Evolution of X.

Time for a trip down memory lane with the evolutions of various characters.

As a character in Caesura, Max has been kicking around for a good long while. She started life as a high school newspaper hound and has been aged up and down depending on the demands of the story, though her defining character trait remains that of "tough customer."

Dav is Max's partner in (solving) crime, the sweet-natured sunshine to her endless thunder. There's fewer examples for him, but still a great deal more than most other characters I draw.

Gabor, on the other hand, comes from an entirely different set of stories. In 2013 she was a talented but wholly human police detective; in 2015 I dusted her off and turned her into one of the demi-supernatural angel-fighting protagonists of Arch Angel. Quite a character arc, I suppose.

Caesura stuff.

Playing around with colour etc., because there's really only so long I can pull off black + white + accents before it'll all catch up to me.

Unfinished character work.

Ah, the really exciting stuff. I'll get around to finishing these. Eventually.

This one's cute because it's based on a friend's alt-universe where our merry band of misfits is essentially recast as bad guys. So here we have an assassin, a scientist (me), and a getaway driver (the model for the February cover, oddly enough), with the supervillain we kowtow to (AKA the guy who made this up in the first place) being my snarky magazine columnist friend. There are supposed to be more people involved but I haven't got around to doing them yet. Etc.

The girls from Caesura, one of my own stories. It's meant to be a hardboiled/noir pastiche of life at the school I go to. Despite appearances, the main character is Max; Zelah, the namesake of my blog's old URL, just happened to be easier to pin a colour scheme onto.

This was ambitious. I had a list of seventy-five or so characters from all my different stories and I was planning on drawing each and every one of them. You can see for yourself how far I got.

Auf wiedersehen, pet.