Intipati / Pg. 9 / Work In Progress

Finally, some free time to continue the personal project.



.. And an extra sketch before bed:

Aging.

Is this the sign of old age? I'm not easily impressed with anything anymore. Whatever movie soundtracks out there today aren't exciting enough, no good new music (bands etc.), movies sucks overall, no more wow when i see comics and paintings by artists today, and I think art is dead, list goes on.

Not that I make the best art or record the best music. Hell, I'm still struggling to be half decent an artist and I don't even direct films. But man this feeling sucks ass.

The line in Dogma comes to mind: "When you're a child, the glass is small, so it gets filled up easily. As you get older, the glass gets bigger, it takes more to fill it."

RAAAAANTTTTT.

Intipati Pg. 8 (W.I.P)

Ever since the Storm Lion shut down stunt, I've been sending out my portfolio to almost everywhere - no replies from anyone yet. I guess they're all busy with Comic Con. In the mean time I'm gonna continue my Intipati project - I hope I can finish it before December.

I'm planning to self-publish this as a one-shot book, to get an ISBN and to make it available for online purchase. Also will hopefully be able to launch it at Comic Fiesta 2010. Fingers crossed.

I understand that self-publishing will be expensive and the price will be a bit higher than normal comics out there since it will be a print on demand thing, but even if I only have 5 people buying it I'm happy.

Blacklight: Tango Down

Blacklight: Tango Down (One Shot)
Story by Jason Dean Hall & Eric Lieb
Written by Jared Gerritzen & Ian Stephens
Pencils & cover art by Zid
Interior colours by Puppeteer

My first comic with Storm Lion will be out by Sand Diego Comic Con, hopefully. Based on the sci-fi shooter video game from Ignition Entertainment and Zombie Studios, Blacklight: Tango Down one shot (Not to be confused with my online comic based on Tsuburaya's celestial sentinels) follows an elite cover ops team as they fight off zombies while trying to rescue an officer from behind enemy lines.

Interior previews:







You can check out the official game site here at playtangodown.com

Intipati: Page 6, 7

So I've decided to give up on it and settle it like this so I can move on to the next page.

Intipati, Page 6 (Work In Progress)

Finally, a breather from work. Managed to draft page 6 of Intipati however the success of the page is elusive to me. Yeah the landscape doesn't make sense mostly because it IS a dream-like sequence after all - surreal as much as it can be. But SOMETHING is amiss..

Then again I may have found myself in a slump. Stuck with the work in progress for now so I'm leaving the spread for a while and do other things. Feedback, anyone?

ONLINE COMICS ONLINE

Retrojak is now online, and it's in English! Now you can read the series including issue #2 that was not published in 2005.



Intipati has it's own site now, too! I hope you'll find these comics if not that great, at least amusing to read :)

Intipati: Page 5 + Black Light Fan Art

It's nice to be able to end the weekend night with a completion of a page. I foresee myself taking my own sweet time on this project.. Or it will most probably take life into its own into a long, dwindled narrative.



After seeing the pages so far, I wish I was endowed with the eloquence of language to be able to pair the art with interesting - if not pretentious - poetry captions. Maybe when it's all done I'll see what I can think of. A collaboration, perhaps.

On a side note, today I received a Black Light fan art from Plue:



It feels strange to see yourself painted as the character in your own comic :P You can check out Black Light on Myspace for more fan art submission.

Intipati: Page 5 (Work In Progress)

I finally got the time to continue this comic. Felt like sharing my process here as usual. Nothing great but hey it's my fucking blog!



Speaking of sharing, saw this the other day and I couldn't resist snapping a shot!

Intipati: Page 4

Temptation is always pivotal...

Page Trois

Digital cynicism.

Page deux

Trop de films artistiques!

Substance

An impulsive short comic I had an idea one day, out of frustration towards the superficial world. Will be drawing this every moment I'm free. Should be about 6-10 pages. For now, here is page 1:

City of Dust

I am finally allowed to post this online. Here are the covers I did for City of Dust #1 and #2 with Steve Niles. The first one is an homage to the old Exorcist film poster.


City of Dust #1


City of Dust #2

Black Light Online

December 27th 2007 :)

Ga Ga - Do Do Do Do Do

Growing up reading comics, one of the things in japanese sequentials that fascinates me as a kid is the treatment of sound effects in manga. It still does! Even though the katakana characters meant nothing to me it still gave me the impression of... sound.

Up to this day, I still feel that japanese sound effects still work best beyond comparison. The characters themselves, are, well, works of art.

Okay. I'm babbling. I did this after work today - 12:51 - the antagonist of my free time comic, Ultra Jiddo.

I.....'m gonna have to change the title soon.

Dark(er) Hunger

A work in progress of what would be the cover for Dark Hunger manga. Apparently the client saw the illustration and wanted a painted version of it. So... I'm painting over the previous artwork.

I haven't painted anything in 5 months. This is taking me a while to do..

EDIT: Apparently the client changed their mind. Wanting the anime look to the manga cover they rolled back to their initial decision: Cell shaded illustration. Only they requested the colour palette to match the original red hue done by previous artist.