Today I posted the final page of GALACTIC SCRAP COLLECTOR, a science fiction tale that follows a working class family trying to survive underneath the shadow of galaxy spanning corporations. Which you can read yourself on tapastic here. From some rough calculations, it’s been about two years since I started, and an interesting ride all told.
My original intention for GSC was to follow Keira and her family as they did their job, lived their life, but in this bizarre and otherworldly setting, picture a kid riding with their dad as they do plumbing or maintenance work. But it morphed into something a little bigger. The context of the state of their society formed around them, the wild west of factions and corporations doing whatever they wanted in space, free of any kind of regulation. The same kind of freedom that let’s Keira and family survive day to day, but let’s larger forces dictate what happens on a galactic scale. It became a bigger adventure, where I could explore a topic just a little bit, Keira and her family being focal point, taken along for the ride.
Here’s some early sketches of Keira I dug out from the vault ( a fancy term for a folder on my computer ) The biggest difference is I removed her goggles as her character and job became a bit more defined, this original sketches are more of a post apocalyptic survivor type character. She became a little less raggidy.