progress - almost done

these are my in progress inks for my 4 pgs, all brushpen so far. it gets sort of confusing in the jacket on the last page so i will fix it.
here's links 6-7, 8-9 to the finals.

this is a printout of my tight roughs that i tightened and mixed with the hand from teh skecth below it, the earlier can be found on my earlier post.

these are some sketches i did to help with the hand on teh covers i did on my deviantart page for maelstrom.


some awesome phantom pages i colored from nick derington on splashpageart.com.

heres a color of an awesome bryan hitch dps.

tight roughs last pages issue 2

these are all free fonts that ill probably draw from and mix, see if any fonts/letter designs stand out to you. ill also incorporate the candle motif into them as well.





these are some roughs for teh logo redesign for capricious alchemy. they are dreadfully similar but its a start, i will try and do more soon.


influenced alot by pages ive been looking on splashpage art.com from nick derington
i LOVE his work, inking, style, sorytelling.

everybody started somewhere

heres my ideas and tight roughs for covers for the comic ive been working on.

this is a pic i quickly colored for class.

yes i did tighten up pg one before i inked it. my final pages can be found in my deviantart gallery.

this was a cheesy comic i found laying around in noris and then i realized the artist on the cover was one of my (now) idols, mike deodato jr. who has recently worked on tigra, thunderbolts, hulk, spiderman, moonknight. he has come a long way since this piece in 1996, but it just took this piece to make me see him as a person, lower him off his god like pedistol and say if he can change that much and be where he is now, who says i cant. i later put the text on it and hing this up in my room as inspiration.

and last this is my inks for the new startrek cover, the colored version of which can be found on pendant audio's website or my deviant page. i was actually quite pleased with it despite inking it right after i woke up and the size only being 7x6" max. i added the hatching and feathering as lightly a i could at the last minute and really loved how it came out, i had been looking at a lot of bryan hytch lately, though it doesn't show too much.
alternately ive been trying to research a japanese artist named leiji matsumoto whos been doing and manga since the 70's such as gun frontier, galaxy express 999, and captain harlock. but i can barley find anything on him let alone images of his work for some reason. i also got robin hooked on x-men by reading chris bachello and humburto ramos' "supernovas" graphic.

interviews and anthology

well i got interviewed over the internet, im boring but - hey its my 1st interview,
if you want to listen go to
http://pendantaudio.com/twipeps/TWIP99web.mp3

got my anthology submission submitted, lol, i was there from 8am-1030pm today working on that and about 3 other things. you can see it at my deviant page.

jorge zaffino became and has slowly been becoming my favourite artist, he inks himself but is amazing. he's definatley not one of those artists who's work is transparent to the story - you are able to see the process but the finished product is an amazing piece of art and combination of countless techniques and materials. i was truley inspired by him and have looked back at idw's "seven blocks" more and more since i got it a few months back. he died in 2002, before i even knew about him. his style is so loose and textural but so perfect that you know what is going on and it becomes so realistic.
http://www.jorgezaffino.com/index.html

Anthology pencils

a quick color of a night crawler drawing by the great lp, for julie's class.

here's my pencils for my anthology that i need to ink and letter by friday.

24hr comic competition - Flop

So it didn't work out. I wrote a great story, thumbnailled, character designed etc all there and it took a few hours, then i started working. the white sharpie didn't do squat, my soup i had warmed up for myself was cold. the people in the room were lame, i was working way too big. there were a million reasons that it was better to just come home but in hopes of helping someone out for next year i thought i might pass along a few tips.
Don't work bigger than 9x12 - you wont have time to fill in blacks or put in details that would require bigger paper - so why do it.

check your supplies - make sure white out, erasers, pencil sharpeners, paper

cover yourself health wise - bring a jacket/change of clothes, something warm, something cold, something to drink, something sweet, something wholesome. don't drink too much sugar or caffeine - you will crash. get comfortable, and bring music.

think of your story before you get there. you have 24 hrs to do 24 pages, that'a an hour per page. if you have to do all the research and everything there like i did you will never finish. while it is technically supposed to all happen there, at least do character/environment designs before hand if not thumbnails or a script.

bring a bike - if you have to get anything - food, supplies etc. at least have an option for doing it quickly.

im still doing my story but it will be a while. but all the major stuff is out of the way, maybe ill save it for next year, summer or break.

Computer coloring

a sketch i used to digitally ink the guy in teh front

this was the origional inks traditionally, i started on pencils and was so excited i went to inks but they turned out bad.

here's the final version of inks, much improved redrew the hero character and added a lot of texture and shadows. all the corrections are digital. you can view my final colors on my deviantart page.

here's a sketch for the surrealism piece i did for art history.

and here is the final with the color sucked out of the skin, it turned out being eerier with it normal but anyway here it is to see. you can see my final on my deviantart. its my 1t computer painting, and after this class we will be learning painter so it will probably become quickly obsolete.


these are my colors or travis charest's "space girl" web comic which is awesome.

and this was my inclass midterm for computer coloring. 2 hours exactly. jr senior for the art - duh!