Rabbit and Corvid

Guerrilla Art: a sudden display of unauthorized public art. Welcome to my comic Rabbit & Corvid, where two graffiti artists will be battling it out. This blog is for concept and back-concept art and sharing the script.

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Rabbit and Corvid (comic). This is early concept for Katsu, the opposing graffiti artist. The original idea was that they would be traditional graffiti artists, or stencil graffiti artists. What he carries is an airbrush, not spray can. He doesn’t use spray cans, he uses stencils and his airbrush. This is his ‘avatar’. His avatar to avoid his identity being identified by the police. What you see in little form is the western comic type hero character Rabbitman (the comic character of the main character) and unnamed robot character that belongs to Katsu.  

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Rabbit and Corvid (comic)—Rabbit, urban wildlife, and ideas for Katsu the original opposing graffiti artists (still protagonist—comic is meant for fun, in beginning at least). Here is shown ideas/concepts for both the characters’ masks, their avatars. 

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Rabbit and Corvid—back when the comic was a satire of western and eastern comics. This is Rabbit and her cat sidekick Hijinks and a robot-mech development character. As noted, I accepted that I cannot draw asian type comics, manga to play out the conflict between graffiti war between western and asian comics. Sorry that it did not continue in this direction. 

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First idea of the graffiti artist conflict had been western comics against asian comics—manga, mostly mech inspired art—so one artists was of western culture, the other asian. Neither played hero or villain. So the conflicting artist is/was asian. This was among the first ideas I ran with. Unfortunately, I’m not fluent enough with asian comics and anime, so i had to back down on this idea. (though it would have been fun) So I decided to do satire of western comics. The asian character—above—is supposed to be unasuming so no one suspects him as the opposing artist. Tennessee is a goof and light hearted, she needs to learn to take life seriously (maybe???). 

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Main Character of my comic Rabbit and Corvid—graffiti artist battling graffiti artist. This is Tennessee, she comes from a family of artists, mostly architects. She’s the black-sheep of the fam, she draws comics and rebels as a guerrilla poster graffiti artist known as Rabbit. Here she has taken on her ‘secret’ identity. The tubes crossed like ninja swords art art tubes with posters of her comic she posts around her home city. This is among the first idea drawings. 

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So, this comic had to start somewhere (back in 2011—man it’s been so long)... this is the first drawing of the main character, very cartoony, very stylized. So here it is—pencil and paper—where it all started, Tennessee’s first concept and all the goofy masks she wore while running around doing her graffiti or her ‘guerrilla art’ since she is a poster graffiti artist... the masks were/are so the police don’t recognize her, or at least can’t figure who she really is. The rough sketch where she is doing parkour (or trying, she was still just a kid at the time), the crossed tubes on her back are poster tubes, where she keeps her comic posters. She was trying to look all ninja. 

This was all when she was still trying to figure out who her final avatar would be. (I’d say to ignore the text, but she's a teenager, she was still learning the value of preserving your hearing vers angering Mom & Dad)

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Logo time-lapse for my Comic - check it out! It’s coming, this is the start. Two graffiti artists battling it out. 

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Proposed logo fun. The logo of this comic will be transient, meaning it will change styles from time to time like up top. Enjoy the time-lapse. And welcome to Rabbit and Corvid. The graffiti war between two graffiti artists focused on the satire of western comics—one protagonist draws the hero (Rabbitman), the other protagonist draws the villain (Lady Blackbird). Development work will be here as well as excerpts from the script and later on actual pages. So join my journey.