Weekly sketches are back!

After a long leave I am returned!

I've taken a long time off from drawing and making posts, partly due to travelling, but mostly I'm settling into a new stage in my life: work. I graduated engineering and am now the proud owner of an 8 hour job! Hurrah!! It's taken me a while to ease back into my hobbies. I've manage to get back into music pretty smoothly, and now have a schedule to work around! 

Now to the reason why you're here: ART!

I've been working a lot more on expression and the human form. During this time, I found about the great Frank Frazetta. Frank Frazetta is most notably known for his book cover illustration, and worked on such works like John Carter, Conan the Barbarian, and Tales from the Crypt. I attached a Wikipedia link if you would like to learn more.

Something about his work made everything about drawing the human body click. His perfect grasp of andatomy and contrast is like none I've ever seen before. The three drawings bellow are pretty much direct copies of three of his own work, which I've also attached links to in the description of each sketch.

Frank Frazetta Woman and the Moon   & Caveman

The caveman I drew first, and I took some liberty with the drawing. The woman I drew second, and with this one I developed an exercise to attempt and duplicate the drawing in 30 minutes or less, which I achieved!

The night I drew the caveman, I liked him so much I did a few more studies on him, which you can see bellow. I might have also had some influence from Jumanji in drawing this one, but I'll leave that up to you.

I continued the exercise, this time drawing two scenes I liked from the trailer to "The Master". The biggest lesson I learned from Frazettas art to observe the source even closer so as to draw what is really there, and not what I've learned should be there.

This week I will be working on how to apply all this to inking, and hopefully by next week I'll have more work to show off. Thank you so much for visiting and be sure to COMMENT! All feedback is welcome!

A Climb To The Moon

It wasn't easy, But one night, he was finally able to go up to her and tell her how beautiful she is.

                                                          ~marina027(hitrecord)

http://www.hitrecord.org/collaborations/1953 ~ Tiny Book Of Tiny Stories

http://www.hitrecord.org/records/1317775 ~ Her

http://www.hitrecord.org/records/1319221 ~ Me!

So after many months,  I have finally drawn something new!! I owe this completely to a great friend of mine who wrote the beautiful words above. This collaboration is being submitted to the hitRECord.org book titled The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 3. If you haven't visited the website or checked out the previous two volumes, I encourage you to do so! It is an excellent way to see new and exciting art, get inspired, and if lucky, star some amazing collaborations!

Now here is where you can help! In order to get chosen to be published in the book, the collaboration needs enough hits so that it gets to the top! Please, Please, Please visit the links above, share them, like them, any way you can spread it I would greatly appreciate it! If you are a member of hitrecord, go to the first link and search my drawing (A Climb to the Moon) and my friends story (The Boy Who Fell In Love With The Moon) and super like and recommend them both! You will be forever appreciated! Since the likelihood of us meeting is limited, that's as much as I can offer!

Weekly (more like monthly) Drawings

Life tends to be hectic at times, and this is definitely one of those. In the past month, I have taken my Fundamentals of Engineering exam (which required a ton of last minute studying), looked for a job, go frustrated looking for a job, quit looking for a job, started again then quit then started again, and started applying for Gradschool. If you haven't noticed by now, I'm kind of freaking out about my future follow graduation. Fortunately, after all that frustration, I've come to the decision that unless I get an offer from a one of the three companies I really wanna work for, I'm going to go to Gradschool and study Acoustic Engineering (hoping that I get accepted somewhere)!! But now, to the real point at hand... somehow, among the chaos and frustration of the past month, I have found time to draw! So here are some of the drawings and sketches I have done. Enjoy!

These first two are concepts for a Drawing I project involving hands and magic. I went with the second one with the "Hadouken".

This is a drawing I did a long time ago but never finished. One of my friends really liked it so I inked it for him.

4 Months I've been angry!

Good day everyone!

I started this blog 4 months ago now, and I just wanted to thank everyone (friend and stranger) who has visited the site. I hope all my posts have been enjoyable and that they keep you wanting more. I also want to encourage everyone to post comments and give me feedback about my comics and art. There is always room for improvement, and I would love to know what your favorite part of Angry Buddha Comics is. What posts did you like, or not like? What do you think should be revised? What keeps bringing you back, and is there something you would like to see happen at Angry Buddha Comics? Maybe you would like to see the Shadow Puppet boys get into some crazy adventure, or encounter your favorite character, or maybe you're curious about what John the Nuclear Snowman does to pass the nuclear winter. Make sure to FOLLOW if you have a Google or Blogger account, and keep viewing, I'll keep posting!!

Week sketches

Here are some sketches I have done throughout this week!

I bought some new pens and markers, so I've been practicing using more color in my drawings. I still need a lot of practice with inking, but I've been practicing with my Wacom tablet, that way if I mess up I can always ctrl+Z!!

 Me as The Flash when I was a kid on the left and The Joker on the right. The Joker was featured here.

Hellboy on the left and Avatar Aang from Avatar: The Legend Of Korra on the right. Not my best Hellboy, but I do like how his right arm turned out. Also, I have a limited supply of markers, so I didn't have more reds to give Hellboy more dynamics, and I had to do the blue on Aang on my Autodesk Sketchbook Pro because my light blue marker dried out :\.

Uncle Iroh from Avatar: The Last Airbender. I really like how this one turned out.

deviantArt Contest

So I finally made a deviantArt account! As soon as I made it I uploaded just a few works I had done, most of which have been featured on Angry Buddha Comics, and I got a few comments, which was great! But the most interesting thing was that I started receiving messages about contests and events and all sorts of other notices. One of those contests notices was about a stock project called Stockocalypse. Basically, you chose from three different stock images, and reinvent it with a post-apocalyptic theme. I waited way too long to make mine, and pulled an all nighter last night and this is what I came up with!

Enjoy!

Shadow Puppets #6