May 012014
Carja
Apr 302014
It’s Wednesday and my workplace is open (this was an issue yesterday due to the power going out). Time to post a mash-up and then go to work.
When there’s trouble, you know what to do…
CALL CYBORG!!!
He can shoot a rocket from his shoe…
CUZ HE’S CYBORG!!!
It’s Barnaby’s turn to shine this week (cuz he’s metal, get it?)! Sometimes the proportions of my characters make it challenging to reproduce poses. Most character designs (including the Teen Titans) start wide at the shoulder and narrow at the waist. My characters have no shoulders to speak of and wide waists. If the character I’m covering has shoulder pads or something along those lines (like Cyborg does) it makes it a little easier. As always, you can click on the picture to enlarge it.
That’s all for this week. Next week’s Titan will be the leader of the bunch. If you’ve seen this Monday’s blog, you know who it is. If not, you could go and check the blog out, cuz I sure ain’t gonna spoil it here! 😉
Apr 292014
Apr 282014
How terrible is it that I’m referring to myself as an “it”? Nah! I’m just funnin’ ya! By saying “it” rather than “I’m” I automatically convey the vibe I want, which is Mad Scientist, rather than I dunno…Ralph Wiggum.
ANYHOO
Did some strip writing yesterday for strips 287 through 292. Every strip I write which isn’t the conclusion to this storyline just makes me realize that much more how insane I was to think that I could ever fit this arc into a three-month period from September to November. I’m EIGHT months in, I’ve drawn or scripted another two months worth of strips and I’m still not at the endgame. I may be looking at a 12 month storyline all told. I look forward to the day when I can read it from beginning to end and see how it plays out as a whole.
Saturday I used Photoshop to design some postcards to hand out on Free Comic Book Day. That’s next Saturday for those of you who enjoy free comic books. It’s something I’d been thinking about for a while figuring I had loads of time to get something ready and then I got a message from Fab on Saturday about going to FCBD and it was like, “Whoa! That’s next weekend!” Staples’ website says I need to allow five to ten business days for my order to be printed. I’m hoping like heck it’s only five otherwise it’ll be too late for FCBD.
I do have the postcards I ordered (too late) for Comiccon last year though, so I won’t be completely empty-handed. Lest you think I didn’t learn ANYTHING from that experience, I did remember to design something for the back of the postcard this time. Last time, I assumed that these being “postcards” the back would be split like a standard mailing postcard (half for the recipient’s address and half for a brief message), and not just completely blank. Knowing that I could use the back for anything, I designed my postcards with a colour print for the front and an ink print for the back. The last three aren’t as elaborate as the others but I still wanted to represent Marvel, Star Trek and Star Wars somehow. Astute readers will notice that there’s a preview of the last three Titans mash-ups in the DC design. Sadly I only remembered after my order was sent that I should have done one for my Oonchiana Jones poster as well, but oh well. That’ll be one for next year!
FRONTS
So if you drop by Zone 51 this Saturday you may have one of these nifty designs to add to your free swag. Assuming I get my order in. Otherwise, you can look forward to a Todrick is Jericho or Codex Sass card.
Apr 252014
I was in the sleep zone. I didn’t want to wake up this morning. But here I am all the same. Let’s try to get past this with a flashback, alright? Cool.
Whenever I sit down to draw a flashback the first thing I do is look back at which characters have been featured the least and then choose which themes those characters have left to be revisited to decide what I most want to draw. This week it was Sass’s turn and I chose to do her G.I.Joe flashback.
I briefly dallied with the idea of switching characters for Sass’s flashback. I thought I might go with a more recent addition to the Joe team, Agent Helix. I thought I might be able to do something nice with that costume but there was no artwork I wanted to base myself on for it, so I decided to stick with Lady Jaye. Lady Jaye’s original action figure wore a cap. In the cartoon, they decided, for the better, to ditch that element. I drew Sass first without the cap, but then to better reflect the card art, I added a layer for the cap. I like her better without. What do you think?
As has become the tradition, here’s Lady Sass’s action figure card.
And finally, the comparison piece with the original mash-up.
That’s all for this week’s trip down memory lane. Next week, Big Oonch is going to have some kind of sci-fi mumbo jumbo for us.
