More Digital Practice

The title says it all. Been trying to practice more digitally. My traditional supplies are running scarce, so I figured now is as good a time than any to practice my digital art. I'm still not as comfortable digitally as I am traditionally, but that at least gives me more motivation to work at it.

Didn't feel like coloring too elaborately.

Well that's it. I am really trying to post a little more regularly, and so far so good (ish.)

Take care blog!

Colin

Gun Totin' Granny

Hey there,

So as I mentioned in the last post, at work we have these times for the designers known as "Draw Time Fun Time", and so I thought I'd post the second one I have done for this round.

This time we were tasked to draw an old lady and her male counterpart, and what will happen next is we will hand the characters off to the writing team here, and they will create a story about them. So its pretty open ended and fun.

So here's what I did.

Again, another fully digital image. I am getting a little more comfortable on the Cintiq, but I will say, it still never feels the same as using good ol' pen and paper. I definitely miss drawing these things traditionally, but unfortunately I do not have a scanner right now, so I am forced to learn and work with other methods. Hope you enjoyed!

Until next time!

-Colin

Draw Time Fun Time

Howdy Y'all,

Yeah, my life has been insane the past few months. I have lots of art that I haven't posted at all, mostly due to not knowing if I could post it or not. Anyway, I have a new job now at a place called 'Epipheo,' which is a super cool place, and is best described as an animation house. I am one of the freelance designers but I'm not going to bore you with what it is I do.

BUT there is a thing we have been doing that has been lovingly dubbed 'Draw Time, Fun Time.' and basically we (the designers) get story prompts from the writers, and make an illustration based off one of the prompts. 

We work on them about 20-30 minutes a day, starting with pencil and paper sketches, then taking them into the computer and finishing them however we want. Now, I'm not a digital artist, I am very much a traditionalist, so this is pretty foreign. But, I thought 'Why not, I need to practice computer skills anyway!'

So here is the illustration I did, my first fully digital illustration ever. So I still have plenty of room to improve, but I thought I'd share. The prompt will be in the illustration description.

"Do you think we can make it? I think so. 

Besides, what other choice do we have?"

So that's it, hope it excites. I know my work digitally isn't nearly as good as my work traditionally. I'm working on that. Anyway, I hope to be able to post more often, key word there is hope. Until next time!

-Colin

Just Some Pages

Hey bloggers,

Just as a little update, here are some pages I am working on for commission. It'll be a small 6 page excerpt from a larger story. I'm inking it with a bit more 'grit' and 'mess' than I usually ink with. It's pretty fun to break out of the really clean stuff I'm typically used to.

The page 1 of the story.

Page 2.

There will be more to come, as I said, it's a part of a larger story, 6 pages to be precise, so there will be plenty more to see. Thanks guys!

-Colin

Just A Few Sketches

Hello y'all,

So again, I get all caught up in life and totally forget that I have a blog and why I created it. To post ART! So That's what I'm gonna do. I have some stuff that I am currently working on, but nothing is finalized yet, so I'm not sure if I can publicly post it, so I'll post some of the sketches I did for said project.

I'm sort of messing around with a different inking style. 

We'll see how it goes.

There is obviously a theme between these drawings, but I'm just going to let you figure that one out!
Anyway, more to come when I can get to it! Happy trails!

- Colin

Color Preview!

Hey everyone, 

I have been working on some digital coloring this weekend. Just a little break from some pages.

Here is the first pass at the colors for the first issue of "The Golem of South Florida"

Hope you all enjoy!

Yay Color!

So there you have it, some color in my life. Who would've thought, even though ironically, if you know me, you know I am all about obnoxious colors.  Anyway, lots of work ahead of me, but I hope you all like it. Take it easy!

-Colin

A Fun New Project!

Wow, It's been forever since I have posted last. Sorry about that.

Anyway, now that all the apologies are over, I have a few fun projects I am currently working on!

Specifically an anthology for one of my fellow SCADies, and it is for her senior project. I wrote a small little script for it and she decided that I could be featured among 19 other super great comic artists!

As a small aside about me, I love the military. I love drawing military things. So I really REALLY wanted to do a story that had to do with the military. So I did. I have just finished up the thumbnails and will move on to the final pages soon enough, but I thought as a courtesy I would post the thumbs for everyone to see!

You're welcome.

Anyway, here are the thumbs for my short story, titled "Behind the Wheel"

The cover and pages 1-3, as you can tell,

 I really like doing tight thumbnails.

Pages 4-7.

I really like tight thumbnails, when I do thumbs and move to a larger tight rough I tend to lose a little bit of energy from my figures, so I just tighten my thumbs up to the point where they can almost be considered miniature finished penciled pages, then blow them up and finish them off with ink or a clean pencil finish.

Well that's all for now, stay tuned for more stuff to be posted soon! Take it easy everyone.

-Colin

I Promise I Have Been Doing Stuff!!!

I promise I really have!

So as an update, I am almost finished with my last quarter of college, so naturally, it has been pretty busy as well as stressful. I have however been able to work on Golem, and I have actually finished the art for all 22 pages!! I don't have it all scanned yet, but here are pages 20 and 21 in pencil, and 20 inked!

The inked page

A fun look at the pencils that got it there!

and here are the pencils for page 21.

The inks are actually finished for pages 21 and 22, but I haven't been able to scan those yet, so hopefully I can get those scanned and posted this week for your enjoyment! Hope you liked the art I shall post again in the near future!

-Colin

SO I Got Another Page for y'all

I mean, the title says it all.

This page has quite a bit of text in it, so, I didn't have to put too much art into it, or else the page would make your head hurt. So here is page 19.

Pretty sparce, BUT, 

that is my favorite close up of the Golem,

 and I like the shot of the War Golem as well.

Alright, next page will be big number 20! holy cow, it's almost finished!

-Colin

Just for Funsies

Hello internet enthusiasts,

I did a couple airbrushed sketch cards. First time I have worked in airbrush this small, so this was kinda an experiment. Hope you enjoy!

Yay, everybody likes Iron Man!

and how about Goldie Locks here.

Well I'm off to keep doing artsy stuff, I will keep you updated bloggers!

-Colin

Back to Golem!

Hey Bloggers,

Sorry it has been a while since I last posted anything. I have been busy traversing the United States.

BUT!

Now that I am back in Ohio and situated for a small stint of time, I can finally get to working again!

Here is the final inks for page 18 of Golem, I really like this page, might actually be one of my favorites. Although, I say that every time I finish a page, so I'm sure this love will be somewhat short lived, but who cares! Enjoy!

Chaos! I love chaos. It's fun to draw.

 Not to live in, just draw.

Okey dokey, hope you like the page! I am nearing the end pretty fast, and am so excited!

Take it easy bloggers.

-Colin

Page 17 AND something special!

Hey bloggers,

So I finished page 17 of Golem quite a while back, and just haven't gotten around to posting it yet. So I will post it, and I have another piece of goodie-ness to go along with it.

A cover design!

So for my Visual Storytelling 2 class we had to do some cover comps, and ink them, so I chose to make up a cover comp for Golem, this isn't necessarily the final version, but maybe this will be an alternate cover!

I really like the pacing of this page, 

it's also nice when there is only three

 panels on a page

So there is the cover design, it was pretty fun, 

who knows though, maybe it'll change a bit, 

I would say probably.

Thanks for being patient bloggers, I will be sure to update more now that I am on break from school. In fact, I am pretty sure I will update more over break. Talk to you later bloggers!

-Colin

Back to Pages!

The pages are back!

Well I have been working on school projects and various paintings, but I have finally been able to get to finish page 16. My school work has piled up over top of this page, so unfortunately this took so much more time than I was hoping it would. Anyway, here it is, in its fun black and white glory.

Yeah, unfortunately a two panel page took 

way longer than it should have. 

Alright time to keep up the drawing and continue churning out some artwork like it's nobody's business! I will keep it all updated!

-Colin

Commander Cody Commish..

Well, not exactly a commission, BUT it it more of a request by way of my roommate Nate.

He wanted a picture of Commander Cody, the awesome clone trooper commander who got the order to kill all the jedi. I thought it would be fun to make a little painting of him.

This little guy was fun to do. 

It's not too large, only about 6"x9", 

so a nice little piece to have around.

I won't be able to sell this little guy, because it is already spoken for, but I will make some prints of it, because I would also like to have my own little copy of it. So I do realize that the past two paintings I have made are Star Wars pictures, I promise the next one will be something that is not a Star Wars piece. Catch ya later bloggers!

-Colin

Here comes Big Pharm

So I just finished pg 15 of Golem, and this is the introduction of one of my favorite characters, the manic, heavily roided "Big Pharm". He is super fun to draw and the next pages are going to have him fighting Golem, so keep on the lookout for those! 

Here's the art!

Unfortunately Dry-brush wood texture doesn't 

replicate perfectly when you threshold your art,

 but, oh well, it'll be colored anyway!

As I said before, the next full pages are a good ol' fashion beatdown, so be on the lookout for more pages! Talk to you later bloggers!

-Colin

 

Big Bad Boba!

So here is a fancy thing for y'all,

I did a piece of art, more like a painting. I gessoed a surface, and drew out Boba Fett. 

Boba Fett. 

Cause I love him. 

I then airbrushed the local color, then I cleaned it up with colored pencils. Check him out.

This one used the technique I did for my Cap and Iron Man drawing. 

Except instead of acrylic wash, I used an airbrush.

Alrighty there you go! This I will make prints of this and they will be for sale. Let me know if you would like to pick one of these as a great decoration on any wall! Even a bathroom!

Talk to you later bloggers. 

-Colin

Since You've Been So Patient...

You get a couple of new Golem pages.

You're welcome.

 This is page 13 AND page 14, tried some new stuff with these pages, I was inking the majority of these with my brush, and adding the meticulous detailing with a crow quill. I had a good time experimenting with these brushes.

Will most likely continue in this brush endeavor. Anyway here are the pages.

draw ALL the boxes.

I love this page. 

Especially that "Thwap" panel. 

There you have it!

Two pages, I know, I was feeling generous tonight. Also two blog posts in two nights?! It's outrageous, it's ludicrous, it's wonderful! But anyway that's what I got for ya. Stay tuned for more art in the future! 

Adios Bloggers!

-Colin

Da-Da-Dynamic Duos!

Oh my dear bloggers,

I am terribly sorry that I haven't posted in months. Literally. Months.

And there is so much to catch up on! The biggest thing by far is that I am now engaged to the woman of my dreams! She's pretty amazing, and I pulled some fun pieces of art for her for her proposal.

I decided to make her a small book that was centered all around "Dynamic Duos" and I illustrated 4 duos that are famous in the Disney world, and 4 duos in the comic book world. And they were super fun to draw! Especially the Disney stuff!

So I will start off with the disney ones that were in the book, not necessarily in order, but the ones I like the most to the least!

I absolutely love this picture. 

It's just adorable in all the right ways. 

*ahem* Moving on.

This was a very close second.

 Mostly because I have always wanted to

 do a Woody and Buzz drawing, 

and this was the perfect excuse for one.

Now this one was just straight up fun to draw. 

So much fun. 

And this one is fun, 

drawing Marlin was great, 

he has such fun contours in his face. 

And now onto the comic book drawings!

Good 'ol Captain America and Bucky.

 For obvious reasons, this was my favorite. 

Iron Man and War Machine was 

also super fun to draw.

 Really loved this one. 

The idea of this one was more the thing

 that made me love this picture.

 Not so much the execution, but the idea.

And last but not least, Batman and Robin. 

Most people that know me know that I'm not a huge fan 

of Batsy here, but these two definitely

 made sense for the story I wrote. 

So here they are.

And those are the illustrations that I made for my wonderful bride-to-be. She loved them and has a small little book that she can show her friends how dorky and cheesy her future husband is. And I'm okay with that. 

Now I have a good couple of things that I have to post up. but I don't want to overload this post with art, so I shall return with more comic pages and more fun artsy fartsy pieces! Talk to you later blogdience!

-Colin

50th Post!!!

Holy cow!

50 posts...dang...makes me realize that I have a pretty good amount of art on my hands.

At least I SUPPOSE that is what it means.

Anyway, in celebration, I finished my 12th page of the Golem of South Florida, which, means that I am pretty much finished with half the first issue! Well, sans color. Anyway, here it is!

I had a fun time with this page. 

And not a ton of panels, 

which was a bonus as far as time is concerned. 

I like the guards, they are like 

my little Rosencrantz and Gildenstern.

Well there you go, page 12, halfway done! Time to print some minis of the first half of the comic and start hyping it up! Let me know if you want a Golem half comic! Tell your friends!

-Colin

Bah! Where does time go?!

Hello faithful blogdience,

really, where DOES time go? I have been swamped with so much, and none of it has had to do with art?! Oh well, I have been trying to get things done as quickly as I can, but that seems to be more difficult than it sounds...

Anyway, I have done some small sketches and stuff when I haven't been able to work on my comic stuff, and I will upload those in due time.

In the meantime, here is the Golem page I just finished!

So here is page 11 of Golem, this was definitely proved to be a challenge, because of the exterior strip mall establishing shot, and the high angle shot with cars in it at the bottom. I like to think I pulled it off convincingly enough, they were definitely a hill to climb over. Overall I am pleased with the outcome of this page.

More to come soon bloggers! Thanks for your continued support! God Bless y'all!

-Colin