Jason Deroga's Fan Art W.I.P.s #1: Matt Zimmer's "The Pontue Legacy" (UPDATE: 9/4/2024) 🌠

[jasonderoga86]

Okay! 😁

 

After visiting my friends (staff, management crew, and our clients) at my old job yesterday afternoon, and after catching up with a BIG comics/manga/film adaptation buddy of mine (he's also the tech whiz and a top instructor in many classes I assisted), I was energized to jump back into the aforementioned fan art I'm making for Matt Zimmer as his birthday's coming at the end of this month. If you all recall, the fan art in question is a cinematic poster based on my current place in his huge epic, Gilda and Meek and the Un-Iverse -- a webcomic truly so unlike any I have ever read. I recently finished (and reviewed) the latest of the "Pontue Legacy" arc, whose premise is summed up so succinctly, yet beautifully, on each cover: "The Key to Gilda and Meek's Future Lies in the Past." 

 

Last time, I finished reading Part IV (Part 4 for those who aren't familiar with Roman numbering), titled "The Blessed Child". The title describes the character Zyle, who starts out as a seemingly bright and aspiring magician's apprentice, but by this point in the story is FAR more than he first came off to be. Soon, I'll be diving back in for "Part V - The Dragons and the Egg" -- and for what I'm showing below, looking at the cover gave me some much-needed references.

 

Those "references" I speak of are the color keys for the main cast and characters of the arc, because as I had hinted last time, this is the FIRST TIME in my history of fan art go-arounds that I'm attempting to fully color a piece. What I've posted below is the "flats" of the artwork: these are the base colors that I'll tailor the upcoming shading techniques on. It's how I shade (or "tone") all of my full-color works.

 

The shading will take some time, but at this point, it's looking like I should everything polished up and ready to go in time for Matt's B-Day. Like him, I need to do a better job on my friends' birthday's myself; of all the other things I remember like yesterday, one would think this'd be second nature by now. But I digress. We're not omniscient beings anyway, right? 🤣🤣🤣

Here's the work in progress as of now, before the upcoming shading/toning touch-ups:

 

I'll keep you all in the loop of any further updates, and peace and love to you all!

 

Nana

 

--"Jason Deroga"

Comments

[matt_zimmer]

It looks fantastic so far. I can't wait for you to finish the saga!

[jasonderoga86]

I'm excited too!