Still no news on when or how the next Green Monk will be published. This will probably be the last pages I’ll post until something is figured out. You should be able to get a good idea from the story, if you’ve been following along. By this time I’ve started to work with a combination of brush and micron. I still love brush for larger shapes, but microns really come in handy when I want to fly on drawing smaller objects.

I’ve been meaning to post these for quite awhile. It’s been over a year since Monopoly Streets has been released, but there’s still a bit of stuff I wanted to show. I just wasn’t sure how best to post this, and I hope this work okay.

One of the assignments I got was to take the first pass on storyboarding a promo piece of Mr. Monopoly “planting” a city. I love it when I get a chance to storyboard, and I try to find the right balance of communicating as clearly as possible without taking too much time to make things look nice.

I try to really push the boundaries when I’m doing this stuff. You can always pull something back if it’s too far out there, but playing it safe is just playing it safe. I got a particular hard time from my art director on this project about a shot he likes to call the “Nose Punch”. See if you can find it.

I recommend clicking on the link that says “View with PicLens”.

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Some more pages for Green Monk Volume 1. I’m starting to get more comfortable with using blacks. Still some things to figure out, but I’m certainly learning a lot about full-page layout in the process. I need to start being much more disciplined about paneling as I’m inking. I spent too much time cleaning this up in post to make them fit in the panels.

So, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about when the next Green Monk will be coming out. The best answer I can give right now, is that I’m working on it, but I haven’t yet nailed down how I will be publishing the next book, so I can’t really say yet when it will be released.

That being said, I have been working on the next book. As proof, here are the next couple of pages.

Enjoy, and I hope to be figuring out the next step soon.