Drawing stuff!

For this drawing, I traced my rough pencil lines over a light table using a technical pencil, with an 0.5 lead. Next, I used a sharpie marker to color the hair and outfit, to add contrast, and make the character stand out more. For the next step, I decided to add a floor design (just something from the top of my head) to give the character some 3-dimensional spacing. Afterwards, I used a grey Copic sketch marker to add some shading to the character. Lastly, I decided to manipulate the drawing on the computer, to give it some color, and the end result was this cool drawing.

This drawing starting off as a warm up exercise. I was just sketching a rough idea from my head that later turned into this drawing. I liked it so much that I decided to post it on my blog. Who knows, maybe I will redo this drawing in full color one day. 

Stay creative!

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!

See you around space cowboy!

Here is the completed version of my Cowboy Bebop poster. And I must say, that this was truly a labor of love. I enjoyed the process of making the poster so much, that I decided to post another step-by-step process of how I made the Cowboy Bebop poster in the future, so stay tuned.

The latest W.I.P.

 

 

Here is a preview of my current work in progress.  I won't say much about it now, but when it done, I'm sure you will enjoy the completed artwork. I have also consided posting another step by step breakdown of my process, detailing from start to finish how I created this Illustration. So check back soon for more updates.

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.

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?

 

You've just made a new friend!

Okay, so here another space themed Illustration i've been working on. I really love the look of space fantasy, sci-fi, the future, etc. I just basically wanted to have some fun and create a cool futuristic-looking space chick. probably form earth or some other far-away planet.--(Hence the blue hair!) The illustration is entirely my own, but the spaceship & background was copy & pasted from other sources. The background was put together from various stock-photos of outer space. The space ship I actually copy & pasted from this Anime poster I saw for a something called "Koshika". I just basically manipulated the color scheme a bit, added some glow effects and BAM! Made it into my own. I really like how this Illustration turned out though. Definitely a fun diversion from working on my graphic novel.

Here is the original drawing. Started off in pencil, then I hand-inked the drawing & scanned it into Illustrator. (Art Tip)--For those who don't know, Adobe Illustrator CS2--(What I use) has a function that will trace/re-trace your drawing using various styles--(Blck & white, Ink drawing, sketch, comics, photo, etc). I tend to like to trace my drawing using the comic option. Illustrator gives me even better, cleaner lines than Photoshop. As you can also see, some of the lines a little broken up, but that can be fixed later on in Illustrator. Also, once i've finished tracing the drawing, I can easily import the picture into Photoshop for coloring.