Giving some attention

...to my blog.

I recently got Photoshop CS4, in thanks to my mom.

So, I'm playing around with it.
Just drew this last evening, and finished the inks this morning.

Coloring is a different task entirely I think. But if anyone has any ideas on digital coloring, let me know.

Cathy (c) Jamel Jones.

Art Love Magic's "Underground Event"

...is Next Saturday, Jan 30th!!
So Cathy wants you to go.

No I'm not going as an artist. I'm going as a volunteer. But there's all sorts of art and music there you can enjoy. I recommend if you're in art and stuff, show up.
It's from 8Pm until 12midnight. $10 admittance
Janette Kennedy Gallery
within South Side On Lamar
1409 S. Lamar, Dallas, TX 75215
ArtLoveMagic


Also next week!
Jan 30th - 31st
Dallas Comic Con!!!
Which is 11Am until 6Pm on Saturday.
12Noon until 4Pm on Sunday.

Adam Hughes. In person. omg.
Also Terry Moore who is a freakin' amazing artist doing creator owned work.
Tim Sale, Mark Brooks. And more.


....Yeah. I can go to both.

For the Day: In Color

Decided to post this recently finished picture of Cathy.
OMG She's colored!!

Yeah. Colored with Prismacolor Markers.

Though, I don't like the shirt.
If anyone has an idea for a better t-shirt, let me know.

Laterz

Essentially, it's like watercolor you can drink.

The name of the game at Art & Coffee was...coffee.

For the longest, I wanted to do something like this, but never could figure out how to get the lead/ink to stay while I painted.

The solution was to use blue or red lead as the sketch, paint, let dry, then draw in graphite over the sketch lines.

After I'm done, unless you want it then, I usually spray fixative over it. You can't smell the coffee anymore, but it keeps the graphite from smearing.

I tried using ink after painting too, but it ends up making too much contrast for the image.

Also, I haven't experimented with different blends of coffee. But what makes the mix darker is more coffee ground rather than water. Saxby's coffee was much darker and gave a lot more contrast than Starbuck's brew. But Saxby's had coffee grounds with water instead of just ordered coffee. Go figure.


By the way, I do coffee sketch cards (2'' x 3 1/2'') for $10.
Without it's $5 bucks.

An 8'' x 11 1/2'' with coffee is $20
Same size is $10 without.

Laterz

I'm up at the school scanning things!

The school has a large Epson this-that-and-another-with-4-digit-number-you-can't-buy-me....scanner....perfect for 11 x 17 pages. I think it goes to 12x 17 1/2 or something. Anyways...

Thought I might show the first design sheet for Ivan Greystone; a mercenary, rogue, and professional asshole who can heal from any wound. He's the main character of the story who prefers to keep his past a secret, even from his closest friends. When your secret involves the near destruction of an entire nation and threatened the entire continent (all volunterally), you'd wanna keep it a secret too.

I'll post more when the school's not closing for the day.

This thing took up my time today

And what a thing it is.

Orthographic front view of the creature called the Seethe. Front view, complete with notes to Gene who'll be modeling it in 3D

Side view is next.

June 11th Excercises.

Last one tonight, I promise.

So this is a storyboard I did based on Raphael's School of Athens, circa 1510-1511.
I needed it to be modern, so I added a subway. Why not, right?
The third picture has a reflective surface in it using one of the train's windows.

I probably should finish it. I was having a lot of fun with it before I had to go. These were actually done Thursday afternoon. I drew a lot more than just this that Thursday, but I'll post that tomorrow.

And yeah I did draw today. I'll post it tomorrow too. It's kinda late now.

My next assignment is to finish three sketches of my choice. So fully rendered drawings on comic art board. I've got two weeks, more like a week and a half now. Too much Red Faction 2: Guerrillas did me in. lol.

If you wanna see it finished, let me know. I can probably finish it real quick.

June 10th's Art Excercises, pt2

Cool. I can type up here too.

So this batch of images consists of another scene I wanted to work out, but with the same elements. I took the setting from a Barnes & Nobles Starbucks I go to often. Drew this almost immediately after the 3 drawings of the business man.

The cube is a TransDimentional Flux Device that grants super powers to people for figuring it out....or some such coolness...probably not. Any takers?

Pictures!
1. The Setup
2. Exaggerated
3. Hyper-Exaggerated
4. Security Cam view.

Kinda my progression. #2 I guess would be good for a panel in a page.
#3 would be a better cover....I guess.
What do you think?

June 10th's Art Excercises, pt1

Alright. Show and tell time. I always loved that part of class, but I'd more like to see everyone else' stuff than mine. But I'm slowly getting outta the habit of that and enjoying seeing my stuff online.
Then I wake up the next morning and wonder why I put my stuff up. lol.

Anyways, this batch is from an exercise my art teacher had me do, based on another exercise we both did at Dallas Museum of Art.
Combine an element of classical art (14th - 17th centuryish) with a modern scene. Along with that scene, I had to give 3 variations, or three perspectives, of that one scene. An effect very similar to what you see in manga in their establishing shot/page. And for the kicker, one of those images must include a reflection.

Yeah.

So I tried, and honestly avoided the exercise until last Wednesday the 10th (my lessons are Thursdays), but I found the art history book of my teachers and used it.
So out came these few pictures.

From my point of view, they're not really classically inspired, just good examples of perspective. If something comes to mind, let me know.

I drew a lot of sketches, so these are part one.