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!