The Creative Process

What lies behind the full creation of a comic?

This is something I myself wondered about many times when I was a kid.

As an adult my questions got a little more detailed. Did Jim Lee draw and colour his pictures? What on Earth did an inker do? Did Stan Lee write every comic book? Who comes up with the ideas for all these comic titles? And a whole bunch of other stuff.

Well it wasn't until one year ago when I was lucky enough to be one of the few people in the world to get the chance to work in a comic company that my questions were finally answered.

Well now I'm here, I thought I would share with everybody else exactly how the creative process of creating a comic book from scratch works. Heck I even got myself into a few of the pictures...


THE CREATIVE PROCESS

East Meets West

What makes our product unique? That is simple, DevaShard is the first ever graphic novel series to be produced by a team half made up of professional artists / writers from the Eastern comic industries and half from the Western comic industries.

Working side by side on a daily basis, they have developed our product from the first seeds of an idea to the finished issue 1 which will be hitting the stands soon. Sharing experience gathered from working on small circulation independent graphic novels to mass circulation comic titles on both sides of the globe, they have been able to produce a truly original book with high quality artwork and intricate storylines.

To read more about our unique comic book team, check out our bios at:
FluidFriction.com


Ken - Inker


Johnny - Colourist


Keith - Penciller


Zen - Writer

Introduction

Well, I decided to start up this blog as we have been working on developing our very own series of graphic novels for the last year and that seemed like a pretty interesting thing, so I thought people might like to read about the process and what goes into creating a comic book / graphic novel from scratch.

Our first series is called DevaShard and this is an image of Issue 1: