Just a few days after the last bit of concept art, Mark Siegel encouraged me to keep pushing the visual style for DECELERATE BLUE. I continued with some of the ideas from the first sketch, while trying to take things up a notch. Used more lost lines (but still not enough…), and tried to hint at the narrative, with the circuit board shapes morphing into the more organic human heart and veins. Tried to develop characters a little more. I like a lot of this, but it’s not perfect.
More from DECELERATE BLUE, my graphic novel in-progress with writer Adam Rapp for First Second Books. Here’s my first stab at some concept art showing Angela, the main character, and the Mega Mall, and a few of the supporting characters from the two ideological sides of the conflict. This was mostly done for my own purposes, just trying to visualize designs and graphic motifs, and to start bouncing ideas off editor Mark Siegel. Not sure where the idea to do the upside down / mirror image thing came from, but I went with it since it’s all about playing around right now.
