MAT Thesis and More Caricatures

So I'm starting to ink a comic I recently have finished penciling.

The project is an exploration into my childhood. I have adapted a comic I

drew in 2nd grade and done it in my style as an adult. The purpose is an effort to get

back into my naiveté state of mind and find out why I wanted to become a cartoonist in the first place. I will upload the images from the original comic soon, but in the meantime here are two

pages I've completed.

I am pretty satisfied with this page overall. The only part that my teacher,

Howie Weiss, andI discussed a little confusing was the top right corner.

I may want to later go back and do some more cross-hatching to

define space, but as for now I'm okay with how it looks.

This one disappointed me. I love how it looked when it was penciled,

but I feel that the page now suffers from sloppy inking.

My teacher told me perhaps go back to this one after you finish the rest.

He agreed that the inking took away from the page and also suggested that I may

perhaps redraw it. Oh boy, I think he's right...

This one I did for fun. It's for a friend and his band. I haven't showed him yet so I hope he likes it.

This is Karla, a receptionist at building services.

She's been wanting me to draw acaricature of her and so I finally did.

She loved it and wants me to draw her family's caricatures for christmas. I think this will be good practice for me and Karla is awesome so I wouldn't mind doing it for her.

This last one is Laura, my supervisor, in another caricature. However, the bizarre thing about this one is that she gave me a pic of her daughter as a child and wanted me to draw her as a kid not as a present adult. I thought this request was weird, but I suppose what the heck and did it anyways. It's a kinda weird caricature, but I like the colors.

That's it for now and I will update soon!

More Caricatures

Hello everybody, I've uploaded some more caricatures I've been doing this summer. I will soon bring my camera out to events to take pictures of more of my live versions because I did a couple good ones two weeks

ago at the ball

park and at a PNC bank.

This first caricature is my supervisor, Laura, from my summer job, and her granddaughter.

This next caricature is of a librarian and friend of mine, Chris Drowlson, as Gazoo from

the Flinstones.

The next one is my friend Joe, aka Blombro.

The next caricature is a co-worker at my summer job, Janice.

Here is my friend Jacob.

Here is my other friend Leah at the O's ballpark.

The last three caricatures are copies of Robert Bauer's done with

Prismacolor sticks. I'm going to practice more with them.

Well that's it for now, I will soon upload some images from

my upcoming comic, YAY!!!

Caricatures

Here are some caricatures I did this summer thus far...

I'm also working on my Teaching thesis so I'll try to post pics of that soon.

Bye for now

MICA Commencement Show!!!!

Hellooo, it's been awhile, but I'm back. Sorry for the lack of posts, but I have pics from my commencement show that I have been working hard on.

Here are some colored panels....

Here's the setup of my show and me!

Here's the back of the postcard I made for the show.....

and the front

Goodbye....

A new post

Hello everybody, I honestly can't excuse my leave of absence. I have been tied down with finals and been doing a lot of work, but I should still upload my blog, so I apologize. Anyways, for those who read or look at my blog I posted storyboard pics for my upcoming comic, "Bug-Eye," and here are the first inks of those.....

Well that's all I am going to show now. I do have other things like model sheets and concept art i will show some day, but for now I think this will do. P.S I finished penciling half the comic so that is all I am going to work on this year and perhaps another year I will finish the rest of the strip. Hope ya'll enjoy and any feedback would be beneficial.

Happy Holidays!

Heckling Hare Attempt

Hello everyone who checks this blog, I have a new post!

This post is another exercise and I promise that I will soon show updates on my comic and a few other surprises... ;)

Anyways, this exercise is taken from John K.'s website and I always wanted to do it because it looked fun to do, plus Scribner is one of my favorite animators.

Well here it is, first the construction.....

Then the 2nd level of forms

And last but not least the details. (You can click on all these images to enlarge)

Well that's all the work I'm going to post now. I have also been doing caricatures, but I'm still in a slump with those. I feel I got to understand anatomy of the human face more. I also have one last final treat for all my readers and that is one of my favorite comics by the cartoonist Chester Gould, the guy who did Dick Tracy. I think this comic is ahead of it's time because of the loose style of the silhouettes and when I first saw this comic I couldn't believe it was Gould because most of his stuff is usually stocky and overbearing. The last 3 panels are my favorite and I enjoy how the bodies look when they are merged together, it really makes a beautiful shape.

Well that's it and next week I will have more and if you're in Baltimore come to comic con it's coming up, soon I believe, and I hear the line up is sweeeeet!

Quick Post

Hello. I'm still trying to figure out a way to scan some images, but for the mean time I scanned some Howie Post studies I did this weekend. Here they are...

This last image is not a Howie Post study, but a drawing I worked on last year. I'm starting to add color into it with colored pencils and I plan to finish it sometime.

Anyways I have to continue with thesis, getting back to school, yada yada and I will have another post soon, I promise ;)