Heroes Con

Heroes Con was a great experience for me. I met a lot of great creators and got to talk shop with people I never would have if I was still back in El Paso as a security guard. I got some really helpful portfolio reviews from some of my favorite artists and I feel jazzed up and excited to work again. I'm currently on a project now that I can't really discuss, but I promise to start putting up new content and art work soon. For the moment though, here are 2 short one page comics about weird little things that happened to me that I thought would be fun to share.

Crime Horror Page 1 Pencils

Page one of the pencils for the crime horror comic. I tried to approach this like I wasn't going to ink it (even though I will). I got a tip from Jerome Opeña on approaching finished pencils with the aim of coloring over them. Overall it turned out well. 2 more to go!

Crime Short Thumbnails

 These are thumbnails for a crime comic I'm going to do as portfolio pieces for Heroes Con this weekend. I'll try to have the pencils and inks posted up as soon as I can finish them.

The story is about a drug cartel hitman named Angel whose chosen profession raises a lot of ill will. The idea is to combine a crime noir style comic with the tastes of flavors of Paranormal Activity, where your actions strengthen the things we cannot see. It's nothing occult but I do have some fun bits planned. Anyhow, here is a quick and sorely needed update, showing the beginning of the comic process for me.

Problem Solving short story

 The lettered pages for Problem Solving, my three page comic for Studio 2. I think overall it came out well. It's been a while since I've toned pages but with all the work I'm doing in the pencils and inks, there's actually less room to tone on these pages without overdoing things. So that's good. I'm not reliant on the tones to set the mood or anything, just enhance what I have here.

I hope you enjoy it!

Editor's Day Report

 Yesterday was SCAD Savannah's editors day, where editors from 10 different publishers came to give advice and portfolio reviews. I had three reviews yesterday: Rebecca Taylor of Archaia, Sana Amanat of Marvel, and Mark Doyle of Vertigo. Twas a long drive but I got some really good advice from these three, and I can't thank them enough. I'm hoping they'll return next year and I can show them pages 10x better than what I showed them.

I took 15 pages with me, the inks for the short story "Shop Romance," a page of pencils for "Closing Time" and these 5 pages of a Hibrida Prima pitch project for class; not including the teaser, I took the pencils and inks for these 5.

The pages I'm posting here do include the advice that I was given. I think it really helped me shave off as much of the rough edges as I could manage. Back to work then!

Pitch Project Page 4 Inked

Here's page four inked. I did this with the g-pen this evening. I think it turned out rather well, I'm happy to use one of my favorite tools in my current works, so I'm going to try using the g-pen and the brush in future pages. I hope you like the results.

This page will be in my portfolio that I take to Editor's Day on May 18.

Pitch Pencil Pages and Editors Day News

 The pencils pages for my promotional pitch package (Hooray for alliteration). These pages are from the first book of Hibrida Prima, from a sequence specifically to show people the aesthetic for the book and also the kinda of stuff it'll cover. In this case, SPY STUFF!

These are pages 1, 2 and 4 out of 5 total.

Also, next week I'll be traveling to Savannah to participate in another SCAD editor's day. I'm going to get a portfolio review from editors at Marvel, DC/Vertigo, and Archaia. Wish me luck!!