Ed Sludden is creating
Illustrated adventure comics
I'm making exciting comics and illustrating stories.
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About
I'm a Scottish artist living in London, in the UK. I work at a toy and game company called 'Makielab'. In my spare time I write and draw comics and paint digitally. I work in both 2d and 3d and tend to mix digital and traditional art techniques.
Location
London, UK
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There's a format in comics called the 'One-shot', where, as the creator, you give yourself a single comic to tell the whole story.
One of the benefits of doing a short, serialized story, is that you can offer people on the web a complete experience.
Furthermore, the production period from start to finish is a much more reasonable period of time for an artist to create something, especially when they are on a small budget. I’ve also found that if you are an artist that wants to get satisfaction from your work, it’s so important that you don’t try to remake ‘Star Wars’.
I’m drawn to big stories, because I’ve always enjoyed showing off, ever since i was a kid drawing Bananaman for my school friends. However, since I work in London at a small Toy and Game company, I only have the time to make small newspaper style anthologies or to pull out interesting parts of bigger stories and try to draw them for you. But I believe that these constraints could turn out to be strengths.
I’ll be making comics. They will be uploaded once or twice a month. Sometimes the stories will stand alone, unconnected to any other, a true ‘One shot’. Sometimes they might come in two parts, such as the story of ‘The Wager’, a 26 gun Navy frigate that wrecked on a leeward shore on the coast of Chile many years ago.
When I’m illustrating from a previously published text, such as ‘An account of the Shipwreck of The Wager, by the honourable John Byron (Originally published in 1812), I’ll make it clear that I’m not the writer. But I have a few little separate stories and poems of my own, and I’ll be making those too. This will keep things interesting.
Making lots of small things and reaching someone like you, is what Patreon is about for me. I want to continue to make beautiful comics on digital platforms, and hopefully get better at it as I go along.
One of the benefits of doing a short, serialized story, is that you can offer people on the web a complete experience.
Furthermore, the production period from start to finish is a much more reasonable period of time for an artist to create something, especially when they are on a small budget. I’ve also found that if you are an artist that wants to get satisfaction from your work, it’s so important that you don’t try to remake ‘Star Wars’.
I’m drawn to big stories, because I’ve always enjoyed showing off, ever since i was a kid drawing Bananaman for my school friends. However, since I work in London at a small Toy and Game company, I only have the time to make small newspaper style anthologies or to pull out interesting parts of bigger stories and try to draw them for you. But I believe that these constraints could turn out to be strengths.
I’ll be making comics. They will be uploaded once or twice a month. Sometimes the stories will stand alone, unconnected to any other, a true ‘One shot’. Sometimes they might come in two parts, such as the story of ‘The Wager’, a 26 gun Navy frigate that wrecked on a leeward shore on the coast of Chile many years ago.
When I’m illustrating from a previously published text, such as ‘An account of the Shipwreck of The Wager, by the honourable John Byron (Originally published in 1812), I’ll make it clear that I’m not the writer. But I have a few little separate stories and poems of my own, and I’ll be making those too. This will keep things interesting.
Making lots of small things and reaching someone like you, is what Patreon is about for me. I want to continue to make beautiful comics on digital platforms, and hopefully get better at it as I go along.