Gun-shy

Here are some more art samples for my first graphic novel, a collection of hard boiled western horror comics. This pages feature a Machine Gun Kelly type gangster character and an aging Jesse James type character meeting in a gun battle. For most pages I draw each panel on a different sketchbook page, sometimes using a reference collage like below. The individual panels are scanned and put together on a page template in Photoshop. I then do the inks on a vellum overlay over a b&w print of the assembled pencil pages. But for pages like this one I draw them full size on bristol board, in non-photo blue after a lot of sketches.  

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I'm a little "gun-shy," so I scanned in the blue pencil page so I could print out details to "test-ink" some details and experiment with the lines, light and shadows.