Hoopla

So basically I had trouble coming up with a story these past few weeks. My first idea got rejected three times sadly :(... however, during thanksgiving break I decided on doing a story about my band and I auditioning for the talent show during sophomore year of high school. With several events I had wanted to put into this comic, and the two page limit, I had to narrow it down with a whole lot of help from John and my friends. I pulled all-nighters for the first two comps while the third one was less demanding since I solved most of my problems. In the final, I was still trying to solve a lot of design issues haha... but I did the best I could, finishing five minutes before it was due... Not bad, not bad! haha

My first batch of comps. I like these ones but I still had problems with my story. I tried adding too many events!

Changed my story a bit. I was getting somewhere with these!!


I took out our lead singer and based it on my three friends and I. I liked these ones more, but with the time I had, they weren't as refined and tight as I would've like them to be entering into the final.

And no, I don't smoke weed :P

Dawn

The first 112a comic assignment. I still remember pulling an all-nighter for this one <3.

The Guardian

Fly me to the moon

So this week we were assigned to use our last strip and replace the text with one of the writing assignments we had to do to get some juxtapositions. However, my last week's strip was a juxtaposition, so I asked John what I should do this time. He suggested I do new strip with a random illustration before hand and have someone randomly select one of my writings and see what I could come up with. Well here we go. Inspired by Franklin Booth + Rendering in Pen and Ink Book. :)

This is war

I must say... it's a funny thing. I usually don't get my ideas for my strips on the spot. It takes me forever to decide on what to do, even up to the morning before it's due. Well it happened once again.

Never have I ever didn't want to go back to sleep.

Tuesday morning around 1:48am, I experienced sleep paralysis to an extent. I laid in my bed 10 minutes before it happened. As my eyelids began to betray me, just instantly, I felt a cold breeze literally wrap around my face like I was being attacked. The breeze whistled rapidly in and out of my head like killer bees. I tried YELLING out for help, but oddly, I noticed I was muted. I also couldn't move at all. It lasted no less than four seconds but from then, I stayed up for next 4 hours, scared shitless.

I'm grateful to be alive.

C&H

A mastercopy of a Calvin and Hobbes strip by Bill Waterson. Although my copy isn't perfect, it doesn't need to be. It can't be haha.
I had a real fun time putting myself into Watterson's shoes. Throughout my copy, I found it really difficult to draw Calvin aside from Hobbes. It seemed Hobbes would be more of a challenge but in the end Calvin kept my eraser busy.


Cheers.

Say What?

Our goals for this week's comic were the following:
#1 Be FUNNY
#2 Design = clarity, readable
#3 Make it "professional"

The most difficult thing was coming up with the idea. It couldn't just be a chuckle, but a "LAUGH OUT LOUD" comic. After John gave out the assignment, I literally blanked out, telling myself, "wow this is going to be reaaaaaaal tough." So the best thing to do was to brainstorm! YES BRAINSTORM!!!

Nothing. Nothing worthy!

Then I tried analyzing some of the things I thought were funny. It helped a bit, but still for me, thinking of something funny is much easier than writing it to express how funny it is. Geez!

With some of the ideas I would've gone with, I wanted to still stick with my experiences. Things that I knew about. It's hard enough trying to create something I barely knew about, only ending up making it half-assed and lame...

This week's comic was based on my trip to University Art. After my roomates and I stocked ourselves with mountains of groceries from Costco, we headed to University Art for none other than some magical art supplies. I needed to buy 6 Carbethello pencils for Wednesday. Too bad there were only 3 left... (go to Robert's Bookstore, THEY're in stock there and cheaper!!!)

Feeling a bit disappointed with 3 less pencils than needed, I stumbled upon a Van Gogh doll sitting on a metal rack next to some artsy picture frames.

OHHHHHH MANNN!! SO COOOL LOL.

I was hoping in my head that his ear was detachable, and once I pulled it off.

OHHHH MANNNNN!!! LOL.

Made my day.
Leaving the store I figured out my comic idea.
An hour later, I went back to take pictures of the doll and store.

Reference. Take advantage of it.



http://www.philosophersguild.com/index.lasso?page_mode=Product_Detail&cat=little%20thinker&skip=6&item=0122&sortby=rank%20DESC

Now go buy one lol.

Water Polo

My first weekly strip for 112a. I worked my butt off on this one because I was disappointed with my comic page the week before. However, it's all a learning process and we all make mistakes. The #1 thing that was pointed out by John was "Design." Detail is irrelevant if the design is flawed. Do the panels read as effectively from afar and close-up? There's a lot I would definitely change but I figured, what the hey, it's my first!

Script:
#1 - Through the farthest reaches of time...

#2 - It's been formulated that white males were born to dominated the sport of Water Polo...

Granted with their...

#3 - Speed,
#4 - Percision &
#5 - Endurance

#6 - It seemed like no one could stop them.

#7 - But with the slightest hope in the hearts of the many fallen...

#8 - MAYBE, JUST MAYBE... ONE DAY,
some supernatural force could defeat them.

"Shit."