Dennis Jones

Almost Ready

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Dennis

I’m presently doing the final edits on THE FEW issues 4, 5 and 6. Todd has gotten these characters into quite a mess. I hope they can find their way out of it!

Three Ring Circus

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Dennis

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Another wall illustration I did for Living Stones Church in Crown Point, Indiana.

Holy Mackerel!

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Dennis

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This is the wall illustration I did for the toddlers room at Living Stones Church in Crown Point, Indiana.

Getting Ready For Easter

Posted on March 25, 2018 by Dennis

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The folks at Living Stones Church are getting their new building ready for Easter Sunday, and the Nursery, Toddler and Preschool rooms will all have a bit of my artwork in them.

I traveled up to Crown Point, Indiana to meet them and they told me they wanted the pictures for these particular rooms to follow the creation story. I took some photos, took some wall measurements and headed back home. I fired up Photoshop, created files with the proper room dimensions, added a 5.5 and 6 foot guy for scale, scratched out some roughs, sent them in for approval and then proceeded to create the finished artwork.

I’m pretty excited to go back some Sunday and see these three classrooms full of kids!

Croak-A-Cola

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Dennis

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I used to have a job crushing Coca-Cola cans. It was soda pressing.

Still Working On Comics

Posted on March 3, 2018 by Dennis

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The comic books I’m working on have really been eating up a lot of my work time. I’m currently working on issue six. I noticed that the pencil drawings for them are really starting to pile up, so I made a quick video to show how much artwork has gone into the first five issues.

You can visit THE FEW Online Comic Book Shop by clicking HERE.

Erasable Color Leads

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Dennis

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I’ve just discovered something new! I typically like to start my drawings using an erasable blue pencil (a Prismacolor Col-Erase 20044 Blue) and then use a mechanical pencil (Pentel Twist-Erase) to finish the drawing. This process works fine, but I am constantly having to stop and hand sharpen the blue pencil. I have tried to find blue leads to use in my mechanical pencils, but they are all too brittle and not erasable at all.

Then I discovered PaperMate Erasable Color Leads. These are soft leads, fit my mechanical pencils perfectly and work like a charm… AND you can get them at your local WALMART!! …well, you can’t get them at MY local Walmart because I just bought every one they had last night… but you might want to give these a try sometime. I love em.

Elysia Rhone

Posted on December 7, 2017 by Dennis

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The image on the left is a panel rough I sent to Todd for his approval in order to move forward on THE FEW Comic Book Series. The image on the right is the finished art. I’m glad Todd trusts me ’cause my roughs look like a four year old did them.

You can visit THE FEW Online Comic Book Shop by clicking HERE.

Making Stuff Up

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Dennis

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THE FEW Comic Book Series exists in its own unique little universe… and what does that universe look like? Who knows? It’s being created from scratch one day at a time. In a perfect comic book creators world, there would be plenty of time to design all the different elements that go into a story, but in reality there is only a mountain of artwork to render and little time to do it. Here’s a panel that called for a couple of space motorcycles and my quick roughs to figure out what they might look like.

You can visit THE FEW Online Comic Book Shop by clicking HERE.

We’ll Getcha Hooked Up

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Dennis

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Thanks to everyone for the positive response to the comic books. Many have asked questions that I don’t have answers to yet. We are currently in “soft launch” mode… but we will eventually get you hooked up with this story in a variety of ways.

You can visit THE FEW Online Comic Book Shop by clicking HERE.

The Comics Are Ready

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Dennis

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In May of 2016 I began work on a three year, nine issue comic book project. The first three comics are printed and hard copies are now available for purchase online. I’m currently finishing the art for issue four and just received the script for issue five. This has been such a fun project to work on.

You can visit THE FEW Online Comic Book Shop by clicking HERE.

Ecto One

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Dennis

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Ghostbuster Ecto One concept art I did for the folks at Cryptozoic a while back. Squashing a mile long 1959 Cadillac ambulance limo down into a cartoon compact size was a challenge to say the least.

The preliminary 3-d renders are by the amazing Stephan Ehl.

Creating A Few Panels

Posted on August 26, 2017 by Dennis

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The next three issues of THE FEW are officially underway. Here’s a snapshot of how I create a single panel of art for a page in the comic.

I take the written script, “massage” the text to make it work in a picture format, create a really simple rough of the entire story and send it to the editor for approval. When I receive the go ahead, I refine the art, put it on a light table, do a tight pencil drawing, scan that into the computer an add color with Photoshop.

All I need to do now is repeat this process about three hundred times and the next three comics will be ready to send to the printer.