Double Whammy Viz 2/ Senior Project Maximum Impact 16 Page Two Week Deadline Stress Inducing Crazyness(aka Surviving Half a Semester of SCAD.

Alright, another quarter at SCAD. Hooray. Here's 16 pages of comics I did in two weeks. Hope you enjoy my suffering. Heh, just kidding. I had some fun with the paperboy comic, but the other one was a hectic rush to the finish line. I took alot of shortcuts using spotted blacks and graphic shapes. My inking also suffered in quality as the speed was getting to me although this is probably what making comics is like in the real world so I should probably get used to it. My professor says this kind of work builds character. I tell ya what it builds: sleep deprivation. I don't think I've pulled off so many all nighters and 4 hour sleep days in my life. Oh well, enjoyz

P.S. Sorry about the lack of word balloons. I do them in Illustrator and put them along side the artwork in Indesign. I'm not sure how to upload that format, but rest assured the stories should read for themselves. If anyone knows how to do that however please comment, I'd love to know.



I left the color out of the paperboy story and only posted my inks . The colors were rushed and chances are they probably would of blinded you. I guess you can tell which part of this business is my weakness.








This whole process is going to be done over again this quarter so you can look forward to another two stories. Goodiliciousness all around.

Avatar or...Avatar?

This is for the Temple of Cartoon Mojo's sketch challenge. This week's challenge is James Cameron's Avatar. When the movie first came out I thought it was going to be the movie based off of the cartoon series of the same name, but that's coming later this year under the moniker of "The Last Airbender". Now that's just confusing. This sketch perfectly examplifies the confusion I felt when the movie was announced. Check it out.

Speed Sketching In Vis2

Today in Visual Storytelling we did a quick 90 minute sketch. I spent half my time doing research, which was probably not a good decision. The subject to draw was Ben 10: a show that I know of, but am not totally unfamiliar with. Kid turns into aliens, sounds 80s. Anyways here's Four Arms saving a cat from a tree.

In the class critique everybody thought Four Arms was going to kill the cat, but he is actually saving him. Sorry if that gets confusing. In essence, I spent about 50 minutes throwing this together out of the 90 minutes I had. Next time I hope to nail it.

Visual Storytelling 2: IT BEGINS

Here are some concept sketches for my Visual Storytelling 2 class. For those in the class, this is sort of a directors cut as some of these characters and locations most likely will not be in the final draft.

School Begins

Finally, my last quarter of school. It's been a tough 3 years here at SCAD, but it's been real fun. I thought I''d hit the ground running with a little Friday morning modeling. Check it out.

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.