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 Art tips and techniques, reviews and interviews from my studio. Archived here and at World Famous Comics. Comics 101 for 09/06/2001 
Blood and Rose: Time Lordsby Joe Corroney Week One - The Script PAGE ONE Panel One: Splash page - Establishing shot - interior, Joe's studio. Various Star Wars toys and action figures align the shelves, computer desk, and television top. Reference books are strewn about the floor along with rough sketches and various art supplies. His desk is cluttered with cd's, paint brushes, drawings and acrylics as he hunches over, his back to the viewers, wearing headphones connected to his stereo blasting Nine Inch Nails as the Sci-Fi channel flashes on the T.V. close by. He is noodling away on his Star Wars Gamer artwork, frantically trying to make a deadline... CAPTION: 10:53 a.m. September 5th, 2001 Panel Two: Medium panel, inset to large panel, bottom half of page. Joe, surprised, turns towards the reader as we see his clothes and hands are covered in acrylics. The thick, multi-colored paint dripping off his fingers as if it were the life essence taken from a hapless victim by an intense madman, as if his brush were a deadly weapon... JOE: What the--? Oh, Hi! I didn't see ya back there! Come on inside my studio and I'll take ya behind the scenes... and the panels... this month to an upcoming comic book I'm drawing and co-writing with Blue Line Pro creator Bob Hickey. Panel Three: Small inset panel - Close-up. JOE: The book is called 'Blood and Rose: Time Lords' and in this month's Comics 101 installment, we'll be looking at the step by step process of creating the comic from written script to the final pencil art for some of the pages. This tutorial will be a preview of sorts as the actual book won't be printed until later this year. So hopefully whether you're an aspiring comic book creator, a fan or just plain curious to know how this sometimes complicated process of comic art creation can be, you'll find the following interesting and you'll come back to Comics 101 beggin' for more! The Script Earlier this year, Bob Hickey, Creative Director and Publisher of Blue Line Productions, approached me about creating a new comic book. This would be a sequel of sorts as he was ressurrecting characters and a storyline that we had previously collaborated on a few years back called Blood and Roses. Since it had been a couple of years, I jumped at the chance to to work with Bob again. It was about the same time he contacted me to write for Sketch as well. Bob really sold me on his pitch for the new adventures of Time Agents Christiana Blood and Tamara Rose. I thought it would be even more fun this time around to contribute to the series again as I was anxious to be even more integral to the creation process. Not only as a penciler but also as a writer for this comic book. We both had some great ideas for the story and also for specific action sequences and characters. First, we'll take a look at the script we have written so far for the story and then look at the artwork for these same pages from thumbnails to final page design later in these next few weeks. The following script is broken down by page and not panels as it's actually more of a plot outline. Page 14 *(In these next pages, we catch our first glimpse of the girls being stalked by another Huntarr. We only catch glimpses of the alien. We see a marking on his armor somewhat similar yet different to the Huntarr symbols seen aboard warriors on the Infinity. We get the idea he is definitely watching them closely...) Show Chris walking up holding a few long sticks. Chris: These should make good spears. Tam: We need to find a place to spend the night. Chris: I spotted something up the ridge. We can check there. Another panel with Chris. Chris: Have you figured where in time we are and how we got here. Close up of Tam. Tam: We are either in the past pre historic age or we've arrived forward into little vanessa's time. Chris: Well, considering the local animal life I've sort of figured out that. But how did we get here. Tam: I've been figuring somehow we are the focal point of the time jumps. Chronos has been keeping us in the dark on several things. * (I also feel some narrative is needed here between the girls discussing the possibility that a piece of the time stone must be near by and that this must be the reason their time jump was triggered. Maybe they deduce that possibly Cronos specifically sent them here to retrieve it when he sent them the beacon aboard the ship just as he escaped... perhaps ensuring their escape as well.) -Joe As Tam starts to say something else they hear a loud roar from the trees. Page 15 Both freeze and look at each other. A closeup of Chris. Chris: Not again. Tam: Run! Show a large panel in the middle of the page. A huge dinosaur bursts through the trees. It's a T-rex! Tam: Run! Page 16 Show Chris and Tam running toward an open field. Someone leaps from a tree (they are blurred) and lands on top of the dinosaur. Both land in a cloud of dust. We hear a loud roar and the dinosaur raised from the dust cloud looking very menacing. Then it falls forward and the head of the dinosaur lands within inches of Chris and Tam. They hear a voice from the dust but can only make out a shadow of a female. Mysterious Female: I knew you'd be back. So far, the script we created seems pretty loose and is running very lean. Bob and I have worked together on other comic books in the past so we know what to expect from each other somewhat. By leaving ourselves with the scripting open somewhat, this gives us the chance to flesh out the actual story even more dramatically through my pencils and Bob's inks. This also gives us room to expand the story, maybe adding an extra panel(s) if we need to, or even editing ourselves should we need space for more important panels in other pages. Only a few lines of key dialogue are incorporated into the text so far since the final draft of scripting will take place once all the penciled pages are completed and all the panels are clearly in place. Regardless, this is the draft of the actual script I had in place when I began illustrating the story. Come back next week as I share my process of drawing my thumbnail page designs from this script. -Joe Recent Columns:
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