Khylov's Daydream Moleskine Notebook

Some notebook pages out of the Moleskine. Very much budget Miyazaki's Daydream Notebook, except instead of WWII and planes it's ancient Byzantium with their tiny kingly hands. And featuring Theodoric and Odoacer hashing out their differences in aristocratic manner.

The color is Photoshop, but otherwise it's all pencil and pen. I also did a bunch of pages covering favorite comics I'd read recently, notably Fabien Mense's Agito Cosmos, Cyril Pedrosa's Portugal, Markus Mawil's Kinderland, Anthony Holden's Hard Boiled: Ace Detectives. I may post the full pages here next time.

I posted these over on the Instagram already, but since they're asking for people to log-in just to even browse the main page, here they are, along with a WIP preview of one of my more recent posts. Tens of viewers take note, I'm putting up with the stupidity of both IG's censorship campaign and Blogspot's broken formatting to bring you my table scrap sketches. If that's not love, then I don't know what is.

(*Time Traveler Khylov note: An extra series of pages posted much later:)

A preview of upcoming attractions:

Character and Story Development Pages

Two condensed pages of recent character studies that sort of bleed over into either story or scene ideas. Spitballing pages, more or less, figuring out both character design and personality.

Slumberhexe - Daydream Notebook 01

Intended more as a WIP progress page, throwing a few non-sequential panels together from separate pages. Was also an excuse to explore color options a little more.
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~ The original full pic that started the process:

~ Panel detail of the peasant riot:

Slumberhexe - Daydream Notebook 02

The original full page, which ended up going counter clockwise starting from the top right for whatever reason. Trying to create anything should mean allowing yourself to get messy; and despite the eternal critique of other artists (read: animators), getting the creative juices flowing sometimes means not giving much of a damn about everyone else's nitpick; "Not left to right? I can't follow, I don't get it."

Yeah, neither do I. Not fully anyhow. Hence the process of creating.

Slumberhexe - Daydream Notebook 03

 Several of the individual panels given their own page.

A close up of the last panel.