New comic Page On The Way

Hey guys,

This should be a sick page, I have been super busy at work and had some weekends for fun too- but work continues. Just wnated to let u all know im not dead.

PAGE 5!!!!!

Well they take a long time to get right- but really my job has been whats slowing everything down- it has gotten to be ridiculous. SUPER long hours.

ANYWHOO- the page is done and looks great- honestly looks so much better in person. Colors are super-vivid and the paper is just awesome. Big difference in this page has been using the nice brushes and completing each scene panel by panel. Getting the lighting right in the last panel was really hard. But overall the piece shows a nice transition form day to night. I get to do some cool interior scenes soon- can't wait.

So it took a lot longer than I had imagined but the inking for page 5 is done. Work continues on the cartoon but really at this point it feels like my '9-5' (9-9) s taking up far too much of my time- it is a challenge to try and be creative when you work long hours-- and for what? A bunch of money?

i have an inkling

deeeerp.

So here are some stages as I go about inking this page. fun stuff- inking is always a blast, and a challenge. very time consumign as well yeeesh.

sketch for page 5

Drawing started on Page 5 of the comic, here are the blues, about 3 hours of work (with the sketches too). Should really set this up as a grandiose stage- which is what I definitely wanted to project (its a very barren planet afterall).I has the idea of the giant ship hulls skorched on the planet surface before I fell asleep one night- so I woke my ass out of bed and drew up 5 drawings real quick= and sure enough I used em- goes to show...

Cartoon continues... should have a decent update on that on Monday... (i have a day off EUREEEKA!)

PAGINA QUATTRO!

YAY- I finished this one up with about 2 more hours of concentrated painting. Chrome is always fun to mimic- as it replicates every color around it- creating a great visual effect.

I love clouds (as you can tell) I just wish they had a bit more depth- but I might be able to add that later digitally. All of these will eventually be scanned with a really nice scanner and such- but for now- WALA.

Work on the cartoon progresses as well- but this was a hellacious week at work- Hopefully I can get a bit more done next week. sheesh. we work to live not vise versa darnit! (tell tat to my bosses)

Coloring Page 5

I hope to AT LEAST do 1 page a week- yeesh. My job is busy at this moment in time- not that that is a good excuse. I feel a bit more energized about the comic so I should be able to surpass 1 page a week pretty soon- but as it is now diligence is vital.

panel by panel, page by page.

its amazing that we humans create and work because we really have no other option- not to survive, but more so we work so surviving is worth it. My life without the struggle of art would be significantly less meaningful. But it would be a bit less challenging ;-)

if you're an artist and you're reading this- I'm with ya- it ain't easy- but lest keep at it!

inkling

just did some inks and am working on another scene for the cartoon.

Hey everyone. So I started another page of the comic (and this is my attempt to bring out the light blue I use to sketch). Barely visible but still useful.


I also had time to render the first scene of my cartoon- I wanted to compose more- which I have animated- but getting it through after effects proved ot be a bigger challenge than first thought- I am excited thoug as from here on out I will be adding and building this cartoon up. PLEASE keep in mind that the real cartoon is in widescreen and this video is square so it is all smooshed.


ENJOY

finito- not bad- but time to move on

this was a hellacious struggle of a piece- it looks decent, but there are flaws, but I can't redo it so I will move on with hopes and lessons learned.


Another thing of note is I will have a good length clip of my animation (maybe 30 seconds) coming soon... im shooting for this weekend.

still may not work

But I am trying to 'fix' te darn thing. and if anythign it will be more practice before i do the redo- we'll see. I practiced iwth the wet- on wet technique a lot in this piece and it creates some pretty awesome clouds and texture- the paint expands inside of the wet spots and it is really unique to watercolor styles- so I am trying to make a piece I like.

I also added some blacks because watercolors consistently lack contrast- jst by the nature of the media.

im gonna keep trying and trying.

FAIL

FAIL FAIL FAIL

even the best intentions turn into an UGLY piece of shit- and here is the case in point. Start over. lol.

Another Page

Started inking another page for the comic.

finsito- uno piu backgrounds!

this one was a fun piece to do- even though I haven't been as productive as I would have liked over the last month- we all kinda feel that way about a lot of things. SO i did finish this- and have been cranking through the cartoon. Big problem though is that I can't render out the cartoon until I get a new computer- so I wont be able to update with that too often- because of that.

But works is going well.

Next up is another page of the comic.

Back form a long Hiatus (but needed)

a little R and R goes a long way. Good to be back though.

I am working on the cartoon as usual- prolly clocking 3 hours a day. Lots of fun and it is coming together slowly but surely. On that note I have a new background in the works for scene 4. I had this scene in my head since early on so it is cool to finally see it coming to fruition. As it is now I am trying to establish the tonality (as it is a daytime scene). What will happen is guys start crawling out of the wreckage and then they all get ambushed AGAIN- and then all but one die. yikes.

Page 2 Painted- snerp

hey everyone.Wow i just figured out how to turn the heat on in my apartment- thats exciting!

Anywhoo- I just finished page 2 of the comic- and man did it take a while. Also work continues on the cartoon- and from the look of it its going very well- but one problem is my computer is too slow. I am using a macbook pro 2.4ghz w/ 4gb of ram and it is definitely not hacking it.

I am contemplating building or buying a new rig just so I can actually mess with this cartoon- its frustrating to say the least when you have a great idea but you dont have the tools to complete it- thats why i work 50 hours a week though at my job- so I'm gonna buy it asap.

PAGE 2 INK snitces.

working on the animation about 3 hours a day- that hing takes some SERIOUS time.

but besides that (and life) I am also working as best I can on the comic. I hope to have 3 pages done by end of month... we'll see... then it is off to NYC and then two weeks back here- then x-mas break so hopefully I can get to page 10 or so by January. Thatd be really really cool.

Another idea of mine is to eventually have this thing printed nicely and sell em for cheap (like at cost) just to get em out there. Im a damned graphic designer- so I could definitely get this done.

well with further adieu...

so for this background I wanted a nice and calm establishing shot for the cartoon. So I decided that showing a nice landscape fora while (there will be blowing grass added) so I can slowly fade into the scene, I might even add stars... So then the train would come chugging through and I could then cut to the internal of it. Kind of a neat painting in that i got to do a huge sky. I love doing clouds, although obviously the cumulo-nimbus clouds are my favorite. I looked at a sunset image from google image for colors.

The ground was a bit too warm near then end so I used adobe photoshop and added blue- decided I liked it- and then did it with the watercolor. This sort of digital-manipulation is a great tool to use before you do something drastic

the real deal

so here is page 1 of what hopefully will be a full-sized comic. who knows- but for now it feels good to have one page down. MWAHAHA ITS ALIIIIIIVE! (the text is just for filler)

The real Page 1.

Yes folks almost done with page 1 of Dan Doggett and I's comic. At this point I am trying to figure out how many pages we want the final product to be- at this pace, it cant be too many pages- it just takes so darn long per page. Each one form start to finish is prolly 6- hours. yeesh.

work also continues fully on the cartoon- I will hopefully have scene 2 up here- but really I added a scene 1,2 and 4 so the ones oyuve seen are 3 and 5

i don't know how long the final thing will be but im gonna try and update a scene 1-6 preview asap. I lost After Effects so that isnt helping anyhitng- but I should have a new computer when i get an extra 80 bucks- yeesh.