so I am working on this scene for ym cartoon and also doing color tests for the video game concept...

stay tuned for some movies!

its a fun time just testing styles and different ways to draw a space game... during it I have to winder if I could do this for 32 rooms-and also what effects can be applied to the coloring method i am using.

Space Game Anyone?

So if you've been floowing this blog, or look way back, you might see a background for a space game. Ths cope of the game hasn't changed much, but new indie games have been very inspiring. Indy games have been picking up a lot of steam and Jordan and I have always had an idea to do this space game... so we are going to make a reel to look like what the game would play like.

here is the initial BG before coloring and lighting.... (the coloring is for separation only, and I then go back in and replace it with real colors...

WHERED HE GO?!

Well ok excuses excuses. I haven't been up keeping this blog. I will start doing it asap.

stay tuned for updates on:
Gas Mask Cartoon (as its being called)!
Page 7 of the comic!
New Cartoon Sketches!

all of these will be made easier if: I CAN FIND CAMERA!

which i probably cannot so I am probably going to buy a new one.

Ah well- thats cool with me! 300$

BACKGROUNDS

so Jordan (my bro) and I have a cartoon due by the 31st...

here is sort of a step by step of the process...

art show

up at the Bean Cycle, on college st in Fort Collins CO until August 31st.

so I am wokring on a new cartoon that is due by August 30th. Here is a BG scene from the 1st act... should be abotu 20 of these by the time we're done. gotta hurry :-)

movie

Hey everyone,

here is a link to what i've been working on. I will have a more thorough post asap, but I am moving into a new place so it's been a challenge to update. stay tuned.

http://screencast.com/t/vnUe4fFHhK

So i finished work on page 6 of the comic as you can see above. PHEW. it was a long one. One important thing artists struggle with is having the courage to make art. he reason I use the word ;courage' is because there is an internal struggle with confidence and fear. What if this one looks horrible? What if it is stupid? What if I am a sham? I should do it when I am more energetic...or less tired... or in a better mindset.

then you finally sit down and it all comes natural. You make some bad ones- but your mind takes over as soon as you put pen to paper and the rest is just amazing.

My brother and I finished work on the commcercial I mentioned, we are making final edits and I will have a version of it up really soon.

Stay Tuned For:

A new blog CSS?!!!
A short preview of my perosnal cartoon
A full-length cartoon commercial.
PAGE 7!
a new Cartoon Background.

lotta work going into each one of these panels, i takes abotu an hour and half apiece. It seems like a lot of work, but the final product I am always happy with, and SUPER glad that I stuck it out. This page has bee monstrous, but for more reason that i have two other projects going on and one of which I am actually getting paid for (so it has priority.

ANYWHOO

Stay tuned for:

This Finished Page
A Preview Of my non-paid cartoon...
A Final Version of my paid cartooon...

Finished Background

Hey guys, just wrapped up another background for the cartoon. I like the reflections in the rivers for sure, just a fun effect to mimic. Things aren't too peace for long- as the train has a roadblock up ahead and that's when things get hairy...

YEAH!

two cartoons are both being worked on so that has been taking up the majority of my time. I am going to put a new cut together this week so you guys can see how its coming along in full motion. It is look fantastic.

here are the paintings from last week slowly coming along.

CAMERA!

not a new one- but I found a charger YAY.

Here is a page im painting from the comic and a background for the cartoon. One is night and one is day.

Work continues on the cartoon at a decent pace. I have scenes 1-5 colored and drawn for a total of about a minute...

I also found some potential music off of a cd, and the lats 1 minute of a song was a really melodic cello solo. Ill post something later this week.

Im also doing a freelance cartoon- I'm excited about that, and also getting it done. We (my brother Jordan and I) have storyboards and an animatics done for it so now is the fun part, animating it. The cartoon is 2 minutes and the turnaorund is 6 weeks and this is only possible because it is 99% lineart, black and white. I put a jpeg here so you know whats coming...

Camera Charger = no work

so have to use my cell phone to take pictures but here is a shot of the latest page. It took forever.

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!