Sequential Samples

[ChrisMcJunkin]

Hey everybody,

I'm relatively new to these boards. I kept hearing C.B.'s name mentioned at the Marvel panel at Heroes' Con a few weeks back as the guy to show stuff to. I figured I'd post some work here for general feedback as well.

My name is Chris McJunkin and I'm an artist based out of South Carolina with a degree in graphic design (and a minor in Philosophical and Religious Studies...yeah, I don't know how those two go together either). I've been holding down the day job and working on the comic stuff in the evenings for a while now. I'm looking to go pro in the next year or so if I can get my stuff up to snuff.

Below is a six page story that was published in Heske's Horrors 2012: Final Prayer earlier this year. I wrote, illustrated and lettered this 6 page segment which was the introductory story for the anthology. The art was a mix of inks and ink washes, all done traditionally and then lettered digitally.








And here are a few other illustrations from recently:

Hulk 8x10 Pencil Illustration:


Scarlet Witch Mixed Media 8x10:


Zombie 11x17 Mixed Media Commission:


I don't want to overload it with non-sequentials so I'll let that be it for now.

You can check out more of my artwork here: http://chrismcj.deviantart.com/gallery/

[shinlyle]

I can vouch for Chris being an amazing artist and a true workaholic! You guys really owe it to yourselves to check out his deviantart page and look at some of the craziness he has going on there! It's great stuff!

hi, I'm Lyle, by the way...

[TheComicArchive]

Good looking stuff. I would say that your perspective and proportions are really strong. Your pages were pretty clearly laid out and easy to follow (some very important stuff). Where I would work is on your poses, getting a little more expressiveness out of your characters. If you look at the pinups you did the character's spines are all very straight and it gives the characters a sense of stiffness to them. I'm looking at the Black Widow piece in particular right now. Try to liven it up a little, look at the sequentials you did and that guy on the bench slouches. That's perfect. For whatever reason it didn't translate to the superhero drawings. One other really easy thing to do is to start playing around with where you place your "camera". A lot of your compositions place the camera directly in front of the characters, try going in at an angle. Films can be great inspiration for this.

And one small note, as an inker myself you should be careful about your use of gray tones in your pencils. The Hulk piece would be a little hard to ink as it looks like you've specified areas of gray. If I were inking that I only have two options, black or white. That said your stuff, inked and washed yourself, looks great! You could hand that over to a colorist pretty easily.

I hope you don't think I'm trying to tear your work apart, I think it's really strong, just needs a few things to make it that much stronger.