dance 2

dance stories

From my book Bohemigrant.

sketchvideo

sketchbook in progress from jrtistic dot com on Vimeo.

watch this in hd. because, why the heck not?

sketch process 2 of 2

part 2, I'm using a brush pen. It's a great tool for the lazy clean up artist.

I enjoy watching these demo videos if you enjoy them too I'll make more with better production value.

Process.

Ok, get ready to read, no seriously.
Two years ago I did a little comic called Team Kat-O. It was a fun little learning experience. Here is how I usually approach drawing characters for a book. First I try to do as many sketches as I can in pencil (some of these drawings are on newspapers, tracing paper backs of pizza boxes). Mixing and matching which features look best for the characters. Depending on how much time I have, I would then sculpt the character. If I had a lot of time I would use clay, either Super Sculpy or Paper clay ( I like paper clay because I don't have to bake it, I hate baking when i can't eat it at the end)

These are typical paper clay sculpts, not much detail, but enough for reference. The middle one is just acrylic gesso with a grey tone, the one on the left is partially colored and the monarch is fully colored.

Now if I don't have much time to work on a project, I would skip the clay all together. This is the main villian, 100 percent zbrush. I love using zbrush for these quick character sketches, where as clay can take 3 or 4 hours for something usable, this zbrush model probably took me about 30 minutes. The cat model took about 1 hour tops, maybe less.
Using these models I would refer back to the sketches and pose them accordingly. Photograph the clay, screen cap the zbrush model. And that's pretty much all I need to maintain the continuity of a character.

Noodles!

sorry for lack of updates

i had to completely wipe out my hard drive to get the computer working again, so I have to reinstall everything. luckily i have almost everything backed up. the problem with sorting through old work and old photos is you get nostalgic. nostalgia is terrible for someone like me.
Speaking of imagination, here's an oldie but goodie from bohemigrant issue 1, The DEAL.

blog update!

3 for 1 day.



3!

oh yeah.

new blog images

Hey friends, here's two new images! Be sure to check out the blog with updates on the side bar!

Team Kat-0 comic pencils!

hey guys! since it's the holiday season, here is a present for ya'll!

here are some preview pages of the comic I'm working on! PS. this will be for sale at mocca fest '10

loki

Loki done in photoshop.

sketch

Here's a new image from a story i'm writing about former employers. My goal is to finish it by time for mocca fest. I'll be posting the wips in the coming weeks.

true porn

what was seen, cannot be unseen.

mu hahaha