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.