First panel of Fraggle Rock #1. Published by Archaia and available via Graphic.ly
Story by Heather White
Pencils by Jeff Stokely
Colors by Lizzy John
1 year ago
BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE FRAGGLE ROCK COMIC, PART 3: PENCILED ARTWORK
Once the script is finished and approved, the creative process moves to a new person on the team: the artist.
In the case of the Fraggle Rock story, I was lucky enough to have my good friend and awesome artist Jeremy Love on the job. If you don’t know, Jeremy is the Eisner-nominated creator of Bayou, a fantastic comic which happens to be available online for free. It’s like Alice In Wonderland in the American South. If you’ve never seen it before, I highly reccomend you check it out.
Jeremy wanted to illustrate the Fraggles as if they were real creatures you could study and draw, with things like legs, expressions, and butts. So he adopted an art style he developed from Bayou, a sketchy pencil look with lots of soft shadings and naturalistic details. (Click on the image above to see all the lush detail in the work.)
FACT: Boober, the Fraggle in the hat, was Jeremy’s favorite character to draw. Too bad he figured that out after I made Red the star of the story…
Tomorrow: Digital inks and colors
