Process: Inking Commissions for The Lost Art!
And You Can Still Get In On It!
Hey, everybody! We’re 129% funded at the end of the campaign, and I’m more than thrilled! If you missed out (or thought you dodged a bullet), late pledges are enabled (probably through the holidays), so there’s still time to discover The Lost Art of Don Simpson!
I thought I’d show you the progress made on the nine commission drawings I’m creating for backers—I inked all day for my 64th birthday—and basically only need to add a few textures and ink the signatures, for the most part (a tenth backer hasn’t IDed the characters they want yet—please contact me, Will Lorenzo!).
These drawings, once inked, will appear in the book—along with scans I kept of commissions for my two other 2025 publications, The Complete Megaton Man, Volume I and Megaton Man: Multimensions. If you still want an original drawing that will also appear in this once-in-a-lifetime publication, contact me ASAP!
There will be more updates over the next few weeks as I finalize the layout and send files to the overseas printer, so stay tuned! Hope you are having a wonderful holiday season regardless!
Thanks again!—Don.
Note: In my old age, I’m tending to first ink the basic contours of the figures with a Micron PN and Hunt #102 “crowquill” before “spotting blacks” (whatever that is!) and adding textures with a sable brush, and generally fussing and overworking things. This is more of an old-school newspaper strip or comics approach I associate with artists like Milton Caniff and John Romita Sr., fyi.
