Project Announcement: "The Blur."

I'm taking this post to introduce an upcoming web project I'm doing. Well, one of them, at least. This one is pretty close to me due to the fact that the nature of the story came to me in a nightmare a while ago, and it stuck. The title of it is, as you can see, The Blur, and it'll be a web graphic novel.

The story follows a teacher, Damon Mackabee, as he starts off at a private school after a teacher goes missing. He fails to heed a warning from the school principal, and ultimately is tortured by the students because of it. Scared out of his mind, he hires a private investigator/psychic debunker, Donovan Ruth, to look into the school and see if the children are, in all actuality, demons. Ruth agrees, thinking Mackabee is out of his mind, and uncovers a secret that no one in the school could ever suspect, and one that will terrify the world when they find out.

What makes this even more of a challenge for me is the sheer... gross factor of this. The students look normal up to a point (this isn't a spoiler), namely Katherine Montesque, a.k.a. "Gonorrhea Girl," who looks like a typical 16 year-old, until Ruth sees her as a bloated, dripping mass of flesh. The Light Twins, too, will be a challenge as their mouths and eyes seem to burn into the reader. Added to this is an art style I've never done before, where the background is blurred more and more not from focus, but by importance to what's happening in the panel.

I'll have some of the cleaner concepts up when I draw them. I'm not going to lie, I'm actually looking forward to this one.