Jowy shenanigans 3/9/14

Value speed paintings of two areas within my crazy mad world both exist in the same city called Ramusville which is one of many city hubs I have designed over the years for my characters.

Two of them are seen in the top sketch Jowy and Max Holinder 

Some Jowy Shenanigans 3/3/13

Oh boy I have had my head in the gunsmiths manga that I started reading four days ago that I have not done as much work as I wanted too but I managed to at least do some more drawings of my characters today to make up for lost time.

I did some more development of the humanise.com comic yesterday starting on the page layouts. Then sent the rest of the day reading some more of Kenichi Sonodas Gunsmith cats because its that good and engaging in my opinion. I would say it’s got a similar cinematic quality of story telling to Katshurio Otmos Akira but a little more cute and funny.

Sonodas also a big gun and car fan so there’s lots of really cool drawings and poses for these two objects in the manga as well.

Manga can do this to me when I get super invested in the story and visuals sorry if that’s not much of an update but its new week and a new mind.

anyway until a better post LATERS ; )

I went GunSmith CRAZY last week 

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Jowy new Shenanigans 10/1/13

Smart way to open a new post of the year i used to think i dressed up as my dad wearing a suit 

Hello again all I know is being while since I posted any decent sized blog updates I left this blog in the dark since November just before the comic convention up in Leeds after that I just ignored it. Now is a good time as any to explain to you what exactly is going on with me.

Just before the New Year i started keeping a dairy and sending out my résumé to many different job sites and potential clients so it keeps the job centre off my back and keeps me feeling productive. After finishing university last year I had started to realize the importance of keeping a schedule taking it in small chunks each day not swallowing the whole thing. Because in my experience my motivation is limited the next day if I do that.  So far this month I have being applying to a couple competitions, putting my work out on red bubble even making one of my designs in to a t-shirt and ordering it to see what the quality is like. 

Outside of general job and work hunting there are currently three personal projects that I have been doing to stop me dying of boredom. I believe I have mentioned northing about being a brony on here well I have being one since 2011 and done a fair share amount of pony art. But since November I have been designing 90s inspired title cards for the cartoon My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. I have had a lot of watchers and views on my deviantart and meet some new awesome people over skype because of them . 

So I tend to spend my free time on this. I may post up some of them on this blog as I consider some of them illustrations in their own right and I have learned a bit more about digital painting from this work.

The Comic Humanised .Com my dear father and me started back in October

Was put on hiatus during Christmas. but now i start work on it in 2013 freshly minded hoping to get some completed pages before the end of the year and the next comic convention. We do have a rough script put together but I need to look over the development I had done for it so far to begin the flow of creativity again this is a very ambitious project me and my dad want to make a reality.

The furthest we got up to was the cast of characters their designs and a page layout 

My Character Jowy that has been my avatar since forever next to my bean character has had cartoon and comic ideas done before but never returned to. But before 2013 I have started developing some back stories and a universe that will incorporate Jowy and friends and feature all the fantasy worlds characters that I dreamed and imagined when I was young kid.

I have had an unbelievable amount of creative energy surrounding the many possibilities of this world of mine its essentially going to be a juxtaposing of everything I love about life mixed in to one universe. Like humanised.com but from a personal viewpoint I have started posting development of on DA and want to make jowy a weekly thing if my patience does not wear thin with him again that happens a lot. But my imagination never slows down is like its consistently on drugs that stimulate my creativity.

Jowy World map as of now yep its a mad mad world 

i am filled with Joy!? 

So there you have it a long rambling blog post updating you on my situation regarding my art and what I am sending time on. I would love to talk about more stuff but I have spent about an hour and half writing this post and I am losing concentration plus my vocabulary is limited when I write better if you meet me in person. i will try this year to update on this blog more then once a month.

until next Post LATERS ;)     

Jowy Shenanigans 9/11/12

The development of Humanised.com (ambitious comic project)

Today i wanted to concentrate on panel arrangements and use the script my Dad has written for the story so far to get some feeling for action and movement. The last thing i want to have is beautifully detailed backdrops and set pieces and just static stiff characters and poses. This world needs to show richness of life.

i can going to ask my Dad nicely if i can put up the whole draft script so you can understand a bit more about this whole universe and its existence (no idea for characters names as i have now reason for Annabelle).

Roughs make it a whole lot easier to declare who will stay and who will go

Yes her eye is sightly bigger than her other but i am still  working out her final design, and for that matter the whole cast. I have noticed a bit of  Katsuhiro Otomo influence in the way i do people recently especially from the sides and chins. 

Evaluating what i have done today i think the next step is too get started on the splash page and try and  polish up the finish on this page ready for Leeds thought bubble next weekend . 

Until next post Laters ;)

Jowy Shenanigans 8/11/12

Being a very bust week again so not much development on the Humanised.com comic I am afraid for reasons unexplanatory *cough* Minecraft. (And Thought Bubble comic convention in Leeds is next Saturday). But i did get time to try out a little experiment i have been inspired to try after speaking with one of my old university mentors two days ago. 

Essentially i took a small article piece i thought sounded interesting enough to create a crazy illustration that would be semi related to the text just like with my final major project in uni where i took Shakespeare’s quotes and created visuals that juxtaposed a lot of fantasy and reality in them while keeping true to the original material link.

Its kind of obscure because there’s a lot of hidden jokes influences and the subject is not exactly described in the composition or scene. I sad it was just a test  i might start doing this more often to gain more outsider interest and increase my awareness of the current world around me.  

End this post with a little Andrew W.K  Get Ready to Die doodle .that would be the most gruesome fun circus EVER.   

Until next Post thing LATERS ; )

Jowy Shenanigans 2/11/12

Humanse.com more development on splash pages.

Each individual panel is going to have a lot of references to memes and website stuff to make it seem like an extremely busy universe which the web is. working on the other panels tomorrow and maybe some action, because I like animation for a reason people. 

yeah i would like a Couple of Cold ones and some errors in spelling 

until next post LATERS and peace ; )

Jowy Shenanigans 30/10/12

Hello again YES I am back with some reasonable development on the humanised.com project me and my dad want to make in to a successful comic series .sorry for not updating i have been busy with other things and projects.

The plan we have for the next three weeks now is too get a massive splash page inked to show at a comic convention I am going to in Leeds called Thought bubble where there will be a lot of indie comic and industry people. Be a great way to get feed back and guidance.

The story and geeky jokes my dads been writing up the last two weeks really has influenced the way I will visually tell the story.

I hope to get the rough script up for the comic on here if my dad allows me. “Because a magician never relives his secrets. Especially when his not too sure of it himself” (very obscure Disney cartoon quote)

Right So far we have a female framer protagonist, Dragon dressed in cat ears, kidnapped Prince, Alien dressed a bit like  Han Solo thing, two stylized chicks.

And three bad dictators named after big brands ..........What could possibly go wrong here. 

Right So far we have a female framer protagonist, Dragon dressed in cat ears, kidnapped Prince, Alien dressed a bit like  Han Solo thing, two stylized chicks. 

My art for this project still need work I want this to a milestone that defines my imagination and how broad it is.

I spend way too much time thinking about finer details then the important elements in illustration, but that’s how I roll.

A lot of focus has been put in to the layouts and thumbnails since I have some written material to work off now.

Until next blog post LATERS  ; )

Jowy Shenanigans 15/10/12

Continuing development of my newest project my Dad and me have collabed on called humanised.com see pervious blog post. =D 

Law is the Law even on the internet viruses BEWARE  (spooky ohhhh)

until next blog post Laters  ; )

Jowy Shenanigans 14/10/12

It’s being a whole week of peace with out my sister since she moved on to her new life in as a university student in York. I have done at lot of drawing in the last few days and guess what its linked to yet more ideas for comics and things I want to make a reality. It all started after I saw one of my DA mates post up a pony version of twitter he called Chit Chat. I being the brony I am wanted to do my own interpretation of his design because I liked the idea already of ponifying existing things which makes ponies awesome 

But then as I went out for my daily afternoon walk that Tuesday I suddenly thought “wait a minute what if she was human and facebook was her mate that could take the identity of anyone”. “And Safari was a young annoying adventurer that harassed Twitter and Google was the dictator because he was so big and the city was made up of the web and…” that was it I was sold and did rough character designs to what my mind had originally pictured including lots of other sites.

Wow Flickr needs to take a chill pill seriously

i need to do more character turnaround sheets in the future 

Better then been rick rolled

I thought of making it an Ask blog at one point or a cartoon of some sort. I was in a pickle liked what I saw but had no idea where to turn or do with them I decided to show my dad the concepts and sketches I had put together so far and he said “a comic where we collab on writing and Art”.  

I prefer to have a female heroine for the story then male to challenge myself since i enjoy drawing cute girls 

Busy Busy is the nature of the interwebs folks

In the last three days I have been coming up with new character designs and background ideas while he has been formulating a plot reason and for the internet existing as a physical thing his explained in detail to me what he envisions but it’s a little too complicated to explain and I do not want to be here writing this post  for hours. Lets just say a lot of his geeky sifi knowledge will be implemented in to the comic.

Just today my Dad gave me the idea of Norton and MacAfee being the Law police of the web but their sort of like buddy cops drawn in a 1920s style   

This project seems very ambitious especially with my obsession for small details which could slow us down but i feel passionate about doing this and look forward to exploring the internet though doing this already gathering up website names and videos to use in the BGs    

Keep you updated on the process regularly  

until next Post LATERs ;) 

Jowy Shenanigans 16/9/12

I feel bad not updating regularly as I promise in almost all these blog posts. never make big promises you know you can not really commit too you will fall flat on your words or some jazz like that.

Anyway there’s not been much happening in terms of my own work that I felt I wanted to submit on the blog (recently its been mostly fan art request related to pass the time). My original art has started to build up interest from professionals and people outside the comfort zone of internet land. Which includes pay but I can not talk about that right now but it is very exciting.

Some close friends I am helping out, have shown some interest in my Jowy character and his developing world for sometime. Essentially they want to help me write up some material for him. because if by myself trying to justify the crazy universe of Jowy to you would be like trying to explain the sagas of Dragon ball Z in detail (I listened to an audio podcast on it it did not make it any easier for me to understand sadly). 

 These are the doodles and drawings I have done so far for Jowy. I hope to keep the momentum going with the jowyverse. I need to create some sort of character bible for these characters so I can better understand my long term goals for these ambitious ideas of mine. 

Never ever going to get old or let Down =D

   

    The city of RAMASVILLE where strolling down a alley is an adventure in itself
 

 

  Three worlds one universe this is going to be fun and enjoyable 

            

          man could i go for some Ranma 1/2 now 

Next best thing next to space ;) ;)

 

The others 

Until Next Post Laters ;)

  

Jowy Shenanigans 18/7/12 part 2

Green hairs a thing for grandmas now 

oh boy i have being playing Parov Stelars Catgroove almost every minute so far today and form it i gots an idea THIS using traditional media for a change.

i was thinking of Andy Prices comic art as well its amazing stuff. ;)

until next post LATERS