Faith Based Initiative

Here are a couple of snips from an upcoming comic compilation and exhibition. It's a 5 page autobiographical piece written by Olga Feliciano for her Graphic Novel Creative Writing class at UH. Because I heard they were gonna exhibit the comic pages I decided to go with a large format 15x23 size on some nice illustration bristol. Unfortunately, they opted to print out and blow up the completed pages with the text and everything, so I worked on this large format for pretty much nothing. But I ain't buggin'. The pages turned out beautiful and I can't wait to see how the printed book looks. 100 copies will be given out at the show on a first come first serve basis. Come out and see this work Monday from 6-8, here are the details. 
And here are a couple of snips of two pages. It deals with a loss of faith, a lapsing of Catholicism, due to passing of a loved one from AIDS. Powerful stuff. The story spoke to me because I was raised Catholic and all the melancholy imagery of the church was a not an alien thing. Neither was praying and praying to no answer. So it was a perfect fit.

Select panels:

Sketchbook Warrior

Not much work is post worthy these days, but I've been drawing some cool shit in my sketchbook.

 

because androgyny is fun.

 

face off with the zombie king

 

flattened cats and piled-high newspapers: portrait of a lady from the show Hoarders

 

Ugly Link battles the infamous gorgon Medusa. Concept sketch from the forthcoming game I'm designing Zelda: The Legend of Ugly Link

Return of the King

And it's back!...the Original Layout. In case you're just tuning in for the last month and half I had a dynamic view set up on this piece, testing out possibilities of using this as an online portfolio thingy as opposed to an obvious blog format. Ideally, I would like to just have everything in one place and be done with the shit with a few clicks of a post. You know, between a "Professional Online Portfolio" and a working art blog, trying to combine them shitz. But it doesn't quite work out like that when my a portfolio includes my silly rantings like this or the Not Safe for Work work to potential, nee big wig corporate clients. I was hoping maybe it would, but we're not quite there yet. Anyhoo, I felt the whole format was a bit sterile and I never felt welcome to just post new stuff, or sketches or share anything. And so now here we are.
Been busy the month (such a cliche phrase nowadays). Projects are major but for private/secret clients so until further notice I can't really reveal anything. Hold up, let me check. In the meantime, check out these unseen Screw Comics! #3 shots (unseen if you haven't 'Liked' the FB page).

The Stuff of Legends

Last two commissions of the week, both consisting of legendary people, both as Americans and in Black history. But Black History month was last month, even though it should be ongoing all year round. Anyway, this first piece is a retelling of that iconic image of Ella Fitzgerald singing in the booth with Louie Armstrong.

16x20 on watercolor paper

This next piece features 3 legendary retired boxers. Originally the aim was for a more comic book approach, possibly with superhero outfits and what not. But, I thought about it and I thought how different it would be to relate them to the characters from the classic side-scrolling brawlers Streets of Rage/Final Fight. I'm a fan of those games and I saw it fitting to dress them up to take to the streets and clean up the scum of the city. 

 

10x16 on watercolor paper.

At the time of scanning my scanner wasn't picking up the color correctly. Imagine the white in the image coming out as a light blue. Yeah, it was a nightmare having to readjust the colors. Okay, maybe not a nightmare, but it's annoying when the technology doesn't do what's supposed to.

In other news, I made an important connection so I expect more work coming down the pipeline starting next week. High profile stuff. watch and see!