The Last Event / Inked Pages

 I am finally done with the inking stage of The Last Event. Here are the pages for you to all look at.

Boba Fett Mural

For the last 3 years I have been hired to go paint a Star Wars character on the walls of condominiums in St. George, Utah. This year was Boba Fett. It is always an adventure to run down to St.George and do this, it is a 5 hour drive there, a scramble to get everything taped, drawn and sketched out, and entire day to lay out base colors and texture, and then another day to do the black and clean up and a 5 hour drive back, and it all has to happen in one weekend. It is really fun to see the finished result and to be honest I could draw Star Wars characters ALL DAY!

The Last Event / Pencil Roughs

I have been hired to do 6 pages of a book called The Last Event from a small publishing house in New York and I couldn't be more excited. I have almost finished the pencil roughs for the 6 pages and can't wait to start the inks on the project! I have included the roughs and character sketches for the project.

Storyboards for BEAU commercial

I was asked to storyboard the first commercial for BEAU. We are making this in hopes to use BEAU as a production company for all of the Broadview school network. We are really hoping it takes off and works. Fingers Crossed everyone!!

BEAU First Official Comic Book

The first official comic book  came out from BEAU this week.

I am so very excited about this... This is the first comic book I ever produced and it turned out brilliantly!

I built the comic under a new title of DEAN Comics and I am Editor in chief (of course). I have never put together a comic book and was so excited to get it completed!

The art comes from the "12 x12 A Comic Book Competition" that we put on last year in coop fashion with the Salt Lake Comic Con. It has great art from the public and from the students at BEAU.

If you would like to purchase one please let me know, they are only a dollar and all proceeds go to an event to help the students.

I'm an editor!

Masks for the Utah Arts Festival Masquerade Ball

Last year I was asked to design 2 masks for the Utah Arts Festival Masquerade Ball which is a fund raiser for the UAF. It was very fun and if you scroll back 1 year from this post you will see the masks I did last year. I was asked again by the UAF to create 2 more masks for this years masquerade.

I have dedicated my art to moving in the genre of Comic Book Art so everything I do has to have a Comic Book feel, style, or aesthetic to it. 

These masks are plastic masks I bought at Michael's and deco-paged old 1990's comic books to them. I glossed the surfaces in contrasting gloss and matte vanishes to bring out the color and texture of the masks. I added handles to the bottoms so people could hold them in front of their faces.

It was a hard process to get these done since it was a medium I had never used before and I had good time challenging myself to complete them.

One is DC comic books and the other is Marvel comic books.

BEAU Faculty Member of the Year

This year at the annual Christmas Party for all the Broadview University campuses (5 in total) they annouced the awards for Factulty of the Year and I won for our campus. I was really honored, and surprised, and happy to recieve this award being my first year at the university... hopefully it won't be a downward slope after this... I will try to win it again next year.

White Shepard MMA

I was hired by a local MMA Gym and Clothing Retailer to design 2 mascots for their stores and for a shirt...

White Shepard is the name of the dojo and the mascot is "the head of a White german Shepard on the body of an MMA fighter, in a Brazilian Gi, with MMA gloves, and standing in the stance of one of the founders of Brazilian Ju-Jitsu Helio Gracie".... that was the description I was given. 

This is the end result

The second mascot is for a clothing line they produce and they wanted " A skull with a hoodie, with a body of an MMA fighter and with MMA gloves on... but only the upper torso"

This is the end result.....

They loved them both and so they will have images printed on all of their merchandise.

Merry Christmas Chalkboard

At my day job at O.C.Tanner, I am asked to do all types of creative things, recently they have asked me to design one side of one of our chalkboards. Even though this wasn't a huge job, I found it a challenge and had fun figuring out how to create this image with very limited materials.

Comps for Angry Gnome

Nothing is more satisfying than getting free comic books!! And what puts the icing on the cake is when you are one of the artists in the book!

I received my comps for the books I drew this year over the weekend.

I love being a comic book artist.

Candlelight Media Videos Released

Several months ago I did freelance work for Candlelight Media Group for a couple of DVD covers. One was for a new movie called The Beautiful Beast and the other was Discovering Emma. Both DVD's are now available for purchase at Desert Book online

Discovering Emma

The Beautiful Beast

Here is my work on the website

This artwork was modified by the production staff at Candlelight, but I did a good chunk of the upper image.

Completion.

Well I am so glad I took the time and effort to attend the Joe Kubert School of Cartoons and Graphic Art. It was a life long dream, and it pushed me into the direction of becoming a professional comic book artist. The next steps are up to me to follow my dream and get work in the professional world, but I am so ready to start this life path. Thanks to everyone that supported me on this journey.

EXCELSIOR!

Homework 5 Returned

Well this is it! The returned art with comments. They is a saying when you are being reviewed "it is best when they have nothing to say at all." It means you have done such a good job they find no fault.

On my last critique there wasn't much to say at all.. the pencils had a few comments, the inks only 2 and the colors had no comments at all on it (so I didn't post).

That is a great sign I did great work.

The ink drawing is below

Here are the pencils

Homework Number #5

 This assignment was the most time consuming and the most challenging... but it was the most fun and I love that I get to show you my process from beginning bluelines to full colors.

First I lay out my pages in blue line non reproducible pencil.

Then using graphite I start laying in all the details

Using Micron Pens I ink in the piece

Then into Photoshop to do the computer coloring.

Then into Illustrator to do the borders and text.

The four part process.

This assignment was fun to get into the principles of complete pages.

Thank you to The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art for the amazing education.

Excelsior!