tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84083502962225920812024-03-13T14:36:43.121-05:00fishbones_illustrationsIllustration, Comics, Editorial, Book Cover, Art, Fish, Bone, Fishbone, John Bivens, Concept, Graphic NovelsJohn_Bivenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994830709001555990noreply@blogger.comBlogger335125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8408350296222592081.post-13241464768361775112014-11-25T11:37:00.000-06:002014-11-25T11:37:35.378-06:00Decided to try...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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... a cool down sketch for the first time. Interesting idea, but I think I will subscribe more to the idea of the warm-up.John_Bivenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994830709001555990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8408350296222592081.post-66693174166759462192014-11-25T11:34:00.000-06:002014-11-25T11:34:43.492-06:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John_Bivenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994830709001555990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8408350296222592081.post-77234390813235008892014-10-29T21:14:00.002-05:002014-10-29T21:14:21.283-05:00Join us in the Dark...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John_Bivenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994830709001555990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8408350296222592081.post-69237060501250842082014-09-13T12:00:00.000-05:002014-09-13T12:00:00.346-05:00Dark Engine TPB<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Volume one of Dark Engine will be available in time to make it a great XMas stocking stuffer. More info on this to come. </div>
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Cover for Dark Engine #4 in which flying monsters abound! Order early and order heavy :)John_Bivenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994830709001555990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8408350296222592081.post-53807049914351293462014-09-11T18:00:00.000-05:002014-09-11T18:00:00.849-05:00A post for the process junkie 001<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For those that are curious, this is what my thumbing process looks like after I receive a script for Dark Engine. On a lot of other projects I will do thumbs in a sketchbook so I can do them outside the studio in any downtime, Dark Engine has been all digital and all in studio work though. </div>
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Cover for Dark Engine #3. It's a story full of vikings & monsters, so pick it up from your local comic shop and enjoy!John_Bivenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994830709001555990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8408350296222592081.post-52374094634241657672014-05-29T22:54:00.001-05:002014-05-29T22:54:34.012-05:00Dark Engine Issue #2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cover to issue #2 of Dark Engine (B&W and Color) and a panel detail from the same comic.</div>
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<b><em>DARK ENGINE #1 arrives in stores on 7/16, and will be available for $3.50. </em></b></div>
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<b><em>It can be pre-ordered with Diamond Code MAY140574.</em></b></div>
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<em>@rburton03 <a class="tumblelog" href="http://tmblr.co/mB4OD1_rUvaq0xvGoQVaMDw" target="_blank">imagecomics</a></em></div>
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<br />John_Bivenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994830709001555990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8408350296222592081.post-30477573580473210232014-05-09T09:13:00.000-05:002014-05-09T09:13:27.449-05:00Dark Engine is coming...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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... and I need your help spreading the word about it. The company low-down is as follows:<br />
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<em>Sent to the distant past, Sym must thwart her enemies before it’s too late</em><br />
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Ryan Burton teams up with John Bivens for an all-new ongoing series
that blends elements of dark fantasy and action with mystery.<br />
With ribsword in hand, with gore in her curling locks, Sym has been
sent to the distant past to murder her creators’ enemies. But the
twisted alchemists who made Sym do not know that the engine that powers
her is sentient, that it is the seed of their destruction. By blood and
by fury, Sym will carve out her destiny in this new ongoing series.<br />
DARK ENGINE is about the evil things that lurk inside us all. “Some
drive us, some are alive and thinking. And Sym will learn just exactly
what drives her, and why she was sent back in time to essentially murder
anything standing,” explained Burton. “Of course, John [Bivens] does a
brilliant job of capturing the enormous scope of the story, whether it’s
showing the stygian machinations of Sym’s creators or the harrowing
vistas that are littered with the husks of old Lovecraftian monsters,
it’s all there.”<br />
</em><em>DARK ENGINE #1 arrives in stores on 7/16, and will be available for $3.50. It can be pre-ordered with Diamond Code MAY140574.</em><br />
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The book is being published by Image Comics, and here are a few images from the first issue (and some process stuff):<br />
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Ryan
Burton teams up with John Bivens for an all-new ongoing series that
blends elements of dark fantasy and action with mystery.<br />
With ribsword in hand, with gore in her curling locks, Sym has been
sent to the distant past to murder her creators’ enemies. But the
twisted alchemists who made Sym do not know that the engine that powers
her is sentient, that it is the seed of their destruction. By blood and
by fury, Sym will carve out her destiny in this new ongoing series.<br />
<br />
DARK ENGINE is about the evil things that lurk inside us all. “Some
drive us, some are alive and thinking. And Sym will learn just exactly
what drives her, and why she was sent back in time to essentially murder
anything standing,” explained Burton. “Of course, John [Bivens] does a
brilliant job of capturing the enormous scope of the story, whether it's
showing the stygian machinations of Sym's creators or the harrowing
vistas that are littered with the husks of old Lovecraftian monsters,
it's all there."<br />
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DARK ENGINE #1 arrives in stores on 7/16, and will be available for $3.50. It can be pre-ordered with Diamond Code MAY140574.<br />
- See more at:
http://imagecomics.com/content/view/in-dark-engine-a-savage-woman-seeks-her-destiny-against-all-odds#sthash.F29JXcjW.dpuf</div>
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Ryan
Burton teams up with John Bivens for an all-new ongoing series that
blends elements of dark fantasy and action with mystery.<br />
With ribsword in hand, with gore in her curling locks, Sym has been
sent to the distant past to murder her creators’ enemies. But the
twisted alchemists who made Sym do not know that the engine that powers
her is sentient, that it is the seed of their destruction. By blood and
by fury, Sym will carve out her destiny in this new ongoing series.<br />
<br />
DARK ENGINE is about the evil things that lurk inside us all. “Some
drive us, some are alive and thinking. And Sym will learn just exactly
what drives her, and why she was sent back in time to essentially murder
anything standing,” explained Burton. “Of course, John [Bivens] does a
brilliant job of capturing the enormous scope of the story, whether it's
showing the stygian machinations of Sym's creators or the harrowing
vistas that are littered with the husks of old Lovecraftian monsters,
it's all there."<br />
<br />
DARK ENGINE #1 arrives in stores on 7/16, and will be available for $3.50. It can be pre-ordered with Diamond Code MAY140574.<br />
- See more at:
http://imagecomics.com/content/view/in-dark-engine-a-savage-woman-seeks-her-destiny-against-all-odds#sthash.F29JXcjW.dpuf</div>
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
Ryan
Burton teams up with John Bivens for an all-new ongoing series that
blends elements of dark fantasy and action with mystery.<br />
With ribsword in hand, with gore in her curling locks, Sym has been
sent to the distant past to murder her creators’ enemies. But the
twisted alchemists who made Sym do not know that the engine that powers
her is sentient, that it is the seed of their destruction. By blood and
by fury, Sym will carve out her destiny in this new ongoing series.<br />
<br />
DARK ENGINE is about the evil things that lurk inside us all. “Some
drive us, some are alive and thinking. And Sym will learn just exactly
what drives her, and why she was sent back in time to essentially murder
anything standing,” explained Burton. “Of course, John [Bivens] does a
brilliant job of capturing the enormous scope of the story, whether it's
showing the stygian machinations of Sym's creators or the harrowing
vistas that are littered with the husks of old Lovecraftian monsters,
it's all there."<br />
<br />
DARK ENGINE #1 arrives in stores on 7/16, and will be available for $3.50. It can be pre-ordered with Diamond Code MAY140574.<br />
- See more at:
http://imagecomics.com/content/view/in-dark-engine-a-savage-woman-seeks-her-destiny-against-all-odds#sthash.F29JXcjW.dpuf</div>
<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
Ryan
Burton teams up with John Bivens for an all-new ongoing series that
blends elements of dark fantasy and action with mystery.<br />
With ribsword in hand, with gore in her curling locks, Sym has been
sent to the distant past to murder her creators’ enemies. But the
twisted alchemists who made Sym do not know that the engine that powers
her is sentient, that it is the seed of their destruction. By blood and
by fury, Sym will carve out her destiny in this new ongoing series.<br />
<br />
DARK ENGINE is about the evil things that lurk inside us all. “Some
drive us, some are alive and thinking. And Sym will learn just exactly
what drives her, and why she was sent back in time to essentially murder
anything standing,” explained Burton. “Of course, John [Bivens] does a
brilliant job of capturing the enormous scope of the story, whether it's
showing the stygian machinations of Sym's creators or the harrowing
vistas that are littered with the husks of old Lovecraftian monsters,
it's all there."<br />
<br />
DARK ENGINE #1 arrives in stores on 7/16, and will be available for $3.50. It can be pre-ordered with Diamond Code MAY140574.<br />
- See more at:
http://imagecomics.com/content/view/in-dark-engine-a-savage-woman-seeks-her-destiny-against-all-odds#sthash.F29JXcjW.dpuf</div>
John_Bivenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994830709001555990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8408350296222592081.post-27392359152274610792014-03-10T09:37:00.002-05:002014-03-10T09:37:57.339-05:00SLAP!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Panel of inks from OLD WOUNDS. Comic written by Russell Lissau and to be published by POP GOES THE ICON. </div>
<br />John_Bivenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994830709001555990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8408350296222592081.post-20708835900537202862014-03-10T09:35:00.000-05:002014-03-10T09:35:05.673-05:00Inked Panels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A Couple of inked panels from the 1st issue of Dark Engine. </div>
<br />John_Bivenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994830709001555990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8408350296222592081.post-58074174126756139832014-03-10T09:31:00.002-05:002014-03-10T09:31:50.059-05:00Process Animation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Process animation for the creation of a panel.John_Bivenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994830709001555990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8408350296222592081.post-69246810339477578752013-08-15T22:58:00.000-05:002013-08-15T22:58:14.063-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Panels of pencil-roughs in process to becoming panels of inks. </div>
<br />John_Bivenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994830709001555990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8408350296222592081.post-39639983216598286632013-05-27T07:46:00.001-05:002013-05-27T07:46:25.555-05:00How I do my flats<span class="userContent">Flats for a panel. My flats are done in
Illustrator, using the Live Paint tool, after converting and expanding
my drawing using the Live Trace tool. I found myself really liking the
color palate options available.</span><br />
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John_Bivenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994830709001555990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8408350296222592081.post-56029470610172444482013-05-22T16:48:00.001-05:002013-05-22T16:48:58.373-05:00SHMOO!!!Did a page for the GUTTERS.<br />
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<a href="http://www.the-gutters.com/comic/421-john-bivens">http://www.the-gutters.com/comic/421-john-bivens</a><br />
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Also, figured I would post some of my thumbnails for another project, to show how rough they normally are:<br />
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