Inks for Past Due vol.2 “Winters Blood: The Templar Assassin” are done!
We’re so happy to announce that the inks for Past Due “Winters Blood: The Templar Assassin” (vol.2) are 100% complete! It feels so good to have this stage complete. This volume is completely different from volume 1 in terms of art – from the pencils to the inks to the coloring style.
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Past Due vol. 2 Summary
Winters’ Blood: The Templar Assassin introduces a radical transformation in Miguel’s art style to make it feel like you’re stepping into the past…way into the past. We go back in time to our main anti-hero Bradshaw Winters’ youth in the 1700s, studying moral philosophy with his friend Adam Smith at the University of Glasgow.
In these pages we see Winters’ as an old man (hundreds of years old in the present time). His genius assistant ALSET is preparing him for a major breakthrough in data transference. If knowledge is power, what if we can transfer hundreds of years of knowledge (data) to another brain?
Past Due Ink Samples
This is Bradshaw Winters and his assistant ALSET in his a lab, working on the problem of transferring a minds worth of data. We’ll see if they succeed.
Transferring Brain Data – Illustrating the Subconscious
Here’s the big moment! The transfer of knowledge from Winters’ brain has begun. To achieve the feeling of closing your eyes and seeing spots there was no better effect to get inspired by than Jack Kirby’s Kirby Krackle.
Kirby Krackle
Although Kirby Krackles are typically used for explosions, smoke, strange energy and outer space phenomena, I used it as a way to depict the subconscious.
Here is the page as a work in progress…
Here’s the final inked page…
