Buddah

I'm in a comic-y sort of mood lately (which is good, as 24 hour comics day is coming up and also this stuff is supposed to be my job). So I thought I'd try my hand at this little web-comic thing that may or may not rhyme with "gouda". Heeeere's.... hmmm. Well, I'll show pages 2 and three in progress. I need to bump up the contrast a lot in Page 2... ugh. Uuuuugh. Using a limited palate is going to drive me bananas. If anyone has any suggestions, that'd be just swell. Page three is included just because I like drawing birds so gosh darn much. I think I feature birds in almost every comic I've done this past year or two. Yaaaay! Sadly these birds have a terrible fate in store for them. Just terrible. Blame the History Channel for what I am about to do...

Preparing for Cons and Back to School!

Crazy summer has been crazy!  Lost my day job, but still working on breakdowns for Confessions of a Virgin Sacrifice which has been super fun.  Also been busy trying to get stuff ready for AWA, as that's really the only anime con I go to anymore :( Once I graduate I'll probably start hitting the con circuit big time.  Wooo!  Until then, check out the button designs I'll be selling starting this year, and some random ink studies, for the hell of it.

I just got copy of OniPress's Labor Days, by Philip Gallat and Rick Lacey and am totally digging on the inks in that book.  But man, I've read a lot of great stuff this summer too... maybe before school starts back I'll do a post about my summer reading.  I'm exciting like that.

Final Projects!

It's that time again....

my final project for Props and Environments, a three page short story, turned out to be the most girly thing I've done in quite a while. And I still can't get the hang of digitally adding gray scale. It's inexplicable. But this was a fun project regardless. :D

For Shawn's Visual Story Telling II class, I decided to do the backstory of a couple of under-developed characters from a book I pitched Oni a while back. I'm crunched for time on this one, and yeah, still not sure what I'm doing with my inks, so I just sorta decided to go a little far out and crazy with at least this part of the story. XD; I LOVE COLOR :O!

BACK TO FINALS WORK. NO SLEEP FOR CARA FOR A WHILE :(

Happy Holidays!

I'm always late for this stuff :[ Better late than never then I guess!

So much art after a long Hiatus!

Poor, poor neglected blog. It'd be a bit of an understatement to say this semester has been insane. I've had all studio classes where I'm having to actually turn out pages and still make them look good, so my work load's kicked up a lot this quarter. On top of that I have to balance my crazy schedule at the book store, find time to spend with a awesome guy I met that happens to have a crazier schedule than me, and now I'm dealing with a crazy new room mate as well. I'd say my life is pretty exciting, if it wasn't wearing me out so much. As much as I've enjoyed this semester (Editors Forum! Friday Temples! Small Classes!), I'm more than ready for the holidays. I'll be heading back to Texas all of December, and hopefully I'll remain productivewhile I've got the time off. I definitely have projects I need to be working on anyway.

Anywho, to prove I'm not all talk, here's some examples of what I've been working on lately.

This is page one of a three page comic for Nolans Digital Coloring Class. Now I just have to throw down some colors on here @_@

These pages are a 3 page silent argument story done for Shawns Visual Storytelling Class.
Dont ask why, but a lot of my stories this semester have tended to be somewhat dark and violent 8| . . .

Aaaaand Some character sketches for my Final in Visual Storytelling. This 6 page comic is going to kick serious ass. I'm just warning y'all now.

Oh yeah, and a colored response to one of the Temples sketch challenges. I haven't had time to do any other ones yet, but I was restless the other night and needed to knock out an illustration for old times sake. I haven't gotten to do a pin up in months ;_;
(Technically the challenge was The Batman, but I still dont like him very much, so I used this as a good excuse to draw Tim Drake. What? Stop looking at me like that.)
Also, they're apparently standing in a giant mountain of Mashed Potatoes. On a roof top. Dont question it, just accept it.

Inking!

Look! Inking with a brush for Materials and Techniques! I'd add more, but we're about to critique it! Maybe I'll come back later and cry about how much everyone hates it ;________; <--tears of sorrow

Panel Transitions Using Black and White Shapes

These are like, waaaaaaay old, from my Intro To Sequential class, but my BFF is taking the class now, so I'm scanning this assignment for his benefit. It's basically just doing a variety of panel transitions, using only black and white shapes instead of lines. It's not an easy assignment, and requires a good knowledge of how light creates shadows and what not. Once I got used to it, I found it really fun to draw like this X) I'm using a similar technique for a Materials Project I'm working on now (I will be the master of spot blacks dammit!)

I think I'm missing a couple... but you get the idea X)

Fanart for Joanna Esteps awesome Manga Roadsong X) Volumes 1 and 2 are out now! Volume 3 on the way! EVERYONE GO READ NOOOWWWW~

Man, this is the first non-school related thing I've done since Winter Quarter started D8 Madness.

Aaaack, I don't know if the deadline's already passed or not, but so far I've only managed to finish half of the line art of my submission for SCADs sequential anthology cover thingy D8 I'm also going to have to scan in in two parts: This, the foreground, and then the background figures/city and color it in Photoshop. I plan on using flat, graphic colors, so it shouldn't take TOO terribly long, but then I have a lot of other projects to be working on this weekend too D8 ALAS.


(P.S. Yeah, he's supposed to be signing 'book'. ORZ.)

Trying out new inking styles for the comic I'm working on with Sam, which I'm tentatively calling "The Object". This style is largely based on the blocking/shapes technique Shawn taught in class yesterday, and uses a lot more black then I usually put on a page. I rather like this as there's less need (if any) to add tones and whatnot.
Anywho. Here's page one.

So, AWA was a bust, but at least now it's over and I dont have to worry about it anymore 8D I've got at least two comic scripts to keep me busy now, not to mention school work. But I tend to stay much happier when I have a full schedule, so no complaints from me.

Here are the finished perspective assignments from a week or so ago. Finally got around to scanning 8D; Hopefully soon I'll have some actual sequential work to show.

Okay so, I know I have a mountain of different Livejournal accounts at this point, but none of them are professional enough to like, publicly display. So consider this my effort to maintain a serious art blog. The majority of what I post here will be WIPs of school assignments, as well as any comic projects that I may be working on.
Having just started a new semester at SCAD, and finding a script that I really want to illustrate, I figured now would be the perfect time to get this place off of the ground.
For my first post I have a couple of really crappy examples of the perspective assignment I'm working on. Backgrounds are my biggest weakness in comic making right now, so I'm going to work hard this semester to start getting them to look decent.



I was liking this one so much more before I started inking it. Even with a .005 micron I still feel like the lines are too thick and shakey. I just need to experiment a bit more, and I have a feeling I'll be doing this one over ))8 Besides, I'm retarded and spelled "coffee" wrong, and never realized it until I started inking the word. Dur hur hur.



Used some photo refs, but mostly drew this subway car from the top of my head, which is why the dimensions look a bit funk-tastic. I'll be fiddling with it a bit more, and probably add a couple of passengers before I start inking.

And for kicks, check out my work area at home. My poor back. I miss my art desk back in Texas. At least then I didnt have to crouch on the floor when inking ;___;