STRAY TALES; Collected Short Stories

[Sunnfish]

Hello Everyone!

My name is Christine Pointeau.
I am a comic book artist, author, and illustrator. Most of my art can be found under my personal label: RiverbyNight.

I have been on this board on and off for a few years now and decided to start a thread to share my various short stories, which I publish under the series title Stray Tales; Collected Short Stories.
Most are stand alone stories, which a couple recurring characters that will show up in each volume. As of this writting, vol.1:Transcending is out and I am working on stories for vol.2, which you will see in this thread.

Thank you for giving me the chance to post here. It is always a great pleasure to share with others. Please feel free to comment at anytime, and I will do my best to respond.

You can also connect with me on FB for more conversation.
Thanks!
-Cheers!

[Sunnfish]

Starting a new story: "A Is For Aviatrix", featuring a new character called "The Gardener."

Working on the title page:



I was overzealous in getting some shadow below the character's feet in the first image, before inking the letters ... unfortunately, they now do not match, but will be fixed later on.

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While I continue working on the Aviatrix front page (see above), I thought I'd share another story actually published under a separate collected book called: A Cappella; The Almost Complete Story.



page 1 of 4

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A Cappella: Fear - page 2 of 4

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Pages 3 and 4 coming soon ...

Meanwhile, here's today's work. Finished the Aviatrix opening page, save a couple details to be added later.

About an "Aviatrix" ...

... who flew a Lockheed Model 10 Electra ...

... with initials A.E. (sorry a bit blurry).

Ok, way too easy. Any guesses?
What do you think?

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Continuing with A Cappella: Fear - page 3 of 4

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Aviatrix story, pages 2 & 3.

As far as I got this weekend with the first round of ink, the outline.
More blacked out area and contrast still to be added.

comments welcomed!

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Finished pages 2 and 3 of the Aviatrix story this weekend.
Not sure if I want to add a more black to page 3 -I'm letting it sink in a bit before I do too much.
What do you think?





note: slight distortion due to paper laying on the floor while I take a picture. Originals are 12x15 inches.

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Progress, however slow, is better than no progress at all. With that in mind, I (slowly) march on whenever I have a few minutes to sit down and work on my drawings. The last couple weekends happen to have been good for progress.

Aviatrix, pages 4 and 5.

page 4 still needs a bit at the bottom:

page 5 has now been fully inked and will be posted soon:


-thanks for looking! Cheers-

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Here is the finished page 5 mentioned in the previous post.
I'm feeling very satisfied with the way it looks, actually. What do you think?

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It's a new year and I'm picking up this thread with more of the Aviatrix story.

Finished page 6.
I realize it's hard to know what's going on without dialogue but that won't be added until the end of this chapter, at about page 10 or 11 at most.
Regardless, here it is. I like the way the movement worked out for the characters.

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page 7 in progress - mostly done with a few blackened areas to add.