This month isn’t eventful for me. I had a life emergency that need my attention, so my art progress isn’t going crazy. I’ve been taking more hours at my day job to catch up on some heavy money issues. Nothing too debilitating, just need to save up money to prepare for next year’s conventions and my car problems.
I continue from Part 1 of my Thumbnail Art Section
In this section, I’ll be demonstrating gathering references for creating my comic story, Incident at the Game Store! If you’re up to having a signed physical book for yourself, you can stop by my Etsy store and grab a copy!
Since the story takes place in GameStop or a legally distinct version of it, I gathered references of the store chain.
Here’s some research how I want the Fedorable Man (That’s my name for him) to look. It’s a funny thing to design a stereotypical “Neckbeard” nerd character. There are many ways to tackle it, and there’s no one way to make any character.
I grabbed a few refs of fat people and how fat works. I got some refs of baby hands, as they seem the fattest of the hands.
When I think about the horror he turns into, I imagine a fat, bloated nightmare. Examples like The Boomer zombie enemy from Left 4 Dead or Nurgle the Plague God from Warhammer come to mind.
Reference hunting gives me an excuse to find anatomy references (These are the safe for work refs I’ll show you ;P). Don’t spend too much time, you only need the references that are relevant to your project. It helps to keep a large folder of past references to save from internet searching.
There’s minor fighting actions, so looked for punching and choking references. This is the best time to restudy drawing hands and fists.
Some refs for the crazy fluid attack on page five! It was inspired by this hilarious Rocket Jump video called The Milkman! I remembered the part where he punishes the criminal by spraying milk out of his mouth like a firehouse, drowning him.
Finally, when I can’t find a specific picture to use as a reference, I take my own pictures as references! Sure, I look like a dope, but this is what happens when you make your own references. Never feel bad about using your own body as reference for a pose.
I made sketches of the characters to keep them consistent in the pages. I don’t think I made any new sketches of the Girlfriend, which sucks! It’s not perfect, and I should’ve made more refined art to save the hassle.
I gather more references as I work on the comic pages, Now it’s time to start drawing the comic pages!
This is my process on how I make preliminary thumbnail art for creating my comic story, Incident at the Game Store! If you’re up to having a signed physical book for yourself, you can stop by my Etsy store and grab a copy!
I was struggling to write a new comic after Shirley’s Day. So I decided to adapt an existing story to save writing time. I got the idea to create a collection of the dumb greentext stories from 4chan, Reddit, and Imgur. Many of these dumb internet posts are outlandish, so they’re a great source of visual ideas for me.
This is the original greentext story. Since it’s anonymous, I have no idea who originally wrote it. So, if someone messaged me claiming they’re the original poster, I’d have to take their word for it.
I’m having car problems right now, so I’m taking commissions for 10 slots.
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I’m making the finishing touches on my freelancing work. Plus, my Twitch streaming is returning while Blackmask development is moving along. I’m also preparing for next year’s convention season. All this and more below!
I have bad news and good news about working on my self-published comics.
Some bad news is that I changed my mind about making The Pizza Man a book. Good news is: I’m going to put The Pizza Man, Shirley’s Day and Incident at the Game Store, in one bigger book!
I made several proofs, and I was just about to go forward on buying prints, but I realized that instead of sitting on many floppy comics that don’t sell that much, I’d make a big trade paperback containing not just my comics work so far, but behind the scenes stuff like my original pencil art and inks! I can even include other illustrations and sketches in the book to show off more of my artwork!
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In addition, I’m also having a Halloween Sale for the month of October of all my stuff on Etsy for 40% off!
Not only can you pick up a Pumpkin Cat sticker, but you can get the rest of the Pastry Cat Stickers and my print comics!
Continue readingThere’s not much to write about besides being laser focused on my freelance stuff. I’m in the final stretch of the books’ completion, so hopefully within the month I’ll be through with it.
I’ve recently had an interview with Will Humphrey on his podcast Will Vs. You Talk Too Much! It’s a great time, and nice to touch back with my old friend from college!
You can listen here!
I’ve been making changes to my website when I have the time. Been video editing, drawing, and some other things in life.
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