Thursday, December 8, 2016

December Update, Finishing Storyboard Portfolio, newspaper comics, & more sketches

First  off, I've been pretty bad with update, since it takes up time. But lately I've done quite a lot since October, up to December.
The big storyboard portfolio project is almost being wrapped up. I hope to get the animatic ready, and have the storyboards all finalized (need to put the lyrics on the boards).
For now, you can see the boards right now on my Behance portfolio

Still working on Blue Fire. The newest page should be up on the smackjeeves site, and then Tapastic this Saturday. I managed to keep doing a page almost every 2 weeks. That's not bad, with how much time I've devoted mostly to my portfolio projects.

Speaking of portfolio, I am planning to develop yet ANOTHER portfolio for concept art design. This time with an emphasis on game concept design. Atlanta has become a potential hotspot for multimedia, especially for the game industry.

For a few months, I've volunteered to do comics for the ">Korean Baptist Press of theUSA" 침례신문 . I've been given permission to share the comics online. So here they are.
Now for some sketches. They've been mostly dinosaurs. Raptors, to be exact. I'm trying to get a good grasp of what Rokka would look like. Also trying to grasp the style I would end up drawing Rokka and Eli, if I ever decide to make a short series of comics. I would at least love to make some comic-prose of these two.
One day I had a sudden urge to draw from printed references of raptors, and I think I ALMOST know how to draw their heads.
Been trying to get the right hybrid of toon & anime look. Especially for the 3/4 head view.


Also, despite being mostly a fanart crossover, I had fun drawing Ethelmay and Asmod again. It was fun to explore my own characters in an already established world. I get to see how they would react and respond to the characters that are well-known. Sometimes this process helps me to define and shape my characters, so they'll be ready to star in their own worlds and stories (I don't own characters from "Strange Magic"). There's a detailed description on my deviantart.

Also made an impromptu video about old high-school art in my closet.