Another Hellblazer page

I love using wash and watercolour, and I'm often asked by people who really appreciate the art that is sometimes found in sequential art to do more with those media. When I'm on a roll and enjoying what I can do with them in sequences like the one on this page from The Horrorist, I tend to think that's a good idea. Frames like the third, here, where hardly any planning is needed in the painting of it, and you fill your brush and just splash those clouds into shape, and then construct the landscape and the rocks with light and dark washes as if you were sculpting them into shape - those frames give you great freedom of expression. But they're unusual. For the most part, calculating tone and colour for storytelling, evocation of atmosphere, and depiction of form, takes some solid thought. This page, like so much of the rest of the book was about injecting some heat into a cold world - heat arising from fear, tension, anger or passion. Here it's about a slowly rising temperature - the minimal heat of the warm colours bleeding into the cold colours of most of the page.

Original art for this image available for sale at CadenceComicArt.com