{"id":1243,"date":"2018-09-05T14:13:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T20:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2023-02-10T15:57:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T21:57:52","slug":"doris-danger-vol-1-page-002-pencils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/1243","title":{"rendered":"Doris Danger (vol. 1, Chpt. 1), page 002 – Pencils"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Here is a detail from a sketchbook page that shows my first drawing of “Spluhh, the Thing who Burst from an Exploding Volcano!”<\/a> It’s from the only page of a dozen mostly-very-loose preparatory sketches I did before diving straight into creating the published pages for Doris Danger, which Dick Ayers inked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Below this detail is the full page of this first and only prelimary sketch work I did, before just jumping in and drawing direct-on-the-page, the Doris Danger comics that were published. Notice the head sketches were really not Jack Kirby looking at all. They were my early studies for creating Kirby-style monsters, but not in style – in exploring head shapes, eye and mouth and fur or horn placement.  Kirby made so many great giant monsters, I was looking for “the magic one” for my story and just quickly jotted down with a stream-of-conscious head-eyes-mouth exercise. You can see I started with a sort of Gossamer from Bugs Bunny (see below). After zipping out a number of these quick, experimental head shapes, at the bottom right-most head of the page, it looks like I landed on something I liked – the big eyes and “ooh” mouth. I immediately did one fully realized Kirby-style sketch which would become Spluhh in my first story<\/a>. At the bottom left. I wrote “Where Monsters #2,5 Taboo for globbiness.” At the time I began this project, the only references I had to Jack Kirby’s 1950’s-1960’s GIANT MONSTER comics were the 1970’s reprints by Marvel, in such comics as Where Monsters Dwell<\/em>, Where Creatures Roam<\/em>, and Creatures on the Loose.<\/em> I flipped through my stack of these, and noted a globby monster named Taboo in issues two and five. My Spluhh monster is really very much just a swipe of Taboo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Above: The pencils of Page 002<\/a>, the first fully realized and published Doris Danger page, scanned in the pencil stage before I sent them to Dick Ayers to have inked. The page is on 11″x17″ bristol.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

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Here is a detail from a sketchbook page that shows my first drawing of “Spluhh, the Thing who Burst from an Exploding Volcano!” It’s from the only page of a dozen mostly-very-loose preparatory sketches I did before diving straight into creating the published pages for Doris Danger, which Dick Ayers inked. Below this detail is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doris-danger"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t