Studio 2 Pencil Pages

 Pencilled pages from my Studio 2 class. We were given a script to work from and here are 4 out of the 5 pages that are finished. I will post the fifth page and some inked ones soon.

This project was a big step forward in two areas: storytelling and rendering. Storytelling wise, this comic just fell together rather easily. All of the problems I had before with camera placement and cluttered panels have left and I'm pulling back a lot more. I'm using more low angle and high angle shots to make each moment more interesting, and I'm using camera movement here better than I have in the past.

As far as rendering, I'm getting the hang of developing a character's volume in a 2D plane and I think I've done some of the best pencilling I've done thus far. Of course I'm not 100% happy with these but these are a definite step in a good direction.

The story here is that the man and woman have broken up and are fighting over who gets the cat. There's more to it than that, but I hope some of that is evident from the art.

Closing Time Page One Pencils

Pencils for page one of another three page short. I'm doing these on my own outside of class so I can really get used to drawing this comic. This one in particular will be me focusing on drawing environments and vehicles. Sean Murphy suggested I do  this as an exercise and so far it's pretty fun. The hardest part was designing the motorbike that Adalia rides.

And no I'm still not used to calling her Adalia. Okay, time to write a script and then work on school work more!

Sketchbook update

 Here are the drawings I did yesterday as part of my adventure into the real world. The first image is from my trip to get food at IHOP. Needless to say, there were not a lot of people there and my server wouldn't stop moving so I just drew fixtures and objects. There were like 6 servers in the place but they all camped out of sight so I couldn't draw them at all...

The second and third images were when I went to the cafe in Barnes and Nobel. It's mostly heads and torsos because there is a lot of waist level stuff that blocks a full body view. But I did my best to snag a full body drawing when I could. It was fun but also worrisome when I'd meet someone's gaze or if someone walked too close to me while I was drawing. I don't think it's illegal but at the same time I don't need any trouble.

 Well, that was my fun time out and about yesterday. I got some travel sized watercolors and colored pencils yesterday too (I was really having fun) so the next time I make an excursion out to coffee shops or the parks I'll try to bring some color sketches to show. Thanks for looking!

S(ave) O(ur) S(ouls) Pencils and Danica's Name

 Here are the pencils for another Hibrida short story called "S(ave) O(ur) S(ouls)." I didn't render these as much as I've done in the past because I wasn't planning to do as much black shadowing on these. I wanted to do simple line art and do an ink wash for the ocean. I'll color these too as well. Just need a better tablet.

I did these pages in a 6 panel grid so I could force myself to think up more interesting and dynamic shots. I think this exercise has really improved my thumbnails on other works.

Also, I'm going to change Danica's name. As much as I love the name, which means morning star and I thought was appropriate for this story, there's a race car driver person named Danica and I've been advised to changed it so I will. I'll post here when I have a name cemented. Have a good weekend!

Shop Romance page 3 inks and sketches

The last page of the short story Shop Romance inked. I'll try to color and letter it quickly but I wouldn't expect it soon. I'll post other pages as well. This page was pretty fun to do, although it's not perfect I learned a lot from experimenting and playing around.

The other pages are from my sketchbook, just pages I feel like sharing. The first is a page with Damon Albarn of Gorillaz and Blur fame as well as some poses and notes for a project for class I'm working on. I'm still refining my thumbnails so here are some of the plans for shot choices.

The bottom image is a bunch of head sketches trying to find a face I like for a new character for Hibrida Prima. As you can see, there's more failures on this image than success but I thought this page showed a lot of the preliminary stages I'm taking for drawing heads. I'm still working on adding volume and shape to the heads, but that one with the shading I think shows it's helping.

Shop Romance Inks

Here are the first 2 pages of Shop Romance inked. I did these yesterday so I thought I'd post them up. I hope you like them.

All of these was traditionally done. I brush inked the majority of the art, mostly the figures and a lot of the rendering in the background. I used Microns for the stuff I wanted a more static line on like some of the line art for the ships. Although I do love to hatch if you can't tell.

Thank you!

Shop Romance Pencils

This is a short story for Hibrida Prima. I wanted to keep busy over my spring break so I scripted 5 shorts that I'll try to finish before June so I can show them at any cons I go to.

I really wanted to use these to try and develop not just Danica but the universe and the status quo therein. I'm hoping that these will serve as a good introduction to the Hibrida Prima worlds and people so it will be rather familiar to anyone who sticks around for the actual books. This will also help give some back story on some of the alien races as well as tell some quick fun and touching stories in a funky sci fi world.

Oh, this will also be great practice for me. I'm exercising muscles I recently began flexing during my Winter quarter at SCAD. The biggest two being anatomical mass and using graphic black shapes to define that mass as well as aid in storytelling. Honestly, these are things that seem to obvious to work on but it takes a pro to smack you (me) in the head and help me figure this stuff out. And I think these pages are already looking better than most of the work I've done thus far.

Hopefully I'll have these inked by Sunday and I'll post those. I'll also wow/horrify you all with my coloring. Until then!