Friday, November 19, 2010
Sequential Salon Meeting tomorrow Nov. 20th Saturday
I know I already emailed everybody about the meeting but hey why not post it. See y'all tomorrow.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
Zatanna
I know nothing of the character except she uses magic, talks backwards and wears a top hat.
Top hats are cool.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Supergirl
A change of pace from the usual angry chick art. Hmm, it looks like I accidentally Disney-fied her a bit. She even looks like she's singing to the bird!
Monday, September 6, 2010
Cross Hatch Podcast
http://crosshatchpodcast.podbean.com/
Please subscribe through the iTunes podcast store! Alex Cox, co-founder of the Rocketship comic shop (RIP), is a main contributor. It's definitely worth a listen. And it's free!
Please subscribe through the iTunes podcast store! Alex Cox, co-founder of the Rocketship comic shop (RIP), is a main contributor. It's definitely worth a listen. And it's free!
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Feeling Sketchy in Color - Pt. 2
Did a quick color drawing of my character, Zandalee, in her school uniform.
Feeling Sketchy Pt. 12 - Sequential Salon Sketch
Another Sequential Salon has gone by. Here’s a Zandalee sketch I did that day.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Basic questions for Writers
What do the characters want?
What is the result of achieving their goals?
How far are they willing to go to achieve those goals?
What is the result of achieving their goals?
How far are they willing to go to achieve those goals?
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Wonder Woman's new design
Article, please click.
Jim Lee brings us another stinker. He's never designed a superhero (or other) costume that has been GOOD.
I like that they finally decided to ditch the thong and cover her legs. The belt is pretty nice too, but a bit ornate.
However:
Shitty 1990s bolero jacket, with shoulder pads.
Microscopic emblem/logo. In life, we're supposed to leave symbols to the symbol-minded. In comics, superheroes ARE symbols.
Undefined boots. They seem to be part of bland techno-pantyhose. That midnight blue/black is overpowering and needs to be broken up.
Lack of stars. Three little stars on the shoulder pads don't ever stand out.
The choker is fucking stupid, as is the crown redesign.
The wrist gauntlets, like the belt, are too detailed, and too busy with colors.
What do YOU think?
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
The Racial Politics of Regressive Storytelling
Article Link
Discussion Link
Starting in 2004, DC Comics has been suffering from an over-abundance of angst, psychosis, violence, gore, rape, and murder, all for shock value.
There used to be a motto about death in comics: "Only Bucky stays dead."
Bucky was the WWII sidekick of Captain America who died in battle.
Whenever a character would die, it would be a waiting game before they were brought back to life.
DC's Silver Age was a re-imagining of the Golden Age. Characters like Green Lantern, the Atom, and the Flash were given different identities, designs, and sometimes abilities. Later on, it was determined that these were "legacy" characters. Al Pratt was the Atom for a while, then it became Ray Palmer's turn.
Then, in 1985/6, during DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths, Barry Allen, the Silver Age Flash, was killed. Not much longer after that, Jason Todd, the second Robin was killed. They served as a postscript to the Bucky motto.
Barry was replaced by his nephew Wally West, the Kid Flash. Jason was replaced by Tim Drake.
In 1971, DC introduced John Stewart as a Green Lantern. It's the first time a black man wore a costume traditionally worn by a white man. However, Stewart was not a replacement for Hal Jordan; they were members of a galaxy-wide police force 3600-strong.
In 1994, DC published a storyline called Emerald Twilight, continuing from a "Return of Superman (from the dead)" story. Green Lantern Hal Jordan goes insane and destroys the Green Lantern Corps. One GL ring is left, and given to Kyle Rayner (initially of Irish decent, later to be revealed as Irish-Hispanic) to be the sole Green Lantern. Soon after in the Zero Hour miniseries, Jordan tries to remake reality, and is defeated. In 1996, in an attempt to redeem himself, Hal dies by restarting the Sun in Final Night. Kyle would later re-create the Green Lantern Corps that John Stewart would join again. Somewhere during this era, Stewart was recruited to the Darkstars (don't ask) and crippled in battle, and healed by Jordan just before or during Final Night.
Why the GL ring never went to John Stewart is beyond my understanding. At the time, interest in the GL "brand" was waning, and a complete reboot was the editorial decree. Something similar was happening with another green-clad hero.
The reaction that Hal's death garnered was mixed. A lot of fans were outraged.
Also in 1994, DC introduced Connor Hawke, the Black-Asian son of Oliver Queen, Green Arrow. Connor shared his father's past time and masked identity, working together and separately. In 1995, Queen dies in an explosion, leaving Connor as the sole Green Arrow.
Wally West, Kyle Rayner, and Connor Hawke form a similar friendship that their forebearers did. They worked together in and out of the Justice League.
In 1999, Cassandra Cain (Asian), was introduced as Batgirl during the year-long No Man's Land story. She was brainwashed, took over a group of assassins, went on a killing spree, and kicked into editorial limbo.
In the early 90s, Stephanie Brown was introduced as The Spoiler. Teen daughter of a third-rate Batman villain, she served as a foil for her father, as well as Batman and Robin. She tried to gain Batman's acceptance. For a time, she did. She was Robin for all of three months, and was fired. She then started a gang war, and was viciously beaten. Her death was faked, and then brought back to Gotham. She then became Batgirl after Cassandra's...complications.
In 2004, Ray Palmer, the Atom, was driven mad by grief due to the events of Identity Crisis and disappeared. A student of his, Ryan Choi, took up the mantle.
Jason Todd, Oliver Queen, Hal Jordan, and more recently Barry Allen have been resurrected. (Bucky was also revived, but that's a different universe.) Ray Palmer is also back in action, but he's not at the top of his game.
Connor Hawke was shot by a poisoned bullet, comatose, revived, brainwashed, DNA spliced, and eventually revived again. He's still a little scatter-brained, but he remains a competent martial artist.
Kyle Rayner (the "savior" of the corps), along with John Stewart and others, were sidelined to a degree by becoming Alpha Lanterns, a sort of Honor Guard of the GL Corps. All to keep Hal Jordan in the spotlight.
Wally West got similar treatment; he's still a Flash, but Barry is THE Flash. His costume was tweaked to line up more with the animated version.
Ryan Choi was killed couple of weeks ago, to show how bad-ass a group of assassins are. Ray Palmer is now THE Atom again.
While I disagree with killing off the old to make way for the new, I disagree even more with killing off the new to make way for the old just to feed one writer's Nostalgia Fetish.
Discussion Link
Starting in 2004, DC Comics has been suffering from an over-abundance of angst, psychosis, violence, gore, rape, and murder, all for shock value.
There used to be a motto about death in comics: "Only Bucky stays dead."
Bucky was the WWII sidekick of Captain America who died in battle.
Whenever a character would die, it would be a waiting game before they were brought back to life.
DC's Silver Age was a re-imagining of the Golden Age. Characters like Green Lantern, the Atom, and the Flash were given different identities, designs, and sometimes abilities. Later on, it was determined that these were "legacy" characters. Al Pratt was the Atom for a while, then it became Ray Palmer's turn.
Then, in 1985/6, during DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths, Barry Allen, the Silver Age Flash, was killed. Not much longer after that, Jason Todd, the second Robin was killed. They served as a postscript to the Bucky motto.
Barry was replaced by his nephew Wally West, the Kid Flash. Jason was replaced by Tim Drake.
In 1971, DC introduced John Stewart as a Green Lantern. It's the first time a black man wore a costume traditionally worn by a white man. However, Stewart was not a replacement for Hal Jordan; they were members of a galaxy-wide police force 3600-strong.
In 1994, DC published a storyline called Emerald Twilight, continuing from a "Return of Superman (from the dead)" story. Green Lantern Hal Jordan goes insane and destroys the Green Lantern Corps. One GL ring is left, and given to Kyle Rayner (initially of Irish decent, later to be revealed as Irish-Hispanic) to be the sole Green Lantern. Soon after in the Zero Hour miniseries, Jordan tries to remake reality, and is defeated. In 1996, in an attempt to redeem himself, Hal dies by restarting the Sun in Final Night. Kyle would later re-create the Green Lantern Corps that John Stewart would join again. Somewhere during this era, Stewart was recruited to the Darkstars (don't ask) and crippled in battle, and healed by Jordan just before or during Final Night.
Why the GL ring never went to John Stewart is beyond my understanding. At the time, interest in the GL "brand" was waning, and a complete reboot was the editorial decree. Something similar was happening with another green-clad hero.
The reaction that Hal's death garnered was mixed. A lot of fans were outraged.
Also in 1994, DC introduced Connor Hawke, the Black-Asian son of Oliver Queen, Green Arrow. Connor shared his father's past time and masked identity, working together and separately. In 1995, Queen dies in an explosion, leaving Connor as the sole Green Arrow.
Wally West, Kyle Rayner, and Connor Hawke form a similar friendship that their forebearers did. They worked together in and out of the Justice League.
In 1999, Cassandra Cain (Asian), was introduced as Batgirl during the year-long No Man's Land story. She was brainwashed, took over a group of assassins, went on a killing spree, and kicked into editorial limbo.
In the early 90s, Stephanie Brown was introduced as The Spoiler. Teen daughter of a third-rate Batman villain, she served as a foil for her father, as well as Batman and Robin. She tried to gain Batman's acceptance. For a time, she did. She was Robin for all of three months, and was fired. She then started a gang war, and was viciously beaten. Her death was faked, and then brought back to Gotham. She then became Batgirl after Cassandra's...complications.
In 2004, Ray Palmer, the Atom, was driven mad by grief due to the events of Identity Crisis and disappeared. A student of his, Ryan Choi, took up the mantle.
Jason Todd, Oliver Queen, Hal Jordan, and more recently Barry Allen have been resurrected. (Bucky was also revived, but that's a different universe.) Ray Palmer is also back in action, but he's not at the top of his game.
Connor Hawke was shot by a poisoned bullet, comatose, revived, brainwashed, DNA spliced, and eventually revived again. He's still a little scatter-brained, but he remains a competent martial artist.
Kyle Rayner (the "savior" of the corps), along with John Stewart and others, were sidelined to a degree by becoming Alpha Lanterns, a sort of Honor Guard of the GL Corps. All to keep Hal Jordan in the spotlight.
Wally West got similar treatment; he's still a Flash, but Barry is THE Flash. His costume was tweaked to line up more with the animated version.
Ryan Choi was killed couple of weeks ago, to show how bad-ass a group of assassins are. Ray Palmer is now THE Atom again.
While I disagree with killing off the old to make way for the new, I disagree even more with killing off the new to make way for the old just to feed one writer's Nostalgia Fetish.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Elektra Redux
new
oldSo, I re-drew the illustration of Elektra I did three years ago. I wasn't happy with the original, especially the face.
So hopefully this is a much better drawing of Elektra. However, last week when I visited a friend's place, his 8 year old said, "I like the old one better".
Straight out of the babe's mouth. What do you think? Does the newer illustration lack the 'spark' or 'charm', or whatever you may call it, the original had?
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Feeling Sketchy in Color - Pt. 1
I’m not happy with the way I color my images. So, I’ve decided to use some of my sketches as practice.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Fantasy Zero Earth: Create a Character Contest
DeviantArt posted a character design contest for the new game Fantasy Zero Earth by Square Enix.
For details click here.
The deadline is June 18th, 2010.
For details click here.
The deadline is June 18th, 2010.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Batwoman Portrait
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Morrigan - Darkstalkers
Trying to practice with markers . Other than fixing the levels I'm trying not to do any Photoshop retouches on the art itself. Mmm, need to work on values more.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
The Joker
Breaking in a new sketch book. Almost forgot that I can post my art on this blog. I'll be better about it I promise.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Do Anything
Do Anything: Thoughts on Comics and Things by Warren Ellis.
The first line of the 13th essay reads as such:
Meanwhile, in the feverpitch wankpit of Philip K. Dick's artificial consciousness nested inside the robot head of Jack Kirby...
It should be noted that it's a severed robot head of Jack Kirby, and it's smoking all of Warren's cigars.
Get it. Rewire your brain.
The first line of the 13th essay reads as such:
Meanwhile, in the feverpitch wankpit of Philip K. Dick's artificial consciousness nested inside the robot head of Jack Kirby...
It should be noted that it's a severed robot head of Jack Kirby, and it's smoking all of Warren's cigars.
Get it. Rewire your brain.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Demon Hunter Kain: Miscellaneous Concept Art
Concept art for heroes and villains (mostly villains) that I had in mind for the Demon Hunter Kain series but never got around to posting on this site. Enjoy viewing.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Black Comix blog
http://www.blackcomixbook.com/
Our friend Khary Randolph gets a shout-out on the Jan 14th post of a blog promoting a book of the same name, studying African American independent Comics, Art, and Culture. The book is out in June, and available for pre-ordering on Amazon.
Our friend Khary Randolph gets a shout-out on the Jan 14th post of a blog promoting a book of the same name, studying African American independent Comics, Art, and Culture. The book is out in June, and available for pre-ordering on Amazon.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Demon Hunter Kain: Wendigo Concept Art
First off, Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful and prosperous New Year.
Next, behold the Wendigo. The Wendigo is a monster who comes from the coldest place. Its body is composed of mud and ice. A cannibal, it will devour anything in its path, including another Wendigo. Its mouth is lined with jagged teeth and it is magic, able to change form or possess people at will.
This image is the creature in its final form. I plan to have this creature appear in one of the Demon Hunter Kain story arcs.
Finally I'd like to give a special thanks to Lynne Yoshii for the use of her Cintiq (I have got to get me one of those!). Thanks Lynne!!!
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