Another Chris Luna color sketch, and the sheriff of Crooksville, Sheriff Foley, a character that appears in issue #2. We don’t know his forename. Paul, maybe. Yes, he looks like a Paul.
…we rejected. This was the very first color illustration done by Gaby, before attempting the pages. It had the feeling we wanted for the series, but we felt we were missing something. “She’s ugly”, we agreed. “Do you really want to draw an entire miniseries about an ugly girl?”, I asked him.
“Why not?”, Gaby shaked his head. “You said Luna wasn’t the big boobs babe of the month”.
“Right, but she scares me more than the dead in the background”, I replied.
Then, Gaby kicked my ass and redraw Chris Luna’s face.
We were all “Ooh, wow” when we saw The Veil cover that Maestro Ashley Wood did. It’s also the first drawing about the characters done by other artist than Gaby (don’t count me and my rough scribbles on bar napkins). When you see these interpretations on your characters, you feel strange (your child in other hands!), but overall you feel amazed at it. And when it comes from Ashley Wood… you know, all jaws dropping and “Ooh, wow”.
It’s been a long way. More than 3 years in the works, since Gaby Hernandez and me wanted to do a horror story. You know, that horror story that always roam in your mind. And finally, thanks to the folks at IDW, it is going to see the light.
The Veil… 4 issues… lots of panels. Ha. The story of Chris Luna, a girl who can see beyond our reality, to another realm, through the veil which separate these worlds. Spirits, dead people and strange feelings live there, so our girl becomes a private eye, with dead customers. Not the easy way to earn a living, really.
Please, consider this site your blog. Ask whatever you want, even our breast size… We’ll post sketches, character designs, and panels and pages that we cast aside; but don’t ask for spoilers. Our lips and keyboards are sealed.
First post, first sketches. These are the very ones where Gaby designed Chris Luna…
Meet Gaby Hernandez, alias Sketch Man. He owns three, maybe four notebooks full -and I mean full- of sketches, quick paintings and designs… just for The Veil. Before attempting a page, he draw some thumbnails and plays with the light sources in every panel. So… we have tons of designs to post!
