Jowy Shenanigans 28/3/13

Hmmm...My last update was on the 18^th and today is the 28^th this is posted how’s that for a coincidence.

I felt lazy with the blog last week but I had good sound reasons for this. One being I was sick mostly.

Two I got accepted on a scheme called BSEEN Its a 6 month Crouse in the fundamentals of business run by my old university. I went along to the first two meetings last weekend and it was not only insightful and helpful but also encouraging because I meet a lot of potential new clients and contacts that could give me jobs to help my freelance career.

Some sketchpad doodles i did during the BSEEN workshop breaks.

I continued my new Friday series of illustrations that reference videos and jokes from surfing the web and real life in the week.

Tried to be a little more inventive by looking at an interior I would like to make this a weekly thing because I have found doing these pen illustrations to reignite my passion for my craft when I start to lose that momentum to draw.

List of some of the References mostly animation related

The TV monitor with the scrunched up face is reference to talented youtuber Jacksflims Your Grammar Sucks series . A hilarious look at the bad comments the web comes out with he even sings and raps in some of them.

The three characters in the middle next to the anthro lion women are references to two cute Russian cartoons I found on YouTube the week before

In the back row

Vovk in tridevyatom kingdom

(I may have gotten the translation wrong I do apologize if I did Russians)

The butter sword my be familiar to fans of youtuber and awsome minecrafter skydoesminecraft lol

And finally the weird looking character in the bottom right is a reference to a Brother Mcleod animated short called Isle of Spagg

They are one of my favourite independent animation studios they do a lot of weird animation but its bound to catch your eye with its bizarreness . 

More like Beatmeup.com

No updates for the comic Humanise.com sadly I need to get a bigger scanner because I have started drawing in bigger drawing pads and I would rather not use my kodak camera to capture the development of the rough pencils. I need to discuss the story with my writer (dad) as well before we move on with the project no use just rushing in to it for the sake of it.

There has been a lot of character development and world building done for my Jowy character and other ocs that will link to the recent news about a Jowy Web comic being made that my friend Cameron and I are working on in between our important jobs.

The best and easiest way to describe the concept for Super Cream Pie Robot Space Pirate Guy is if you mashed up Darkwing Duck, Freakazoid, Hong Kong Phooey and the anime Ranma 1/2 in to one crazy cartoon.

Since the start of this year I have wanted to send more time developing my OCS and their world. Since its consistently evolving in my mind to new exciting wacky concepts that are defining my unique sense of humor and cartooning everyday.

I imagine my world right now as being like a Tiny Toons and the Animaniacs cartoon where there is a huge cast of interesting characters who all exist in the same universe/environment but have their own separate stories and adventures. That’s the format I am basing my Jowy characters around and it seems to be working for what I have planed for each of them. Ramsusville is the city most of my main characters will come from

Fact time

SCPs special weapon is custard pies and he wears under wear under his nappy because he has some ounce of dignity.

Prince Odd Ball: is the loyal friend to SCP and his weapon is clockwork monkeys that drop bouncy bombs. 

Eugene: rhino/raccoon hybrid is a smart individual and communicates by signs as a humorous reference to the panda in Ranma ½ he tends to get his master out of trouble as well (Hong Kong Phooey style) 

Scales and Jenny Frost: are two elemental girls that conflict with each other all the time and SCP has full responsibility of them as their uncle.

The toast kingdom is a fairly new idea I came up with just to make my world that much more weirder folks. Its Inspired by the ancient Egyptians and knaaren from Rayman 3 .

The as of now unnamed Queen of the Toast Kingdom  is a powerful monarch and dictator but she is madly in love with the king and listens to his advice even if he is just an old jam jar.

Wow this update was not as long winded as I thought it was going to be 

i have other thing to talk about but i need to ask some of my clients if its ok with them to make these public. 

Well i am glad i was able to update you once again. i am going to go off now and watch some more of Bioshock Infinite playthroughs because that game from a visual and writing perspective is interesting  until next post  folks LATERS ; )

Jowy Shenanigans 18/3/13

Your Drawing Sucks
i only discovered youtuber Jacksfilms your grammar sucks yesterday night but it was too funny not to parody.

Hey guess what ... its Monday night and I am feeling good so much so that i wanted to bring you all up to speed on what is going on.

Right now most of my projects are all under control and going at a nice steady pace for me to plan ahead and keep focused on certain important tasks. Still looking at going down the self-employed avenue and taking courses that specialize in this area of work. The daily hunt for jobs has paid off as well with many different people interested in using my skills for their work. I need to ask my newest client if it’s all right for me to post up the development for his project I am currently helping on.  No spoilers but I will say for now is it’s a bit more challenging then what I usually have done but its not an impossible thing.

Lets dive in to tonight’s updates then

Two weeks ago I thought to myself I need to start archiving or referencing media and shenanigans I see in a week because its very frustrating if you forget a funny joke or artist you randomly came across and I always want to be about the random and referencing so I started doing illustrations combining these memories with my wacky roger rabbit Todd schorr inspired world of juxtaposition.

I would have done one last Friday but I had my graduation ceremony.

10YearItch travel site banner illustration job

Since last update I have been designing more colourful banners for them because these banners are being used for very specific subjects that I could not really illustrate the client decided on a similar design to the first illustration where it showed off the icons of architecture in India and its wildlife.

Drawing buildings with that amount of detail and shapes is very difficult to get right. 

I got the two pieces done in the spam of 4 days even though I extended the time frame because I thought I would become super involved in my own personal goals.

Jowy comic development

I want to make a bio page for the characters in the story but first i need some good illustrations to show off their personality best. 

A while back I had hinted at this possible jowy comic that me and my musical friend Cameron are creating but never did any more development of it until today. I decided to redo my surviving thumbnails as bigger cleaner drafts of the final product .

 Thinking of making it a web comic series as it would be less time consuming then inking it in on paper more practical with a tablet.   

Humanise.Com comic  and Warley Woods trust cartoons will have their own update later this week.

Random doodles to extend the life of this post 

hmmm i wonder what i have been reading AGAIN XD

until next update post LATERS ;)

What happened to the daily thing you said

Fell like I have dropped the ball on my blog posting again sorry it’s a bad habit (laziness) that will change. Reason why i do not post a lot is because i have spent almost an hour and a half doing theses and that gets boring quickly. i like to have a good amount of information when i update then just give you something pretty to look at. 

big update coming in the next few days or sooner depends 

 until next post LATERS  ^^;

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 ;)