Digital skribbles

I've been holding up this blog recently, only to post something like the thing above. Ugh.

Tighter Pencils

I'm trying to get my shit-stick back(I'm sure there is a better word for it but I can't bother to remember). My artwork has been lacking that critical eye(that was the word). I was good sometimes and other times, not so much. So I had to get my shit-stick back and make myself work harder and be more consistant and not let bad panels happen. These two pages were an attempt. I think I can still do better, but this is consistant and it was done in a timely manner so I'm happy. I'll be inking these over the next two days. Oh, those empty panels on the first page are where I have to repeat a panel except for a few differences.

Adrian

Stuff from sketchbook

The one on the right is supposed to be Bettie Page, and the other one is just a head sketch done in marker because I like the smell.

Even More Pages

Five more pages. 11-15.

Adrian

Trying to get this illustration job

Found a listing on craigslist for a book illustration job that wanted line drawings of different articles of clothing. I emailed the four drawings I worked on today, so hopefully, I hear from someone on Monday or early in the week. It would require 200 illustrations; that would be great practice for drawing stuff I might not draw on my own.

The Shadow

I'm 80% to what I want. I already drew a better one. I'll put that up next.

Adrian

It's been way too long

Was walking around Vallejo one day and wanted to draw some of the older houses in the downtown area.
Hopefully, I won't hold up the posts to this blog anymore.

Newest Five Pages

These are pages 5-10 of the comic I am working on. I am actually inking 11-15 right now so these have been doen for a while. I fixed the finger on page 6&7 to fit continuity but it's not on this scan.

Adrian

Ugh...didn't want to post this

but it's all I had... There was more structure to that hair when it was penciled. Well maybe not that much more. Nothing else to say...

Hourman & Starman finished

Here is the finished version. I'm pretty happy with it, except for the fact it has no background which I hate(having been a long time fan of comics, there came a time where a bunch of losers stopped drawing backgrounds, so I feel really bad anytime I don't). It was fun trying to capture what is cool about older characters who are no longer used very much.

Adrian

Native American Studies

I've been working on a layout that Ben Ferrari sent to me. It's still in the rough stage, and I'm waiting to get some feedback on what I emailed today. I'm pretty slow when it comes to breaking down pages, so it's nice to have someone else's compostion to work from. I'm also going to work on some sketches of his characters tonight to get a better feel for them.
Update: roughs for the comic page are HERE.

Starman & Hourman rough

I'm kind of pissed because I really meant to post the finished version of this but I ran out of time. I have to film a segment for my film commercial to qualify in the On The Lot contest and pick up my paycheck(for work). So I have to leave before I finish. Then when I get home I have to finish pencils on like five pages. Plus do some more editing. Gahh! I'll post the finished version on Thursday or something.

Adrian

New Front Page

I hadn't changed the front image on my website for a long time, so I drew this in marker in my sketchbook and scanned it in. There was a little bit of burning and contrast edits in Photoshop, and I'm not sure I should have put any text in it, but there it is. Not sure if there's enough in the figure.

*note: Adrian pointed out that the lettering I had put on the bottom of the text didn't look so good. I'm so glad he did because it wasn't feeling right when I saved the image. So here's the image again...

Bats Again

I usually draw everything on scrap paper before lightboxing onto good paper now a days. This is a Batman page I did for practice to see if I drew him any better than I had previously. Unfortunatley I did not. I still visualize him ten times cooler in my head then I seem to actually finish it. I have a better track record drawing other things. But I'll try again someday. This is very unfinished. I do like the guy at the bottom of the page, though. But he ain't Batman.

Adrian

Quick sketch before work

update 20:21

So here are a couple of more M.O.D.O.K. sketches. The b&w one just didn't look right to me even though I really think that he drinks coffee from Starbucks. This one was just too labored and his chair/life support system just looked dumb. The third one was a quicker sketch that came out better than the first two.

Blood Meridian

Need to start posting more. Been doing a bunch of artwork all at once and finishing nothing. Hopefully by next log I'll have a bunch of stuff finished. This is for a comic blog I wanted to do about the book Blood Meridian. But I suck at acrylic paint and it takes me forever so I only have two panels done out of something like six(Color panels at least).

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Another One Page *@!%*!!$#

I noticed that some comic book artists are doing this thing called The Daily Grind. Doing comic stories every single day must be really difficult. If I took on that challenge, you'd see me posting a lot more stories like the one to the left to meet deadlines.
Would it help if I drew a scarier or even a sillier looking monster?
I'm not sure anything could help me with comics at this point.
The smell of that Sharpie is going to stick with me for another couple of hours for sure. Do they make low odor ones? It's like I can taste the marker...
"She talked a lot, but I noticed something outside." That is one of the worst sentences I've ever written.

CM

5 pages from my new comic

Not written by me.

Another Story [that I should finish]

I've taken this post and expanded on the idea. I like that this guy gets covered in whatever the stuff is. He'll never been seen again. Each page is a 2" x 3" thumbnail. The last panel on page three will be a wider shot, so that's why it breaks the border of the thumbnail. I feel like I should write a little more because there's all this empty space... there... that's enough. Oh, and I like this stretchy template because our images can be bigger and the layout looks nicer.

CM

3 stages of a page

Here is a crappy scan of one of my newest pages. Sorry, I tried to make it look better but the unsightly joins of the two scans I put together messed up the whole thing. Anyway, I basically have a better method now. I draw the whole page really messy like on a throw away sheet and then lightbox it in tighter pencils onto good paper. Then I ink it and put the ruler lines.

I still need to fix up the scan on photoshop. Oh well.

A

Sketching in the Park

Here are a couple of sketches from some time in 2004 that were done in two different parks in Tokyo. I think the first one was in the downtown area because I do remember getting off the Metro and crossing the street. Was it called Hibiya Park? Is there such a thing?
The second one was one on the Tozai Line during cherry blossom season. This was drawn at a cafe that served good matcha (thick Japanese green tea made from powder).
I didn't do enough drawing in Japan, and I lost a bunch of photos on a hard drive that crashed last year. I'll take more photos and do a lot more sketching the next time I'm there.

Tablet Practice 1

This is a sketch I did from some clothes catalogue. I plan on coloring it in photoshop. I think I may add a background, but maybe not. Anyway, this is just the preliminary drawing. I just bought a drawing tablet and want to become proficient at it so I'm starting with coloring my drawings and will eventually work my way up to actually drawing from scratch straight on the tablet. Right now my drawings look pitiful, but it is me not the tablet. The tablet has to be a major milestone in computer creations. One of the greatest things I ever bought, but I'm awful at it right now. It is a whole new part of my brain it takes up. And at the same time I'm learning Final Cut so I can edit my movie. Two weeks ago I had to do a crash course in Illustrator. My brain is overloading.

A

My First Comic Story

of 2007. Here are the thumbnails done in blank pages of an old sketchbook. Sorry I didn't post anything sooner, Adrian.

The Scourge Of Crime

This was once supposed to be my magnum opus into alternative Marvel comics. It was called The Scourge Of Crime. It was about a bunch of disparate people who were linked by death. All in the superhero universe of Marvel. It started with the character called Scourge killing yet more villians. Then it chonicled the sad life of a hobbit looking fellow named Lance Modok. The first page here shows him waking up in a dingy apartment, getting divorce papers, and prepariing for work at Big Lots. The second page shows his teenage manager, his archenemy another guy named Lance who gets all the new girls. It says in the last panel "At lunch he takes the new girl to the parking lot to ball. His windows are tinted but who does he think he's fooling." Later parts include the return of Basilisk as his brother takes on the mantle to hunt down Scourge(who killed the original Basilisk, and Basilisk in turn killed Modok, who didn't really die and is walking around as an amnesiac who only knows they call him Modok. But he likes to call himself Lance).

I made this up when Marvel had a line called Epic which was for newbies like me. This was in the summer of '03. They dumped it before I could make a proposal. Oh well. I wanted to do a Dan Clowes take on Marvel. These were the rough layouts for the pages. I found them in an old sketchbookm and started laughing. I thought it was an actual book and then I opened it to find these which I had completely forgot about.

Sketches from SF

I went to San Francisco today and brought along a small Moleskin that I got during a gift exchange. Here are some drawings from today done in pen.

Unfinished Pages

These are parts of two of the current pages I'm working on. The first pic shows what a page in progress looks likes. The right half is fully inked in my new style. The left half is half inked with tape to protect the gutters from my brushwork.

The second page is my example of an homage to an artist I love. I drew it in the style of Charles Burns. This made me realize that I had only reverted to my old style of inking which was itself a rip off of Charles Burns(as opposed to my current style which is trying to do Mark Schutze, Joseph Clement Coll, and Paul Calle[although that's a stretch]). I'm putting up these pages on Artdump pretty soon.

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