SDCC News about "The City"

For the first year at Comic Con, Julie is making a line of Jewelry inspired by the art of The City.  Another property I am establishing in the world of steam punkery.  Here are just some of the wicked ideas and designs she'll be debuting at Booth F-08 in the exhibitor hall.

I've changed the art style and designs a bit but you can see the story and the character ideas here 

http://www.whatsthekeytothecity.blogspot.com/

More news later but I was excited to show this portion off today!

Freeze Frame- The City

So I've been going back and forth between stories, these will all be 

a part of my kickstarter.  I just want to get enough started to show folks

what I plan on doing with the money is all.  Basically a bunch of short stories around 5-6

different universes that are happening in this noggin of mine.  So this is a freeze frame of what I want to take the direction of the THE CITY. 

The City (Character Update)

Finally had some time to redevelop the City.  I felt I was getting heavy handed and too comic booky with the IP so I started down this path to find the right combo that read "Bean" and appropriate style for the story I plan to tell.  This is getting closer.  I may have to disassemble the design once more if I continue down the Graphic Novel approach (too much detail vs time constraints of making that much detail in every frame)  I rendered her for a more CG animation/ video game approach but may take the exact same image and pair it down to 2D animated film and see what that does for the story.  Still, the journey is the destination for me so it's a thrill to hit all these strides.  Let me know what you think.

Head on over to THE CITY to see more of the story and where it's heading

Shipyard

Still establishing the look and feel to my universe.  Here's a study of the wasteland/ skyline from the City.

The city today

The longer the neck, the more fun I have drawing it. 

A mute

These are mutes.  They have changed over the years and probably will again.  I'm still in the fun exploring stages so we'll see where the journey takes me.  So I've decided to work on my pet project the City each day.  Either a small sketch, idea, painting, etc to keep it going.  Join me on the excursion.... 

The Mayor

The Mayor, part of the ongoing IP I am developing called "the City"

Redesigns of the City

So "The City" is getting an overhaul on style.  This was the first image I made in the new direction I plan on taking the art and story.  More to come in the following week.  I am very excited for the new approach.

Samoors

Samoors.  For the City Blog.  I can only really talk about the artwork here as I am telling the story of the City through the blog and can't really blah blah blah as the artist.  So the idea is the protagonist runs into a  faction of warriors called the Samoors.  The male counterparts are called Scavs.  Females are the warriors etc etc.  The story is taking hold of me.  It's coming along.  When enough is fleshed out I will be deciding on approaching a graphic novel style or game pitch. 

The approach

Did some work for the City Blog.  The world below is gone.  Above the clouds, cities are built upon mountain tops, strewn together from anything they can find.  Land is limited and so are the resources, imminent violence.

The City Blog

Another Entry for the City Blog. www.the city.com