Tuesday, January 28, 2014

New Semester New Me

Hello, as I start this critique class, let me tell you a little bit about myself, I am an avid digital artist and am versed in many Adobe products including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. I also dabble with Autodesk Maya and Zbrush, even Blender. I want to tell a story with my art, as I've written a book and want to illustrate it.
This semester I am working on telling my own story with a six page comic that I did last semester, Here is the work in progress and story...

here 

This includes my six page spread of just one little part in my book done in ink washes and tech pens. However, I want to color it this semester. So far, I've only colored one page but want to color all six pages.


My first page completed color comic. Enter my two original characters: Kat and April, they ascend up a dark ominous castle that is floating in the pitch black sky. They are dwarfed by the massive elegant door as it opens of its own accord...more to come!




I also want to showcase my work from other classes that have to do with story, including my character design project in commercial art IV. 





My inspiration includes: 




And...




This is a fantasy/action adventure comic. 



Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Controlled Title

Introduction: 
I'm working on a new book and only have two episodes in so far, however, I cannot stop creating artwork for this book because of the excitement to await!
It is based 1,000 years into the future and tells of a time where genetic perfection is the utmost in society on Earth until it is all changed by the ethics of society, this means no more genetic tampering be commenced. Nevertheless, these new perfect beings feel that the regular, natural born people of society on Earth are inferior and seek a new beginning elsewhere. They build  a new world away from planet Earth and call it Earth-B, a new perfect society with advanced technology and perfect genetic people that are superior in appearance, intelligence, strength and many other attributes that regular human beings lack.
Controlled centers around my main character, James Smith, who is unfortunately born with genetic imperfections, including red eyes and a heart condition, which in this society, would subsequently end in death for him, all for the effort of maintaining the prestige of the society. However, he and many others have went into hiding and have taken measures to cover up their imperfections...
These imperfect beings band together to overthrow the planet and its standards...they wait and they plan.

2012

2014

My character James Smith done in 2012 and 2014. The monster represents the monster within him, the anger and the rage inside him, just waiting to burst out.