Khail Ballard
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Cartooning Projects

I've made a few different multiple page graphic novel projects and have a few others in production. Some of them are only available to potential employers (contact me for inquiries), but these are ones that are entirely mine and largely posted to my social media.

I frog!

I just wanted to make something cute, yet still somehow involve a tarantula? Arachnophobe trigger warning.

COLORS OF SPACE

I love scifi. Colors of Space was an excuse to draw a bunch of space-based stories while giving myself the artistic challenge of having each short story have a singular color theme. This work is an anthology, so the characters and plot changes with each color change. The only link between them is that they're all in one cohesive universe. It was interesting how much I could do with such a limited palette (each comic has a total of 6 tones, including the page color) and how much I had to sacrifice. I believe, happily, that I got all my images across despite the restrictions. Blue is my personal favorite story, but have a scroll through them and see which one is yours.

Serigrad

Serigrad is a graphic novel that's been fully written, but unfortunately lies in the "get to it when I can" folder of my illustrative projects. I'm not going to call it dead because I fully intend to get to it someday, but for now my shorter stories are what I want to focus on. The background research and such that I did for this were a very good learning experience for me both as a writer and artist, and I think it's helped shape my current artistic pursuits.
Concept Sketches

Select Pages

Technically I'll be breaking the graphic novel into several "chapters" (though they won't be labeled as such, so far as I know) with info pages before each one. The entire thing will be colored because I'm a masochist. As to whether it will be release as one big graphic novel or broken up, I'm not sure yet.
I think I started sketching up the main characters below in 2017, which is a thought.
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