At School (The Jogger)

Phew. Well Midterms are over, and halloween is approaching, can't wait! Also new a new AMC series is coming out called The Walking Dead, as I'm currently into anything that involves shooting zombies at the moment I will be watching this show religiously.
Anyway, Yeah I've been neglecting this blog... I need to post more regularly... this is all my new work I've done at school for midterms, I'm gonna be uploading the documented process as well Piece by piece as the process takes a while. Hope you enjoy. :)

Original Pencil work



Then I scan that and idividually ink each object in a seperate layer



Then I place them where I want, and erase the excess lines, giving me my final line work



Color (I do not have a set process for my colors as yet)

New Page in progress

Well, the next image is underway, this one has been driving me nuts. I couldn't figure out a good composition for this scene, but I think this one will do. Im planning to be more in depth with my step by step process, so for this one I'm gonna try to be more thorough.


These are my first sketches, two different angles of the same image, again not really that detailed, its more of a general "mapping out" I haven't included the figures for simplicity's sake. Basically whats going to be going on here is they have hit a reef or a rock, and the boat is sinking, so they are basically shipwrecked on this atoll.


This is a little more fleshed out line plan, I've included the figures in their general stance. I have the father upset about the sinking boat while his wife consoles him and the two children on the right awaiting instructions on what to do next.


This would be my color plan for this image.

More to come, I'm really not in the mood to work on this anymore for today. Taking a break and will tackle the rest of this image tomorrow.

On the Boat

Alright today I finished the second illustration, which isnt exactly page 2, I'm not really illustrating in order of events so here we go.


So yes, as per my imaginary contract I made with my viewers here's the work in progress.


Initial Sketch

Yeah so I realise this is a terrible first sketch lol, this is seriously the "meat and potatoes" of this image, (if I submitted this for one of my classes I probably would of gotten zero points for it lol) we have a big triangle that represents the boat and the 2 kids, then two versions of the beginnings of the mother, with a rejected thumbnail for a head where I finally decided to put her. Sometimes this is how the ideas come lol, all mixed up in a scrappy page you don't think will work, but by the time your brain starts working you can envision the rest perfectly so there's no more need for pencil and paper, just scan and go with it...and thats exactly what I did.

Neatened lines in blue via photoshop

Added in seagulls, finalized the location of mommy, Added in a neat cool awesome flying fish in the immediate foreground SHITYEAH!

So Yes, at this point im feeling rreeeeally reeeeally good about myself, took a break to play some team fortress 2 and go to sleep.



Hahaha ok Back to work. So yes, step three was the color and light layout splotches.

So I realise I didn't really indicate a light source in this stage, that was because I figured "Hey they're outside, light is everywhere right? WRONG...well kinda, yes theres light everywhere but the sun is always in a specific location and that influences the shadows. So realising this I just worked in the sun source in after I did these color splotches. I always work back to front therefore the sky and the sea were done first, so it was an easy fix. I'll show more detail on that in my next update.

Then the final

Bye Pets

Ok the first page is finished. Really happy with how this came out!





This is the work in progress


This is my initial sketch/ thumbnail


Then I take that small sketch, blow it up on photoshop, and do a bigger rendering of it in blue, with more detail and cleaner line work. (The cat was done in red because it overlapped the old woman and if it were in blue it would of confused me greatly when I went into color mode lol)


Then I zoom out all the way from the image and do a color mock up test. Just with splotches in the general area, so I can get a feel for where all the colors are gonna be, and where my light source is coming from. It also helps me get started by having big splotches of paint and i just mix and manipulate, workng big to small. (beats the overwhelming feeling of empty space)


*Yeah I removed the table and vase from the final because I didn't want them anymore lol


And there you have it. Just further adding subtracting and finessing and before I know it I end up with my final