Ramsey and Clara

This was actually a mother’s day gift. One very nice thing about my mother is that she has always had an eye for art, and has been able to tell me more mistakes than I’ve been able to notice myself. At the same time, she’s encouraged me to work on my own designs and characters. So this piece includes two of my original characters, Ramsey and Clara, who take a big part in my latest project, Demon in a Jar.

I also did a marker version, but I’m not quite as satisfied with it. Color, at the moment, is my weakest point, and something I intend to work on over this year. I’m slowly getting value (balance of light and dark) but color is beyond me at the moment. That’s sort of a good thing because I’m not going to start another color comic any time soon; if I did that, I’d probably become discouraged. DiaJ is supposed to be black and white for the first ten or so pages.