That set of fill-in comics I did for Microsoft way back in January? Well, they finally ran last week so I guess it’s okay to post them now, with a link back to the main site.

It’s interesting scrolling through the archives. The art style changes every week, and sometimes multiple times during the week. I’ve been reading a lot of the comments and most of the complaints are about the characters look changing.

When I did the three day’s worth of strips, there was almost no reference material for any of the characters and I imagine that was the same for most of the art teams as I believe they tried to get several weeks worth of buffer by using a number of artists and studios simultaneously. I was given the first 7 days of pencils, beautifully drawn by Rich Burchett, and that was it. After I had drawn my three days I was then given a character sketch each for the other two characters. I tried to stick as close as I could to the look he initiated. How successful I was is up for debate.

All things considered I think the strips turned out nice.

I finished up the final page of the final week of The Mighty Motor-Sapiens about half an hour ago.

I must say I’m a little sad to say good bye to the characters. I’ve been working on them now for well over 6 months, and the past 9 weeks pencilling them as well has been one of the most fun gigs of my career! It’s going to be weird going to work next week and not having Gigs and the crew to draw.

My thanks go out to Mark Wheatley for the opportunity, as well as the whole team including co-creators Bob Tinell and Daniel Krall (along with Mark), scripter MJ Butler, colourist Jerry Carr, and interim penciller Matt Plogg. Hopefully I haven’t forgotten anyone!

I am working on the pencils to the Mighty Motor-Sapiens week 28 right now – the final week! The weekend and next week will be dedicated to my story for the Tori Amos anthology from Image Comics. After that, unless something else comes up, I have a few weeks free until I start storyboarding in mid April for probably the rest of the year. I’m going to do my best to get caught up on Wahoo Morris in that time!

Anyhoo, here’s the roughs for week 27 of Mighty Motor-Sapiens for your viewing pleasure!

Only one page of The Mighty Motor-Sapiens pencils art this week. I’m attempting to ink from my roughs, so this is the only page that looks good on it’s own.

Here’s the rough pencils I just finished for The Mighty Motor-Sapiens week 25 day 01. The plan is to ink it this evening after finishing up the animation story-board test I’m working on.