Sean Azzopardi

This is another page from the sketchbook collection. It’s called 1983  ( Surprise, huh !).  That is the year that Black leather takes place in. Well the main part of it anyway. Below is the full image of the cover for the sketchbook. I realise that these images are not sequential and are probably of little interest to anyone expecting comics from me. But sometimes it’s important to step outside and get some fresh air.

The 1983 image was made by tearing up several ‘failed’ watercolours and joining them together again and painting over them with gesso and ink.

Following on from yesterdays post this the back cover for sketchbook 3. Not sure what people will make of this stuff, but I like it because of the presence of colour.

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This is a page from a sketchbook I’m compiling for the summer con season. It will be filled with colour two page spreads. But i’m quite nervous about a non – narrative  so have been writing speech balloons over some images along with random text. Although the end result is unclear at the moment, these should look great at the A4 size publication  format.

This is a sketchbook page from a week when i suffered from bout of insomnia. Not an unusual occurrence when i’m trying to figure out some comic problems. Here’s hoping that Black leather will not become a comic about making a comic.

Okay back to the sketchbook posting as lovingly scratch away on my new comic. This is one of a series of tree drawings i started inspired by Sarah Mcintyre and her observational drawings. This was a brush pen straight to page.

This is my last Angouleme 2012 post finishing a week after the festival closed. This is a Sketch of Chris Ware, from memory as he didn’t make it to the festival.
I also wrote a blog post for FP and it can be read here.
Time to be getting on with new stuff and preparations for TCAF.

This is a sketchbook drawing made while sitting in the Eddie Campbell interview hosted by Paul Gravett. I was paging a Dan Clowes page i had seen earlier in the comics museum. It’s not a great likeness and the text is no reflection on Pauls interview. It was more me wanting him to dig deep about Eddies self publishing and approach. The few times that this happened was fascinating and inspiring.
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