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"Psychedelic Burn" Concept Art by Dirk Hooper
In the early 90s, when I got serious about doing comics, I created an 8-Page comic story called "Psychedelic Burn."
The following years I had a few other comic stories published with friends and eventually focused on photography and writing.
About four years ago I returned to drawing, inking, and painting, but this time I moved my complete process to digital. That's been an interesting journey (and not always so easy... never stop drawing folks), and a hell of a lot of fun for me. It's allowed me to slowly find my new style.
So, I'm toying around with returning to "Psychedelic Burn" for another 8-Page story. While I wasn't doing the story, I was still thinking about it all that time and I have a lot more to say about the characters and world I created long ago.
This character concept is a big deal to me because I feel like I've been building up to this for the past few years. The whole process and style are what I've been figuring out. I'm finally at a place where I may be ready to return to sequential art.
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Looks great, I like the style & quality of the linework. It’s almost like art nouveau meets a linocut print and they make a comic together. Would love to see it in some storytelling action!
You have a great eye! Those are two things I could easily say to describe the style that I'm doing right now.
I'm just at the beginning stages of this, but that's the style that I plan on using for this project, so stay tuned here, or at my website www.dirkhooper.com.
And thank you very much for the kind and insightful comment!