Bohemian Art Club: 2012

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Ishi Sampler

Progress is being made on the ISHI comic. I still need to draw one page and digitally manip two panels and the cover could use some help but the other 9 out of 12 pages were ready for color. Illustrator is NOT the way to color comics and I'll be switching to Photoshop for the professional book in the Spring but this is for the Illustrator class and just a zine. Due Monday night! Here is a sample page.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Ishi: Early Work

After last October's Alternative Press Expo, I wanted to start my next project and have another book ready for the conventions next spring. I had several ideas in mind but nothing that would fit into a one-shot format. Flipping through a San Francisco History book, I came across the story of ISHI, one of the last "wild" indians found one hundred years ago.

And so I am off and running with it. The script is done and I've been drawing and inking for the past week or two. It is a slow process and normally I'd have plenty of time but I also want to use this project for my Digital Illustration class.

For the class, I need a 12 page zine ready in about a week from now. Full color and using the tools of Illustrator, which will be interesting since I prefer to color in Photoshop (and I think that is the industry standard too).

At the pace I am going, there is no way I will finish. But since my pages are so detailed, and some of that detail gets lost when I reduce it to the zine size, my friend Melina suggested that I break up the pages and use the panels to make my zine. For example, rather than one 11x17 page of original art = 1 page in the comic, I can turn one page with multiple panels into three pages.

I like Melina's idea so I am treating this zine as a sampler to give people a taste of the story while I save the full story for my own printed comic for Spring 2013.

Monday, October 29, 2012

BASA Costume Party

While I spend Sunday recovering from last night's Halloween party and today's Giant's World Series win celebration, I thought I'd post some photos from last night's party. There were some great costumes from some creative people.