new cartoon alter ego

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i really thought this one wasn't going to work out until near the end... and overall I'm pretty happy with it even if i didn't go as far as i really could have with it.... i could be nit picky but I'm not going to bother.

this is pretty much me attempting a fleshed out drawing in flash to see if i can do it for a 2 page comic i wanted to do in a powerpuff esque style. I've always been a big fan of it.... my biggest problem right now is not going wonky enough with the backgrounds.... but thats a small detail.

the comic shall feature my alter ego, turtle jay.

my cartoon alter ego, turtle jay.

old man

I've been trying to get more cute simple lines into my cafe sketches lately. Also, I've been trying to get all of my drawing slightly more uniform... as in i don't have a completely different way of drawing when it comes to character design than from when I'm doing life drawing or cafe sketching... just trying to make things bleed over a little more so the skills translate.

I'm going to go for more of this.

ollie

today me and my buddy ollie were doing cheap caricatures at a street festival in Toronto.

i snuck this one in while he was drawing someone else. no markers here, its all color sticks and probably my best caricature to date.

it was really nice to draw people for cheap... somewhat more inclusive. we got an entirely different crowd than what we would have got at wonderland. I'm using the money i earned today to buy rejects, the amazing book of extreme caricature art by Joe Bluhm. overall, its been a good day.

batters up!

this is what i've been up to today. just a random not really thought out design. it was fun. i think i'm going to go for more color, try and experiment a bit more... working in color at wonderland is really helping me get a bit more comfortable with it.

just trying to sketch more often... i'm not really happy with my draftsmanship and the only way to improve it is to keep on trucking... so here i go.

i should probably be working on other projects... but i just kinda felt like turning my brain off, watching movies and drawing.

A couple of comics

here are two more installments of my comic. nothing to write home about. i think i mostly need to do more planning when I'm laying these out and actually spend a good chunk of time on them. I've felt a chunk uninspired to do more cause of these.... I'm thinking less often much better comics might be a better idea.

chers!

under pressure

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not as big of a fan of this one, but i figure you win some, you lose some. i might as well make my mistakes now.

this one was pretty much a doodle from start to finish. the music theme was added to give it more cohesion than was in the original draft. the blurb at the top was added mainly to tie the whole thing together... but also because the top panel wasn't planned out at all and had no real purpose from the get go.

still, it could be worse.

jason <3

anywhere but here

so, for the summer i'm doing a web comic.

this is the first of a series of autobiographical comics i will be doing for the next couple months(i'm going to try to get one out a week), and if all goes well i hope to build up to bigger stories in time. for the meantime though, this will be my testing ground.

i'll keep anyone interested in reading it updated.

portfolio stuff

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here are some images that i've been developing for my portfolio... trying to lean more towards cutesy fun stuff cause i think i would enjoy doing that the most.

drawings

update 2008

so the forest pans above were my last layout assignment of third semester. i had a lot of fun with it. i was trying to go for a bill Watterson type of forest but i ended up just going to town and doing whatever the hell i wanted with it. (click to full view) the top one was a five field repeating pan with three overlays(which i neglected to scan). that was the biggest layout i have done yet but i was able to pump it out in a couple of hours. the other one was a small two field pan with a slight up shot.

overall there were five full layouts with characters and all but with this i think you get the point. I'm thinking of bringing the main one to inks and full color then compositing it with a walk cycle going through it for a demo reel that is to come.

this is probably the best thing i have produced to date, everyone loved it and i got a damn good mark on it too!

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this was a model sheet i did for my final character design project. I decided i wanted to design a really pampered, nerdy kid who was trying desperately to break out of the fascist dictatorship that was his home under his mothers rule. it was fun to design but i don't think it was as good as it could have been given the amount of time i was given to work on it. I also designed the mother but the drawings aren't worth posting.

the purpose of the assignment was to design two characters and make a maquette out of one of them. so, i did a maquette out of my punk kid which overall turned out well for a first attempt. i would post photo's of it but i unfortunately didn't take any and don't have it anymore either.