B-Girl versions 1 & 2

  

Color practice. I wanted to design a character to go against a graffiti background. I was also practicing with textures to give the graffiti wall more of a realistic feel.

Full page color test!

 Here is my full color comic book page. As I mentioned in a previous post, this is a test page, to help me see what my comic book would look like in full color. I decided to post the original, inked, black and white page next to the color page, just to show what a difference color makes. In a previous post, I mentioned wanting my comic book to have the feel of an animated cartoon. This is partly because i've always seen my comic book in an animated form as opposed to the traditional  comic book color format. Nonetheless, I am pleased with how this 1st test page turned out, as this will allow me to improve on my colors and get better on future comic pages.  I look forward to showing you more full color comic pages in the future. I hope all is going well with your projects too--STAY CREATIVE!

Color Test for comic page

Here's a another test page for my upcoming coming book. I have been doing a few test pages to see what the characters in my comic book would look like in full color. I also wanted to test myself by coloring more backgrounds and special effects. Lastly, I wanted to work on my timing for coloring comic book pages. As you can see, I wanted the characters to have an animated feel, as if they were characters in a cartoon; and I am still working to get better with that style of coloring.

These two panels took about 4-5 hours to complete within 2 days. I know that sounds long, but it was because I had to do some revisions to the original artwork. As you can see in the original black and white panel below, the energy particles around the main character had to be redesigned. While it looks good in black & white, I discovered later, that I needed less special effects, and more room for dialogue with the word balloons. I also went over some of the inked lines to close gaps and strengthen my black lines. The character in panel 2 was inked perfectly, and turned out really nice once color was added. The icing on the cake for me was coloring the special effects. I definitely get excited when the colors turn out how I see then in my head. It gets me motivated to do more coloring.

I must say that I enjoyed the challenge of finding the right spacing for the word balloons too. Creating the right word balloons is a learning process within itself and I am eager to learn more about it. After it's all said and done I am about 90% pleased with the end result. As I mentioned earlier, I am still practicing with colors, so I want to improve and get faster.

Just a little sample!

I can't believe it's May already! It seems like January was just yesterday, and I was putting together my list of creative goals, detailing what I want to get accomplished this year artistically, and there is still so much work left to do. But anyways, here is my latest post for this month, a sample page from the webcomic i'm working on. I still have a few things to tweak, and perfect regarding my coloring; but I thought these panels would give me, and you, the viewers, a pretty good idea of what to expect once my webcomic is completed. Hope your projects are going well too--STAY CREATIVE!

Future hip-hop!



 

Here's more teaser art from the graphic novel i'm working on. It's not the official artwork, but just some promotional artwork to give people a taste of what i'm doing. The official poster will be completed later this year. However most of the characters you see here will have new colors and designs. I'm very excited about this project and cannot wait to share it with the world once it's completed.
 

How about a little sneek peek?

Wow, it's March already and it certainly has been a busy year for me, busy I mean as in productive. I'm nearly finished with the new introduction for my web comic and plan to get the webpage up and going later this year. I've also been working on new character designs and revisions. I decided to offer up a little sneek peak into one of the characters i've been working on. I was so pleased with his design and color scheme that I almost couldn't decide which color scheme I liked better for his sneekers, the black with blue trim or the white with blue trim. I'm kind of leaning towards the black sneakers though. What do you think?

 

It's almost Christmas!

Happy Holidays everyone 2012 will be here before you know it! I've been on a real art grind in 2011 and no doubt in 2012 I'll be grinding even harder! I've seen a lot of great art and met a lot of awesome, inspiring artists this year! I'm also looking forward to getting 1ssue#1 of my comic book completed in 2012 and ready for the web. Got some big things planned for next year and even bigger things planned down the road. I hope 2011 has been a productive year for you and I hope 2012 will be even better as well. Here's a new Charater design from my comic book. I completed the picture using pencil and ink, then scanned/digitally traced in Adobe Illustrator and finally colored using Adobe Photoshop!

Hip Hop Lives!

What's good everyone?

Can't believe it's November already. This has certainly been a busy and productive year for me and hopefully for you as well! Just wanted to post a new character design from my graphic novel i'm working on. I will start posting pages in the new year so you'll definitely want to be on the look out for that! I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of your projects as well and as always, KEEP DRAWING!

The Goth Chic

My goth character from my upcoming graphic novel. She is a mixture of goth/hip-hop with a little bit of Sci-fi in there. Enjoy!