{"id":12879,"date":"2021-09-28T21:45:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T03:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/?p=12879"},"modified":"2022-03-05T14:03:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T20:03:37","slug":"brush-with-peril-page-00a-cover-drafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/12879","title":{"rendered":"Brush with Peril, page 00a – Cover – Drafts"},"content":{"rendered":"

This page might come as a bit of shock, compared to what the cover wound up being. In the beginning, it hadn’t occurred to me to use an art reference for the cover image.\u00a0 I assumed I’d use an image of my character, Agent Ian Anger.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t figure out what kind of image I wanted for the cover for this project, for a long time. One of the first images I drew for this project was this one (below), dated 4\/18\/09, which was probably the same month BUT A WEEK BEFORE I began brainstorming for story ideas (my earliest dated note lists what paintings would make good villains for the story, and it is dated 4\/23\/09, followed by a half page of additional brainstorms on 5\/27\/09), two months before my earliest dated script brainstorms (6\/15\/09), and three months before I drew the first page of this comic<\/a>,\u00a0 and which I scanned into my computer on 8\/9\/09 (On that same day, I scanned in the image of Agent Anger standing and pointing his gun from Page 17 – Published<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

So once I began thinking about this project, it came together quickly, and I became obsessed and eager to begin working on it quickly, and I began pounding it out as I went, without regard for where it was headed or what needed to be done to get there.<\/p>\n

To sum up, this page (BELOW), was the first Agent Ian Anger drawing I ever did – no prelims or sketches, JUST THIS – on 4\/18\/09. Then I began prepping for and then scripting around 4\/23-6\/15\/09. THEN I made the The Global Agency of Protection – Drafts! ($7 Patrons)<\/a><\/strong> full-body sketch on 6\/15\/09 (THE ONLY prelim sketch I ever did for this project – EVERYTHING ELSE was just straight onto the page, directly, and ready to publish), and after drawing that one sketch, basically straight into producing pages of this project in earnest before 8\/9\/09.<\/p>\n

So getting back to the below image. Notice I had in mind to use some texture lines, and also some solid bars of gold. But I wasn’t thinking of this as my composition, I was just drawing elements that I knew I’d be shuffing around for a composition, in Photohop. I think\u00a0 I may have drawn Ian Anger first, and then added those additional\u00a0 elements onto the page later, since I had all that extra space. But I don’t remember for sure.<\/p>\n

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I then took that image and those additional elements, I put in those lines and stretched them longer in Photoshop to create some borders for a series of images which I felt would help sum up this first story arc: The Arneson character making a deal with the Pope character for some gold.<\/p>\n

I had tried coming up with a font. Notice the wonky one below. I already more or less had my bi-line!<\/p>\n

The Arneson image with his tongue out I pulled directly from Page 12 – Published<\/a>, and the Pope was an unused panel from Page 12 – Drafts<\/a>.\u00a0 I liked using that Pope image, because I thought it was a nice image, even though it didn’t work out to include on the final cut of Page 12. But as a result, I didn’t<\/em> like that the Arneson\u00a0had<\/em> been used in the comic. It made me want to design a different (new) Arneson for the cover.<\/p>\n

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This next image is interesting, because it makes me wonder if perhaps, early on, I didn’t know I should use this image as a cover, or as Page 17 – Published<\/a>. Notice the font is even simpler (and wonkier) than above, which makes me wonder if it were done earlier. Notice also I hadn’t yet super-imposed the Van Goghs onto the page.\u00a0 If this is the case, then I had just drawn two images of Agent Anger, and didn’t know yet how I planned to use them, and was trying them out in different places to see what worked best where.<\/p>\n

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I was clearly never totally pleased with this as a cover, if I was experimenting with using it as a title page. In 2011, my best friend Steve Buell<\/a> started coloring some of my work, and he designed and colored this below poster\/cover.<\/p>\n

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As for the Francis Bacon Pope image (001 Splash<\/a>) that I wound up with, it was drawn between 8\/18 and 8\/23\/14 – FIVE AND A HALF YEARS LATER! I’ll discuss how I came upon this idea as a cover theme, on Brush with Peril, page 003 – Commentary<\/a> ($7 Patrons).<\/p>\n

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