Bright Bill Comics and Cartoons

Sunday, June 5, 2016

Kids with Swords

I don't know why I love the idea of modern looking kids with ancient looking, demonic weapons.

I did this sketch a few weeks ago and really liked it, but I wanted to make it MORE than it was already. I dragged and dropped into into a photoshop file and did that.

Here's the rest of the process:

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Here's a cover I did for Me and Charlie's book that we are sending around to publishers. I colored two other covers that Charlie drew, but I did this entire one. Here's the whole process. You can see the rest of the pages we have done for our book on my site here.

Here are the two covers that Charlie drew and I colored.

Also, we did a comic about Fallout 4, because that game has been taking up a lot of my free time. Here's a link to the full comic, and follow us on tumblr for other comics we will be doing.

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Staying Busy

So, I graduated six months ago and I've been frantically working on both Comic Pages and other stuff with Charlie. I'm gonna be trying to post more often on here as well as all of my other social media.

Here is a link to Charlie's and I webcomic tumblr: We are going to be posting new stuff there hopefully very often.

http://ratcatstudios.tumblr.com

Also, in the last few months Charlie and I have been sending out pitches to the major independent publishers for the book we are trying to get off the ground. All the pages we had done before are being redone, and things look...hopeful? We stay positive.

You can check out the pages we've done here:

http://www.brightbillcc.com/ratcat-studios.html

Keep a look out for us on the shelves in the future!

Monday, April 6, 2015

Improvement through Hardwork

We had to make a postcard to send out to potential employers as a requirement for our marketing class. I really wanted to redo this piece that I did for a "figure in motion" project almost exactly a year ago. And the results are pretty nice.

This was the original piece. It's not awful, but it's definitely student level work. The motion is there, the composition could be worse, and I really did like the teeth and tongue on the bottom (as a sketch).

But there are some obvious issues here. Her anatomy really wasn't figured out, the drawing is sloppy, and that yellow spaghetti mess was supposed to be a lightning bolt. But I really did like the drawing, and I knew I could do it better now.

I changed some obvious things like the outfit and the sword, and the colors are WAY more saturated, but that's mostly how I work now. This is a huge improvement from the original, and it took me probably half the the time.

This is really attributed to the fact that from the time I did the original to now, I really haven't stopped working on my stuff. Over the summer, after junior year, I really didn't think my work was going to be at a senior level. I felt like I was going to fall behind the rest of my class, so I spent a lot of time watching tutorials and drawing all the time.

For the last 3 months I've been working on my thesis. Basically drawing, inking, and coloring every single day. I've learned a lot in a short time, and I attribute that to the fact that I've been working hard and always pushing myself to make things better and better. There's no easy way around getting better, besides just working at it everyday.