Lonely Studios

And Before the end of my break...

2012-01-29T15:17:00.000-08:00

Hey Guys!

So it's finally the beginning of another semester! (In my mind- FUUUUU.)

So for now I want to let you all know I'm going to be working on an exciting new project with some talented artists. The project is called Scoundrels , and I'm really excited to work on it, and I'm sure I will be posting more work on that blog for a while. Here is some work I started for it so far, I hope you all enjoy!

I've also been doing some sketching of characters as of lately, trying to get better at drawing women. AN ENDEAVOR THAT NEVER PROVES ANYTHING SHORT OF CHALLENGING FOR ME.

Motoko Kusanagi (The Major) From Ghost in the shell. Probably one of my 2 most favorite movies.

Here is Celes's Character Ven Kingsley.

And Finally, here is Adam's awesome character from his Story in Scoundrels.

Anyways, I'm sure to try and post some stuff from my new classes here. So Chao till the next time~

So how about them updates...

2011-12-27T01:37:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the first update in since forever. I'm slow allright?

Well besides taking some pretty intense classes, I've also been working as a part time instructor and tutor, which I learned a lot through doing. But enough about me, let's get to the meat and butter of this, shall we?

First, I don't usually post clothed figure drawings. I don't really like them when they are finished and my cameras are crap. But I guess I should do some up on here every once in a while. I took Clothed figure drawing 2 with the amazing Lisa Berret, and I feel like I learned a lot in her class.

20 minutes (The amazing Sarahfina.)

20 minutes- (Awesome Fishing-gear-man)

20 minutes- (Awesome fishing-gear-man part 2: Potatoes peeler).

This is a Pencil drawing of my Dog Zowie (R.I.P)

Here it is again with some Watercolors on top. (Given away as a Christmas Gift).

These were done as a Illustration 2 assignment, taking a realistic animal and doing a character based on the textures and animal. Here is my Grandma Zowie, reading a German book to two little puppies. ( I-can-do-cute-things-once-in-awhile-shuttup)

This assignment was based on a children's story. I decided to do the Hobbit, with one of it's most iconic scenes. Watercolor and Graphite, with a bit of Gouache.

Here was a test painting for a job I never got. Basically an angry birds ripoff with penguins and some rpg qualities.

Well, that's all for now. I have other thing's I've been doing, but I think I'll keep them in the shadow for now, ya know, like a ninja.

Toodles~

Collection of Crap

2011-07-04T15:13:00.000-07:00

Illustration for my Illustration 1 class.

Yeah, some speed paintings, which are about 1 and 2 hours long. This last one was longer.

Comics Class Work

2011-04-19T16:28:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, another quick update, I have some of my Comic 1 Classwork that I am putting up, Enjoy!

Self Biographical assignment

Monster Attacks! (1)

Monster Attacks! (Second Variation)

Missed Connection

And That's all I have for now, I will update again soon with some Heads and Hands Studies as well as Paintings and Illustration 1 work. See you soon!

A lil' update for change

2011-04-18T07:17:00.000-07:00

Hey Guys, just wanted to show that I am alive and stuff. For starters Something brand spanking new, concept art test for something I was planning on doing later down the line. And the rest of the stuff is just edits and updates!

Sci-Fi Dracula!

Drawing for Elliot Edit~

Summoning the Giant Edit~

Morlock Edit~

Hell beast Edit~

Just a lil something

2011-01-07T14:14:00.000-08:00

Nothing much this weekend, just a drawing I did for my buddy for the Holidays.

Finals!

2010-12-16T21:15:00.000-08:00

(Please note, click for a bigger version)

Here is my Final for Digital Media 2, which has been a very fun and insightful class.

Here is the Roughs
Here is the Final:

GUN DESIGN!

2010-11-24T14:18:00.000-08:00

Gun Design week! (Click to make bigger) Lulz

Critter Designs!

2010-11-19T22:53:00.000-08:00

So these past few weeks have been creature design work, we were supposed to do one but I did 2 since I found it so much fun! The Themes we're Marine Reptile and Insectoid (I stretched this pretty far.)

Marine Reptile!

Hellbeast!

That's about it from me for now, laters and have a Happy Thanksgiving!

A Wee Updated

2010-11-03T13:29:00.000-07:00

Just updating some work that I've been doing for my Digital Media 2 class, it was a 3 week long assignment where we were assigned an illustration with emphasis on development.

Thumbnails:

Color Studies and a Value Rough:

And the finished piece:

I'll be back with more soonz

Oh God, First Fall Semester Post

2010-10-13T22:29:00.001-07:00

Hello Ya'll, I figure since you guys keep bugging me to update this that I should. Here is what I've been up to so far in my classes (Except no photos of my Figure paintings because I suck with cameras, do those laterz), right, so first things first.

First a bit of a tutorial-walk through for my goblin character.

First I started out with the kind of character I wanted to design, I knew I wanted something resembling The creatures in Lord of the Rings, plus a little spice from Hellboy. I then take a drawing I did on Drawing paper, and fully render it. Now, I make sure I leave place in my whites so I can push some mid tone and allow for more light tones when I bring it into photo-shop. Part of the reason I do this is it makes it easy to know where to render in photo-shop, as well as give me some nice texture from the paper.

I then block in the Colors that I will use for the overall tone of the Character, I do this by setting my Pencil Layer on Multiply, and creating a layer underneath it and blocking colors a little dark.

After this, I then decide to follow the light source I set up on my sketch layer, ensuring that the lights follow the form of the body, I keep things desaturated at this stage so I can push the colors later

Next step I make is I make a magic wand selection on the Grey background and inverse it, this way I can have a nice selection of the body of the goblin, I then take another layer and make a black to transparent gradient, that starts dark from the feet and all the way to the head, this helps establish a clear focal point. I keep the layer transparent by making it a multiply layer, and I play with how dark I want it. I also now know where the importance is, so I began using local tones with the eyedropper and pushing whites in places I think I want to emphasize, I began pushing the forms more and more. I also start adding details, things like wrinkles and skin moles, this helps make the character more believable and solid.

More modeling and turning of form, I push some dark's, and make a gradient in the background, this helps emphasize the lights of his face, which is the focal point. At this point I also begin showing a backstage lighting, this is often seen in photography, and it helps to turn the form quite well, you will see this more clearly in the next step.

Last step is I add some local color, warms around his eyes, nose, ears, these are the warm parts of a face, and it helps make something look more believable. I also add that rim light coming from behind, its cool which contrasts with the more warm colors on his body, and helps define his form more. I make sure the most intense part of the rim light is on the head, re-emphasizing the focal point.

Phew, that took a while, and now for some more Homework from Digital Illustration that I liked. I wanted to do a military style robot, so I gave it my best shot, this robot is a more military design, and so streamlining was my key design decision.

sketch

Tonal Painting

Finished piece

And now my Homework for this week, this was based on Morlock's from H.G Wells classic The Time Machine

Sketch

Finished portrait

And now for some old paintings from still life! I apologize for the quality of the photos...

2 Days in class painting session, it was by fun the most enjoyable and I think my best in class painting, although the photo doesn't really show how good the colors look

This was my final, and I'm really happy on how that Metal pot came, it was a challenge, and I only wish I could go back and work on these other shapes some more, oh well.

Stay tuned for when I can get my good Figure paintings, as well as some homework's from that class, also I'll try my best and get a photo of another Still life I didn't get a chance to take a photo of, (nothing from clothed figure because my scanner kill my lead drawings from that class strangely.) Laters~

Almost finals week!

2010-07-30T22:43:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, How are you all? Good? Good.

Sorry about the lack of posting these last few weeks, been collecting all the paintings I've been working on to show you all in one marvelous blog post.

First up

This is Homework #2, managed to finish it with the help of the critique, and I'm glad I am done with it, reflective surfaces like this metal are some kind of wonder to me I swear.

Birds eye view in-class practice. I really enjoyed painting this one, and I discovered this love for painting really dented metal. Again, it looks better in real life, *stupid camera~.*

Drapery practice. This is the biggest in-class painting we've done, with a whopping 14 by 18. I found it to be a lot of fun, and really like the look of the reflective surface on the ground plain.

Casual set-ups practice. This is probably my favorite in-class painting done yet, the colors and the fun atmosphere just really sell it for me. Man, I also like the little Christmas decorations, too bad you can't see the detail I put on them.

Today we focused on High key paintings. I punched up the colors because they are hard to see from the photo, but the value range is very small, so it was interesting to experiment with a 'softer' pastel look with the high key set-ups, as well as the color range.

This photo is what I used to make my Homework number 3.

My latest homework, which was focusing on metals. I set it up as a low key painting, and used some different range of colors to separate the foreground and background. It's funny when painting homework assignments, I never quite have as much fun as I do with in-class, and struggle and take more time on them. Maybe it's a psychological thing.

Midterms, Excitement!

2010-07-17T00:53:00.000-07:00

MIDTERRRRMMMSSSSSS

Midterms.

So here are some more oil paintings, from in-class and Homework.

Here is the Final Version of this painting, Glad to be done with it haha.

Here is a Work in progress Homework, The subject is Glass. However, I decided to add a tea kettle and an apple.

This one is a practice in drawing copper, I spent a bit longer on this one, and I like the way it came out. Too bad some of the paint got pulled out from the canvas, DOH.

The theme for this class was Chrome metal objects. A tea kettle that I enjoyed painting, I also like the look that chrome has, an almost wet surface at times.

This is the newest painting done today, the object of focus today was subjects with patterns. A china bowl of course, and it was very interesting to do, and also that peach was a pain.

See ya next week folks!

Midterms week!

2010-07-13T00:59:00.000-07:00

Some more Still life paintings to show you guys, and will probably have some more stuff to show you in the coming week.

This week we practiced glass, I like how it came out overall, very loose and dark.

This one I'm not such a big fan of, the shapes are funky, but I like the look of the colors, and the way the apple came out. Learned a lot

This one I did for the Metal brass/copper

Still working on this, so a WIP 2?

A quick atmosphere perspective, done on I-scribble.

And the lines, which I really liked, obviously painted the background but I felt successful with her face.

Oh god finally an update!

2010-07-07T00:33:00.000-07:00

Hey Guys, Long time no see right? Well, I've been rather busy, doing a bunch of projects at once. No excuse, I know. But I do have a brand new batch of artwork to show you guys.

These first things are from my Still Life painting class, which I just adore. It is quite interesting to learn oils, can't wait to apply it to some illustrations and learn more from it. Also, I apologize in advance for the terrible quality of these photos, but oils are hard to photograph!

The second class, which was a Value study (black and white). This time Adam helped me really learn to control Values. I really like the way it came out, too bad the camera didn't capture the subtleties.

This is the Third class I believe, where we finally moved away from he Value study. We used a palette consisting of Black, White, Grey (substitute blue), yellow ochre,and Terra rosa. I like the feel of this painting, and even a limited palette can seem fun and creative. The real thing looks better with the saturation though, and I'm finally painting fruits better.

This is the one we did today, the theme this session was Glasses. I think I did pretty well on this one, but the paint was wet so this is the best photo I could get. Promise to get a better photo of this...

Now for some my work in progress homework!

First here is a photo of the setup.

I liked the idea of this composition, it seemed very flowing, with the shape of the negative space leading your eye along with the folds.

This was a paint Sketch I did, probably 3-5 hours or something to do it. I was less concerned with the overall look of this and more with the effectiveness of the colors and folds. I painted this along Vee, which was tons of fun, there's something magical when working with another artist.

then I began actually working on it, I paid close attention to shapes of oranges and the cup. As well as making corrections on the color scheme of the background and foreground recommended by the instructor.

This is a couple of hours more of work, I added reflective light to the cup, as well as fixing a bunch of minor shape issues. I still have a lot more to work on this that needs to be done however.

The last is something I made in my figure modeling class last semester. It's a bust that took about 4 weeks to complete, and painted it with some shoe wax, copper paint, some burnt umber oil paint.

This bust is for sell, so if anyone is interested, call me at my Cell Phone # (415-609-3686), or you can Email me ( Musoshindenryu@homtail.com ). Price is negotiable, but I am looking within the 200$ prince range.

Now let me end this long-ass post with something fun I did in Iscriblle!

See you guys next post!

Not much to say.

2010-06-03T03:14:00.001-07:00

You guys ever get that feeling that since you started drawing from life, you have to re-adjust yourself to drawing from your imagination? I don't know if it's just me but I get that feeling sometimes.

Anyways, besides that I am doing some work that I can't talk about right now, so the blog updates might get stale besides some sketches and such. but in this month I will start oil painting so I guess you guys are going to see those if I like them enough! HA!

WIP

2010-05-06T01:27:00.000-07:00

A Work In Progress drawing I did...Not sure if I'll finish it.

Intermediate Figure Drawing homework.

2010-04-14T19:17:00.000-07:00

There, it is done.

Card drawing

2010-03-31T23:06:00.000-07:00

Something feels off with her eyes..
Drawing I did for my Business Card. Not done with it but I felt like I needed to upload something.

Digital inking oh lawdy

2010-03-22T17:41:00.000-07:00

I'm on spring break now and I'm going to be working quite a lot! But yesterday I had some free time so I decided to whip this up in Photo-shop. It's a drawing for my buddy Adam, because it was his birthday a couple days ago. Anyways, Cheers!

Sketches this week!

2010-03-13T12:19:00.000-08:00

Done in the AAU Cafe.

Done in a Heads and Hands Class (just drawing, not in the class)

Laters

OY'

2010-02-27T18:08:00.000-08:00

Yeah, I haven't posted anything on here for a while, school drawings and all that have been keeping me pretty busy. Anywho, I have for you some sketches, most of them pretty recent. And they are the only sketchbook drawings I can mildly look at haha.

This was done last semester, and for some reason I feel best shows where I want my characters to look like. I don't know why, but I just feel like 'Yes, this is what I want.' Sadly, my stupid hands haven't been able to pull it off quite again, although I will keep working to pull something out.

I really like the way the two guys, and the lower left girl look. Again, not quite what I want exactly, but I feel like these three just have style that combines Japanese Manga Style, with the right amount of American cartooning.

Just mouths, I find them adorable, and awesome. I need to do more mouths like these.

The most reacent drawing I did, and again, it has a certain something which I can just relate too, even though the body is horrible (horrible I say!)

Well, anyways, that's all for now. Toodles~

P.S I will hopefully be able to post the final product of my short story done for Adam, More on that soon.

Wip 3: WIP HARDER

2010-02-01T00:03:00.000-08:00

Still have a lot to go but just an update on what I have so far.

2010-01-28T23:33:00.001-08:00

Did some more of this while on the plane. Tweak it laterz.

2010-01-18T11:13:00.000-08:00

I haven't been doing much...for now this scrapped drawing.

2010-01-01T03:28:00.000-08:00

Hey guys, sorry I haven't posted since finals. Been having a good time just relaxing and finally getting some chance to cool down from a very straining semester. I'm drawing in Groupboard again, and I'm using it as a warm-up tool. I'll be posting those up soon, when I gather a worthy enough collection to post.

Happy New Years guys.

2009-12-11T13:45:00.000-08:00

Here is some sketched pages for my final for perspective..

2009-11-26T21:06:00.001-08:00

2009-11-19T17:37:00.001-08:00

My color mood project, got an A- which I'm pretty happy about, gonna enter it into the Winter show. I wish I could change some things which ended up giving me the A- but oohhh well.

2009-11-17T19:53:00.000-08:00

Not too fond of this one but I'm just glad it's finished, time to do my other homework D:

2009-11-11T20:02:00.000-08:00

2009-11-01T18:22:00.000-08:00

Well, Im a retard. I accidentally saved my psd over with the web size, so now I can't print it out the way I wanted. I have no idea what I am going to do.

WIP...any help?

2009-11-01T01:59:00.000-07:00

This is City war values done in photoshop...still nowhere near finish, anyone got any suggestions and critiques?

ok what the hell, this looks nowhere near what it looks like on my photoshop...

SEE. I think I have to fiddle around photoshop or something.

2009-10-28T16:54:00.001-07:00

WIP / speed paint

2009-10-23T20:59:00.000-07:00

I don't think I'm going to spend more time on this since it was meant to be a speed paint...also LOL I WONDER WHATS GOING ON WITH HER EYES.

2009-10-21T22:09:00.000-07:00

2009-10-14T23:09:00.000-07:00

One point perspective for my Perspective class at AAU. I bust my ass for this class let me tell you what, and I probably could have done a better job had I tried doing it all digital...ah hell. I still need to work on it more for it to be able to be submitted into the spring show *I want as many pieces to be entered in it as possible..*

I don't like how things came out because I was sloppy and decided against using a ruler to plot out some parts, so I had to heavily tweak it and such. Next one I think I will do another fantasy type theme, or another Sci-fi piece. That ought to be fun! *And no I'm not doing anything life inspired cus life can suck a big DI---AAAK*

I will add the finished marker version soon, after I get some critique on it from my teacher :)

Figure drawings

2009-10-01T16:58:00.000-07:00

Here is my second week 40 minute Figure drawing. My teacher Henry Yan liked it so I was happy that day. Proportions area a little funny but I liked how it came out overall.

This is the Third Week 1 hour Figure drawing. All we we're suppose to do is block in the shadows so that it could be the start of a render.

2009-09-27T15:15:00.000-07:00

Just some bigger versions, with Value added to them.

2009-09-21T20:17:00.001-07:00

Wanted to try a more monochromatic approach this time. I'm not happy with the result, but again, it was just mean to be a speed paint. 40 minutes.

2009-09-20T23:18:00.000-07:00

Another speed paint. Took about 2 to 2 and a half hours, and boy do I need to get quicker with these D: My friend Sarah suggested I'd draw a Panda. So I did.

2009-09-20T12:55:00.000-07:00

Speed paint that I did last night. Gonna try to do more of these.

2009-09-17T21:22:00.000-07:00

Perspective homework...first of many.

2009-09-07T23:13:00.000-07:00

Painting experiment/practice. I need to paint some more houses and make the rocks brighter...

2009-09-06T22:42:00.000-07:00

quick painting. I kinda hate it now that i look at it. Ugh.

2009-09-04T23:16:00.000-07:00

This was my Final for Zimou Tan's Analysis of form class. This beast took me a bajillion hours to complete, including 2 non stop no sleeping days. It got really fucked up due to the plastic protector I put it in... It was a lot better looking when it was done at first. I learned a lot through doing this, and even though I got an A- due to his head being a bit so small (When Z told me 'you know the only thing wrong with this? his heads a bit too small' I was like, DARN ALMOST an A)

Ah well. Charcoal, on Charcoal Pad. Way too much time spent on it. Done with grids, using a photo.

This portrait is of the greatest actor to have ever graced cinema, Toshiro(Toshirou?) Mifune.

This was my Drapery project done in Analysis of form, Taught by none other then the Great Z! Lol. Done from life, and partly picture, *some one knocked into the original drapery and I had to rebuild it from the picture). Again, the quality dropped a bit since I used this shitty ass protector sheet for it *should have sprayed fixed it...hmm*

Funny story about this one was that I got a B- the first time I submitted it (Highest grades he gave out that day), and through the Summer Semester I kept re-touching it, and eventually it got bumped to an A-. Good deal.

Charcoal, Charcoal pad. 20 hour. Alright grade(A-)

2009-08-23T22:02:00.000-07:00

2009-08-22T16:01:00.001-07:00

2009-08-18T12:26:00.000-07:00

2009-08-15T01:34:00.000-07:00

here is what I have so far, so WIP 2. Im fiddling around with his effing muscles trying to think of what I need to add. Also that background is gonna be a bitch. Yeah gonna be working on this for a while ><

Also, any one want to do a sketch trade?

2009-08-10T16:21:00.001-07:00

Just a WIP I got going.

2009-08-02T20:36:00.001-07:00

First real painting I've ever done in Photoshop. Just a practice for things to come.

wip

2009-07-05T00:14:00.000-07:00

Just a little something I was working on today. Not sure what I'm gonna do with it.

2009-07-03T17:30:00.000-07:00

2009-06-25T20:24:00.000-07:00

just some stuff I did today. Top picture is a wip.

2009-06-24T18:24:00.000-07:00

So I'm in college now, and here are some things I did for practice.

2009-06-04T16:36:00.000-07:00

Just a drawing I did of myself as a Pokemon trainer, with my starter Pokemon...

2009-05-31T20:45:00.000-07:00

Not done yet, coloring job coming soon.

2009-05-20T19:23:00.000-07:00

2009-04-22T15:50:00.000-07:00

2009-03-22T17:21:00.000-07:00

just a thing I did from a sketch I made.

2009-03-22T13:17:00.000-07:00

Playing Killzone 2. At first the game was hard to get in to, since you have body weight, and running actually feels like a work out. Game is fun though, the Hellghast are a good enemy to fight, and something of the guns are badass.

Also, I finished my short story last week, and updated it online yesterday. I still have to get the files my friend made for his half of the story, so I don't think I'm done yet.

http://scrapboy.smackjeeves.com/
http://www.drunkduck.com/Scrap_boy/index.php

Have a looksy if you wish.

LOLOLOL FANART

2009-03-03T03:27:00.000-08:00

Couldn't decide which Version I liked best.

Short story progress

2009-03-01T22:01:00.000-08:00

Yup.

No I am not dead

2009-02-26T10:59:00.001-08:00

No, I'm not dead. Just did a line art Of Twulf's Fan art he did for me, and then colored it. yeh.

2009-01-31T11:03:00.001-08:00

Just some journal stuff

2009-01-11T18:42:00.000-08:00

2009-01-11T18:14:00.001-08:00

2009-01-02T11:12:00.001-08:00

My main PC died, like, dead and has nails on it to attempt to revive it. Blue screen of death (I assume it came from this massive virus attack recently.), I managed to fix the problem for a little bit, but it would BSoD every hour of use or so, until nothing I did would bring it back, it woudnt even load the OS, so I had to put the OS disk and managed to get into the command prompt and put the chkdsk/ /p /r, so when I managed to do that i was able to go back in my OS and log in after it said it had fix that problem...Sadly a new error came up and its now on the fritz again. This time saying the same issues, and right now my computer booted up this problem checker thing, and its checking all things that could have triggered it. I'm so frustrated, and hopefully when it comes back I'll use a couple more virus/malware/spyware detecting programs. hopefully I can find a way to fix it myself, because I dont know how I would otherwise. Ugh, so now im using my tablet pc to do shit, which thank god I have it.

EDIT: 0x100000d1 (0xe1f77000, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xef180d50) this seems to be what its read.

EDIT EDIT: 0x000000d1 (0xe1f50000, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xee632d50)

2008-12-26T12:06:00.000-08:00

Ugh, Alone has been so hard to keep with lately, with school and AP art, just pounding away at my time and creativity .

2008-11-24T19:47:00.000-08:00

2008-11-10T13:46:00.000-08:00

Sorry about the long time before the last post. School is a bitch.

2008-10-11T12:53:00.000-07:00

Blah, Art in real world is hard to photograph, so I'm just doing pages :/

2008-10-04T19:15:00.001-07:00

2008-09-27T11:31:00.001-07:00

2008-09-19T13:50:00.000-07:00

2008-09-16T16:42:00.001-07:00

blargh

Thursday update

2008-09-11T17:11:00.001-07:00

Digital inking

2008-09-07T21:43:00.000-07:00

I have some issues with this but, it came out better then the last one

2008-09-05T16:08:00.000-07:00

Can you guys tell the difference?

The first one was done one my new tablet pc! yeah!

2008-09-04T15:33:00.001-07:00

ANODDA TUESDAY UPDATE

2008-09-02T04:59:00.000-07:00

Thursday update

2008-08-28T13:22:00.001-07:00

comic update tuesday

2008-08-26T13:37:00.001-07:00

First 3 pages of my short story!

2008-08-22T12:55:00.000-07:00

Sup ballers

2008-08-19T05:43:00.000-07:00

I'm gonna probably post this for a filler today. probably.

2008-08-18T01:57:00.000-07:00

Haruko from FLCL, which is all kinds of awesome.

Black lagoon is cool

2008-08-17T04:31:00.001-07:00

2008-08-16T05:41:00.000-07:00

Made this using Celes's doll maker: http://sonira.deviantart.com/art/Male-Dress-Up-2-94818920

It's me :3

2008-08-10T00:09:00.001-07:00

2008-08-09T14:02:00.001-07:00

took my sweet time, plus I'm sick. But here it is!

2008-08-08T00:51:00.001-07:00

ABRA YOU FUCKS

2008-08-07T19:38:00.000-07:00

2008-08-06T13:39:00.000-07:00

And just for fun'sies I posted a step by step on how I make a page for alone, From which first, I plan it with a small doodle page, where I plan how it would look, and what the script first draft should be. On this piece of paper I also bring in other pages that follow and precede, so I can make a smooth continuation. I then, re-read this draft too see if it goes the way I want to, then after its done, I finalize story grammar and details. It usually takes me a little bit of time to map out things, because I usually have the whole story in my head already.

From then, I usually start setting up my sketch page with very loose outlines, and panels. Usually, I make and re-arrange the panels according to script. Then, I start penciling the fine details and line variations. This takes me maybe about an hour or more since I like to take my time and make things fit.

After Sketching, I begin to ink with my pens, from which I use Microns, Faber-Castell, Sharpies, and Millenium. First stage of inking for me is laying down the line inks, and then, when I'm done that, go ahead and finish inking the hair, and anything else that fills with blacks. After that, I erase whatever is left and head it to the scanner, where I bring it in photoshop, and fix the inks and create the black layout.

And almost done! Next I tone things, which is always the next step, This never takes more then 20 minutes.

And VUALA, done, well except for the words, which I have saved as my final draft on Microsoft word.

2008-08-02T19:33:00.000-07:00

2008-07-31T19:06:00.001-07:00

Bruddah

2008-07-30T15:39:00.000-07:00

2008-07-29T18:40:00.000-07:00

I read the watchmen, and it rocked.

I just keep rolling them out...

2008-07-23T04:04:00.001-07:00

God texting these is gonna be a bitch D:

2008-07-22T02:40:00.000-07:00