The Heads Up 5/9/12

So it's been awhile since I've done one of these but I really want to share my thoughts on a new project that I started working on. Basically what I'm working on is a remake of what I consider and what a lot of people would consider my best art work I have done ever since I started posting artwork to the internet.

This is one of the very few pieces of art work I am proud of and it's a fan art piece. It was finished on October 25th back in 2009 so that was about three years ago. I really consider it one of the mile stone pieces for me because it really brought attention when I had my old deviant art account, that is until I left deviant art.

I decided I wanted to re make the piece to see how far my style has gone and who knows this new rendition of this piece maybe the newest best piece.

There are a lot of old art works that I want to remake and give a lot of old characters a new shine because a lot of my old characters have been neglected sadly and their is one piece that I absolutely need to remake to "redeem" myself from a colossal failure back in Spring 2011.

 This is the continued attempt of L.A. getting the recognition he works so hard to obtain in the art community.

School is nearing the end and so I can probably focus on things like animations and comics during my small break before summer class so yeah.

The heads up 4/21/2012

Yeah my attention kind of changed from my comic and animation project to doing the over haul of Lanavi in the piece "Musical Vibes." It has been awhile since I actually worked on some stand alone imagery so I guess it's fine.

I don't normally like revising already finished art work mainly because at the end of the day it's not a new piece of art. I like to give viewers something new and surprising to experience so this is why I don't refer to this current art project as a simply revision but rather an over haul.

So what have I done to the piece so far. well for one I deleted all the color layers and background layers. I fixed her face and changed where she was looking. Along side fixing where she is looking I also did some polish on her eyes in general. I'm still thinking if I should keep her expression or tweak it but yeah. I'm thinking of adding more lines in her hair to indicate hair strands. Her face is is pretty fine so all I need to do was trim things and such but her body I ended up scrapping it altogether and re drew it.

I'm also working on a character for the animation project I really want to do. So yeah.

It's way too late and I need sleep so yeah.

The Heads Up. 4/12/2012 Tired, oh so tired

Late heads up post, but ugh too tired to do drawings. I haven't been sleeping well this whole week and as a result it has been really hard to work on anything really. I've tried to work on Paige Italic's character sheet but I just can't seem to get her the way I want her to look. I guess I have a bit of a art block due to being so tired which sucks because I really want to get the comic started.

Hopefully I can get a good nights sleep this weekend.

I also really need start working on that color contest for Sword Girls.

In other news SkullGirls came out on both PSN and Xbox Live. The game is one amazing fighting game that feels so good. Parasoul is my favorite and I love her walk animation which may sound super odd.

I've also yet again have had this thought about my style. I'm trying to figure out what I'm missing because I just feel that it is, but yeah I think I want to try drawing everyday, doing quick 30 minute sketches daily as well as do some traditional pieces and actually use my Prisma colored pencils.

To tired to think of other things to talk about sorry for now I'm just going to relax, think about the story for Newbie Bounty Hunter and watch some youtube shows.

The Heads Up 4/2/2012

Plans for this week go!

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I guess here is a little screen shot showing how I generally make my guidelines for the body. Oh and this is the second time I did KI-WI's character sheet. The first round was not so good in my opinion and her body just looked off. This one is much better and more true to her previous character illustration here.

First order of business is to finish KI-WI's character as seen above for the comic, and work on the rest of the frequent cast. I think after I get KI-WI done I can start thinking about laying out the first page and getting  the story all ironed out. I already have a good idea as to how I want the story to roll I just need more characters to fit the roles in certain plot lines but yeah. 

I hope to get the prologue chapter all done by the end of this month and when I'm half way or so done with the prologue I will make a web comic site and start posting pages, but first things first I need character references mainly because it's a very good way to keep your artwork consistent especially in comic making since it is typically important that the characters look relatively the same from panel to panel.

Next thing I should consider working on is a personal art piece that has been worked on since June of last year. The issue with this art piece is that I keep learning new techniques and such and I end up editing this piece with all the new stuff I learned. I mainly want to make a top quality illustration out of this piece as to avoid disappointing myself. With that said I feel like I need to re work the background after doing a bit of background study. I need to better refine the line work and stuff.

Oh almost forgot to mention. Sword Girls is holding a coloring contest. I actually want to consider doing it maybe I can get some colorist experience under my belt. I don't plan on being a colorist but it would help to have that skill. Colorist are basically professional artist who color other artist's line work. Usually you see these guys work in comics and stuff.

So in a nut shell, work on and finish KI-WI's reference sheet, start the other Noobie Bounty Hunter character's reference sheet, and work on my personal art piece which I will call "Walking."

Back to work so bye.

The Heads Up 3/21/2012

I've boycotted facebook, but I'm so tempted to update my status there but I know I shouldn't. So I'll do it here. You know I feel a whole lot better know that I don't have to worry about facebook. I'm happy.

My plan is to do this as a weekly thing and I guess maybe on Mondays instead of Wednesdays. So what's going on in my crazy head?

I figured maybe the illustrations I do don't grasp as much interest so start telling my stories. I've been told one of my strengths has been in story telling and the best way I can do that is through comics so let's do it with Noobie Bounty Hunter!

I've pretty much putting all my focus on Noobie Bounty Hunter. I want to start it up as a web comic. Currently I'm working on character reference sheets. I've started with KI-WI since she is the main character after all. I also need to start thinking up some bad guys and such and get a full cast rolling. I'm also thinking about the script for chapter one.

What I plan on doing is maybe get half of or all of chapter 1 done before I start posting that way I can consistently push out content and keep the readership interested while I work on chapter 2, but before I can even start getting a chapter rolling I need to establish the character designs and figure out how the story will roll in both chapters 1 and 2.

As far as characters go, I only have a solid design for KI-WI. Bunny Italics and Gilroy Straightedge still need a design. Of course I also need designs for the antagonists.

So yeah I really, really want this to be legit so I'm going to be working very hard to make this web comic real as well as work on a publishable version of the comic to submit to publishers to, just maybe, get a book deal.

It's time L.A. stepped up and made a name fore myself in the art world!