Flipside chapter update

It continues...now with her jeans, shirt, arm socks and skin colored. Probably going to add some blue tones to it later though so she interacts w/ the background a bit.

New flipside chapter

Sneak peak at the new chapter of flipside I'm coloring. Going a lil' more american comic airbrushy style for this one.

Flipside cover colorin'

Preview of the cover I'm coloring for Flipside

Preview panel

Preview of the comic short I just finished. Hoping to have it all done on Monday. Maybe.

Moghedian by the window colored?

So its colored, but I'm not sure if I like it like this or not. Gonna ask for some critiques.

Robot on Violin

The process begins again! To make these faster I've been sketching in photoshop, then printing and lightboxing over to ink it (as my regular inks are more precise/controlled than my digi inks). Basically, this allows me to resize, skew, flip, rearrange, rotate, etc everything so that I save my poor erasers. And if I like a bit, and its the wrong size, its no biggie cuz I can just use the transform tool to get it the size it needs to be! ^^

Punkbot Inks

Inks.

Punkbot waiting for the show

So here's the basic sketch continuing my "Emotional Technology" series (yes, I totally ripped that off of BT) that started with this illustration. Title kinda says it all methinks.

Moghedian by the window2

So I've been having lots of fun working through this painting. Figure is complete, will work on background later. I know I should've really done background first, figure later, buutttt.....well, I like drawing people. Also added some detail shots for your viewing pleasure!

Moghedian by the window

Here's a sketch I did earlier that I really like. Will probably develop further.

Lady Gaga

So I was totally inspired by the Lady Gaga music video "bad romance". I'm totally obsessed with fashion, especially the crazy avant guarde looks that people come up with, so I decided to do an illustration of Lady Gaga in that crazy chandalier dress she wears as sort of an art excercise. While there's billions of things wrong with her face/body, I really dig the way that her outfit/hat-thingie are coming out, so I'm thinking I'll finish it after all. Its always good to practice these things, right? =)

Crest and finished smodart

So first off, the finished smodart can be checked out over here. If, for whatever crazy reason you should want said art as a wallpaper, you may find a higher res version over here.

Now then, the next project I've been working on is a commission I've had for a great while of a friend's family crest. He's of Chinese ancestry (hence the chinese dragon), and super into heraldry (as the cresting is called), so here it is:



It's 18x22, and was inked traditionally on hot press watercolor paper (pretty much the largest, inkable paper I have). I'm pretty happy with how it looks, and once he approves the inks then I'll start coloring it, probably in painter since he says he wants it to look oil painterly.

Smodart

So Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier of the Smodcast are having this art show at this gallery in LA and there's a contest for fans of the Smod to do an "art of smodcast". Here's the entry I'm working on:

It's kind of a smattering of all things smodcast, and done digitally because I was working my way through the archives while I was brainstorming ideas, and doing it in Photoshop seemed the best thing to do so I could cut/paste thumbnails, move 'em around, resize, etc. The things I've "Inked" so far are Schekkie, the Nazi-engineered weiner dog, the newspaper that's going to have a headline reading "Bryan Johnson: Crazed Shit-Eater", Scott Mosier as "The Scarlet Shrieker", the Harry Potter "Forgeticus" charm, and Kevin Smith and the parasite that takes over his cock and demands blood. Yep, lots of interesting things talked about in smodcast =D

WIP: Flipside Cover

So to bolster my colorist portfolio, I'm playing around with coloring things done by different artists. This time, it's the chapter cover for the webcomic Flipside--a GREAT comic that everyone should check out, even if some parts are nsfw. In any event, here's a sneak:

I am sooo psyched with how this is looking so far! So cute! Since pretty much everything in the foreground is really warm and saturated, I decided to balance it with that light blue for the background. So far I'm kinda digging it, but I haven't made up my mind entirely quite yet. In any event, it's fun playing around with a more "painted" style! ^^

Continuation of my Mid-level city. There's so many things I forgot to include in the sketch that I find myself creating specifically for the digital version. As a result I can only work on this thing a little at a time because there's soooooo much stuff and the computer is a tedius thing to ink with (now gimme a brush and a micron, and then we're talkin). However, it would've ben nearly impossible to ink with this level of detail traditionally, even with a lightbox, as not only is the sketch insanely messy, but the details would kill my poor eyes (thankfull, Photoshop has a zoom tool!) So yeah, for your enjoyment, some details:

Sort of a work in progress of Nico from Runaways. Wanted to practice a painting style, so this one was 100% digital. Sadly, everything but the face and some of the hair is really rough, but maybe one day I'll finish it!Hair+Face detail.

Work in progress

Work in progress cityscape (sort of) that I'm working on for my concept art portfolio. I decided to digitally ink this one since the original sketch is sooo messy I'd destroy the paper trying to erase the pencil lines. Sadly, this is only like, a small corner of it...