Happy Belated Valentines Day!!

Just a little something to tide myself over for the holiday this holiday. ;)

new comic strip publication!

Great news folks! My first comic strip of the junior year has been published! Hopefully, it certainly won't be the only publication this year. ;)

new comic strip...

Hey folks. Guess what? Lindsay and Lydia may be making their way back to the Nyack college paper. Down below is the new submission for the hopefully first ever comic strip for the fall...

In case you are wondering about the Amelia Enmity comic that I've been working on all month, that is almost done and I still need to finish inking it. I promise I will get it finished by this month.

Until then, peace out!

quick comic strip update

Lindsay and Lydia comic

This is a quick comic strip that I drew for the Forum that's due this week. The idea is to cover about the new advisement system going on at the college and how it could catch many students by surprise if they don't take the necessary actions to sign up for courses.

Hopefully, this should make the paper.

See you later.

weekend work out

Burnes Hogarth portrait practice

Just a little more portrait practice so I can nail down the cranium structure of the head better. Both of these look so good that it's hard to believe that there are a couple subtle errors in this.

 cross contour practice

Yesterday, and today, I started practicing with more cross contour techniques. I really should practice with variations of this sheet from my observational drawing book.

 Dexter's Lab sketchdump

 I'm trying to assert myself to doing at least one sketchdump a day for the month of March. So I started out this month with a sketch dump of Dexter's Lab, one of my favorite cartoons growing up.

various sketchdump

This was done to mess around with what I've learned so far and experiment with different styles, aside from Bobby Bender or Amelia Enmity.

 Bitch, I live in a F*ckin Trashcan!

Hah! I couldn't resist doing a sketch of Elmo and Oscar the Grouch. I like the 2nd one better because it shows more flavor for Oscar and Elmo. Plus, it allows me to experiment with how to challenge the typical art standards of the Sesame Street gang.

GIR

Reporting for duty! (Gosh, I miss drawing him).

Lindsay/Lydia Comic strip 

These are three individual takes of one comic strip that I've been trying to submit to the Forum-- my college paper. I've been hearing that the editor's reaction has been really sketchy, so here's hoping that this one will get accepting into this week's paper.

That's all for now folks.

last day of the month

Chuck Jones sketchdump

This is just a sketchdump of the Looney Tunes that I've been experimenting with on sunday, while reading Chuck Amuck. It's nice to know that I'm getting better at drawing the characters better. 

Cross-Contour Sheets

 My Professor wants me to experiment with Cross-contour lines this week. So I decided to practice with my Life Observation book. I need to work on edges so I can get a better angle of the wrinkles of sheets.

Burnes Hogarth portraits

These are a bunch of portraits that I practiced, ala referenced from my Burnes Hogarth anatomy book. While these still need a lot of work, I can tell that there's some beautiness coming out of these drawings. Still some lines that need to be fixed up, but I think through hard work, it can be handled.

Refreshed Lindsay/Lydia comic

I almost forgot to mention that I decided to redraw my Lindsay/Lydia comic where they complain about the cafe food. I hope that this comic gets published in the next issue of the Forum because I haven't seen any work of mine get published in the college paper at all. I really hope that maybe the editors will start publishing some of my stuff because I'm really trying to push the envelope on writing these comics so I can improve on the story/scenarios and improve on timing of my jokes.

That's all for tonight. Good night, everybody!

something to tide you over...

Gorillaz sketch

 I decided that I wanted to take challenges and start learning more forms of art, so I decided to experiment with some stuff done by Jamie Hewlett- his work on the Gorillaz. You know, after drawing this, I feel like JH's work kinda resembles some of my own work. I hope to keep experimenting with more of his stuff to execute a unique style.

 Bugs Bunny sketch

I decided to try out drawing the Bugs Bunny picture. I'm glad I did good on my first try.

Burnes Hogarth sketches

Half of these are sketches that I drew Thursday night and the other half tonight. It's nice to know that I'm starting to focus on form and proportions to work out the anatomy. The fingers could use a little more work, including for the top left picture of the 4th page. But good nonetheless. 

shading practice

This is some shading practice from one of my Life Drawing textbooks tonight. While I'm harnessing a good sense of value, I still need to work on how well the light and dark work together. It'll help when I apply this knowledge into my comic work.

Lindsay and Lydia comic strip

This is another planned submission for my college paper, the Forum. It's about the cafe food that's constantly being served during breakfast, lunch and dinner. It's so bad that it makes most of us Nyack students wonder why there was only good food on visitor's day. XD

Anyway, I think this comic strip isn't bad, but I think it'll help if I redraw it because something about the hands and ink says that I need to work it up. I'm glad that I'm using lighter prismacolor pencils though.

That's all for today folks. I'll update some more stuff when it comes. ;)

comic strip redux

 comic strip part deux

Me and a friend went over my comic strip that I drew Saturday night and he made a couple suggestions on how to fix the ending. I decided to reformat it a bit and take his advice. This is going to be the real next submission just in case the Forum editors don't accept the first one.

Amelia Enmity sketch

I missed drawing Amelia Enmity, so I drew her broomsurfing. I think I may do something like this for her in the future, in which she broom-surfs.

That's all for now folks. See you next time.

art daze

 Lindsay/Lydia comic strip 2

 

Okay! This is my 2nd comic strip submission that I'm trying to submit in my college paper, featuring Lindsay and Lydia. Me and a friend were brainstorming ideas of what to go by in terms of submitting ideas based on events going on at my college. Here's hoping that it gets printed.

Pear Still Life

 These are pear drawings that I did in order to practice value. I can't say that I'm really keen on these drawings. I may redraw the pair again to execute the value better.

Burnes Hogarth Abdominal drawings

 These are two more abdominal drawings that I drew based off from the Burnes Hogarth anatomy book. It seems as though that I'm getting better with proportions so far and getting the abs at the right value. But it never hurts to draw them again.

Lindsay and Lydia comic strip pitch

Lindsay and Lydia

This is my proto debut pitch strip that I want to showcase to the Forum editors so they can start regularly publishing comic strips in the paper. I can't promise this is the most professional of ink jobs (considering that I used a thick and big ink brush), but I think it's not bad for a first strip. Still< I need to work on my lettering so I can get the hang of writing out my sentences in a unique way.

Workin my brain!

Burnes Hogarth practice

This week, I'm working on legs. The amount is suppose to be limited 3 pages a day, but I'm thinking about drawing more legs to get the feel of drawing them in varied positions, as well as real life so I'm not so much reliant on the book.

More Arms

I drew some more arms before and during my Studio Drawing 2 class. The bottom one was first arm of the day, followed by the next two coming up. The biggest challenge that my Professor told me to work on was to focus more on getting rid of the 'line' feel of the arms and give them more edges and value. That shouldn't be too hard.

Waltham Forest variations

These two forest sketches are in conjunction with each other in an act that's apart of Knight of the Burning Pestle play. They both go together in Act 2, and the bottom scene is seperate by itself in scene three.

At the bottom sketch, I tried to experiment with more of what my Art Professor advised and gave the trees more value rather than lines. So far I think it's not bad, but I think it still needs work.

shape variations

These two pages was when I was experimenting with shape variation and shading too. The bottom sketch was before I started working on value with the top sketch.

Proposed Forum characters

Of course, to retain the cartoon element of this blog, I drew a pair of characters that I hope to pitch to my college paper, The Forum. They're twin 10-year old intellectual sisters named Lindsay and Lydia; even though they are both intellectually alike and identical twins, they are polar opposite when it comes to tastes in literature, art, food, etc.  But if they can agree on anything, they can both critique movies together. ;)

While the sketch for me looks pretty flat, I intend to put my skills to practice and make them come to life if they are greenlighted by the Forum editors.

That's all for now folks. Can't wait to show you more stuff in the future.