Jowybean shenanigans 14/4/16

Some rough thumbnail ideas for future illustration ideas inspired by very different songs. 

Largo - Ko Ride

Gregory Whitehead - Twilight For Idols

I really enjoy experimental music that uses unusual sounds to create a weird contrast to the tone of the music in this case smashing glass among an unknown chant.

            

   Steamboy - Manchester 1866

until next post laters :) 

Jowy shenanigans 3/9/15

l have been thinking recently about creating small comics based off lyrics to various songs to challenge my sequential art skills for future issues with Humanisation.com.

The top thumbnails are inspired by this song (below) Drive He Said from one of my all time favourite music artists Steve Taylor. Its quirky and leaves a lot of interesting panel and pose ideas to play with. also more cars are a bonus. =D   

until next post Laters 

Jowy shenanigans 14/9/14

Today I was listening to one of my favoiute Listener songs called Train song. 

This song evokes a lot of powerful imagery For me its The clash between the homeless and the struggling.

The Sketch above is for a possible digital painting I may do in the future that juxtaposes elements of the song with my imaginative world. The homeless mans head is supposed to be in the shape of what I assume is a medical illustration of an ear on the front cover of the Listener album "Whisper Moon". 

The three characters in the background are based on animations from a documentary about abused homeless/ kids but I can not remember the name of it otherwise I would have linked to the cartoons. 

Until next post LATERS :)

Jowy Shenanigans 26/2/13

After my 22^nd birthday i got a sudden love for reading and watching anime and manga again. It was after I read volume one of a manga called Peepo Choo by Felipe Smiths on Sunday night. Such an interesting story that hooked me near the end and has a colourful cast of characters even if half them look dickarish and are.

Sorry I would have posted a proper update yesterday but I had to recover (and I use that term very loosely) from my birthday over the weekend and I had some shenanigans to attend to as well stuff that I fear I will fall asleep telling you.

I had herd of Gun Smiths Cats (thats what this character is supposed to be inspired by) the anime then i watched it and in my opinion its passable the manga looks a lot more fun and deep though the theme song is really jazzy and i like it. 

I now started formulating a tiny list of other series I would like to check out.

See if I could become a bigger anime fan then I am now (that most likely will not happen considering my time spent on all these individual artist projects.

 Speaking of which…

10 yearIcth website banners  Elance job

The company asked to too do some more art for the site as part of their rebranding this time it was for a questions page. The brief was similar to my pervious illustrations with the series. Colourful and straight to the point.

eyes were a little derpy but i fixed that 

I have been doing some paid work with some other people and contacts I know but these projects are still in development so no information about it as now just adding some more filler for the post.

Sadly there’s not being any process with the developing comic Humanise.com. Because of everything else I have had to consternate on. I will try with all my power and energy to get something out this week at least so I can keep a coincident update record on the blog.

i hate slaking off like i used to do on this blog

perspective on guns are tricky sometimes when your justing doing rather then thinking  DOH

anyway i am going to go and watch some more crazy animations and movies now

 Until next post laters ;)

Jowy Shenanigans 16/2/13

MUG SHOT lol

also the name of a jerk boss from Sly Cooper 1 

You know I could do with a nice drink after all the development I have done for my personal projects today. And I kept to my schedule for once YAY. Yes I do keep scheduled times in my diary for what projects to work on each day as there are so many to consider.

Right now I should be witnessing the highly anticipated finale of MLP season 3 and jumping on the hype or hate but I want to upload this stuff now work comes first before ponies in my book.

"blasphemy"

Humanise.com epic comic project Development 

I have wanted for about a week to get a polished coloured line up of the three main characters. Today was the day I finally buckled down and finalized a clearer idea of their physical appearance although they will not look so shall I say um….Disneyish in the final product.

Process time from start to finish 

Mutt: is Cadras loyal pet who dresses as a cat for a reason i assure you 

Cadra: (Ctrl/alt/delete) our heroine of the story who will be thrown in to the deep end 

The Prince: no idea what his name is but he and Cadra will cross paths but not in the love kind of way  his a bit of a  D bag to put it light thats how my dads writing him. 

quickly sketched out other characters i could create as line up sheets later on 

i spend a lot more time on line art then colour with my characters to be honest 

it seems coloured lines make ones work more animated looking which i like

Its not just Cadra who’s had attention today Jowy got some love as well.

Thanks to my close musically talented friend Cameron or C dog there may be an actual jowy comic sooner then later. I mentioned a while back he wrote 3 scripts for my characters and I was very impressed with his depiction of my crazy world. During intervals in between my busy life I did do some extremely quick thumbnails to layout the story and panels i did some more of them today. These are just a taster of whats to come. I am going to ask Cameron if its alright to put up his script of part 1 on the blog.

Lastly to round up the post is more news on my cartoons for the warley woods trust

To keep it short for those who do not know my woods runs a trust that do a lot of community work in the area and promote the woods in a positive light I have given myself the task of designing possible cartoons that they could sell to visitors as well as promote my services to professionals.

A finished example

These are some of the newer pieces I have been improving on in the series 

i stopped this one because of the amount of detail and the line art was just not doing it for me it seemed less crisp compared to the others. 

A woods themed birthday card why not 

Phew thats it for tonight still a lot to think about and its my uncles birthday soon but his coming to see us tomorrow so i need to get him a nice picture done before then 

until next post folks LATERS ;)

Humanised.com comic sample script 23/1/13

cast of the comic in terms of design as of now.

After a long wait since starting

This epic project i finally was able to upload what story my dad had written to introduce us to this universe i hope you enjoy what we have put together for the narrative as of now we are continually developing the sagas of the story. 

Update on the character names the dragon pet is called mutt because his wearing a cat costume yet CADRA (the framer girl) thinks his a dog just for humor purposes

The Prince if I remember correctly we named RDAC its CADRA spelt backwards uh I think  

I totally would be happy with CADRA and RDAC being the offical main characters names

Until next post LATERS ;)

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  ; )