Merry Christmas, Baby

I'd like to wish you a Merry Christmas and wish you all the best of luck in the New Year!

American Indie

One page of American Indie is done now I finally have new Microns. I'm starting to ink Andy now and then I'm going to tackle Erik. This is a sample of the "American Indie" one pager! Back to inking!

20th Post!

AMERICAN INDIE

Me and Joe were talking about how depressing American indie comics were and so I decided I wanted to do a slight parody of all that stuff. What was born was "American Indie," a concept for a comic without a main character. I came up with a male lead character for the thing and then promptly noticed that I'd created Pranas, from Rocket Tonic (check the links). So after toying around with the character to distance him from Pranas, HE became a SHE. What a lovely girl she turned out to be too! I got her name by showing people the initial sketch of her and asking them what her name was.

After several ideas for names, the winner was "Lisa" and here she is!

Watch out for American Indie coming next quarter in Team JAM's yet-to-be-named mini comic!

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

Here's a drawing of Spongebob I did tonight. Overall it probably took me just over an hour.
I tried the Threshold adjustment, so it was all simple stuff with the paint bucket. I picked out the palette myself with a reference picture and no use of the picker tool.

I dunno, I just really wanted to draw Spongebob with my own slight slant on him. So here it is.

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

Doodles

So this past quarter I was in one of the worst math classes I've ever been in. I sat and thumbnailed a whole load of Andy strips, designed my Hobgoblin and did various other doodles in that class. I saw on Joe's blog that he was posting doodles and sketches and I remembered these. I don't know why I did them in my math notes and not a skecthbook... Nothing tinkering with the levels won't solve!

Here you guys go!

Well everyone, it looks like fate (and Joe) forces my hand to make a new post!

The mini is coming along nicely. I just finished thumbnailing the Andy story and need to pencil four more pages for that. Erik is already scripted and I since I wrote the thing, I'm not going to thumbnail it (although I might do some test sketches). Erik is going to be drawn smaller too, 1) to save time and effort and 2) because I want to use microns and have rounded edges to my lines, giving it a childish feel... Andy is the full 11 x 17 though...

I made a stencil to draw a 10 x 15 frame so I don't have to waste time with Mr. T-Square. This was not a fantastic idea. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who's trying to cut corners as you have to keep it steady, get it straight on the bristol and hold it still while you draw. If you haven't already, get friendly with Mr. T-Square, a little tape and the corner of your drafting table... and apparently it's bad to measure out from the edge of your bristol, as the people that cut these pads ain't exactly careful with that stuff...

Of course, I'm preaching to the choir. So now it's art time!!

This is something I did in the awe-inspiring David Allan Duncan's cartooning class. I figured jokes about racism were easy to do (Dave Chapelle, Carlos Mencia to name a few) and while I was trying to come up with an idea I remembered all the different colored people in Doug! Almost every character was a different color! It was odd!! Anyway, here you go!I'm just about over the wisdom teeth thing now. Bailey's away this weekend, so I'm gonna try and work hard on the mini! Ta-ta for now...

Goodbye Teeth (Part 2)

Hi again, all! Well, they're out!

I didn't get to keep them though... not like Larison... So I'm in a little bit of pain, but nothing I can't handle. Here's an old caricature of Jerry Seinfeld I did! It's been a secret ambition of mine to do a comic adaptation of an episode of Seinfeld! Anyway, enough gab, more art and prescription drugs!

Hello Winter, Goodbye Teeth

Hi! Tomorrow a man is going to yank out my wisdom teeth! I can't wait 'till that's done with.

Right now I have a full plate with the upcoming Team JAM anthology. I have 5 pages of Andy penciled and I have a max of 24 pages to do (12 per issue). That'll be a two part Andy story (five pages each, perhaps), a two part Erik in Outer Space story (four pages each) and anything else I might do. I've been toying around with the idea of a one pager called "American Comix" but then I realized I'd just come up with "Rocket Tonic" by Pranas. This brings me to my next point. Me and Joe are going to be asking for some guest pages, so if you're reading this (and you're not Joe or myself or Amy) comment and state your case.

Here is something from last quarter! My watercolor piece that was up on the wall, now with added bubbles!

MANDO DIAO'S HELPING HAND

The band featured in the page is "Mando Diao." They're a Swedish band who've been around for a few years now, but have never broken into the States or the UK properly. Find out more about them here.

That's it for now, kids!

Ah... Paris!

EDIT: I could have sworn I posted this, but it says here that it's only a draft.

Hello! Another new post!

This time I have my value project from Larison's Materials & Techniques class! This one is the [pirate/rodeo clown/lovers/dancers] with a [car/motorbike/ambulance/firetruck] in [Paris/New York/a Tokyo market/River Street] project that everyone does. I did it in what I refer to as my "generic cartoon style" which borrows from old Looney Tunes and Tex Avery cartoon styles. This one made it up on the wall too!

A rare handful might recognize the pirates as Captain Pugwash and Cutthroat Jake (from right to left) from the old Captain Pugwash cartoons on the BBC. Well done if you spotted them!

PARIS PUGWASH PIRATE PANIC

This extra little bonus here is a picture of Bailey I drew in Lyle's class!

BAILEY

Also, I'm working on a new mini comic with Joe and Amy, featuring Andy The Retard, Lil' Chode & Richard, Amism, Erik in Outer Space and more! I've already got the cover done as well as the first page of the new Andy story penciled! More on that as it progresses! It's due out mid-January, so start saving up!

Something Old

Since SCAD got out, I've been sorting through my files and folders on my laptop to get rid of a lot of the crap I have on here. I ran into a few files that I'd done back in high school. Back then, I drew a lot of Akira Toriyama inspired manga styled stuff. I even did it reading from right to left! Say what you will, but that's what I was into back then and I maintain that Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball series is a freakin' kickass manga.

The series was called "Urban Ninja" and I used to post it up on a board at my highschool. I had a few fans and readers and I enjoyed doing it. Looking back now, it was a bit silly and I do believe the main character was a Mary-Sue or Mary-Jane or whoever it is. Here's a particularly fun title page I did of Hiro (the story's hero... geddit?) being escorted out of purgatory by a little dude I called the Ferryman. It was a silly part of the story that I just suddenly thought would be fun to do in the middle of the plot!

I'd never do that now! Or would I? Here's the pic:

Hm... looks like blogger inverted the colors. It looks so cool!
This is crap, now it won't load properly! Let's see if it does it normally next time.

It was in CMYK. There's the problem...

More Hobgoblin Stuff

After a Hellish time trying to scan these in time for class, I have two more Hobgoblin pics for yous. Finals are almost over... Now I just have to deal with Larison....

Anyhow, MORE Hobgoblin!!

More posts after I've done Larison's acrylic thingamajoober.

Hobbes Goes Bonkers

If you've been in Norris, you might have seen my Calvin & Hobbes scratch board up on the wall. I'd just like to take this opportunity to say I friggin' LOVE the scratch board! I was tough trying to get Calvin to look like he was drawn by a pen on scratch board. I had to transfer my pencil outlines onto the board, then outline those outlines in white, without causing any breaks in overlapping outlines! Ink never touched the board, there are no corrections or anything. All the white you see has been scraped away!

The second part of the project was to add speech bubbles and extra sound effects (in at least 3 places). These aren't present in the physical version, save for Hobbes' "rawr."


Things are shaping up pretty nicely, finalswise. It all looks very doable! (Let's hear me say that on Wednesday night when I'm rushing to finish Larison's acrylic landscape!)

There's be more to come when break begins!

Here's a goblin

Here's a picture of a goblin I drew for my "Hobgoblin" synopsis.

HOBGOBLIN

New strip! Deary me!

Hello all!

I believe it's time for a new post! Things are getting busy right now at SCAD for me, but nothing I can't handle (assuming I don't goof off like I know I will). Right now I have a scratch board page, an acrylic landscape, some digital speech bubbles, a script submission packet for either Dark Horse or Fantagraphics and finally, a math test. I'm looking forward to doing the scratch board page tonight and tomorrow night, as I have a really cool idea! The submission packet will be a plot synopsis for a story called "Hobgoblin" which is based on the ale of the same name! It's a little more serious than I usually write, so I'm giving it a more lighthearted angle right now. The math test? Feh.

Comixtravaganza has been canceled for this quarter, so my page for that is on hold. I'm going to finish it, but it'll just be for fun and will probably just sit in the vaults for a while. As far as Andy strips go, I'm not submitting any more for this quarter, as I've submitted enough for it to run until Christmas break (assuming there's room for me every time!).

Here is this week's strip! It's getting exciting now! I just introduced Mel into the story. For those who are unfamiliar with the original "run" of Andy The Retard, Mel was Andy's 26 year old girlfriend. Since the storyline started over, she's no longer his girlfriend. Will he get the girl AGAIN? A lot of people see her and think she's Bailey, my Gee-Eff, but I can assure you all, that's not so. I created her long before I met Bailey! Anywho:

SHOT DOWN

Also, this just popped into my head. I claimed once that Andy's single green eye in in homage to Earthworm Jim. That's a lie. The single green eye came from when I first started sketching Andy properly, I drew his eye too small, and it looked like an iris.

Don't get me wrong, though. EWJ was awesome.

The Last Post On October

BEST FRIEND JAMES

AH-HA!

The last post of this month! I've had two Andy strips printed in a row and things are looking good! I've had to start inking them again, as I don't have any saved up any more. Whatever! No big deal.

Comixtravaganza is coming up (or perhaps not, I hear) and I'm starting to think about my submission for it and I've got something fun in store... of course, this is all assuming I can get it done on time.

The strip I've posted tonight might be printed at the end of this week, that is, if seniority and space allow.

I'm starting to realize that "Andy The [Retard]" might get cut off at an awkward point in the slight continuity. To avoid things like this happening, as advised by a mister Joe Bevill, I'm trying to set up each strip as if it could be the first strip that any given reader would see. I mean, doing things like mentioning the character's names, having characters talk about the situations at hand and not having a fully running continuity (nothing like TUNE IN NEXT WEEK!)...

That's that... OH! and also, no more music videos! I promise! This ain't the place for that. If you want music videos, go browse YouTube.

Erik In Outer Space

Howdy!

For my script in Kneece's class, I decided to illustrate some of the more majorr characters instead of describing them with lame words like "tall" and "eyes."

The script is about the second character in my canon, Erik, from "The Adventures Of Space Captain General Erik in Outer Space." The first script I wrote (which should be available in a mini comic sometime next year) was not too fitting for the assignment, so I wrote a saner sequel, which is what the illustrations are for.

The first is Erik, the hero of the series. The second is a Shrimpolon, native to Shrimpola 4. The third is an evil Quibleenian. These are the bad guys!




Yeah, the Quibleenian looks like Zorak. It was based off Zorak and a Skeksis from Dark Crystal. That's right, cuz Zorak is the best space villain ever. He's a great combination of evil and cool looking.

More from them later. That's it for now! Next time, we'll have contour line drawings or a strip!

New District, NEW ADVENTURES OF ANDY THE RETARD!

So I'm pretty psyched that Andy made it into The District. Now I just aims to keep him there for a while.

Once again, I had to change the name of the strip, from "Andy The Rertard" to "Andy The" by dropping the "Retard." I finished off a couple of new strips for this and next week's submissions and have two more waiting to be inked! Awesome!

Here's a new strip, number two in the "continuity," it's called

FAT KEVIN

I'm currently in Atlanta! I always like hanging out here. I got to see Hutch and Paige in their new apartment and have Dreamland BBQ, which is delicious. Me and Bailey visited SCAD Atlanta too... Let's just say going to SCAD in Savannah was a good choice!!

The District is way better than The Connector too... and I'm the reason why.

Writing, Larison the 2nd, Atlanta and Morrissey

Woo-ha!

Yesterday I was so tired! I'd been up until about 4 doing an ink wash for Larison's class. It turned out to be a pretty successful drawing, I think. I feel very confident within my cartooning style, but I'd like to do more things, still in a cartooning style, but branch out a little bit. I've had a pretty good idea, but I don't know if it'll fly for projects...

Some real progress is being made (as always) with Andy strips. I have two more inked and ready to scan and letter, two penciled and ready to be inked, and about 10 written and ready to be penciled. I think I need to stop focusing on writing for the time being and focus more on drawing the damn things... This weekend I'll try and work on them some more if I get time.

In fact, I just noticed a pretty bad mistake on one of them. God! I love Photoshop!

Tomorrow I set out for Atlanta! It should be nice to get away for the weekend. There's a very relaxed atmosphere that comes with being at Bailey's parents house. Also, I might hit a few CD Warehouses.

And last but not least, here is a new song by Morrissey. It's a good 'un too.!

New District, no Andy...

Things look bleak for Andy...
I changed the name of the strip and it still doesn't get printed. Joe says it has something to do with seniority... But I dunno. I can't help but be bummed out about it.

Still, I'm going to keep making new strips and keep posting here.

Just be patient, I guess and wait for it... But yeah, if you know the people at the District, put in the good word for me. I mean, since right now, if you're reading this, you're probably a die-hard Andy fan, right?

Right? Well, whatever. Here's the very first Andy strip which was supposed to appear in the District. It's entitled:

FIRST DAY AFTER THE RESTART

And that's that! Keep checkin' that District and keep rootin' for the Retard!

If I Don't Live Today, I Might Be Here Tomorrow

Something I didn't mention in my first post is that I will totally post music and videos here as I see fit. Obviously, I won't post things without reason. For example, I'm posting this video today because the song has been stuck in my head for the majority of this week.

SO here it is, Mando Diao's "If I Don't Live Today, I Might Be Here Tomorrow"

Finished another strip for the District. This one will appear as #2 and it introduces a character called "Fat Kevin" to the fray. I'll start posting the strips as they appear in the District, so that means the first strip will appear next week...

I've been busy writing strips and I have now written enough for the rest of the quarter... perhaps even longer! Expect lots of T&A (or not)!!

LARISON!!

LARISON!! Once again your homework loses me some sleep that I could be sleeping as I type this blog instead of sleeping like I wish I was sleeping because I get so tired sometimes when the math professor goes on and on and on and LARISON!!

What was I saying? Oh yeah, something about... kittens?

Here's a picture.




This one was for Larison's last project. It's a detective scene with textures and boy do I hate those. I had to be separated from my beloved spot blacks for a whole week or two!! This scene has El Kabong!

THE END!

Greetings, Bloggernoids!

Wow! This is exciting! You're reading the very first post on my blog!
...Well, I hope you're reading it... (If you came here just to look at the pictures, then shame on you!)

So yeah, I got this thing after a little persuasion from fellow JAM members, Amy and Joe (I forget which is which letter...), at our little weekly get-together/meeting/work session/steamy date.

Basically I'm gonna be posting strips from my "Andy The" strip, which will soon appear in the District (fingers crossed!). When proposing the idea, the title "Andy The Retard" wasn't acceptable, because it says "Retard" too many times, so I simply dropped the word. Two out of three isn't bad.

... That was a tangent... now what was I saying? Oh yeah, I'll be posting comic strips and any other work I might do, whether it's sketches, pencils, old stuff... basically whatever I find that I think is of some value to me, or otherwise. Also, I might post work by other artists if the mood strikes me.

Also I will pimp my new mini comics...

RIGHT NOW!!


These babies are on sale now at "Silly Mad CDs," my favorite used CD store, located on Hodgson Memorial and Eisenhower. The big one is $2 and the little one is $1.50, both of them together will cost you $3. What a BARGAIN* *whilesupplieslast!! If you're a true Andy fan (or were in my Intro class) you'll probably already own some of the content, but there's plenty of previously unpublished stuff in there too... So yeah, buy them.

That's it. Now I'm going to go sleep, as I have to get up tomorrow for breakfast with Mayya.

Bye!