masks!

Hey friends,
Here's the masks in progress and finished. 
Andy Kato, monkey king, twilightzone eye of the beholder, FREE MASK from nycomic con (white), wild thing mask, paper mache base, steve buscemi, paper mache' base.

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!

New team Kat-0

trying out a new style.

Andy art

Remember mocca april 10 and 11, be there to see more of andy!

team Kat-O cover

Here's the cover still in progress of my comic (front and back covers) issue 1.
i'll be selling it at mocca fest in april 10 and 11 in nyc.

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

team Kat-O cover

I might work on this a little more before it's done but this is the cover for the book.

Sunny Day Trouble

Here is the latest Team Kat-O image. I'm still trying to get the book together and hopefully have it ready soon. You know what this feels like? The actor who can't find any roles, so he writes his own play and casts himself. Well I'm that actor and this is my play!

Team Kat-o vid

A new photoshop+after effects video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXyEWA6HrGo&fmt=18 <-- here's the hi res without music

andy zbrush

more doodlesky with the zbrush . seriously so much fun making the hat and glasses. these will be good reference for future illustrations. i already have the actual sculpture equivalents. If you know very little about 3d (like me) you might like this program. It's very good and quick for good sketches.

true porn

what was seen, cannot be unseen.

mu hahaha

the final

here's the finished image, told you it was going to look different. turning it into a postcard for anime fest.

success is near

this might be a new postcard image for ny anime fest. it's a picture of team kat-o in the future.
the final image might look nothing like this, stay tuned!

FINISHed 3d

From the last post, I put on a brand new spanking coat of paint. This was done with aluminum wire, aluminum foil , glued paper and magical paper clay. NO BAKING. after 3 days the sculpt is ready for priming and a day after that it's ready for color. I used acrylics for Billy and my character ANDY K.
This image of Andy is updated from the last version, I tightened him up a bit mostly on the face and the shirt.


This last image was done for my illustrated blog (look on the side for link) .
I usually don't go explaining myself with these doodles but I'll make an exception for this one.
guy= deep in thought (ha!)
fish=whale
girls= interweb girls
quote= friend's joke

steambot

Hey there , I have another TEAM KAT-O image.

wanted a more steampunk feel to it.

red cross help

Help them, because we can.

http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_china_relief_fund_0508&s_subsrc=RCOProfile_China&s_src=F8DWA001

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updates on sculpts. the monarch from the Venture bros. And my Team Kat-O characters.

a new painting

Playing around with some of the acrylics i have lying around, i'll work on this during the week, let's see how far i can take this.

the williamsburglars

Introducing the Williamsburglars.

team kat-0 family

Here's another line drawing of my characters visiting the museum.
I'll add a bg soon. and probably shade or color it.