What have i got to lose: new update 20/8/13

Hello all it’s been a while since i last updated. Ok it was three or four weeks ago but I feel as a creative there should be a coincident flow of blog updates, that’s why ASK tumblrs become so popular because the content creators keeps updating daily. I feel for myself this year after graduation is still about discovering who i am as a new freelance illustrator within the industry. So far I have done work experience within small animation studios as a storyboard/layout artist and accepted different commissions from small businesses to big companies. 

 

All good bronies need an OC pony mine is Jelly Holinder her design is inspired by a mix of my logo and Rally Vincent from the Gunsmith Cats manga.

And now i am going to be trying my hand or hoof in this case as a vendor at Buck the biggest European brony con apparently, starting this Friday. I cannot hide the fact i am a huge MLP Friendship is magic fan. When you type in Jowybean in to your web browser you will be bombarded by my brony art straight away before any of my other art. The reason I have become well known in the pony fandom and why I want to attend this ponycon. Is because of my 90s inspired cartoon title cards. Each has a unique design to fit that theme or tone of the said episode.

  

Here are examples of the title cards 

BUCK con is a huge step for me since it will be my first con where it is not a day trip like Thought bubble in Leeds last year. I will have the responsibility of the shared table in the vendor hall. Manage the money and sale of my prints. And finally the baggage I will have to carry around Manchester where BUCk is going to be.  

It’s all completely alien to me this whole thing but if I do not try it then i will never know what I missed out on

If I make bank and sell everything out then I will not be surprised if I aim for a bigger pony con IN THE US next year. If not then I can easily learn from this and apply it to another avenue I might try.

I am not giving up on my Humanise.com comic or my crazy world of Jowy illustration before any of you ask. I just need to focus my mind on this event so it can run as smoothly as possible and make the most out of it.

  Besides its not just about the business side of BUCK it’s also about the fun for me.

I enjoy the freedom and creative juices the brony fandom gives me and I want to share that with other fans .

check out my brony art and all other jazz at my Deviantart 

May not look like much but its my entire stock and stuff i am taking up to the con

    Until next Post Laters and wish me luck at BUCK

Illustration Friday Submission: Fresh Walk

This weeks theme : FRESH: 

decided to try some digital painting for this challenge :)

and got it submitted on time.

until next Post Laters ;)  

Illustration Friday Submission Hybrid bus stop

Yeah i am a liar i know i said i would update last weekend and that did not happen understand that i have been super busy with this event i am attending in two weeks time. i have had to spend a great deal of time prepping for it as it’s a big step for my career and the jowy brand all will be explained very soon.

Other annoying thing was I had a really awesome idea for this week’s illustration Friday submission but due to pressure and time limits I have cheaped out and submitted an older piece of mine that fits this week’s theme, which is....     

HYBRID 

until next post LATERS  

update i missed the submission DANG IT (grumble)

Illustration Friday Submission jungle underpass

 

I have wanted to start submitting and joining in illustration Friday since I discovered it a year ago

IF is where you get a theme they set for you to design and you have to illustrate it in any way you want good news its open to any illustrator or artist.

 I feel that this weekly challenge will keep me engaged in my wacky juxtaposing world more. Been quite satire with it last 2 months and i will explain the reasons why over the weekend there’s a lot to say which is nothing new on this blogs record  

This week’s theme: JUNGLE 

not my best effort i wanted to colour it but its a good start :)

until next post LATERS  

Jowy Shenanigans 11/7/13

 General commissions and art I have forgotten to post up on my blog from the last few months sorry I am lazy and forgetful sometimes.

Yesterday was like any other normal productive day for Jowy. The penciling for the next page of humanise.com is almost done  and will be uploaded on here soon. I am also applying to a couple of art competitions this month to expose my work to the public and hopefully gain recognition with my quirky art style.

Recently I have been listening to a wide range of music while working on things. For me the band called Mr. Bungle has stood out from the bands I have listened to, with their crazy experimental Avant-garde funk metal jazz sound  , which is, and unlike anything I have ever herd before . The last studio album they released called California  has this one song on it that i would not stop playing yesterday called Sweet Charity its got an Hawaiian eerie tone to it. The title of the song intrigued me and after listening to it a couple more of times. In my quirky juxtapose style I choose to digitally illustrate it based purely on the title not the content of the song.

Its not finished yet This is just how far I got with it I just want to archive my process of my work from now on for you guys.

Check out Mr. bungle folks they are worth a listen to even if their music in the early days was unstructured and fusions of weird.

process

Recently I have wanted to study more from the real world in order to achieve this effect  and decided today to do some value studies of two screenshots from two of my time-lapse travel videos. I wanted to see which elements I take time on and which ones I skip when studying from an existing reference  (how close I can get to the real thing).

The boy with the stick is from one of the first videos I found within this weird genre of film and I find myself rewatching it almost every month its such an interesting look at a cities population I had no idea existed I believe its in the Caribbean.

I am not looking for an accurate photo realistic portrayal just a close enough interpretation of the light and tones in the images. 

I have a recording of these studies been done on my YouTube channel so you can see the whole thing from start to finish with some music in the BG  [link]

Clapping is contagious according to scientists in a recent article I read two days ago decided in my spare time to sketch out an idea for an illustration describing the article with my quirky diverse style obviously.

commissions 

A couple approached me a while back to create a card design depicting them as Lois Lane and superman in a 60s inspired style hence the Roy Roy Lichtenstein dots and some what dramatic worms eye view the caption had to be included in with the old school comic style

how did i get there

Logo design for a new craft business the client wanted a female dragon with  a lot of colour and a real look of feminine about the character it also had to warp around the company's title i choose the font.

Humanise.com comic project update 11/7/13

Humanise.com is an Epically ambitious comic/graphic novel of mine that is been written by my dad. And drawn by yours truly.

 If you like what you see head over to my DA account to see more development of the project and bigger scans of finished inked pages.    

Penciling for the next page of Humanise.com is underway plenty of action to take in we will aim to get a mock up of a finished page soon

Made a few improvements to the bottom of the two page splash page that will introduce the viewer to the world of interest as a packed thriving metropolis 

until next blog post Laters ;)

Humanise.com comic project update 26/6/13

Been able to get a couple more pages inked in and started work on the biggest eye candy of the first issue the giant double-paged spread introducing the viewers to the world of the Internet my style.

Humanise.com is an Epically ambitious comic/graphic novel of mine that is been written by my dad. and drawn by me 

 If you like what you see head over to my DA account to see more development of the series  and bigger scans of finished inked pages.    

   

possibly The monster of all splash pages and illustrations i may ever have done.

The aim of the page is to cram as much internet culture , memes and general wackiness to establish the galaxy sized city of the web after million years when the story is set. My laptop is currently filled with screenshots and names of websites i came across from all spectrums of the World Wide Web. 

page 8

the birds eye angle of the house was the most challenging aspect to this page.

lots of action to get you in to the story early  

penciling of page 9