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 :(

Some finished pages!

Did I say last time I was looking forward to this break? Because it doesn't feel like a break at all. I transferred to a much bigger, much busier book store, and now I'm just crazy exhausted from finding books for people all the time x_x

Whenever I get a chance though I'm working on comic stuff--got a few character sheets for one project that I need to hurry up and scan (still need to hook up my scanner here!), and I started doing a random comic project for myself, mostly just for practice. I'm thinking I may make it a webcomic type of thing.

If nothing else though, I'm trying to follow the example of Eric Canete and now Professor Shawn Crystal and do one inked drawing each day. I started the beginning of December and have missed three days already, but really, 6 ink drawings in less than two weeks is pretty damn good for me. But yeah, I really need to get a working scanner here 8D;;;

Anyway, here're the finished pages, from the roughs I posted last time X)

Someday I'll be cool...

Man, once I get started I just can't stop, can I?
Seems like all the cool kids are posting pencils these days, so in an effort to be hip, here're the roughs for my final project ;P

(I'm going to eliminate panel two--the empty one-- and just extend panel three, other wise the pacing is all wonky)

So, I gotta finish inking these suckers, use Illustrator to throw some word balloons on some OTHER pages I just finished coloring with Photoshop, rough out an eight page western, and wrap up a break down and finish up character designs for another project I'm working on.

I gotta tell ya, I'm glad I get to go home for vacation next week @_@ Hopefully I wont be going home to yet another debacle where my parents threaten to not let me return. Again. If they do, you all have permission to call them and leave angry voicemails. I'm more confident this time, at least, since now I have an apartment here, and, you know, I cant leave all my shit here >8[

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.

Car drama is slowly being resolved. There is no hope for the truck so I have to sell it to a salvage yard and find somewhere to live that's closer to school/work, so that's a bit of a headache. It could be much worse though. At least I can still car pool to work with my aunt 8D
And by camping out at SCAD the night before my Intro to Sequential final I was able to stay up all night and re-do the pages I had left at home *lol* So they're not as good as they could have been, but they're not half bad, considering the circumstances.


I've also scripted out a new mini comic that I'm strongly thinking about submitting to the next Rising Stars competition. Lets see if I can bust my ass over break so I can finish within the deadline 8|