Jowy Shenanigans 6/3/13

CARDA and Mutt of Humanise.com are getting inpatient

I feel my concentration has been slipping a bit recently .I have been distracted by two big things in the last few days. 

First is the Manga Gunsmith cats by kenichi sonoda the problem is and this a complement not an issue .There are so many twists in the story that leave me wanting more by the end of the volume that I have to read on. I cannot lie in saying that Sonodas style has hooked up back in to reading manga and watching anime. Then there’s the fabled time-lapse videos that I can spend a whole day watching because its very inspiring to me how these videos are able to capture so much life in a city or natural environment seriously just a simple recording of a guy driving around London streets for 39 minutes sparks my imagination so much but wastes precious art time.

Speaking of time I better not ramble on again as that’s for facebook and Twitter.

Humanise.com comic project update

Slaked a little with the development but brought some bigger pads to start designing bigger roughs for the final inks. Starting with the splash page, as it will introduce us to the universe in one huge detailed illustration I am dreading and looking forward to doing this particular page.

10yearItch website job update

The client was not too happy with the characters I drew in the centre of the composition for the question banner. So we changed the middle to fit in a huge question mark, which works ok in my opinion but it gets the message cross.

Warley woods Trust cartoon series

This month I am looking at finally visiting the local woods thrust to advertise this series I have been eveloping on since the start of the year I plan to make the cartoons part of my brand and business plan as I am slowly working on that so I could start selling my brand and cartoons to the public to get more recognition in the dog eat dog world  

Round off this update with some random tablet doodles

I do not like to repeat myself online but I will try and update more regularly because the guilt of leaving this blog alone for even five days scares me.

Until next Post Laters  :)

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 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 ;)

Ture story

Jowy Shenanigans 22/2/13

its very bothering that there are no railings along most of york cities walls  which did scare me uh a little for kids safety 

OK This has been a family focused week since we went down to York to see how my sister was settling in to university life after only four months. She’s been doing so well that I think we agree with her that she would rather not come back to Birmingham.

During my day visit to york city I did something I have not done in a while a bunch of observation sketches. 

Also I developed on the world of Jowy some more looking at backgrounds and new characters that could fit in to the crazy cast of characters I already had.

This is a rather short post because my 22^nd birthday is tomorrow and I am excited for it or at least optimistic so I want to get an early night so I can experience the day wide awake.

There’s lots more to show but I will share that stuff after the big day  

Until next post Laters  ;)  

Jowy Shenanigans 17/2/13

The cartoon is a jowy version of the Steve Taylor album cover on the Fritz. Been listening to his albums almost each day and waking up with them playing in my head and i love it, His like the Alice cooper for Christian rock my dad says worth a listen too.

Yesterday was my uncle’s birthday not going to say what age he is though. We had a very special meal planed for him, which was in this restaurant on top of this tall building called the cube in Birmingham. Amazing vistas I even got some snaps from the top. His an accountant with the bank of America and I wanted to draw him something that highlighted his job that’s where this propaganda pink panther like cartoon came out

It can be our friend 

I remember a while ago I saw a black and white 30s 40s propaganda animation on saving money and tax no idea who made it or the name of it which sucks because it was such a unique gem. I have been almost on the Fritz today because I misplaced my credit cards which could have ended horribly and cost me a lot but luckily I blocked them from been used so I am safe and should get my new cards In 5 days.

Also Today the 10yearItch web site i did the banners for asked me to do some more  paid artwork for them which is brilliant.

I competed the inking of my birthday card design for the woods trust series. See pervious post

I need to look at trees and leaves more its hard to capture them with just pen     

I may have some more to share later on tonight  so stay tuned. 

Wink wink nod nod say no more 

But if not unitil 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 ;)