Batman vs. Predator pages

This assignment was a really cool assignment our first one actually of the semester. It holds a special place for me because of personal reasons (read here) but let's get to it.

First the thumbnails. This is actually the most difficult part, since this is where the storytelling comes alive. After coming up with some decent layouts I proceed to do the digital roughs on a Wacom Intuos 3 for both pages.

It is very important to always, always look for reference pictures, specially if its something you have no idea what it looks like or in this case, a city such as Gotham City. The city is a character on its own so you can't just draw New York, you have to draw Gotham.

Roughs 2nd page

The next step is to print them full size in blue lines, this way I can do the pencils on the actual page. I used to do the light box thing, but this is just more convenient, since it saves me 1 step.

This time I tried some sound effects on the actual page instead of letting the letterer do the job. I did some sketches first.

Final stage is the inking stage, which I have to practice much more by the way. I experimented a lot on this pages, specially on the first one. I learned a thing or two.

 That's it! Piece of cake right?

All comments are welcome and encouraged. See you next time!

Blacksad

This was a project for Basic Drawing II. The goal of the assignment was to draw a scene with 1 or 2 point perspective background and at least 3 characters, showing foreground, middle ground and background.

I Chose Blacksad because it is a killer book and I have never drawing anthropomorphic characters in a while.

Rough

Background in Manga Studio Ex 4

TIghter rough.

Final pencils.

Death of a Superhero

 Death of a superhero assignment for Narrative art. This was actually my final assignment for Adam Kubert's class. In this assignment we had to show the death of a superhero without actually showing the super hero.

Thumb and roughs

Pencils

Inks

There is actually a couple of things that are not so hidden on the image, but I put them just to give hints of who was it that I killed before I placed the title.

Larger versions: Pencils [here] and inks [here] 

Batman Wrap Around Cover

Bats!

And now the process:

1. Digital sketch

2. Tighter lines  (badguys)

 3. Tighter lines  (goodguys)

4. Character Adjustments

 5. Finished pencils

6. Final Inks

Done as a project for one of my classes. The instructions were design a wrap around cover with two distinct focal points, one in front and one in the back that together could work as a poster.

I don't have the colored version yet, because the only thing that I have finished after the inks is just the color flats, and I don't consider that to be worthy of being published. So bear with me, I'll post it when I'm done with the colors.

Till then, rock on.