that detail onto regular paper?!? Whatever your secret, you've just become my new hero. Now stop wasting time reading this and get back to work. JV

[Y2Jenn]

OH my God. This is supurb work! I'm completely without words. I really enjoyed reading this and i'm insanely jealous of your skills. I'd kill to be able to do sequentials like this.

... I wanna know what you put in your corn flakes! :D
I wanna see more. Such talent.... sheeze!

[eliseu gouveia]

Heya, guys, thanks, I really appreciate you hanging around Jessie´s baptism of fire here .


JV7x, I´ll be addressing Aunt Jackie and Major Evil´s relation shortly.....er, once I have figured it out myself, actually - I have ideas floating in the air, but only will know which will stuck when it comes time to draw it- .


Hi, Y2Jenn, there´s really no secret to my corn falkes, only difference is that my Muse forces me to eat them intravenously so I don´t stop drawing.
J/K :)

Here´s a few more, I´m only showing them now because I wanted to upload them all together at once.
Someone´s been quite busy today...

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[eliseu gouveia]

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[PimpChimp]

She IS the wind? Whoa. This stuff keeps getting better. Whoot whoot!

[Agent Fire]

The whole comics book character explaination thing was a bit lame, but I'll over look that on the account that these pages are beautiful and that you are making it up as you go.

[eliseu gouveia]

Heya, PimpChimp and Agent Fire thanks.

I guess that bit could have worked a liiitle better, eh?

Wel,anyway, here´s a few more;


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[eliseu gouveia]

And more .


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[Agent Fire]

Beautiful.... I'm loving it... Keep it coming!!!

[eliseu gouveia]

Eh! Eh! Thanks,. Agent Fire.

Here´s what I´ve been up to the whole day.


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[PimpChimp]

woo hoo! ass kickin' time!

but... where the hell did that voice come from?

[jv7x]

Hey, hey where the new pages! I need new pages!! Make with the new pages already!!!! JV

[eliseu gouveia]

Hi, guys,

sorry for the delay but this was an unbelievable day (mom SAID there would be days like these);

I have to apologise beforehand because these ones were done under extremelly adverse circumstances (i.e. I literally made them while I sat in the middle of the clash of Hurricanes Alicia and Erica;
yup, my 3 and 4 years old nieces came by today and how the house is still standing is a mathematical improbability scientists will be studying for years to come...)


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[eliseu gouveia]

One More:

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[Overcaffeinated]

I am thoroughly amazed and flabbergasted. Please keep them coming. Your storytelling skills are great. I particularly liked the page with the electrocardiogram. Awesome job!

[Y2Jenn]

This story has me drooling. It is such a good read! You convey emotion beautifully. And I must say that the scene with her rippin the top of the van off is really really cool. I love that pose, its crazy! I can't wait to see more. You're truly inspiring. ;)

[eliseu gouveia]

Thank you, Overczffeinated, I have to confess I did have some fun doing that one.
Thank you too, Y2Jenn, I´m really really happy to learn you´re liking my Silver Sparrow´s little adventure.

Well, these Silver Sparrow vacations sure have been all fun and games, but it´s time to get back to life and start doing some ACTUAL work, so, I´m gonna have to close the box on our Jessie gal in a few pags. :)

So, ready for Silversparrow: Skydancer , round #3?

GO!


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[eliseu gouveia]

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[TheFightingFoetus]

Wow, you're darned good! I get a Chris Sprouce feel from your work.

Oh, and it's awesome that you're just doing this for fun. I didn't read it yet, just looked at the art, but I'll be sure read all of what you have tonight or tomorrow.

It looks great. (Some anatomy stuff, but none of it really bothers me. Really!)

[eliseu gouveia]

WHOA, Chris Sprouce?
Thanks, TheFightingFoetus, here´s a few more I just cooked up (only 3 today... must be getting soft...)


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[TheFightingFoetus]

You did all three today?

Damn. I've gotten soft.

Still need to read this, just had to say I admire your ability to crank out pages.

[eliseu gouveia]

Thanks, TheFightingFoetus. :)


Now, then, it´s time to pack this baby; been kinda lazy in the last few days, so in the name of closure, my Muse chained me to the drawingboard today and forced me to make these.

Hope you like em.
God, these sure were some hell of a vacations

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[eliseu gouveia]

The End.

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Thanks, folks, for putting up with these little flirtations with the looney in me .

[Roguehill]

Well that was some ride. Makes me want to do sequentials, dammit! What a wonderful story, thanks for taking us along!

Great characters.)

[caanan02]

Well done, my friend,... well done.;cap;

[Agent Fire]

Was Princess and Ellis impressed with her age as a cadet?

[eliseu gouveia]

Thanks, guys. :)

I really don´t know, Agent FIre.
Perhaps she reminded them of someone they met 22 years before...:cool:

[whytboy]

Hey man, your work looks professional. It looks like a comic that would be on the shelf. I like it. You do great work and i'm very impressed.

[eliseu gouveia]

Thanks, Whyboy, it was one hell of a ride.

Funny, now that it´s finished I´m starting to miss drawing Jessie, guess I grew more attached to her than I thought I would....

Thanks for visiting my imaginary, folks, you´re the best. :)

E.

[Siftland]

Thanks for the read. I really enjoyed it.

Good story-telling. I liked this story a lot until the whole 'wind' explanation. From there on it all seemed very forced. Sorry to be so critical, but I think everything else is spot on, exactly the sort of quality I'd like to see.

I don't know, it's kind of like that scene in Episode One where they try to explain The Force as insects or whatever. Like you're trying to tie up all of superhero-dom in one technical swoop, denying the reader their interpretation. Anyway, I think the first act is very well written.

[eliseu gouveia]

Sorry about that, Siftland, these are one of those creator moments when you can never tell how folks will interpret it the directions you take your story into:

I have people say they ADORED the Wind concept, you saying it´s forced, some saying Silver Sparrow should never have faded into the Universe´s background, others saying that she should have been older (i.e. boobier.... :rolleyes: ).

In the end, I just do as my Muse tells me.

Sometimes it works, others it doesn´t........(She IS the responsible for me creating Dr. Dinossaurus when I was 12 after all.:rolleyes: :p ).

Anyway, thanks for reading it, I´m glad you liked it, even if only a part of it.

Eliseu

[caanan02]

Are you gonna build off the teenage chick, at the end of the last page?
PLEEEEEEEEEASE?

hallaaaaaa!

[eliseu gouveia]

Hi, caanan02,

Thanks, I wasn´t planning on doing a sequel for Silver Sparrow, but I guess picking up Jessie´s sister there would be a nice way to move on.

Not in the near future, though; sorry, but I´ve got the feeling the next few weeks are going to be quite busy to do this again.

Eliseu

P.S.: Also you must note that, from the things Jessie said in the Broken Wing episode, as much as she´d love the role, Jenny would never be as good a Silver Sparrow as she.
Major Evil/Skyknight would make paté (assuming he was still alive by then) outta her.:cool:

[caanan02]

well said well said. What would tight though, is for her sister to have the hidden ability in her, and as she encounters foes, under extream distress, she lashes out, and begins to reveal the a power even beyond that of her sister, but because of he youth and inexperience, she always colapses, not remembering what she did. Just a thought:D

Anyway, you inspire me, dude, to press toward my goals as an comic artist, and one day, soon, tell and epic that will have every relate and even be changed by the characters in the book. Thanks dude. And keep wippin out those MASTER PIECES.

God bless.



"Your dreams are only as far as you can see...so see without limit, and dream without measure, and you will live beyond your imagination" - me -

[PimpChimp]

Originally posted by caanan02
well said well said. What would tight though, is for her sister to have the hidden ability in her, and as she encounters foes, under extream distress, she lashes out, and begins to reveal the a power even beyond that of her sister, but because of he youth and inexperience, she always colapses, not remembering what she did. Just a thought:D

God bless.

Very X-Men or Dragonball Z. Not recommended, in my books.

[PimpChimp]

Originally posted by Siftland
I don't know, it's kind of like that scene in Episode One where they try to explain The Force as insects or whatever. Like you're trying to tie up all of superhero-dom in one technical swoop, denying the reader their interpretation. Anyway, I think the first act is very well written.

Midi-chlorians. Worst explanation. Ever.

[eliseu gouveia]

Thanks, dudes,

Truthfully, I don´t think I´d give Jenny any particular power that´d grant her an edge over the rest of the superpeople.
I mean, yes, they might have been sisters in a previous, overwritten universe, but now she´s just another cadet learning the ropes, completelly oblivious to the History that went before (and of course Ellis or the Princess would never spill anything, when there´s the risk of her ego getting overbloated).

I´ll have to cook up a nice angle for this one, but either way I don´t think I´ll ever give her any particular uber-powers.

And if you look at it, neither Jessie was that powerfull, her only edge was that her predecessor knew her archenemy´s weaknesses back and forth, allowing her to know what part of Major Evil´s armor to aim for.

[eliseu gouveia]

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[caanan02]

...Is this forshadowing of things to come?:D :D :D

[eliseu gouveia]

Yup, can´t stay away from my gal for too long. :D

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I´m really really sorry if these seem a tad rushed, but you wouldn´t believe how overwhelming things have been lately.

[Josie70]

Give'em hell, Zeu!!!!

J70 :D

[brendon]

is there anything else you do on lunch breaks that you'd like to tell us about??????????

:confused:

[caanan02]

The wind-godess returns!!!! ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL-RIGHT!!!

[Vaas]

Visually Stunning! You’re John Byrne in a skirt. I haven’t seen this type of artistry since the phoenix sage. I’m impressed with the amount of flow that you carry in your storyline despite it being shot from the hip. Excellent resolution technique, every scene came back to itself and engrossed the reader well.

I enjoyed your consistent style and willingness to flex mood and atmosphere. You never got too hung up on subject very long and when the story jumped to a scene you eased the reader into it very concisely, great Pace!

I’m sure if you submit this to marvel-epic or image comics you’ll definitely get picked up. It’s always worth a shot to do something that you enjoy doing. Good Luck!

[eliseu gouveia]

Hello, folks,

I´m sorry for taking so much time to cook up new pages for Silver Sparrow.

I really appreciate your comments and input on the story, you´ve been great.

Now for some bad and not-so-good news.

Not-so-good news: I actually am a guy. Sorry....

Bad News:

I am going to have to postpone Jessie´s adventures undefinitelly... or at least until I finish coloring my LITTLE PEOPLE comic first.



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There´s 5 chapters (out of 8) to finish still and those of you who know about it will tell you that this is a baby that´s been chained to the delivery room since at least the last days of my college years.
It´s time to give it some sense of closure, so no more horsing around for me until I close this unfinished business.

Sorry, Jessie....

[Cuddly]

Just keep 'em coming. Excellent looking as always. :)

[Vaas]

Sorry your style of writing misleads me, plus your comic featured a heroine very well. Almost to well, with the tangent of Jenny drooling over the cop that made me hope you’re female. Sorry about that.

Nonetheless, these new sequentials are great and have more of the Alan Davis inking style feel to them, bold and boarding. I personally prefer the Terry Austin inking style you did on some of the Sliver Sparrow. It enhances your style of drawing better.

Now the color you do deal with light ok, but it still to gradient towards the shading side. I’d like to see solids blending into solids more instead of fade into fades. The use of textures will greatly contribute to correct this as well. When you see the detail behind the lighting you’ll have more to go on how light affects it surface. Remember to work in layers (using Photoshop) like a onion with everything stacking onto your surface.

Here’s a link that give the best tutorial.

Hawkstudioes (http://www.hawkstudios.net/tutorials/making_of_alice/index.php)

[eliseu gouveia]

Thanks, Cuddly, i aim to please. :)

Thanks , Vaas, you made some very constructive observations which I´ll be sure to pay great attention to - my Muse would have my head before allowing me to further neglect my colouring duties-. :)

[MightyMatt]

I saw this post when it was originally started, and I was going to say something then, but I was so inspired to do pages that I got offline without saying a thing....
Now I regret it, because here before me are some truly wonderful pages...and every bit of it still inspires me to go and sit down and do sequentials....
Beautiful work, and I hope in some way you can get all this published....perhaps in a graphic novel with a sketchbook in it as well. I'd love to pick it up sometime.

matt

[brendon]

I'm not so sure about the last splash page here...I think it might be too much bg... You could definitely zoom in on the girl at least a couple feet...

The rest is really cool...I like it...

[Virginie!]

I love you Eliseu

[eliseu gouveia]

Thank you, folks, I really appreciate it :) .