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Black Carnival #7: “All You’ve Got”

Posted in Fig Art, The Black Carnival, tagged Art, black carnival, cintiq, circus, comic, digital, Drawing, wacom, webcomic on November 7, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Black Carnival #7

Previously

Some notes: I’m going to experiment with how other comics deal with large walls of text. By the end of the fourth panel, I was getting upset that I would draw a whole panel only to have it blocked out by a wall of text (Panel 3). So I either have to be more concise in the writing or experiment and come up with solutions like I did in panel 4.

I normally (try to) participate in National November Writing Month, but this year I decided to do something a little different. Instead of a 1500 words a day, to get to the coveted 50,000 word novel, I’m going to try a panel a day (they do say a picture is worth a thousands words…). I’ve already gotten Black Carnival written up to #16 and I’m very excited for having what’s in store for the story. I’m already several days behind, but that’s not going to stop a man like me.

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Black Carnival #6: “Lady Valora”

Posted in Fig Art, The Black Carnival, tagged Art, bamboo, cintiq, comic, design, Drawing, graphic, wacom, webcomic on October 26, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Previously

Yay another Black Carnival. In this page we introduce Lady Valora who has had a major character redesign since last time I drew concept art of her. And of course our main characters have also gone under another character redesign. As mentioned before, will keep experimenting as I get more and more comfortable with a specific design. More Black Carnival kinda soon. Will probably continue to go at this sluggish pace unfortunately. Too many other things to draw at the same time.

For example, got something cooking up for Halloween. Let’s hope I can make it in time.

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Black Carnival #3: “Distress Signal”

Posted in The Black Carnival, tagged Art, cintiq, comic, Drawing, wacom, webcomic on July 29, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Previously

I love that first panel. I went as far as making it my Twitter Profile image for a while I love it so much. I’m getting the hang of a routine when it comes to drawing these. In the past, I would sketch all four panels, then proceed to inking all four panels, then proceeding to coloring all four panels, etc. But now I am doing one whole panel at a time and I like that a lot better. You legitimately feel the progress and you don’t get burnt out with limited completion. Depending on my schedule Black Carnival #4 might take a little bit longer to finish because it’s a 6 panel page and I want to work on some pin up art.

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The Return of The Black Carnival: Black Carnival #1

Posted in Fig Art, The Black Carnival, tagged Art, black carnival, comic, Drawing on June 26, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Drew some more concept art of my flagship characters for my original series, The Black Carnival. I’m edging towards another reboot/revamp given my newfound time during the summer.

For those interested, here’s a little summary of the starting monologue I plan on using for the series to introduce the premise.

My name is Gillian Akers and this is my Uncle Flynt. Well he’s not really my uncle, he’s a supernatural ‘Guardian Angel’, charged with protecting me from those who intend to hurt me. You see, 3 years ago most of my family was massacred in an attempt to seize the family’s prized possession, ownership of The Black Carnival. I was one of the few survivors and the heavens literally sent help from above to keep me safe from those who want to take my right to one day own it. The Black Carnival is a controlled ‘haven’ for all things dangerous, discarded, and devious. Ownership provides you access to some of the most powerful and dangerous people and beings around. But my whole life I never really cared about that, at least until my family paid the price for it. To help me survive, my Uncle Flynt has trained me as a part of his protection initiative. I intend to use my newfound skills to return to the Black Carnival to find the people who murdered my family. My uncle and I now work as a part of the Black Carnival Sheriff’s Office, occasionally taking out the Carnival’s trash and simultaneously investigating those who tried to take everything away from me. I will work day and night to find them and return the favor.

So how’s the reboot going to work?

We’ll dive into it below. This will include two pieces of concept art about the two flagship characters, the first strip, and a summary of the structure of how the story will be told.

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My Finals Week in Comic Form

Posted in Fig Art, tagged Art, comic, finals week on April 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Finals week is here and it means that I’m very busy and very stressed. I can safely say that this is the last sh*tty semester of my college career, taking an awful 14 hours (which at Georgia Tech engineering = a sh*t ton). There’s no fluff here: senior design, polymer fibers, quantum chemistry, chemical safety, and process control. So now that I have 3/5 of the finals down, I decided to give myself a break and sit in a stiff chair for 2-3 hours and draw. My back hurts and I’m even more tired. I have a weird sense of taking a break.

This comic is about me ‘beating’ the first 3 finals and the last 2 taunting me as I struggle to the finish line. Wish me luck. I’m going in.

That being said: summer is right around the corner and that means more things Banana Scoop.

I’m excited.

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Cilla

Posted in Fig Art, The Black Carnival, tagged Art, cintiq, comic, Drawing, wacom on February 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Cilla is a character from my Black Carnival series.

A couple of notes about this piece

I’m experimenting with the shading technique I’ve been trying in the most recent page of the Black Carnival page. I’m not so sure how I feel about it, it certainly does make the piece pop in a different way.
Some weird clothes or bodily disproportions aren’t hidden hints about her character, I’m just way to lazy to fix them and it’s getting late.
Cilla might be one of my favorite characters.
She likes pink.
She does not mess around.
She’s largely inspired by Mikasa from Attack on Titan
What does that yellow slip of paper say? Lol I’m not into spoilers. I definitely had to look it up. I’ll give you a hint, it’s written in Japanese [I think…].
Expect the next few pieces to be drawn in a similar way.

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Black Carnival Pages 4 & 5

Posted in Fig Art, The Black Carnival, tagged Art, comic, Drawing on February 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »

As promised Black Carnival pages 4 & 5. Page 4 is the cover and page 5 is the next page in the chapter.

Your powers of observation are intact, page 4 is in color and page 5 is in black and white. As stated before, I considered the idea of going black and white and I’ve decided to go forward with the idea as I continue to getting used to Manga Studio (MS). MS is a complex program, used by professionals, with many tools that can cut the busy work I had to deal with in Photoshop, but still requires time to learn and effectively use them. As exhibited from page 5, the quality is certainly not as high as some of my previous pages done in Photoshop, but I’ve learned a number of cool tips and tricks that will show improvement over time.

I’m not entirely abandoning color though, because I think it truly does bring pages to life and I enjoy experimenting with depth and the like. The covers and future art profiles are being used to explore coloring and shading under Manga Studio. As soon as I am more comfortable with coloring and full page writing, sketching, and drawing, I’ll move the pages into more color.

I’m going to use this opportunity to work on shading and perspectives while trying to portray the story as well. Enjoy and feel free to add some input as to the direction I’m heading in. More is on the way.

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Getting Caught Up on the Latest Three Volumes of the Walking Dead Comic

Posted in Books, tagged AMC, book, carl, comic, graphic novel, image, michonne, rick grimes, robert kirkman, The Walking Dead on February 5, 2014| 2 Comments »

Something to Fear. What Comes After. March to War. These are the names of the three latest volumes on the shelf of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead comic. The names themselves are fairly cryptic, marking some of what I’ve read to be incredible set ups to The Walking Dead’s most memorable villain since the Governor. Almost two years ago, I got my first two comic books for Christmas: The Walking Dead Compendium Volumes 1 & 2. They were both 1000 pages long, and I absolutely crushed through them in a manner of a week. The Walking Dead holds a close place in my heart as the first comic I’ve read and has recently inspired madness in collecting as many comics and graphic novels as possible.

It was very fitting that two years later on Christmas 2013, I obtained the three recent volumes of the The Walking Dead after the 2nd Compendium ended on. I finally got around to finishing these three and I got so gleeful that I simply had to write about all the feelings I’m feeling.

An incredible new villain
More dying of favorite characters
Introduction and Reinforcement of Awesome Newer Characters
New revelations

So below are summaries and feelings of what I’ve been reading through.

Major Spoilers of The Walking Dead Comic Series to Follow

You’ve been warned.

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The Black Carnival Page 3

Posted in Fig Art, The Black Carnival, tagged Art, carnival, comic, Drawing on January 29, 2014| 2 Comments »

A couple of notes about this page. Admittingly this is not one of my best pages. I was in a rush to get this done by today and I phoned in a lot of parts. The biggest law defying part of nature [from aside of the typos and unreadable font] is definitely Gillian’s right boob, which I apologize for haha. I had only noticed how off it looked as I begun shading and I admittingly said ‘fck that’ and kept it because I was on a deadline. I’ve been mismanaging my time lately, what with getting accustomed to school and such [my senior design class is killin’ me]. However I’m currently more focused on quantity of quality at the moment because I’m training myself continuously to have a mindset of not letting things go under the rug. I’m hoping it’ll teach me to manage my time better and the like.

All that being said, that concludes the prologue to the Black Carnival! Next week we’ll start the real show [or at least the cover page to the real show haha.]

At some point, I may transition from Photoshop to Manga Studio for my comic making. I’m getting bogged down quite a bit with formatting and the like and I’ve heard Manga Studio can rapidly optimize what I’m aiming for. Of course I have to learn Manga Studio, so it’ll take some time first to do so. I’m telling you this because [while I hope it doesn’t happen] there might be a break sooner or later where I test do a page in Manga Studio. Anywho, just some general news.

Thanks for reading everyone, feel free to point out all the continuity mistakes and typos below! Or if you have any real questions or concerns, feel free to throw those in as well!

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The Black Carnival 2: The Devil’s Breath

Posted in Fig Art, tagged Art, comic, Drawing on January 22, 2014| 2 Comments »

Things are moving along faster. I’m finding quicker ways to do some of the more mundane things. The story will keep running!

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Universidaze: Never Thought It’d End This Way

Posted in Fig Art, tagged adobe, comic, Drawing, Entertainment, funny, Illustration, illustrator, photoshop, web on August 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Sadly, this is the last Universidaze comic I’ll publish in a long time. As school looms closer and closer, I know I need to give up some of the responsibilities I’ve given myself when it comes to this blog. And after evaluating some of the cost/profit aspects of this blog, Universidaze simply takes too much time for it to be worth it. If I were a free lance artist who could dedicate his one post a week to Universidaze, it would be doable. But balancing the 2-4 hour drawing process with 24 other articles a week is simply going to make this blog bleed.

The adventures of Chad and Miles seem to be over for now. It’s such a shame, considering I’ve grown very fond of the two of them and I feel as though I could’ve done so much more. The Universidaze tab will remain here for all those who wish to go back and read some of the older comics. I plan on playing around with the hyperlinks and making the page much nicer as a final send off. But who knows, maybe they’ll survive the crash. Maybe they’ll make a comeback. We can only wish and dream.