
Title: From 718
Client: ACT-I-VATE (www.act-i-vate.com), 2006
Media: Photography, Illustrator, Photoshop
Creative Process
This setup sequence from the unfinished comic 718
establishes people in a New York City subway car,
one of whom is a magician. The use of the magenta
magical glyph to indicate both the spoken spell and
the possession on the characters’ faces lets the
reader see the transfer of the possession even though
there is no proper dialogue to speak of.
The overblown colors used here are Photoshop
tweaks on photos shot in the early morning on the
subway train; the early-morning colors are already
strange, but that feeling coupled with the ...