DA Shadow Phantom (DASP) started out as a short story for a creative writing class in college. Everyone told me that the 20 page portion I had written sounded like a chapter in a series. So, along with my roommate from college, Elizabeth Stottlemyer, I turned it into a novel series that is just now starting to go up on Amazon.
However, as I am an artist, I just couldn’t let the story go just as a novel series. Always in the back of my mind as we were writing, I kept seeing each scene play out like episodes, picturing character designs and specific facial expressions.
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I graduated from Pacific Union College with a Bachelor’s degree in creative writing and a minor in fine art. Over a year later, after my roommate and I were well into the DA Shadow Phantom series, at least the first draft (that I ended up rewriting another dozen times at least), I took some art classes the the Art Institute of Hollywood, CA. I focused on learning Photoshop and enough in After Effects to do some basic animation, and I took a class in character design.
Because my brain can be stubborn, the whole character design process didn’t really sink in until a few years after I’d taken the class. From the time I was 4 years old, my style had been growing hyper realism. However, I wasn’t completely happy with just being able to copy the world around me and draw the occasional dragon. I wanted to express what I was inside. So I finally found comic art.
DA Shadow Phantom Blurb
Dalan Raymer wants to be a normal kid, surviving high school like everyone else. But normal kids don’t grow blue fur, fangs, and claws when they get too upset or excited.
In the meantime, a rebel group is rising in the isolated city of Athallia, getting more organized and dangerous. Can Dalan learn to control his uncanny abilities in time to protect those he cares for when all hell breaks loose? Or before he loses control and hurts them instead?
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