color panel

Okay no more showing full pages. Here’s a panel from page 6. I was planning to launch the webcomic this week, and posting one page weekly, but I’ve changed my mind. I don’t think one page per week is enough to maintain momentum, so I’ve decide to post two pages per week, but to do so, I have to finish enough pages in advance to make sure I don’t run out of pages faster than I can make new ones…So I will launch the webcomic in about 2-3 weeks with 7 full pages on the first day, than 2 pages weekly afterwards.

Working with Cassie on colors

Cassie Fuertez is helping me on colors for my webcomic’s prologue. Here’s an example of our collaboration…
I first sent her the line art with some notes:

She sent me her first test:

If this were a paying job, I would usually direct her to make certain changes, but because she’s helping me out for free, I feel bad asking her for more at this stage. So she sent me the Photoshop file and I finished the coloring based on her work:

About my upcoming webcomic

Aside from the actual website that I cannot figure out how to build in Comicpress, everything else is coming along nicely, so I think it’s time I say why I’m doing this.
This webcomic is going to be a little experiment…I haven’t seen it done before in this format.
Basically, this webcomic will be a FUNDRAISER that will run for 3 months. I’m doing all this work to raise awareness of the situation in Haiti and to raise funds for the Starthrower Foundation, a volunteer-based, Canadian registered charity that sponsor young Haitian adults who wish to complete their education or apprenticeships so they can move into the workforce and pull themselves out of poverty.

Aside from the prologue, the two stories I will be drawing are true stories that show what the Starthrower foundation do. I’m trying to tell them in an engaging way so the readers will want to come back weekly to see what happens next, and in the process, convince them to give a little $5 to my fundraising effort. Education is not free in Haiti, it cost approx. $ 600 for one year of High school ( tuitions, school uniforms, books) and when you know that more than 50% live on $1 a day, it’s easy to see how difficult it is for the poor to send their kids to High school. And of those who make it to high school, only 2% make it to the last year due to a lack of funds, illnesses, malnutrition, etc., and without education or training in a trade, they have no future really…so that’s the goal of my fundraiser, to help raise funds for the kids that are on the Starthrower ’s waiting list.

Hope you’ll stop by and read the stories when in goes live at the end of the month.

Enough talking, here’s some art…

Here’s a panel from page 5 in different stages of production.

Webcomic- color panel 2

A panel from page 3.