Zephyr 1, Book In-Progress

My first silkscreen book is in progress! Here are the sketches. Coming Soon!

Tug of War, Accordian Book

 I did 3 variations blue/ yellow, yellow/ blue, and "bootleg" white-- ha!

     I finally finished my first Silkcreen Accordian Book. I tried to make it easy for myself, since the end product would have a panaromic feel to it. So, I decided to do a Tug of War.

I printed in Vanilla, Cream, Wheat, and White paper to see the difference.

     I used 6 screens/ colors- orange, blue, yellow, pink, and dark red for the outline. I did them with transparency, so that where the colors overlapped- they created green, darker green, purple, and brown. It's always great to do that. You get more colors and save yourself time!

     I did run into a few problems, mostly with registration. You can on some of these images, where the colors didn't perfectly meet. Where the orange, yellow, blue, and pink overlapped- was supposed to be brown (the hair and the rope).

     I designed it so that the 2 teams had "team colors". The first team had dark green and green. The other had blue and purple. This was inspired by retro swimsuits.

     I also got rid of the outside outlines and only left the ones inside or where the colors met. I thought that was a nice touch.

     At the end of the book, also had the female audience. I made them pink and purple, so they sank a bit on the background.

     I continued them on the back of the accordian book. It was kind of an after-thought, but I thought it added to the look of the book.

    These are the "guides" I did in Photoshop to kind of test how the colors would overlap or look. Which of course, didn't exactly translate into silkscreen since the silkscreen paint have a different tone.

     These were the inks before I removed the outlines.

     I hope you like it!

Guy and Girl, In Progress

I'm trying to experiment illustrating with the outlines removed, only keeping the ones where the colors meet

I've been a busy bee lately... I got a new job in the city. I'm taking another silkscreen class (focusing on making books). I've been playing Marvel Vs Capcom 3- which is awesome. And, I finally finished putting the first level of colors on the brush pen drawing I did a few weeks ago. 

I really liked how it looks when you're just looking at the shapes of the colors and not the outline. This is the style I'm trying out for the silkscreen book I'm working on

The Monks of Enlightened

 I call him the "Angry" or "War Sadhu"

So, this was the cast of Enlightened... The Monks, which I re-used in several panels. I'm going to color these in Photoshop and post soon.  They are based off Sadhus, wandering monks.

 This one is "Old" and is the Master Sadhu

The last one is "Other" and the next in line to be the Master

Enlightened (comic)

These are the zines I printed out with blue paper cover

cover, pg 01, pg 02, pg 03,

pg 04, pg 05, pg 06,

pg 07, pg 08, pg 09,

pg 10, pg 11, pg 12

 

     HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!! I finally finished my comic! It's 12 pages and please look through it! You can read it on this post or simply go on the "Comics" page of the blog. It's a story of a monk and his struggle to keep himself "enlightened".

I might sell this on Etsy someday with the silkscreen prints

Brush Pen Sketches...

I'm starting to put colors on this, but is on hold due to the comic...

I've been drawing a few things for the last few weeks, but have not gotten around to scan and post them yet. These are a series of brush pen drawings and shaded with a black conte crayon. I'm currently working on a comic book project, which is why the digital coloring on these was put on hold.

An old portrait sketch that I recently inked

 

This one was done on watercolor paper and started coloring too

Inkwash Couple

Right click to view the image bigger from my DeviantArt site

I was again practicing ink washes and did this. It was really fun just dealing with shapes and not fine detail or lineart.

Inkwash Sketches

Practicing with a non-waterproof ink that made cool washes to portray shading

I was having problems with uploading pictures right through blogger, so I direct-linked these from my DeviantArt site.  Please Right Click the picture and "View Image" to make them bigger.

I liked how the sweater came out on the kid... The ink wash has a lot of possibilities

I drew the nude with China markers and Ink Washes on the dress, done on Charcoal paper

Igorot Etching, Level 4-5-6

 

These are the last levels of my Etching. This one has shaded on top of the hatchings.

 

 

Spiral Mohawk

For some reason, the colors are more vivid on the Cintiq, than it does with my other computer monitor

'Finished the former digital coloring project, coloring a sketch drawing. It took a few try outs and layers to get the finished product. I think it looks pretty cool from where it started.

The sketch was actually done with a red Col-Erase pencil grayscaled in Photoshop