J.Webb.Scripts
April 21st, 2009, 03:01 AM
Greetings, CA dwellers. I've been working on scripts for a comic series or graphic novel for a while but it's getting to the point where I really need something concrete if I'm going to push ahead with finishing it. I'm not a rich person, so a job illustrating the entire book isn't something I can offer yet, however I'm definately willing to pay per-page of designs, and once those are done, for several sets of sample pages of sequential panels, so that I can build a collective portfoilo for the story to pitch at publishers or other artists.
Perhaps I'm being somewhat over-ambitious, but if you're interested in doing sketches or finished designs for some of my characters or settings, please PM or email me and let me know how much you personally would charge per piece (I know this is considered bad form but as someone who has sold art himself in the past I know full well that price should vary according to time put in and experience of the artist), and if your stuff fits what I had in mind then maybe we can talk. I'll provide you with the cast list, along with reference material (photographs etc.) for you to work with. I already have a strong idea about the characters, places and technology involved, but I'm flexible when it comes to working with different styles of artist (after all, that's the sort of thing that moves the genre forward).
Thanks for reading. I've tried other places but the standard here seems to be particularly high, and I'd rather pay top-notch artists to do a few pages than let a total amateur do it for free and get it wrong. Apologies for the long post. Plot synopsis follows.
"Hollow Planet" documents a month in the life of Nathan Brooks, as he attempts to uncover the secrets held in the comatose mind of ship's physician Katya Malinov, whose escape pod mysteriously crash lands in his neighbor's flat one fateful night in Camberwell, London.
This event forces Brook's reluctant return to a dangerous and addictive practice he had hoped to kick for good - neuroscopy - a method of directly experiencing another person's dreams or memories, using blackmarket technology invented in the early 21st century for use in renditions, interrogations and other psychic espionage.
Our protagonist soons finds himself battling to decypher Malinov's nightmarish recollections of the demise of her crewmates. But time is short. The ship's physician has brought back with her a dark secret; a malicious, otherworldy bacterium which systematically destroys the sanity of all sentient life it comes into contact with. Nathan must discover as much as he can about its nature and origin, before Malinov's memories twist and distort beyond recognition, trapping her (along with any possible hope for a cure) in a catatonic hell.
Set against the bleak backdrop of an overcrowded and polluted 2040s London, food rationing, fuel shortages and public paranoia come as echoes of the country a century earlier. This is a story of madness upon madness, in a state run by fear. A people kept at arm's length by their leaders are ready to break; an unearthly catalyst threatening the already fragile balance of power.
Now on the run from a Special Branch agent intent on covering up the crash as a terrorist attack in order to smokescreen public spending on the space program, Brooks must relive the ship's bloody descent into chaos, in order to understand this new threat, facing some of his own personal demons along the way.
Please PM or e-mail me if you have any interest at all in the story or subject matter. There's a wealth of talent on this forum, and trying to find someone to work across DA is nigh on impossible.
Perhaps I'm being somewhat over-ambitious, but if you're interested in doing sketches or finished designs for some of my characters or settings, please PM or email me and let me know how much you personally would charge per piece (I know this is considered bad form but as someone who has sold art himself in the past I know full well that price should vary according to time put in and experience of the artist), and if your stuff fits what I had in mind then maybe we can talk. I'll provide you with the cast list, along with reference material (photographs etc.) for you to work with. I already have a strong idea about the characters, places and technology involved, but I'm flexible when it comes to working with different styles of artist (after all, that's the sort of thing that moves the genre forward).
Thanks for reading. I've tried other places but the standard here seems to be particularly high, and I'd rather pay top-notch artists to do a few pages than let a total amateur do it for free and get it wrong. Apologies for the long post. Plot synopsis follows.
"Hollow Planet" documents a month in the life of Nathan Brooks, as he attempts to uncover the secrets held in the comatose mind of ship's physician Katya Malinov, whose escape pod mysteriously crash lands in his neighbor's flat one fateful night in Camberwell, London.
This event forces Brook's reluctant return to a dangerous and addictive practice he had hoped to kick for good - neuroscopy - a method of directly experiencing another person's dreams or memories, using blackmarket technology invented in the early 21st century for use in renditions, interrogations and other psychic espionage.
Our protagonist soons finds himself battling to decypher Malinov's nightmarish recollections of the demise of her crewmates. But time is short. The ship's physician has brought back with her a dark secret; a malicious, otherworldy bacterium which systematically destroys the sanity of all sentient life it comes into contact with. Nathan must discover as much as he can about its nature and origin, before Malinov's memories twist and distort beyond recognition, trapping her (along with any possible hope for a cure) in a catatonic hell.
Set against the bleak backdrop of an overcrowded and polluted 2040s London, food rationing, fuel shortages and public paranoia come as echoes of the country a century earlier. This is a story of madness upon madness, in a state run by fear. A people kept at arm's length by their leaders are ready to break; an unearthly catalyst threatening the already fragile balance of power.
Now on the run from a Special Branch agent intent on covering up the crash as a terrorist attack in order to smokescreen public spending on the space program, Brooks must relive the ship's bloody descent into chaos, in order to understand this new threat, facing some of his own personal demons along the way.
Please PM or e-mail me if you have any interest at all in the story or subject matter. There's a wealth of talent on this forum, and trying to find someone to work across DA is nigh on impossible.