David Schmelling - Comics, Design and Illustration

Hi everybody! I've got an exciting opportunity to illustrate a variant cover for an ambitious indie comics team, currently running their Kickstarter campaign. Please have a look!

It is about a quirky scifi universe, with preview pages available to get a first look. I had a lot of fun working on the variant cover which I'm allowed to show before the reveal with further plans on their Kickstarter page!

Hope you like it and have a look whether this comic might be interesting for you! Here is the link again: Pretty, Pretty Gumdrops on Kickstarter

Thanks for your support!

I take commissions for indie comic teams, please feel free to send me a message and let me know what you are up to.

If you want to reach out to me on Twitter via DM, just head over right here!

You can also support me directly on BuyMeACoffee, it would mean the world to me!

A concept for a spin off of my Forlorn Knights story and worldbuilding. For this I used the great AI image tool of NovelAI.

I recommend it especially if you're a professional.

My OC (story Forlorn Knights - Darksome Arising). The codex of the forlorn knights is to die gloriously in combat, but to not kill an unarmed individual. Wan, though, figures out more important goals: to protect what is dearest to him. Painted from scratch (to train my skills).

My first volume is currently in production. The pages will be black and white/pencils with greyscale shading, or halftones, and a mixed media approach with a few tweaks depending on the visual storytelling. (A few pages might be coloured)

Tumblr might at least stay my secondary platform, but I hope that I can discover and add my colleagues and buddies I got to know from Twitter here as well. Feel free to contact me or follow me here, I will add you and we continue as per normal.

Last post updating the drawings for today, hope you enjoyed browsing through them so far! Feel free to follow, reblog, like, etc. No worries about reblogging. If you'd be so kind, link to my page for anyone to see more if you reblog a post. Thanks!

More drawings incoming, the characters belong to my personal project Forlorn Knights. It's incredible fun to do worldbuilding and see the world fill with characters, a diverse range of people. I look forward to reaching specific parts of the story and to be able to release the first volume of my graphic novel soon. The story is very large, which is why there will ideally be plenty of graphic novels. I'm doing my best.