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KON: Chapter 4 Sneak Preview + Professionalize your Comic

2020-01-14 03:46:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Life Update + Apology

Hey everyone.  It's been a minute...and a half. Hope all of you are having a somewhat good/ great start to the year. First and foremost, I want to dish out an apology for being such a shitty Patreon host. My girlfriend, Janice, had to give me a well deserved lecture on why I need to take this more seriously. So, I'm going to begin by sharin...

Planning a Scene for a Comic

I often get asked where I get ideas for my images. Most of the time, it's from movies or shows I admire. In this tutorial I will show you the process I use to plan, create and finalize a scene for a comic. This is not a scene from Kings of Nowhere: Vol 1, but it is definitely a scene in which I could see them in. 

2018-11-26 22:07:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Lesson Teaser

Hey guys. I'm sorry I haven't posted the newest lesson yet. I went deep into this one. I will be posting it tomorrow as I'm just about to wrap it up. It's 1am here and I should be getting to bed. My bad for making you guys wait. Here's a teaser for what's in store!

Developing my Style through Ink

In preparation for my next book, which will be drawn traditionally, I have been putting forth extra time in the day to strengthen my inking skills. My style changes depending on the medium I use. The reason I didn't go with ink for the first book was because I felt like I wasn't too good at it, and that I was much better using a pencil since that's...

Creating a Scene using Perspective & Staging

As a comic book artist, my main goal is to have my audience feel like they're watching a movie, or a show when they look at my work. I try to keep that same feeling even when I work on a stand alone piece. I want people to see an art piece and say "I'd love to see this as an anime or a movie!" When I was asked by @celestine.art to critique his work...

Learning How to Crosshatch

INTRODUCTION

Crosshatching is a useful technique used to add depth and shadows to a form. Its mainly used in manga and comics but can be used for just about any illustration. 

Takehiko Inoue, the artist behind the best selling...

Anatomy of the Legs

The legs are the biggest mass of muscles on your body. Before...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Livestream

This is a live stream from earlier today. I apologize for the horrible quality. As soon as I reach my first goal here on Patreon, I will look for much better filming equipment (camera and audio) so you guys can view my work in high definition. I hope this will suffice for now, plus I answer some questions some of you might have, and you also get to...

Learning to Draw the Torso

When beginning to learn anything new, one must first figure out how the form would look simplified before moving in to add details. The human torso, or core, can be broken into 3 segments from the front. You have the chest region, then underneath is the abs an...

Sketches to Improve my Inking

I've lately hit a conundrum. I really enjoy doing my comic digitally, but lately due to Inktober and me just messing around with ink, I've started to fall for the feeling of traditional once more. I know this is a huge leap, but I plan to do the next book all in ink. There is a feeling that I just can't replicate from my ipad, no matter how good pr...

Mastering the Anatomy of the Arm and Hand

The best way to begin drawing a complex form like the arm is learning to simplify it to it's most basic shapes. The shoulder is a round triangle, the upper arm is a simpler cylindrical form,...

Enter: Zatoichi the Blind Samurai

I hope this got you guys a little more excited for whats to come in Volume 1. I'll be posting an anatomy tutorial this weekend, so stay tuned!

Fabric Folds: Pants and Sweaters

Something many artists, including myself struggle with is being able to draw fabric without having to guess and make up where folds might or might not appear. What I tend to do is study a specific pose like how you see in the example above, and I repeat it until I feel more comfortable drawing it. The reason I did this demo was because I drew a cha...

Chimpanzee Head Tutorial!

It's been a while but I finally got a tutorial out. I hope this is thorough and helpful. I have another one coming ;)

Page 22 Rough

I think I spent way too much time on the roughs for this page...hehe. 

Descent

I used to always create scenes where a character can traverse through. It's fun imagining a route for them to travel through. It also makes posing characters easier. I wanna do this more.

Late night session

I'm better at sketching the closer it is to bed time.

Music: Lo Divino from the upcoming Kings of Nowhere soundtrack by eyelovebrandon

https://soundcloud.com/eyelovebrandon 

Building Characters!

Yay! Part 2! For this segment, I wanted to show the importance of using simple shapes in building complex characters. For the first character (let's call him Big Bruce), I wanted to make a big, bad, bodyguard kinda fella. Big Bruce is an army veteran. He saw some dark shit, and kept his mouth shut about it. He's lived life working under bad peop...

Mugen process video

I hope y'all enjoy the vid!

Mugen (W.I.P)

Im currently having a go at one of my favorite characters from any show, Mugen. I can't wait to show you guys the finished version. For now, here's an almost done sketch. 

Character Creating!

I was commissioned to draw two characters based on certain qualities and traits. I had some fun figuring them out. I'd like to know, what kind of a person do you think the girl and guy are? Happy-go-lucky? Spiteful? Slacker? What's their names? How old ...

Head Tutorial Part 1.

Merry Christmas! I wanted to give you guys something that helped me when it came to making comics... learning how to draw heads and faces! This is the first part to many, where I'll go into detail on the process of building characters. I personally struggled with drawing faces that didn't all look the exact same. To change that,...

Kings of Nowhere, Page 9

Hey guys, recently I reorganized my pricing for the previous posts, changing "Reginald's" to "Basilisk's". I realised I promised you all tutorials and I wasn't providing it. I will be posting more pages from my comic because that is what this patreon is about. I am also working on my first proper tutorial on facial design and anat...

Kings of Nowhere Sketch Session

These are just but a very few of the characters from Kings of Nowhere. Every so often I gotta spend several hours just drawing them out over and over so I don't forget how they look.

Trunks Process Video

For all you lovely patrons!  

Music

Moods - Love For The City

Trunks Tutorial

Trunks was always a favourite character of mine on Dragonball Z. For this piece, I really wanted to grab his ready to fight attitude. With the rough, I tried to capture the liveliness of his pose, his pissed off glance, and the accuracy of the folds in his clothes.

2017-12-21 05:11:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Trunks tutorial releasing tonight

Hey guys! I just wanted to let you all know I will be releasing the step by step detailed tutorial+ video tonight on this marvellous character. 

Garden XYZ : Step by Step with walkthrough

This piece was done as a commission for @eyelovebrandon. He was looking for a Satoshi Kon Opus inspired piece. He wanted random elements in there to help fortify the chaotic atmosphere. I wanted to do something similar but with my own ta...

Character Building

These are early passes at creating the Moreno family. Bili Moreno, Toni Moreno, and Annabelle Torres. I try to play with as many emotions as I can just so I get a better feel of the character and whether I like how they look after the 5th time drawing them. It's crucial to enjoy the features of that specific character, because in the process of ...