Coma's End #33

Yes, Coma's End is back and I can't wait to get back in the swing of things. 

Coma's End #32

It's been a long time and I've been itching to get back to this series. #32 is one of two I've actually been sitting on for a while and hadn't scanned them until now. 

From the Hip

I've talked about doing this series 'from the hip' a few times.  While some of the images would be in my head upon starting a page or panel, most of the time the image comes when the ink hits the paper.  I like to do straight ink as opposed to penciling first, for this kind of art anyway.  Give it a try, using ink, paint, what have you.  I always end up surprising myself, drawing something that I don't even understand.  You may end up surprising yourself.  I'm going to be continuing with #32 soon but currently I'm still swamped with projects.

31 Days of Art

 Coma's End
Art Series by Christopher Michael Carter

Coma's End #31

This will actually be the last one for a short time as I'm currently swamped with projects; Dennis & I are hard at work on our monster comic Tourniquet and I'm working my ass off on a secret surprise project for my friends at 52 Weeks of Horror.
Tentacle creatures, shapes, a flower thing with a fetus in the center, and more.

This was a photo I took partway through.  The creature coming from the mailbox was in my head the moment the pen touched the paper.  Next came the demon/monster head thing looking down in the second panel before adding these mountainous shapes.  Then the fetus was the starter for the third.  I didn't really know what would be joining all of these images until they came from the pen.

If you have one tiny image in your head, draw it, and then shoot from the hip on the rest of the image.

Coma's End will return very soon but, as I said, I'm currently swamped with some important projects.

Coma's End #30

Now, let me preface by saying this was originally the last piece of the series until it was reopened.
This piece has everything from the overhead light in my office, a collage of randomness of which had kinda been seen throughout, and the scribble man at the foot of his bed praying or looking into a dimensional vortex of some kind.

If you're ever stuck of something, just look around you.  The center of panel 1 is the overhead lamp in my office at home, distorted on paper, and then the solid black extra was added.  Just use something simple, distort it, and then add from there.

Panel 2, it's as mentioned, a lot at random but the type of stuff that had become the norm in Coma's End; i.e. abstract shapes, tentacles, parts of faces, etc, etc.  Even though I had spoken about the plus sides of self appointed perimeters, you STILL even then don't have to be locked down as you can see in panel two is a little bit of everything, making barriers within barriers.

Panel 3 is much like Panel 1 in which it's a normal setup that's distorted with little things.  The top bit is from the top closet spots in my office but then they get distorted with a cat tail, etc.  The rest of it is your typical bedroom setup with the scribble man at the foot of his bed looking into this...gateway type thing.  Since it was, as said before, a comic of sorts, this last panel was to represent the character finally waking from the coma.  HOWEVER, after it was all done, every page was rearranged when lettered so this WASN'T the last page.

This is now #30 in what will be an ongoing series.  At this moment, Coma's End remains endless.

Coma's End #29

Candy and weaponry!
Aliens!
Lines and dots!

With Panel 1, I had that vision of snacks and candy with knives and guns scattered throughout. It came out fairly similar to what was in my head.
Panel 2 was very simple once I did the first alien head I just felt that I should do the rest of the panel with a few more alien things.  Sometimes all it will take is some simple notion.
Panel 3 came in a wave of different tracings with random items I can't remember.  I went through tracing the different lines and dots and once the panel was done it didn't grab or captivate me at all.  I then saw it in a different way, adding textures such as the diagonal stripes on the right, the look of Philips head screws in the center, and then the black and white contrasts on the left.  Once these changes were made, I felt more from it.