That cover again

I'm now taking my business card design and getting it ready to be turned into my homepage. Pretty much all the things on it will be roll over images/slices that will flip colors or something to catch your attention and tell you "Hey! this isn't a book cover, it's a web page. With buttons!"

So yeah. I really liked aging the book, adding scratches and what not. Except the weird foggy smudgy stuff. That photoshop brush sucks. For the edges I scanned the back of one of my Thor books, which is a Laser Tag guide book ad. I chose it because it's mostly black and that makes it easy to harvest the scratches to overlay onto my cover.

Frazzeta colors

Probably the only reason I do this is because no matter what I do the pictures look awesome because I still have Frazzeta's lines in there. But it's fun anyway, and I think I learn a few things from doing these.

Blog Hat-Trick this month

Yo! At my graduation show I was handing these out. They're little mini-comics that just suddenly became one day. Originally they were drawn on index cards folded in half. and now I got a system where I can mass produce them and the worst part is stapling. But check these out! I am so proud.

I graduated!

How about that! To prepare myself for this new school-less life ahead of me I decided to tiddy up my room and found an older sketch pad with a buncha life drawings in it from my anatomy class.
This'll probably be the neatest blog post, and the one with the most images.

Tomorrow I suppose I start the job hunt. Oh jeez. Kind of a little bit nervous about that

Drawing for my Business Card. I didn't plan ahead and think about where the titles and my contact info would go. So it gets a little crowded when I slap all that information on top of it. Maybe I'll spend more than five minutes and figure out a better solution. Might just print that stuff on the back.

Graduating in 3(2) days. Oh my! I can't wait till I got tons of free time to draw and get better at drawing. Maybe coloring too. Cause this piece is really splotchy.

gonna go to a slayer concert on the 5th

On my last term of art school. Things are going pretty well.

So I'm in this illustration class, and it's pretty darn cool. They got me doing this assignment where I draw a celebrity and their "pet" for a hypothetical Rolling Stone article. I chose Alan Moore because I think I got a fetish for wizards. Which probably stems from my beard lust.
Here's the final sketch, I think I'm probably going to finish it in water colors.


















Speaking of water colors, the teacher of the illustration class did a demo on water colors and I got to mess around with water colors for the first time since like 1st grade, and it turned out pretty neat! have a gander.

Doing a podcast tonight with some pals.

Today, using a sophisticated number graph grid thingy, I took up the challenge of drawing a character of my choosing in a style that would be determined by fate and the cosmos.

What I did was use this image. The numbers at the top and side correlate to the last couple of numbers on a forum post. For you at home I suppose you could roll a pair of dice or use the last two numbers of your favorite relative's birth year.

But you pick your character that you like, and I think it works best if you choose a character with their own unique style (definitely more difficult). Then you use the chart to figure out what style you're drawing them in. If I don't know the person I google them and look at their drawings.

You win if you're character is recognizable as well as the artist you were copying. In my case I think I failed to match the style. I got Skottie Young, who I think I kind of draw a lot like in some ways already, but the guy's got that like ... pixar magic? His shapes are just really good for things. It's really simplified but he draws stuff so sketchy like. Ahhh I'm going on and on.

Here's the picture, and the guy's Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star

P.S. he's supposed to be kicking the guy in the face