Artworqz 12/21/2011

Greeting to the internet people! Hope all is well with you nameless faceless folks. Today I wanted to present this cool website that I found a few days ago. It is an online sketching application by odopod. It is pretty groovy. It gives you a selection of colors to choose from, which are pretty much tertiary colors, so nothing vibrant. There are small pencil styles, thicker marker tips that get bigger when you swipe them faster. After a while, it becomes very intuitive however, I’m still flipping my stylus on my Wacom to erase. They have a button to activate the eraser. Also there is a button for a whiteout kind of thing. You can review the whole thing to see in like a speed painting movie. Of course, you can also save it or trash it. The work done on here ends up having this really painterly-sketchbook vibe to it. It is amazing.

Here is the first one I did. I used my Wacom Tablet:

WATCH THE PAINTING PROCESS HERE

Depending on your skills and patience (which in my opinion are sometimes one in the same!) you may also be able to sketch pretty epic stuff with your computer mouse.
Here is one my girlfriend, Katy did with just a track pad on a PC, which I would not have the patience for:

WATCH HER DRAWING PROCESS HERE

It plays it like a Speed-painting and it’s very interesting to watch.

Comic 12-16-2011

Here is some more personified mumbo-jumbo for yinz to look at.

Censoring

Ooh, shiny new post! No words of wisdom today, lucky you!

-Jeremy K

Had to match Abe’s efforts, now didn’t I? I’ve been logging some Illustrator hours, and I really like the program. A lot better than Photoshop sometimes! It is a designers pal, and I want to hug it.

I’ve been challenged lately to put my work out there even though it may not even be good, just because the practice will improve my skills. Something is better than nothing. If you’re anything like me you stop almost as soon as you start because you just worry constantly about originality or skill. Lets work on that, k? More junk, less worry, happier, better art, happier, great art.

-Jeremy K

 

Comic 12-06-2011

It’s been a while. If we’ve had readers at all, they’ve given up on us. Oh well.

Above, we have a comic, not much anything really, but took me about an hour to create. I used GIMP and Sketchbook Pro Copic Edition. I got the idea of these faceless folk from Anders Nilsen, who is just a really amazing graphic novelist. He wrote “Dogs & Water“. Check it out. Amazon has a few sample pages online. If you read it, you’ll want more. It is just one of those books that forces you to step back and take a serious look at your life. It’s not about the journey, but rather the destination. The faceless guys are found in his book, Monologues for Calculating the Destiny of Black Holes. I haven’t bought the book yet, but I’ve read some of in on Amazon.com, and I also read about the dudes in an interview with Anders.

I recently moved to a new state. I am away from a lot of my equipment. Most of my comics here are hand drawn because that is what I am comfortable with. The comic image above was completely rendered digitally. It’s new to me, but I’m getting. Hopefully, I will develop a better comic-producing process that I can work into a routine. Once I get myself a good scanner, I hope to put some more stuff up. Enjoy.

Auto-Cannibalism

That’s just weird…

Holy schamoly! We ditched you guys for sooo long! I’ve been starting school again, and I got some of my stuff put up in a gallery (and have made sales doing so!), and recently attended my sisters marriage (Congrats!).

I ‘m using some new things here. I’m using only web-safe colors, and I uploaded this as a .gif because it seemed to keep the integrity of my .tiff file a lot better. Hopefully this is an improvement and noticeable!

I’ve been doing a lot of studying obviously, but I’ve been focusing on the professionalism of artists in the trade. I’ve known I’m an amateur, but I’m starting to figure out how so and what’s keeping me from achieving greater results. This comic is not a good example of how I’m improving, but I needed to throw you guys a bone to stay happy. I honestly am beginning to get a clearer picture of what it means to make it in the art community. It ain’t pretty, but I think the work is the funnest, so I’m reaching anyway.

Jeremy K

HandBird

Do it!

Sorry, no news, really.

-Jeremy K

Comic 06-08-11

So, this particular comic took very long to color. The first photoshop comic coloring that I’ve done. Many thanks to Jeremy for walking me through this process. If you would like Jeremy to walk through this coloring process with you, trying clicking on the brand new page.

This comic started out as a piece of paper that I wanted to doodle on while my girlfriend watched “Lost”. I drew in the three panels, without knowing what I was going to put in them; I just knew that a decent short-short story could potentially be told with three panels. The idea came to and here we are. Nothing great to brag about as far as the joke itself goes, but I’m very happy about the coloring mainly because it took so dang long. One of these days, when I don’t have to find time to go to the computer lab and I can just wake up in the crack of dawn (or whenever inspiration hits me) and do comicish stuff. I am very happy though with the results I am getting here at the MSU campus computers. I’m sorry for writing so much fluff. Next time, maybe I shall have something more substantial to say.

“Oh, look, Mom: a maniac!”

I wasn’t planning on posting this, I was actually just showing Abe my system for coloring my work and he started giggling uncontrollably at the text I dropped in as a place holder. You gotta love happy mistakes. Or maybe this just goes to show that normal comments paired with eerie images only make the image freakier. Hopefully you got a giggle out of it too!

I’m working on a portfolio to take around town to see if people want to hang my work up and sell it. I figure it’ll at least be a way to gain some rep and street cred. So far I’ve got four pieces I’m tinkering with and preparing. I may make a fool out of myself but it’s better than staying at home. Thanks for reading!

-Jeremy K

Who Knew?

Another post so soon? You bet! I like dragons, and I like to draw them. Also, you may have noticed I like to draw horrendous makeup! Don’t ask me why because I really couldn’t explain well, it’s just fun to draw the grotesque.

My attempt to draw more has been going alright, I’m not drawing constantly or anything yet, but I’ve been filling my spare time with some art, and honestly that’s more than I have been doing. I want to polish my skills, but more than that I want to foster an attitude of creativity and enjoyment. I know. Artists spend their time angst-ing and developing their smokers lung. Well I’ll try it my way first. Thanks for reading!

-Jeremy K