Let's Talk About Sonic (you knew this was coming]

It's no secret that I am a huge fan of Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series.


Yeah I'm sad, but that's not the point. The point is I was on youtube yesterday and I stumbled over an old sonic animatic created by some guy named Back2Soul or something like that. The guy does quick sonic animations and I found this one he did called the KnuckleDuster animatic and I gotta say: this guy's is going places. He really gets the Naota Oshima design style, which just wreaks of awesomeness. I think that's because Oshima had a more Disneyesque Tezuka approach to the character. When it comes to Sonic I find going for a Disney aesthetic always works better than going for an anime one which I see countless people fail at on a daily basis. Back2Soul really gets this and has made a real awesome video to boot. I almost cried at the end. I though I'd do some sketchin' around with it and get a flavor for the animation. I learned alot about shapes and faces. Good stuff.Sorry about the photos, I lack a scanner at the moment (or least a good one)

I hope I haven't geeked out too much. You guys have an awesome holiday season.

PS Don't think I've been gettin lazy kids.

Yeah that's 20 penciled pages on the ground that I did in the past week in a half for my pal Trevor. I'm still tweakin' it but be sure, by the end of break I'm gonna have loads of art done. Bah Ha! Now if you'll excuse I'm going to go draw before my hands die of non pencil holding. Let's hope I can ignore my video games for just a little longer.

Finals Part 3 : Visual Storytelling or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

This class was the final and most difficult of the three courses as I was working a pretty impossible deadline. I was able to get my pics ready for critique about 5 minutes after class started, which ended making them late. I worked 48 hours straight on these mofos and they're late. I tells ya there's no reward for hard work in this here's society. I'm just glad they're done. I took the liberty of fixing things that I saw and heard in the critique. Overall the story is a rather humoring prose of a bumbling pizza boy trying to overcome his fear of dogs. It's a beautiful tale of action, intrigue, and a really jerky vampire. Here's the 7 pages and I hope all you SCAD students enjoy a break from this long incrutiating quarter. This is the Trav-man signing off.

Finals Part 2 : Children's Storybook

Think it's hard working on comics try working on something you don't comprehend or understand. For 10 weeks I chose to try out another major: Illustration! It's like seeing the world through new eyes. Whereas Sequential seems to be more about storytelling, illustration is more about style. There's so many ways to wrap your head around an idea. I can't even remember the last time I've used collage. Anyway, the entire class was devoted to doing a six page children's book. For mine I tried to focus on what I know best as to keep within the deadline. So my medium was pencil, ink, and photoshop: the classics am I right? Here are the six pages. The story's about a sad star who becomes a shooting star or something like that. It's kind of boss. Check it out.
Yay for happy star. Alright that was 7 pics I did for two classes. Next post: Visual Storytelling

Finals Part 1:Cover Design

Man, I thought last quarter at SCAD was bad, this quarter was out of control. I was literally at school for at least 12 hours a day doing work. I usually got somewhere between 5 hours to 8 hours of sleep a night, (8 hours if I was lucky). If that was bad enough, for finals I had 14 pages that needed to be penciled, inked and digitally colored in a matter of two weeks. The last two days of the quarter I literally stayed up 48 hours straight just trying to meet all the deadlines. What I'm about to present to you is a three part post of the grueling torture that is finals week. For the first post I will show what I did in Cover Design. this class was pretty cool, albeit I had no idea making a cover was such hard work. I recommend anyone who's interested should check it out as it's a really cool class. For the final we had to do a wraparound cover for either a comic of our choosing or for a our own personal comics. I chose to do my character from the 24 hour comic event at SCAD in 2008: Super Happy Action Dino Protagonist. Yeah, say that 3 times fast. You thinks that's a long name, I had to build a logo in Illustrator around that piece a crap. Do you know how hard it is to create a long title logo especially one that's made up of 31 characters. It's like frickin' Street Fighter: Should I call it Hyper Super Happy Action Dino Protagonist Turbo Remix HD Alpha .5 Directors Cut XXL Special Edition Plus. Whatever here's the wraparound.




My author bio needs to be moved to the right a little, but other then that, everything seems to fit. It came out crazy fun albeit I would've liked to work with the composition a bit more. But you must realize this is only 1 page out of the 14 I did in the course of two weeks. There's still 13 more pages to go.
P.S. And yes that is an Oni Logo, but this comic is not affiliated with the company at all. I was merely working to Oni Specs and when asked to put a company logo on the book, it seemed like the logical thing to throw the Oni Logo on there. I repeat I have nothing to do with Oni. Please don't sue me. I've got candy.

White Out and Hellboy

Oh boy another Visual Storytelling Project. These projects just want stop, they just keep coming. Agh! Okay, enough crazy babble. For this assignment we had to use white out to define the lighting of the form. The subject was anyone from the B.P.R.D. I chose Hellboy cause he's hella awesome. I don't think we needed to tell a story with this one, but I couldn't resist. Look out Hellboy, there's an evil random tentacle thing after you! Oh yay it's like playing with toys, but
y, know... with ink.... nevermind.... bye now.

The Hollow of Sleepiness

Here's a picture I did for my Visual Storytelling Class. Our subject was Sleepy Hollow. Oddly enough I had never read the story nor seen any other interpretations of it. I decided to read the story just so I knew what I was getting into. I found it an over all bore until about the last couple of pages. Oh well, here's the piece.

BLAH! Vampire Sketch Challenge

LOL, this week's sketch challenge is vampires. I drew Dracula and Nosforatu discussing the subtle nuances found in the award winning movie, "Twilight".

Argument Part 2

Here's the continuation of the argument project I'm doing for Visual Storytelling. For this one we had to play around with the pace and panel layout and than had to ink it. I mostly worked with a brush which I was happy with, but man I was really fighting that board. If any of you are into smooth brushwork, I'd recommend not using Strathmore's 500 Series Vellum Bristol Board, unless you like your brush work to be real jagged. I think I did fine and the professor kind of liked the rough texture of the brush. Personally I prefer something smoother. I might try Strathmore's 500 Series Smooth or the Semi Smooth at some point. Oh well's, hope you guys enjoys. Seeya next post.

Fun with Frankenstein

Here's a sketch I did of Frankenstein for the temple challenge. I thought rather than creating the monster of Frankenstein, I'd create a composition out of surreal anatomy. I wanted to see how much of the paper I could fill up with the distortion of Franky. I think the design came out fun and I had a good time drawing it. Now to go back to more important things, like homework. Hopes you all enjoys and Happy Halloween!

Argument Part 1:Thumbnails

Even more goodness from today. Thought I'd upload these thumbnails of a wordless argument. It's Part 1 of an ongoing assignment in Visual Storytelling. Try and figure out what the argument's about and I'll give you a cookie.


On second thought...no cookie.

Let the Wild Rumpus Start

First and foremost, I never read where the "Where the Wild Things Are" when I was child nor am I interested in seeing the new movie. This assignment was merely a pin-up assignment in visual storytelling: pure and simple. I did however read the book as well as read a psychoanalysis on it in my Children's Story Book Class. Freud's one f'd up dude is all I'm sayin'. Here's the piece, hopes you enjoys.

Nananana BATMAN!

Holy Comicbook Cover, Batman! This week of Digital Cover Design we had to put together an entire cover from scratch. The idea was to recreate a mainstream comic cover. I, of course chose Batman as Batman is the friggin' shiznit. The copy I believe was Batman Issue 689 which I believe is the first in a arc of stories featuring Dick Grayson as Batman. The original comic cover was a bit bleh, as the whole point of a cover should sum up the comic as well as have a unique composition that will have the reader interested especially from far away. The original cover was basically BLEH! I'm the Goddamn Batman! BLEH! BLEH! Emoness at it's finest, although the artist can draw circles around me, so I'm gonna shut my trap before I gets in troubles. Here's the original colored artwork.


I feel my inks were a bit rushed, but compositionally I'm happy. The idea of the story is Penguin is behind the scenes making mischief while Batman is blindly being led into enemy territory. I think the cover gets that across nicely. Hope you guys enjoys.

Marvel/Disney Thingy

Oh wow another blog within the past 5 minutes, and at four dead-gum thirty in the morning. I be's burnin' the midnight oil kupo. Give ya five bucks if you get that reference. On second thought I ain't given' any o' you a damn thing. So any way I did this comic strip back in the summer on my thoughts on Disney buying Marvel. Personally I don't give a flying flip edge wise seeing as such studios as Pixar are doing just fine with big ol' mouse ears over em'. Anyway the Temple of Cartoon Mojo site, which everybody should check out if you haven't, just had a sketch challenge based on the whole Marvel Disney escapade so I decided to color this here mamma jamma. My friend thought it was funny and so should you. Now go on and laugh before I punch you in the face. Heh heh, just kidding....or am I...

Yeah, I'm kidding.

Deer Huntin'

Here's a pin-up I did for my visual storytelling class. It' Wolverine hunting a deer in the forest. I had some real fun putting the composition together and teach's advice on using the moon as a framing device really did the trick. Hopes ya'll's enjoys.

Don't Fear the Agent

Here's a color project I did for my class in computer coloring. It's a cover from Tony Moore's "Fear Agent". I thought it came out well. Pencils and inks by Mr. Moore, colors by moi'. Hope everyone enjoys.

Caricature Fun

Here's a caricature I did for one of my mom's friends. The woman portrayed is a nurse whose retiring and they wanted to send her off with a humorous caricature of her crossing the proverbial finish line of retirement. My mother told me about the job and I took it. Here is the finished product albeit cropped( blame my scanner). My mom's friends all seemed to enjoy it and I even got paid. This was good experience and I hope to do more stuff like it in the future. Sorry about the blurriness, once again my scanner sucks monkey grime.

Hey! I have a Blog!

Sweet sassy molassy I gotz my own blog. Now I can talk and post all kinds of crazy stuff. I'm an artist preferably of the sequential sort that deals in the makings of comics and character designs. I have a flavor for animation and a whole lotta love for the sequential medium.

The site's called Travime Cooliente, based off the imaginary comic industry I made up as a child."Trav" as in my name Travis and "ime" as in animation. The cooliente just makes the name sound more cool thus it's existence.

I'm mainly going to be using this blog for my art as well as my own personal monologues on life and craziness so stick around, you won't wanna miss it.