7 days left…

…so, you'd think school would get easier as graduation approaches, but you'd be wrong. it gets harder for some reason. probably because i have 8 billion things to do and no time to do it. anyway, layout for cartooning. i need to ink it and color it before monday.

*sigh*

no no no…

and no yet again.

i beefed up my blacks, and experimented with crosshatching. the hatching completely destroyed the look i wanted, the look i captured in my pencils. the things i did like about the flying leo inks included the consistency of the line directions…it gave the piece a clean chiseled look. the crosshatching here seems to divide the drawing of camen into comic/chiseled and quirky semi-surreal oddball. i like what's going on with his right arm, it's clean and more simply rendered. that's good for color. his left arm...no. so another failure, but logging this as a step towards refinement. until i figure out how to effectively use crosshatching, it's going away where you can't see it it.

except you.

you in back, with the diamond monkey skull, you're okay.

gavormit

inked it. normally i use a brush or somethin' digital. but this time i used straight pens. and i gotta say, i'm not happy with it. i figured this out about 10 minutes into it. however, i can't quit in the middle of something so i finished it. most of the stuff feels too contrived, the shadows make no sense, and the lines are all a mess. too many areas have the same line quality, and make it hard to discern what's going on, meaning this will HAVE to be solved in color.

no bueno.

i need to tighten my pencils on this if i want to have that geometric/chiseled look. then perhaps skip inking and simply paint or color in. i don't know. i'm going to go back and ink this with a brush now and investigate that option.

rick i need to borrow your brain for a few hours.

up in the air…

…junior birdman!

keith was sick today :( so ruki came to give us a nice lecture on how to use indesign. fortunately for me, i already had cg3 so i got to spend the hour doodling this action shot of leo, i'll fix most of the issues with the anatomy when i ink/paint it most likely. OR i'll leave it. because i can.

is sexeh.

frenzied death throes of comic proportion

well perhaps not, but hey, it's catchy.

two more character post ups for cartooning. leo and t'kk (the protagonist and sidekick of my story) and camen (the meaty, mean looking antagonist) are done now. i think this is the approach i'm going to take with it. as much as i love inking, i may skip the inks and opt to scan and paint in photoshop straight on. just depends. i'll probably need to grab up an H or F pencil to keep things clean.

we'll see what happens.

let's party!!

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

okay, if you haven't seen the musical avenue q, you're probably wondering what the heck this is. however, my best friend desperately desires some bad idea bears of her own and until i learn to sew and cast black voodoo magic, this'll have to do. i could be doing homework, but gosh this is too much fun.

the time has come to hunt for the elusive job up DC way. i found a listing for a place and instantly got incredibly excited about all the possibilities glass might hold. so we'll see if anything comes out of it. i spent this entire semester working in illustrator and photoshop every single day, so i'm definitely at expert mode for adobe CS anything. too bad adobe isn't hiring someone to tell them what's wrong :P

viva la graduation

ti'kk a chk chk

character sketches for a new persona in my comic for class.

but on a more important note, i need windows mobile 6.1; finally you can view your text messages as an ongoing IM session. i've been waiting for this forever. not just that, but the entire interface has undergone a sexification that would make steve jobs proud. there's quite a few new additions that seriously put windows mobile over the top. need need need it.

also… 30 days kids. 30 more days. as for now, i'm about to die. goodbye.

a little this and…

…a little that.

three doodles for your viewing pleasure. again from my comic for cartooning class. i tried a different style on each one, trying to find something comfortable for production. anyways, enjoy. big thanks for jim cheung/mark morales. i couldn't get the smoke right on the fight scene and ended up finding a beautiful piece they collaborated on so i ref'd it. that's why they're da' pros and i'm a shmuck.

this is what it sounds like...

…when the doves cry.

so keith asked me to roll my story for cartooning forward to a more pivotal point in leo's life. i worked up some sketches of him as a soldier, but i only colored one.

and i loathes it. like i loathes that fishy taste in my iced tea at red lobster. for some reason i've been having a huge struggle to color anything lately. it's as if all my learnin' is getting in the way of me enjoying it. and i end up feeling stunted.

must fix that.

be a friend…

…punch a baby!

working up some ideas for a young leo, a character from my comic. sketched/painted in photoshop -- 1.5 hours

into the lost wilderness...

sir yvain fought many long battles for king arthur. as the seasons passed, tales of his exploits spread, his legend grew. after 15 long years, yvain returned home to his beloved laudine. in his absence however, her heart had grown cold and she cast him aside.

refused by his love, yvain rode into the lonely wood in the grip of a great madness where he dwelt for many years, insane with grief. there, tangled in the briar thorns he weeps, his anguished cries reverberating through the twisted trees, the knight of the wild.

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a study for my character book. i'm pulling ten characters from either literature or my own creation and creating a book of process and study.

yvain is mad, his hair tangled and matted. leaves and twigs throughout his beard and hair, scars from the thorns cover his body. the last vestige of his humanity remains the sword he wielded when he was still a knight of the round table, now rusted and pitted.

pen & ink, no pencil! -- 2 hours

typical...

so usual. why can no one understand the greatness of link?