The whole of Heart of Empire - together with all pencilled and inked
pages, 60,000 words of annotations by Bryan and the whole of the Adventures
of Luther Arkwright is available on a CD-Rom
for only 18 US dollars.
Panel 1 of page 106 of issue 4 - static
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Here is the first panel of this page in very
first rough draft form, mid quality black and white form,
and final, finished version in full colour.
The thumbnail, by the way, is my attempt to
show all three stages in one image....
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Animation of panel 1 of page 106
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I tried this as an experiment, loading all of the stages
of the creation of panel 1 of page 106 into a gif animation,
and the result is amazing! (but owes rather more to Bryan's
artistic skills than to my Photoshop ones!)
Check it out - but be aware, it's a fairly hefty file at
approx 256k.
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Panel 2 of page 106 of issue 4 - static
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Here is the second panel from page 106 in
all three stages of creation - with me sitting there in
the background, on the far right....
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Animation of panel 2 of page 106
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Here are the three stages of panel 2 of page 106 in another
single animation. This is also the first frame of the comic
that actually has me as a background character in it....
that's me sitting on the chairs behind Gabriel on the far
right of the row.
Check it out - but be aware, it's a fairly hefty file at
approx 256k.
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Panel 3 of page 106
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Here is panel 3 of page 106 in all of its stages
of production. Because this image is so big, I have created
the page in two different versions: you can either see it
all in one place - which is admitedly a hefty download, -
or you can see each stage seperately: the first
rough draft, the midway through
version, and then the final
coloured, printed version. Clicking on the thumbnail will
take you to the all-in-one page.
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Animation of panel 3 of page 106
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Here's the animation of all three stages of creation of panel
3: it's a large file, but I hope you'll agree worth the download
time.
And I am a character in this one too... as a thank you Bryan
drew me in as an anti-fascist, anti-Royalist, anti-racist
revolutionary...... yes!
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Page One in full colour
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This is it: this is where it all starts....
here is page 1 of the whole thing in it's full colour form....
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Page One in first rough draft
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This is it: this is where it all starts.... here is page
1 of the whole thing in it's first rough draft form....
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Page 79 of issue 3 in colour
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Here is another chance to see one of Bryan's
pages from Heart of Empire in full colour version - and also
in the first rough draft version (below)
I feel incredibly proud to be able to show
fans of Bryan's work this kind of thing - his work evolving
on the page....
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Page 79 of issue 3 in rough rough draft
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Page 79 in it's first rough draft version, on the way to
becoming the masterpiece of the finished version above...
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Page 15 of Issue One in rough version
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This is Bryan's first rough draft of page 15
of issue 1.
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Page 15 of Issue One in colour
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This is page 15 of issue 1 in full glorious colour, put up
here mainly to show the way that the page evolved as is went
from first rough draft to this finished version.
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