More Eruti doodles and a training montage

I really need to be better with updating my sketches. But any way here are the stuff I drew during whatever free time I had. My hours have changed due to me moving to another store.

If there is one thing that helps, it's a fantasy play list I compiled on my phone. Definitely need to get more orchestral soundtrack, or songs in different languages. 

Here, I just played with action poses. I can't seem to draw loose at all. That's something I need to work on.

 Some more dynamic poses. Ethelmay and Asmod make a decent duo.

Now, these are stuff for "Blue Fire". At first I just drew her randomly in her usual attire, which is her outfit without the chimma (skirt). Then I started spitting ideas of little Yeoung Hy training under her grandpa. Somehow she convinced her grandfather that she's capable enough to fight. Her grandfather and several ancestors have served as fighters and soldiers.

 I'm wondering if maybe grandpa would take a few months in the woods to train her, or take certain days away into the wilderness to train and teach other skills that would build her up. I think it would take a few years to build her up.

Now also, a business card I designed arrived last Saturday. The client already had everything done, such as the logo and info. But I was given a chance to offer another opinion. Out of all the other motifs in the background, she liked the polka dots the best. Hmm...I guess I shouldn't say I designed anything at all. More like recreate it. I've been a lot of that lately. It's usually editing, revising, or preparing something for production and printing.

 Lately, I feel like I'm making excuses not to work on anything. Last week, I discovered that comic and writing hybrids are known as Comic-Prose. It made me think that doing Comic-Prose would be best for Eruti. There are so many stories I want to tell with Ethelmay and Asmod, that I don't want to leave them out. I'm going to do a few experiments to see how this goes. Funny, that was what I planned on doing with Phantom's Confidante, until I cancelled it.

Comic Shoutout for Miss Marvel and Ghost Rider, and a new original piece of art.

Now first off, I caved and HAD to get these comics.
After hearing on tumblr about the new muslim-american Ms Marvel, I was intrigued. That was many months ago. After finding them at my local barnes & nobles, I finally found them. And also, recently last week I stumbled upon the new Ghost Rider comic.

All I got to say, I love the new Ghost Rider and the art is really dynamic and kinetic. So far there's only 1, and I hope they keep the same artist. I love Robbie as a character, and he's such a good big brother. He only wants his little brother to be safe in the sketchy and dangerous town he lives in. He also has a good sense of moral standards, until dons that flaming skull and punches the snot out of some thugs.

Kamala as Ms Marvel is a great and relateable character. She's a Marvels fangirl who writes fanfics, and just wants to fit in and live normal. Families all have their thing and can function differently, no matter what religion. It's really refreshing to see more diverse representation. I got to love her more in the 2nd comic, especially in how she handles a situation with inspiring other lost teenagers that they can make a difference. Plus, I like the art style as well. I find myself buying comics and manga as inspiration and references on making comics. It's really refreshing to have physical reminders that teach me that there's no one way to draw, color, or write comics.

Comics are rated T+ so I wouldn't recommend it to children (unless your child understands what date rape is and the context of selling drugs or using super pills for monster strength).

Now that I've finished this recommendation, I'd like to present to you, an original work for Eruti. I really do need to make more original art. This was an excuse to try out 1 tutorial, and try out another that I had failed in the past.

If you'd like more information, I've posted it on deviantart, along with a full description. The tutorials I'm referring to is this lightning tutorial and this person's coloring.

Also, starting tomorrow (more like upcoming morning) I'm going to be committing more on graphic design and print jobs at a different UPS store. So I'm kind of excited. I'll get some good experience to be proud of on my resumé.

Material for Beeswhacks site layout

So this is going to be a dumping ground for all of my material for the Beeswhacks website layout. So that means you'll find this post updated from time to time.
DO NOT USE!
If you wish to use it, contact me first and then we'll discuss over it.
Please, not cool using people's stuff without permission.

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Beeswhacks Under Construction and more sketches

 Yes it's pretty obvious what this means. I'm actually going with Beeswax. This will be my prototype to future webcomics. Because I definitely want to make one for my anthology of short stories. I never knew trying to customize your website in Smackjeeves was infuriating. I don't want to use the default templates "as they are", so I'm looking up stuff to figure out how to change the color of a background and the font. Really maddening. Until then, I'm holding off of posting actual comics for Beeswhacks.

Now for some sketches that I really need to update on time.

 I'm thinking of either working on the "Blue Fire" short, or this post-apocalyptic story of my mercenary mutant rat. This was another idea that got scrapped for that Shonen Jump Manga contest, because I didn't like the idea of giving away this character unintentionally. I seem to be bad at drawing rats, or I'm so obsessed with making the rat look cute yet anime-ish, without looking like a wolf.

 Some more rat practices. And oddly a coyote down below.

Tried to draw some sketches for Eruti, just to get used to drawing them more. I've been out of practice lately. And now I'm regretting on taking pictures at night with dim lighting.

next are some sketches I did for the characters for my design portfolio (which I still have yet not touched)

 I don't know, I seem to be taking this serious approach with realism, and that clearly doesn't work well.

 Drawing this woman getting up for work. My brother thought this was "Tip" from Dreamworks "Home". Well they have nearly the same hair.

Beeswhacks name change and preparing for launch

So yes, I am planning on launching Beeswhacks, and yes I have changed at least the spelling of the title. It seemed more clever, rather than using Beeswax. Plus it's a fun play on homonyms.
This is the result, just gotta decide which font to go with.

Before that, I ended up sketching rough details of how I would arrange my site.

Now I'd like your opinion, which font should I go with? The top colored image ranges from 1-4, left to right. Once I get this ready, I'm going to try and crank out 1 comic weekly. Eruti is really on hiatus until I'm ready. Meanwhile, I'm going to take Faith Erin Hicks' tip and just make comics. So I'm going to plan on drawing short-story comics first.

Doodle: Letting her out

I got inspired to just "draw" and draw as much as possible to prevent myself from going stale after doing nothing but writing and typing up the plot for Eruti, and working on a fan-animation. Was listening to this week's ArtCast with Chris Oatley, interviewing Eric Canete. I was blown away at the sheer amount of drawings this guy did almost every day, and I loved how they were these gorgeous and dynamic ink on paper drawings. I realized I have been rather idle with art-making, but I've also been frustrated with the lack of direction I have, and almost having no wish or passion to pursue so many of the projects I have. It makes me wonder if I need to break away from comics and manga and try different things. I wonder if storyboards are a good match for me.

But anyway, I haven't drawn this character after so long. She was originally an OC in this cancelled phan-comic/phan-fic. Now I can't get the idea of her jamming out on her guitar, but using her newly acquired magic that allows her to alter the sound of her guitar and literally summon surround- sound for other instruments. She knows she's not a good singer, but where her actual voice fails her, she can allow her hands and fingers to do the singing. Argh there are days when I literaly wish I could vomit all the artsy good stuff in my brain in burried in the farther realms of my brain.

Artist Aliases-go real or keep it separate?

I came around making a new icon, because I've been thinking of making business cards for myself. That and I really do need to work on a portfolio website. But anyway, I do intend to go to conventions and get a table. So now it brings me to this question: Do I keep using the alias inyuji? or use my real name? Or use them both?

Here's the reason why. Initially I wanted to use my real name for more professional and original work, and inyuji as my fanart, online and personal, and conventional alias. After a lot of looking into my favorite artists, comic artists, and content creators, and came up with this list

• Keep an online alias and go by that only
• still go with their deviantart name and still rock
• use real actual name
• make a name based on their actual name because it's too long to say  
• Use a pseudonym but still list their actual name on their bio or card or twitter 
• keep a pseudonym for more personal and fanart, and use real name or studio name for original or professional work
• Make a studio name and list their name

Now I got some advice from some one of the animators who works on the netflix series "Archer" and she says it really is up to the artist, but also ask "what do you want to do?" In all honesty, I think I've become too attached to my deviantart name, and have used it quite a lot, especially in my short cartoons. I like entertaining people and making people laugh with my art,comics, and cartoons. But I actually want to be taken seriously as an artist as well. I love cartoons, but I know I'm capable of other projects as well. For a while, I had been thinking of doing what Yamino does. She uses Yamino, but still lists her real name in her portfolio. I don't think I'll mind using Ji "Inyuji" Eom on my portfolio.

Perhaps it's this paranoia and fear of people from the past coming back to haunt me once they see my "actual" name posted on comics or any work, and they felt insulted or claim that I had no right to use their image or resemblance in any character. But I might as well just suck up and own what I do. 

Aside from that, it's time for some past due doodles.

First off, I've made a new icon avatar for myself. 

The first one is the one I've been using most. 2nd one is the new one, and I plan on using this for my future portfolio website. 3rd one was something I had made for myself, but I'm not sure if I want to use this.

And I present to you some "bad" drawings. The reason "bad" is because I don't like them. But a fellow artist on tumblr posted an uplifting and liberating post, to not fear crappy drawings. In the end, it's my learning process, and should not be hated or feared. It's okay to make mistakes. The one on the left, I was testing out my new brush pen, but forcing myself to make more decisive lines...didn't work well. Right page is possible new outfit for Ethelmay after suffering a rather traumatic point in her life. That and exploring a little more vicious side of her.

 Below is the ugliest drawing I've made, all because I braved drawing with my left hand only. This is probably the 2nd time I've drawn mainly with the left. But rather than scrap it, I decided to stick with it to the end. I really have very little control over pen pressure.

 Here I went back with my right. Tried out another way of drawing heads and faces, but it doesn't seem to fit with the way I'm used to drawing human heads.

Ah yes, I've finished another beeswax comic. Now I'm wondering if it's time to make an actual website for Beeswax. Well, hopefully I'll be more confident and make my decision on how I present myself as an artist. But for now, for any of those going through the whole "unemployment" spell, hang in there.

Oh yeah, it seems like I'm not good at learning on my own with this Magic Box Academy. But I'm not going to quit it just yet.

Anyway, that's it for now. 

Also, I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the whole "Pseudonym vs real name" for artists.