WOLVES by BECK CLOONAN - VIDEO REVIEW

So this is Becky Cloonan's WOLVES. You can purchase the book HERE on her website. Its $5 USD, why won't you want a copy??? If you're really tight on your cash, there is a digital copy version by GRAPHICALLY for $0.99. WHAT SAY YOU? 99 cents!!! Her next upcoming comic THE MIRE, is also available for pre-oder now. The normal edition is $5 USD also and the special edition (I called it special because its SPECIAL) comes with a sketch and its only $25 USD. It is scheduled to come out in May 2012.

*On my last video review my lovely girlfriend pointed out a few mistakes on my weird accent. I'm gonna try my best and work on Ma SPEECCHHHH~~~ Hope you guys Enjoy~~

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THE ART OF URBAN SKETCHING, With Video Commentary

Hi guys, this is my first video commentary book review. Bare with the English, hopefully it'll get better down the road! I hope you guys like it. I highly recommend this book. It is Gorgeous. A Must Have if you're an artist.

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Red Riding Hoodie In Da Making

Voila, I'm working on my next new ink assignment. We were told to do mainly line work with no shading/texture/cross hatch. But at the same time, We had to show depth and style. So this is what I'm working on. We have 2 to do over this weekend but I'll probably do a few more illustrations. This one in particular is 11 by 17 inch. All done with a Winsor Brush and some touch up with Microns. I did two sketches and overlay the Bristol on top of a light box for the finishing ink.

Finished Ink done in Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable Water Colour Brushes 2.0.

11 by 17 Bristol Board Vellum 300 Series.

Initial Concept Sketch

Layout and Details Sketch

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Bakuman, バクマン Series COMPLETE. Highly Recommended

In the November of 2008, I started following the new comic series by Tsugumi Ohba and artist Takeshi Obata who were the creators of DEATH NOTE. These two artist wrote/drew a new comic about (guess what?) comics! The series talks about two 14 years old Mangaka and Writer working towards a dream. And one of them had a pledge with a beautiful classmate: The pledge was, if their comic becomes an anime eventually and if she becomes the voice actor of that anime, they will both get married. 

The series wasn't a typical battle manga, but had the density and weight of one. (Battles between Mangakas competing in Shonen Jump Magazine) It had distinct characters throughout the series. The dialog and emotions were really well written and drawn. It showcase the struggles of an artist and writer and how fans affected their work and life. Most importantly, it was around the time where I decided to get back to art which probably meant that it spoke to me much much more. I've been a fan and have all the books until volume 7 right before I came to the States. At times when I was low, this book encourage me of what it takes to become an artist, in particular, a comic artist. 

If you haven't read about the series, don't know about it, I highly recommend that you give it a try. There is romance, friendship, hard work, passion, pain, politics and most importantly, reality in this comic. The whole series is still available online dubbed by fan subs but I highly encourage you buy the book and support the artist. 

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Inking Techniques (With Progress)

Hi guys, so my journey down the inking road is still on going and I've decided to take work in progress shots as I was finishing this one up. For this illustration, I work slightly different, I had a few different photo reference to make up the whole illustration and I wanted to do a kind of fish-eye "look". 

As some of you guys know, normally I'll sketch out my base with the Col-erase Blue pencil but this time round, I decided to test my hands and go straight into the finished work while piecing the reference together. As you can see in the illustration, I also left out the spot blacks as I go along drawing. Every time when I need to dip my brush into the black inks to "refill", instead of brushing away the inks onto a piece of paper to get it to the "right" amount of ink for a fine line work, (as seen on the piece of scratch paper in some of the pictures) I brush them off in the spot blacks now. So then I save up my inks! Hope you like it!!!

Work in Progress

Finished Ink done in Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable Water Colour Brushes 2.0.

11 by 17 Bristol Board Vellum 300 Series.

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Back To Google SketchUp

Last Year about this time, I was very much into Perspective and Background drawings. I have a HUGE (and I really mean huge) amount of love for Background. That was the first time I got introduced to Google Sketchup. I did some Props Design HERE. So today, I thought I'll go back and do a simple Sketchup Study/refresher by creating a simple temple model. So here I am!

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9 by 12 Inch Traditional Inks in Crow Quill and Winsor Series 7 Brush

Here's the traditional inks that I did over the span of 2 weeks as seen from HERE and HERE. Time to sleep. Hope you guys like it.

Done in Crow Quill 102 Nibb

Done in Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable Water Colour Brushes 2.0

Done in Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable Water Colour Brushes 2.0

Done in Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable Water Colour Brushes 2.0

Done in Crow Quill 102 Nibb

Done in Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable Water Colour Brushes 2.0

Done in Crow Quill 102 Nibb

Done in Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable Water Colour Brushes 2.0

Done in Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable Water Colour Brushes 2.0

Done in Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable Water Colour Brushes 2.0

Done in Crow Quill 102 Nibb

Done in Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable Water Colour Brushes 2.0

Done in Crow Quill 102 Nibb

Done in Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable Water Colour Brushes 2.0

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9 by 12 Inking obsessions.

My new quarter resolution as of late is to improve my inking abilities in the traditional sense. This is one hella great exercise where you use a Crowquill or traditional Brush to do a series of ink drawings. In our practice, we illustrate 7 different drawings: 1 still life, 1 portrait, 1 exterior of a building, 1 figure in an interesting dress,  1 animal, 1household object and 1 imaginary character. Here are my blue pencil sketches before the actual inks.

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Portfolio Preparations + Game Over Proof Copy!

This week has been so overwhelming. First off, next week I'll have an interview for a potential internship. I'm not gonna talk about which company it is, right now I just hope everything goes smoothly as planned. Secondly, Our GAME OVER ANTHOLOGY book has arrived! Well only the proof copy but the fact that I just saw the physical copy is really overwhelming. Its like seeing your own creation coming alive! 

Here's the cover

For the first time, my finished comic pages!

More of my comic pages!

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Portfolio Video Update and Inking Practices

Hey everyone, have been really busy this week! This quarter I'm taking some really intensive studio and history classes. The great thing is, I'll be focusing all my efforts on inking traditionally so hopefully after this quarter, I'll have a stronger/better inking style for my comic and illustration. Here's one of my portrait drawing that I've inked. I can't show you the finish artwork cos I'm only getting those back next week. But reassure, I'll be doing a lot of inking practice on my own particularly using CROLLQUILL and BRUSHES. I'm so excited! Also, I've put together and printed a new portfolio flatbook! Check the Video below!

My weird crazy self portrait!

 

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