Friday, March 21, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Chapter 1: Page 024
This might be my favorite page of the stuff I did while still in high school. The inks were finished last year.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Chapter 1: Page 023
These pages along with the very first bar scene were finished up for last year's San Diego Comic Con. They are placed in that like they happen one after the other in the book, but in reality those scenes were always far apart. I did add some stuff between them when I went back in (bare in mind that the pencils for the first bit of the book were done my senior year in high school, 5 years ago) but the things I added were only to improve the narrative, or at least make it more boring. (jk)
This is where the book really becomes what it's meant to be.
Chapter 1: Page 022
Shit just got real.
Plush is a character I came up with around the 8th grade. He was originally a stuffed rabbit in an otherwise human world, but I grew so much as an artist in the three years after that, I had to start something new, and Plush was too good a character to leave behind. He's definitely my favorite, and sort of shares the spotlight for central character with Chi-Bunny. I'd like to some day make something where he's the primary hero, but for now, his rivalry with Chi-Bunny is definitely more than enough.
Sad to see Blood-Tor go so soon? Don't worry, there are plenty of death-hungry little critters to go around.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Chapter 1: Page 019
Introducing Igachi, Sluggy and Billy. Fun fact, Billy is the first character I ever came up with. I was very little, we're talking 3 or 4 here. He's based on a stuffed platypus I had as a kid. You can tell he grew up with me by his potty mouth. Sluggy was actually created by myself and my buddy Steve when we were eight or nine and he started goofing around in a big sleeping bag. Fun times.
I'd say half (maybe) of the Battle Holiday characters are things I've been drawing since I was little. This book is sorta my way of putting some of these really old ideas to bed. No history behind Igachi really. Except that he's an awesome samurai iguana.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Chapter 1: Page 017
This latest page is sort of an homage to my good buddy and mentor, Michael Vega. Molly is actually a character he designed who is featured in one of the very awesome Beast World art minis he made.
This scene takes place at Molly's residence, a carrot patch out in the fields (which is also in Mike's original art). So I figured, since she's technically his character, I should flex my art muskels on the background stuff on the second panel and make it the kind of page he'd be proud of.
I pretty much have him to thank for staying with the art stuff, and for pretty much any skill I have, so I sort of made a big deal about this page (even skipped a chance for a shift at the video store I work at to have time to make this).
What I like about Molly as a character is that Mike's style is so much more elaborate than mine, so she sort of sticks out design-wise, but it totally works because story-wise, she's a foreigner to the island, and thus seems very different than the other islanders. She dresses well, is less repressed and stigmatic than the other characters, and is more comfortable with her sexuality than a lot of the people in the world of Battle Holiday. This is all, more or less, informed by Mike's work.
Look out for Molly and this carrot patch later in the book. One of the more bad-ass fight scenes takes place in this carrot patch.
Michael Vega on GhostCircles: http://www.ghostcircles.com/mike
Definitely the best page so far. This one took me quite a bit to make. A little over six hours I believe, but I think it was worth it.
Also, it should be noted, that this is also the first page featuring Skwirl, the knife wielding little squirrel-cat psychopath bent on murder for/of pretty girls. He's kinda my favorite character, which may be another reason I felt this page should be special.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Monday, March 3, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008
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