Hoodratz Tees

First line of Hoodratz in Space T-shirt design sketches done. Thanks to Paul Richards for his awesome thumbnailing advice and tutorials. Planing to produce a second line of T-shirts for the remaining characters later but for now cant wait to get these done and off to the T-shirt printers. Be sure to visit the Hoodratz in Space official website here http://veargraphics.com/newsite/hoodratz.html

Hoodratz this way come!

Super excited to finally start penciling the first pages of the Hoodratz in Space saga! This project has gotten so much attention over the years and its finally on its way.

Sssshhh! designing a cool line of Hoodratz in Space t-shirts too!

Stay tuned.

PK2 penciling begins

With the script all done i have started penciling the pages to my Peacekeeper series. Excited to be going back to my original style of penciling, thanks to a good friend for reminding me that i was still working in a cartoon style because of an earlier project i was working on.

Be sure to order your copy of Peacekeeper issue#1 by visting here
http://veargraphics.com/newsite/comics4sale.html

Saint2 promo art creation process!

Decided to repost this promo art for the upcoming Saint2 comic but i wanted to show the steps i used to create it since after all that is the point of this blog. I am still experimenting with my coloring but was pleased with at least 90 percent of how it turned out, mainly due to my limited coloring knowledge but i am working everyday to get better, watch you will see.

the inks on this puppy were pretty simple and since i decide on placement of most of the black areas when i do the marker comp i can kinda just trust my layout.

the sexiest part of the design is always for me the pencils, yes i am and always will be a penciler first.

even though i like what i had with the original marker comp i remembered the General character has a scar on the right side of his face and so i decided to flip the top characters so that i could show this very important character trait. Also i wasnt so pleased with the face of the main character at the bottom center so after finding some cool reference i went in an adjusted this at this time. I have found that the more time you spend in the layout process the better the end results and less aggravation envolved.

i usually start with a thumbnail design of the layout but decided to go straight into the character arrangement here all sharpie marker style...the text serves as a placeholder.

H.I.S work in progress!

This is part of a bigger painting i am currently working on for my Hoodratz in Space comic series but found the purple color scheme interesting enough to do a side by side comparison, still not sure but decided to post this for now as a work in progress...i will post the final painting as soon as its finished.

Concept Friday!

After taking some advice from my mentor and good friend i have been spending at least one day a week to do concept work mainly to build up my portfolio and practice new techniques and lately it has been at the end of the week on friday! so i have decide to call it Concept Friday for the sake of making it an even better way to end my week and it is something that i now look forward to every week now. On the sketches above i wanted to work on adding detail to armor, designing on top of a pre-existing drawing and improving my digital sketching ability. Looking forward to my next digital concept sketches next friday!

More Saint2!

Another sneek peek at a page from the upcoming Saint2 comic book penciled, inked, and colored by me.

here is the inked version ...

here is the penciled version of this page, i designed the satellite apart from the page layout and added it later.

Panther time!

Black Panther is such a cool and mysterious Marvel character to me so i decided to tinker just a little with his design while i am still working on my coloring.



Lush Musik

Peep out the promotional artwork i did for the up and coming sexy R&B trio LUSH.

here are the inks...

and the pencils.

be sure to check out LUSH here http://www.youtube.com/user/TheLushmusic