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!

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.