This is the last of the art samples (that I’ve found anyway) from 1998 with Jeff Swenson digitally painting over my pencils. I don’t think that this was one of the pages of the comic. I think we did this one just to see what it would like to have him paint over my pencils. It’s … interesting. It’s always weird for me to have someone ink or color my work. Not bad. Just a little weird. I can digitally color my own work now but in 1998 I barely understood what Photoshop did, let alone Painter. And even if I did Jeff could paint far faster than me. Hell, he could probably paint faster then than I can now.

Another example of a comic art from 1998, penciled by me, digitally painted by Jeff Swenson. The company we were submitting to published “adult” comics – meaning there was nudity and violence in the stories. So we included nudity and violence in the samples.

Another example from 1998 of Jeff Swenson’s digital painting over my pencils. I don’t remember how many pages of samples we did. Probably 3. It was a brief vignette featuring some sort of detective investigating an old house in the sticks. I believe I drew the pages as regular comics and then Jeff created individual paintings of each panel and then put them back together as a page. If so, I don’t have the final digital pages. The samples I’m showing are scans of printouts that I had in my files.

The details of this are pretty fuzzy. Fuzzier than normal anyway. If I remember correctly, in 1998 or 1999 Nizzibet was contacted by someone she knew in comics who was looking for artists to work on some sort of color horror comic. She suggested that Jeff Swensen and I put together some samples. I did the penciled art and he digitally colored/painted it. This was long before I knew my way around Photoshop.