Work.

Been really busy with school the last few days to actually get anything worth while done. My portfolio for midterms in drawing is dew next week, need two pieces I think.

I started working on some idea projects, got a new way of shading things and sketching things out that really helps (all thanks to Mr. Grass), this guy is amazing. During American History class came up with some ideas of a bonafide Revolutionary era Punisher, sketched him out at a desk with Jefferson, looks pretty sick, will post later. I also REALLY need to work on the finished pencils and inks of the Morpheus Tales but I am slacking.

I got offered to work on a sci fi novel, I will be doing concept art and the finished art for the cover I believe. This is exciting because this guy has other books published that have sold pretty well by what I have heard. It is a glorified Rated R version of Star Wars, lots of aliens and space ships I guess.

Started working on Hellas Mounds shirt a hour ago, just going to say, very Frazetta looking.

Recent findings.

Just thought I'd share this with people.
http://progressiveboink.com/archive/robliefeld.html

Progress.

So this past Monday Sam and I went to Central Art supply. I needed to pick up a few things, this place is small, but it's a nice store, it's local, only one, run by a man named Pat and His wife. They have two well behaved boxers that roam around the store. They carry what alot of stores don't, certain specific types of ink, copic pens. I had to get some new drawing paper and some new bristol, they were out of my prefered drawing paper, 11x14 canson 300 series. But I did end up picking up some nice 9x12 canson 2ply bristol. I used it tonight, I like it. Had to go to Michaels for my drawing tablet. Got Sam a little 4"x5" canvas board. At Michaels she got some felt that she want's to make these characitures with, I think it's a great idea. She want's to sell them on etsy. She is also going to make these ingenious little stuffed animals, kinda rustic folky look. I think it's pretty cool.

I love this class im taking with my teacher Mr. Grass, his way of teaching is so easy to follow. He isn't hard, but he knows what you need to do and is honest. I've learn alot already, I have had hard habits, especially in figure drawing, these gesture drawing techniques he taught us are great.

New stuff soon, I am still working on the Morpheus Tales stuff.

Westbound and down.

So last weekend I took a much needed break from my life and went with Sam, her friend Lea and we went to Ft. Lauderdale. It was pretty fun, we didn't do the whole Miami thing but 2 hours. I hate that place, we intended spending alot of time in swamps and woods but weather had other plans. We decided to just drive around alot, spent time at the mall there and went to the most amazing comic shop I've seen. It's called Tates, it's in Lauderhill, one of the many psudeo townships in that god forsaken town.

It won the Eisner award this year. I bought a very cool Sabretooth figure I had never seen before. Probably the best one I've ever seen made. Sam got a bunch of vinyl toys she wanted (among other Hello Kitty things at the mall). This place was huge, I do have pictures of it. This place was two stories tall and about 3 shops long. Not much in the name of comics, various back issues, new stuff. Alot of indie comics and a good number of graphic novels. They were selling the Wolverine Origins movie the weekend before it came out, I thought that was cool. They had a small art room upstairs called the Bear and Bird gallery. It was like indie art and etsy style vinyl and wood figures. Most the art was done by Tattoo artists so I didn't look all that much.

They had more anime and vinyl figures so Sam was really impressed. They had a large selection of other things, so I wasn't too thrilled when they lacked on comic book related stuff. What I did like was they had a library of indie artist and comic book artist books. They had alot of instruction guides, and drawing materials. We drove around and found funny signs, found the only 24 hour Wal-Mart in the area, got lost in this crazy cemetary, Sam drove over a grave.

I drove the way back home, through a typical hurricane size Florida storm. We ate out alot, more than I wished, but we had no other options. We were kinda sick of it. The mall was nothing to write home about, typical, nothing fancy. The hotel was kinda disgusting too, roaches were scene and the room smelled like smoke. The place had a nite club that was filled and you could hear all night. Was kinda annoying but had a nice mixed crowed, the place was rather relaxing. Nice people that we met. Alot of people on business. No one goes to Browered except for Summer I think.

The girls did take a dip in the pool where we met a rather interesting fellow. He was from Lee county I think. He came to take a emotional management course that he said cost him a pretty penny. He was pretty ripped and had nice luggage. He was looking for hot tub but he went into the pool. I felt bad because he told me the only reason he came over on our side was because the steps were there. I guess I had a defensive vibe he thought, like I was watching the girls like they were my pride and I was the male Lion. He told us about the course, He said his "father" abused his mother a bit and his brother and him as well. I say father because he told him at 23 when he was on his death bed he wasn't his real father.

He loved him I take it but he said that it shook him up. He took the class, they had a anger session. He said he is good at calming him self down, he didn't like confrontation. They were trying to channel his dad, it wasn't working, then the guy spit in his face and started pushing him and it trigured it, he said he took tae kwon doe and he ended up elbowing the guy in the nose and flipping him over by reflex. They later got into it again and he got through it all. He is now able to confront it and channel it to something else. I liked the guy, he was very nice, very open. He was about 5'8" I think, curly hair, took care of him self, worked out alot, that was his release. I think he said he was an IT specialist.

Like I said, I drove home, everyone was asleep, I listened to Old Crow Medicine Show the way home. It was nice, quite, nothing happened. It was woods and swamp the whole way. I liked it, it was night time, it relaxed me, I got alot of thinking done oddly enough.

Here are some pictures.

This is the hellstorm we went through majority of the way.











Rest stop in the swamp.







One of the most beautiful drives, Big Cypress national park, the orchid capitol of America.


One of the things I got Sam for our one and a half year.









THE AMAZING TATE'S!









The drive home.

Morpheus Tales Layout

I knew what I wanted after I finished= reading the first sentence of the story but I wanted to work on some different variations. I ended up coming up with an idea for a mix of all 4.

Other sketches

Here is some other work I did.

Recap

Ok, busy week, finished all the work for my clients. I just finished doing the prelim layouts of the image for Morpheus Tales, story is pretty good. Here is the work I did for At The End of The World and Mondhaurn.

Catch up

So this week has been full of news. I finished the layout of the page, I am going to fuck around with some of the coding though. I did some new work I like alot and put it up. It took me awhile to pick what I wanted. I just finished a new piece last night which looks great to me. I will post it tomorrow. I finished Devil's Dinner, Mondhaurn, At The End of The World. I am all caught up on everything, except one band (will not be named).

I also may be doing work for Kenoma (ex members of Rune) and I am going to be doing work for this magazine called Morpheus Tales, they print short horror stories and have comic like sequential art next to it.

By the way, anyone wanting some of the beaten path comics, definetly check out Haunted Tank, that comic is amazing.

New band practice next week, wish me luck.