pretty amazing

what freelance illustration is like.

"Hey, wanna make a quick $200? This Greek dude on the left in this picture's opening a hamburger joint and he needs a caricature of himself eating a hamburger, you know, small, compact. Reds, oranges and yellow are the standard colors i think."


Ok, cool, a simple, open-interpretation quickie.

Heres the first mockup:


The first is always a baseline, to see what your client is like, since they never, ever, know what they want.

Yeah, its a bit bizarre but its within the constraints; warm colors, a dude eating a hamburger. I kept it sized to easily fit a business card AND kept the figure one piece so one could, in theory, paper toy it up and stand them upright, if, in fact, one were so inclined to do so. It would have been neat, i assure you.

So i send it in and..

"Dude, are you cwazy? This is for an actual hamburger joint opening up in inland empire. Sorry if i was confusing, i just need a simple line drawing that sorta looks like the guy in the picture, like these sorta:"



Ok, so they just want some crappy, generic hamburger dude. Came to the wrong person for generic, but i'll see what i can do.

Heres the second one, all cleaned up and finished:


Response:
"We prefer something more whimsical or playful like bob's big boy, can you change it?"

No idea why the first email didnt mention any of these details. Plus "whimsical" is just ridiculous.

So anyways heres a couple sketches thatr more "whimsical". The first is a blatant Spumco ripoff and im obviously irritated by the end of the second, giving him pan legs/flute, whimsy-ing that shit right up:



So, a week after the initial email, and 6 days longer than it shouldve taken, i get another email.

"Oh well... These greek a-holes are saying that we took too long and they found someone else. Dicks."

"Awe, fuck those idiots i hope their shop burns down."



And that, in a nutshell, is what its like to freelance.

Heres a New Water PDF, just for you

Ok so i finally got to scan New Water, my home scanner isnt big enough and kept cutting off bits here and there and was generally driving me insane, and PS cs4 cant export to pdf so i had to use stupid Bridge, but yeah.

PDF ARE GO.



It took roughly 3 weeks from concept to finished translation of my good chum Juan Ramos' unfinished short story, New Water, comic style. I even slopped out a cover for it on the quick, awe.

More comics in the future because i like it.

<3

Click here to download the entire 12 page minicomic.

site overhaul coming soonish

mhm

intro fun

i am watching these

i really do

oooonce we watched a lazy wooorld go byyyyyyyyy

good morning foxes.

last stretch of new water

just got some terrible lettering to doooo dooooo

got some new comics

Its cool when you stumble on a stew that has a lot of ingredients that youre aware of separately, but oblivious that the ingredients have met at any place in time.

I had no idea this was written and originally illustrated by Gerard Way, the singer of My Chemical Romance, nor did i know that James Jean did most of the cover art.

Seeing The White Violin enticed me, thats it.

reowr.





I like Ben Templesmith, the first thing i read of his was Fell: Feral City, written by Sir Ellis, and i think everything he puts out, is at the very least, consistently interesting and nice and dreamblurish.

Not only did he illustrate Singularity 7, but he wrote it too. Cool characters, awesome visuals, neat story and solid panelwork. Theres a little mini comic at the end too about love, awe.

Respect, mister Templesmith.

remember this?

I've been trying to find out what this was for years, with only this picture and the memory of some weird name like dormandowst or grumbledork. (giggle)

I finally mined it to doom and found it on some random list of clockpunk related works on a steampunk wiki.

Gormenghast motherfuckers.

its a four hour-long episode tele miniseries on the bbc 10 years ago based on novels by mervyn peake, which are supposed to be kinda mind-numbingly dark and detailed. he was incapacitated and died before he could really go crazy with it i understand.

im watching it now.

its neat.

Good Morning Sinners.

[This is BonesandRobots]

wow

photobucket sucks.

beautiful things arent allowed anymore.

Heres my links





heres the photos


the first one was the original photo without all the text, so im pretty sure its not a copyright issue, as this closeup is still on there



heres two more that arent on there, for good measure



leading me to believe that its been deemed offensive in some way

who the fuck thinks these are offensive, theyre amazing

eat my butt photobucket