The Dark Knight Returns

Pencil and Inks: Drew Zucker

Color: Matt Doering

I had the pleasure recently of working on my first collaborative art piece with my buddy Drew Zucker, a fellow SCAD grad and rising sequential artist. This is our entry for the Dark Knight Returns tribute/competition sponsored by the 2011 New York Comic Con. Selected artists get their piece published in an anthology. I’m so glad Drew asked me to color this piece! He sure did a spectacular job making Batman look epic as hell. Needless to say, it was a fun piece to color, and refreshing to dive back into the comic world for a change. Wish us luck, and take some time to show Drew’s blog some lovin! 

Midterm Comics

Midterms were quite the success despite the late hours and lack of sleep. I penciled these pages for my Speed Sketching class last spring, then I inked and colored them for my digital coloring midterm. We were given the script for "Time Troubling" written by Mark Kneece (the comic scripting professor at SCAD).

Luckily I have this weekend to relax a little bit before the finals frenzy begins.

Midterms

I'm drowning in work! But I'm taking a quick break to update.

Finally this illustration that I've been piddling on for a while now is finally colored and finished. This is one of four pieces that I colored for my Digital Coloring for Comics course. I still have to finish the other three before class tomorrow at 2! Yikes. A day in the life of a SCAD student.

Coloring and Characters

I just finished a coloring piece for my Digital Coloring for Comics class! PLEASE note that the drawings are not mine, but the coloring is! I’m not sure who the original artists are (our professor gave them to us), but they deserve the praise for the beautiful draftsmanship on these works. I deserve the praise for the coloring however. :D

The next image is of Yeti and Molly for my senior project. I’m trying to improve the gestural qualities of my design work as well as overall composition, silhouette structure, and use of straights vs. curves (sorry for using animation/character design jargon).

And now it’s time for a more extensive update…

First and foremost, “Molly and Emma’s Pet Yeti” has been adapted for screen and will now be produced as a 2D animated short film instead of the original concept of self publishing a children’s book (although I may still produce a children’s book in the future). My last few posts have alluded to the creation of a film, but I recently realized that I did not mention this explicitly. So yes I’m creating a film! Holy crap!

The production of the short film is going well so far. I have the great Tyler Kupferer (the creator of the fantastic short film “Duck Heart Teslecoil”) working on the project as my story assistant. I have a producer, hopefully a sound designer, and composer for the film score. We have a production meeting on Sunday to solidify the film treatment, and then storyboards, animatic, and most of the basic concept design needs to be finished in three weeks. Lot’s to do, but I’m enjoying every second of it. I spent most of the summer thinking that creating a senior film was an impossible task. Great thanks go to my roommates for convincing me otherwise. Now that everything is starting to come together and take shape, I’m gaining a lot more confidence that this simple story is actually going to come to life. It’s exciting to have an intense amount of confidence in my work again.

And in other news, I’m going to be entering the Disney Imagineering Imaginations Design competition with three of my friends. This has also kept my adrenaline pumping the past few days. I’ll update more as the project progresses.

Inking and more inking...

Oh boy! Two weeks left until school starts? Where the hell did time go! Well it's been a very busy month since my last post: my internship's done, my parents and I moved my brother to college last week, and now I'm resting at home in West Virgina before heading back to Savannah in two weeks! I've only been home for about a week and I already miss Troy and working at 1st Playable :(

Here's an illustration I've been inking. I did this comic back in the spring for my speed sketching class. I need to have a few comics/illustrations to color for my Digital Coloring for Comics class this fall, and this was among a very limited number of good options to use for that class.

More Yeti stuff to come. Thanks for the helpful suggestions! Definitely agree with a number of the design flaws.

Mutant Orangutan Escapes from Circus!!!

Here's that page I penciled for Speed Sketching. I'll hopefully get time over the summer to ink and paint this. Needless to say, I had way too much fun with this drawing.

Gotham by Gaslight

I'm really exhausted today, because after a wonderfully relaxing and unproductive weekend, I had to play catch up for my sequential art class, having to finish both pencils and inks for our most current project. Here are the final pencils for that assignment. Hopefully after completing my office hours this afternoon, I'll be able to take a quick nap before moving on to my growing mountain of homework I have to complete before Friday. Ugh! Only two more days until the weekend.

The Chickasaw Adventures

I now know what it's like to be in hell, and I sure as hell don't like it one bit. I've struggled this past week like crazy to get my project done for Visual Storytelling 1. This was my first time penciling three pages at once, and I completely underestimated how much time it was going to take to complete them. I actually just finished them about 5 minutes ago and they were due Tuesday. I've been working around the clock, while trying to keep up with my other classes too. I haven't had a good night sleep since last Saturday, and I have a huge pile of laundry to do. Now it's midterms weekend, and I'm going to be slaving the entire weekend on conceptualizing for my short film in Digital Cel Animation while also finishing tutorials, reading mythology, and working on the next set project for Visual Storytelling. Wow I have got to find a better set of working methods.

Anywho! Here are my finished pencils for the Chickasaw Adventures: The bane of my existence.