The Adventure Continues!

Here's another process post on the last thing I finished. Super motivated since NYCC is right around the corner. Hoping to finish a bunch of new stuff before then.

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:

More Comics

Me and Charlie did a comic about The Division. Unfortunatly now that I'm level 30 and he is at, like, 18, we won't be having as many adventures in the Dark Zone. 

Click here to see the whole thing.

Comic Covers and More

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.

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!

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.

New Location for Ratchet and Dingo

Ratchet and Dingo is now moved over onto our new tumblr, so follow us there for more cool stuff.

http://ratcatstudios.tumblr.com

Scratch & Sniff with Ratchet & Dingo: The Mice

Inks and Collaborative effort with Charles Ferguson-Avery

Scratch & Sniff with Ratchet and Dingo: The Shed

Inks and Collaborative Effort by Charlie Ferguson-Avery

Scratch & Sniff with Ratchet and Dingo: The Possum

Collaborative Effort and Inks by Charlie Ferguson-Avery

Instagram

SO I've started an Instagram, it's easier to continuously post on multiple sites with it. I'm posting a lot of stuff that has to do with my senior thesis so check it out!

Hulk

Milestones

Sometimes the end result of a piece isn't based on what skill you had going in,

but what you learned while doing it.

Comic Preview

Me and my roommate have been working on something for a while now, heres a first preview of it.

Colors by me, Pencils by Charlie

SOI Submission Progress

  For Senior Studio we are actually making a project out of our SOI submissions. I'm working on the colors right now, so the final will be posted next week.

Figured I'd post my process so far.

Original Sketch

Here is my original sketch that came from my thumbnail, which had the basic principle. The hand giant robot hand in the foreground was too small in regards to the ones in the background, So I used tracing paper to make some adjustments.

Tracing Paper Adjustments

 I made the hand larger and also foreshortened it a bit. After I made some other adjustments I pieced together all the separate elements in photoshop and then sketched what would be my final piece.

Digital Sketch

 I ended up looking at it for a while and decided I hated all the black space in the foreground.The robot eye was off center and honestly I thought it just looked kind of lazy with all the black space in the crevices of the robot.

Final Adjustments

The changes definitely pushed the piece farther, I also cropped it to get rid of that gross white space on the right.

Final Inks

These are my final inks which I did with microns and some pens I got off of JetPen.