Holy bajeesus! The working, the gaming!! what a month!

so yeah demons souls is super awesome... totally got it day 1...... and then came uncharted 2. Oh damn. .... and then wait what is this!? Tekken6! jeez! its a good thing i let my friend borrow tekken otherwise I'd be all over that! Well anyway, check this shit out! Capcom has this crazy costume contest prize on their site. I loved devil may cry 4 and that motor sword 1/1 scale replica is just about the coolest replica ive ever seen. well damn. k well back to work. issue 2 is at 40% ITS DUE DEC 1ST!

Demon's Souls!!!

Yeah, This is going to be the best shit ever. I need to get some good work in before this game comes out because it will consume my life. Read this review if you dont believe me!!

its funny how everyweek became once a season......

I have started issue 2(actually issue 3 please see previous post) of Critical Millenium. This is the working title and I believe that is how it will be published. I have not yet posted any images what so ever of this comic because I wasnt sure if I could. I suppose i will just have to post partial pages or just panels, i dont know. Its sorta been a pain in the ass for me to get going on this as I have been on a work hiatus for some time now. But its getting easier and I have been trying to work in a new way (seeeeecrets). Coming soon from, well, me i guess, is a new window image for use at the Time Machine (giant hobby shop in Manchester CT). They will put this in their new branch in Stratford. The image is 99 inches wide by 12 High.... i think perhaps i may create a repeating image. yeah thats the stuff. that way they print a roll!

The Old Ones

I might as well get this going again considering I have accomplished everything I was trying to do in the last 5 months or so. So here is how it goes. The first two issues of my comic were combined to form one large first issue. This shortened the production schedule of the first 7 issues and so the whole thing got pushed back. The release date is now March2010 and I have been doing other randomness ever since. I am working on a "secret project" that hopefully wont be too time consuming and a painting for a planet of the apes novel. This should be sweet. Starenko is working on this book too so i guess i can say that i worked with him in some odd way. --- ok yeah so thats whats up with me.
On an unrelated note, I felt that i needed some inspiration for my own work and took out 3 books from the library. 1) The Audubon Society book of Instects 2) H.P. Lovecraft collection 3)Encyclopedia of the Unexplained. I have this theory that if I read these books at the same time, I will make something awesome. I have always liked that "Lepidopterous(sic)" (chitinous flying insect like) look for things that are supposed to supernatural or otherworldly. It makes things seem more plausable and with the HP and the Occult book driving the feel and context of the thoughts in my head with the look and detail found in the Insect book Im sure ill be able to make something awesome. ...... alas no one will ever read this so I will just have to hang my head in shame and say, "till next time"

FEVER!!

Popup book illustrations? No problem! Tshirt design? suuuure. Coloring an entire comic... ah dammit this is harder than i thought. Considering the way i work my book has a tendency to get very muddy looking very fast depending on which blending mode im using. Due to the death of my grandfather i have been away for a few days and now i need to work harder than ever in order to get this book out the door on time-ish. I will make my grandfather proud and work my ass off. it is a shame he will never see the finished product. Project ETA: T-minus 1 week. Departure date T-minus 4weeks 1day.... 4WEEKS 1 DAY!? I move in 4 weeks!!!???

The times.... they are a' changin'

Ah yes soon I will be moving from Brooklyn, NewYork, my home for the past 3 years, to Manchester, Connecticut... with my parents. This in an attempt to help them pay off my student loan while saving some cash on the side. My loan, is 812$ a month and is the bane of my existence. Yeah sure i could probably get a higher paying job doing......... anything (well not anything, but college degree anything) other than comics but its a start and I'll just have to see where it goes from there. Honestly I am scared shitless about what my life is going to be like for the next few years but its what i gotta do. Gotta save that money. Alright so this is all well and good but here is something interesting. I participated in a little exercise in concept design over at ArtOrder (Jon Schindehette the art director for Wizards of the Coast.... his blog). All who enter were tasked with designing an evolved version of the cockatrice from D&D (or mythology if you think about it) this was mine. It was very interesting to see everyones take on the creature. I dont think i evolved mine enough. Personal favorites were this and this. Best thought out and best rendered of the bunch. This week the creature in question is a race of little critters called teh Garreth..... Not sure if i will get to this one. Reeeeeeeeeealy want to though.

Post NYCC

Yes I cant believe it either.... I am back to Blogging. So, I went to New York Comic-Con and had an interview with the Wizards of the Coast people. Specifically their head art director and the concept artist for Magic the Gathering. They agreed that I could in fact draw, and, had I had something relevant to their interests perhaps i could have been offered a job. However, i was told to keep up the good work and send them work throughout the near future. Not a terrible loss and they were very nice guys. Considering i was the last interviewee of the day i got to talk to them for a bit as they closed up shop..... so that happened. After the con i tracked down where my grandparents used to live in NYC and took some pictures and a small(shitty) video of the outside of their building. BUT WAIT WAIT WAIT..... OUR CONTRACT IS FINALLY SIGNED!!! I now work for KUNOICHI, a publisher of comics..... well technically the writer of my book is and im employed under him but whatever its all coming together!!!

OK!!! I APPLIED TO BLIZZARD!!!!!!! Its only a matter of time now. Hopefully i get it. Its almost Xmas time and I for one know it will be...."magical" and then... "gathered"

IN THE GHETOOOOOOOOO

Jeesh..........
After returning from thanksgiving vacation, i sort of expected the GIANT HOLE IN MY CEILING ABOVE BY BED to be fixed..... this was not the case. Some contractor guy (i think he was russian or something) put a new hatch on the hole above my bed which i thought was an improvement over the emergency one the fire dept put up but alas this is not the case. It is raining very hard outside and now a leak has started ABOVE MY BED. My room is rather small and there isnt really a place for me to put my bed other than like.. the living room or something. This is some serious bullshit right here. One of my pillows is drenched so i threw it out. The water is coming through some small hole or someshit. I... Im so mad this is just retarded. Thankfully its not on my computer or i would have killed someone.... or moved. Well.... back to the application process. Im applying to BLIZZARD you know.....

INFECTED!

Oh man left 4 dead is the shiznittlebamsammie. It looks great, plays great, is hard as fuck and its fun! I need to get another graphics card and link it with mine with SLi in order to run the game at full settings but it does look very very nice i gotta say. If you have an Xbox or a PC you gotta get it! If you like zombie movies, you gotta get it. The whole game is set up and plays like youare in a movie. There is even an option to add film grain. for serious. I would be playing it right now if I wasnt working.... or doing this shit. More on this game as i get more into it. SO!, i stubled upon an interesting clip yesterday which is a 1984(i think) animation test of Nemo in slumberland that studio Ghibli(Howls moving castle, Monoke Hime, Totoro) produced as a pilot. there is a clip of it on youtube however it looks way better on Google video and i cannot link that one for some reason...... so go here and watch it. Ghible.... well before they were ghibli, actually produced the hobbit cartoon, as well as the last unicorn. I knew there was something different about those films. they didnt seem cheaply made and alot of effort went into making them, more so than any american animation thats for sure. Interestingly enough the man that designed the characters for those two, well three if you count the lord of the rings movie, also designed frosty the snowman for that rankin bass cartoon that plays every year around christmas. hmmmmmmmm what was his name.... shit i forgot. but I really like his design work for the hobbit. i used to copy it as a kid. ok i gotta get back to work...... PROGRESS