TheAmazingIdiotBoy

CrumbSnatchers at SPX

2008-08-20T08:45:00.001-07:00

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It's coming in October (for SPX) and it is in Previews right now!

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LITTLE FOOT PUBLISHING

Diamond order code: AUG08 4208

CRUMBSNATCHERS GN SRP: $4.95

(it's got a little picture of the cover and everything right up there in the upper left hand corner)

You should convince your store to order it. That would be a great favor to me.

Tales from the District

2008-03-10T07:06:00.001-07:00

Over at the website Brightest Young Things my buddy Jason and I have been doing a webcomic called Tales from the District. I try a bunch of different styles so click and check it out.

The basic premise is that you send in a story about a crazy, interesting, weird or exciting thing that has happened to you in the DC area. Jason writes it into a script and I turn it into a one page comic (sometimes two). Then you revel in your fame.

We are calling out for stories.
So if you have a story you want turned into a comic, write Jason at...

TalesFromTheDistrict@gmail.com

See ya in the funny papers (or funny web, I guess that is more appropriate)

pictures

2008-03-06T12:47:00.001-08:00

Trickster sketches...

All Action Trickster sketches...

DXS poster...

New

2008-01-29T14:04:00.001-08:00

For Fun

Tour Poster

drawing

2007-12-14T08:43:00.001-08:00

Here are some sketches I did of the Cheeky Monkey Side Show

Character sketch

CrumbSnatchers extra book drawing

poster

2007-08-14T13:33:00.000-07:00

poster for DxS

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2007-07-24T12:37:00.000-07:00

Inked.

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Massive chnages on the Drummer smaller changes on the others.

2007-07-20T10:54:00.001-07:00

A band I know is making Shrinky Dinks of themselves as pirates. I'm on the art. These are the sketches.

Something I made at the bar on Wednesday.

color

2007-07-16T14:14:00.000-07:00

I've been experimenting with some new coloring techniques in PhotShop and this what I've worked on so far.

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Edit:
These are some of the techniques

For these I've been separating the line art by selecting all the black and then filling it in on a layer above the drawing (and lock that layer). For a lot of things I duplicate the layer and just switch it to multiply, but I can't use the technique for filling in the lines with color that way.

I then go back to the first layer
Lately I have been putting my flat colors in using plug-ins for Photoshop called MultiFill and Flatten they can be found here http://www.bpelt.com/psplugins/flatting.html
I convert the file to RGB
And then use the MultiFill filter on the first layer. This fills all the white space with random colors. I then go through and close-up and separate any parts that are separate but have the same color and sometimes I make things I want white, white again.
I then use the Flatten filter. This takes the layer and removes the majority of the black and makes the colors larger lumps, eliminating the halo you sometimes get around colored parts.
Then it is just a matter of going through the layer and changing the colors to the ones you want.

To color in the line art:
I create a layer above my line art
Now I am going to make this a clipping area for my line art
On a Mac you hold down the Option key on a PC you hold down the Alt key
While holding the proper key down I place the cursor arrow on the line in-between the two layers.
When I click on it the top layer will move to the left slightly.
Now when you draw on that layer the color only shows up where the line art is.

I've then been trying to use the brush tool as more of a brush to create the shapes of the face. This is less something I can explain and more something I just worked on.
I mainly just use the main fuzzy edged brush at different opacities and different widths. Often I try to eliminate bleed by selecting the background color I'm going to work on.

These are some sites that helped get me to some of these techniques.
http://www.tonycliff.com/tutorials/tutorials.htm
http://www.bigtimeattic.com/blog/index.html

2007-07-13T13:11:00.000-07:00

Trying out some different coloring techniques.
So I colored an image from Dremo 3

Monster I drew for a co-worker to sculpt

three new drawings

2007-04-25T05:12:00.000-07:00

SuperGirl

2007-02-10T08:45:00.000-08:00

Dean Trippe has started a Supergirl meme that grew out of his discussion about the current state of the Supergirl comic.

Here is my contribution...

Ataxia Overdrive Black and white art

2006-10-18T10:49:00.000-07:00

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I'm super proud of how next weeks instalment is going so I thought I'd post a preview.

League of Lincoln Rough Cover

2006-08-17T09:28:00.000-07:00

I just finished up the pencils for the League of Lincoln cover. So I thought I would do the layout.

Points to who ever can find the secret message in the logo. (It's kind of obscure)

The NecroMac

2006-07-26T06:02:00.000-07:00

A friend and I Mod Macs, in layman's terms that means we paint them and add stuff to them to make them look different, last year we entered a contest for Mac Mods. We didn't win but our computer got enough attention that the website took it to Mac World (the big Mac convention). At Mac World it caught the attention of Mac World Magazine and to make a long story short our computer is part of a two-page article about Mac Modding.

http://www.macworld.com/2006/07/secrets/auggeekfactor/index.php

While your there also click on the link for ModYourMac.com That's our website. Where there are more pictures of the NecroMac.

Jay and Silent Bob

2006-07-05T10:19:00.000-07:00

Around four years ago before Kevin Smith had an exclusive contract with Marvel, he was putting out some comics at Image based on his New Jersey characters.
During that time Wizard had a contest where a creator would make a two-page comic based on characters from this universe and the winner would have their story published in a Clerks comic book.
I submitted two stories.
Shortly there after Kevin signed an exclusive contract with Marvel and I never heard anything about the contest or more Clerks comics again.
My comics' chops were fairly undeveloped at this time so these comics are a bit rough around the edges. I submit them here for your amusement.
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The Japanese in this story was translated by my classmate and to my knowledge is completely correct.
The un-translated parts are...
"security"
and
"Help us Super Amazing Robo Blunt Boy"
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This one I threw together because the deadline wasn't up and I wanted to do another.
Professor Incognito is a character from a short film I did about robots called "The Creations of Man" and his line is a reference to the Clerks cartoon. Whenever Randal and Dante would defeat the "villain" Leonardo Leonardo he would say "Well Played Clerks."

Crumb Snatchers

2006-07-05T10:18:00.000-07:00

My girlfriend, Stephanie, is writing some short one or two page stories for me, titled Crumb Snatchers.
They are whimsical tales of the adventures of some children and mischievous animals.
I'm trying out a more cartoony style for it.
Here are my first character sketches.
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Here is some unfinished art for the first story.
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Space Barbarian

2006-07-05T10:01:00.000-07:00

Since his death I've been thinking about Alex Toth a lot.
I got the idea of wanting to do a comic like the old Hanna Barberra cartoons that Alex Toth was integral in designing, but with art like the brilliant designs Toth did.
This is the first page of sketches that I've done for that.
I'm not sure what the name of the hero will be but he will be a "Space Barbarian". He is the figure with the long black hair and mask.
The boy and girl with the similar neck adornment are his two adopted children.
The other more developed figure is an unnamed villain.
I need to create a large assistant to the "Space Barbarian" possibly a creature or robot and hench-men for the villain.
Then of course come up with a story.
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2006-04-20T12:11:00.000-07:00

Two old charachters that I'm working on re-visiting.

The Bonapartes vs Death by Sexy

2006-03-22T09:40:00.000-08:00

This flyer will possibly be the cover to a comic one day...

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League of Lincoln Pencils

2006-03-22T09:39:00.000-08:00

I was scanning a bunch of art and thought I would put some pencils from League of Lincoln up.

First a bit of a fight scene...
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...and then some reserve League members...
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illustrations for disabled youth organization

2006-03-17T08:14:00.000-08:00

These are some pencils for a few of the illustrations I am doing for a group that helps out disabled youthes.
I'm trying a new style with them. I have to make them simple so that they can be understood by people with visual imparements.

Tyranus pages 9 and 10

2006-02-14T14:45:00.000-08:00

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These are the first two pages I've done for a comic I am developing called Tyranus.
It involves a lot of mythology and demon fighting. The book will be painted and have mostly two page spread layouts.
This was my first test to see if I could pull it off. I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.

2006-01-12T05:52:00.000-08:00

Art for a different story in the "Sheer Terror" anthology

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Torch Article

2006-01-06T13:54:00.000-08:00

The article about me in The Torch came out today.

The Torch is the Smithsonians employee news paper. The Spare Time column is about employee's after time activities.

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I'm sorry they spelled your name wrong Jake. I tried to get them the propper spelling.

2005-12-23T06:38:00.000-08:00

For the Sheer Terror anthology by DC Conspiracy
They will accompany text

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Al Budd comic superstar

2005-12-22T06:09:00.000-08:00

This is a comic for my buddy Al who bartends on Wednesdays at the Black Cat

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Torch Photo Shoot

2005-11-30T13:50:00.000-08:00

An article has been writen about me and my comics that is going to appear in the "Torch". The "Torch" is the Smithsonians employee news paper.
So today A photographer came by to photogrqaph me for the article.
I thought some of these were kind of funny...

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"Oh! I didn't see you come in."

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"I'm hard at work..."

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"...as a profesional jackass."

First Post

2005-11-21T11:59:00.000-08:00

Ah my first post...
I don't have much to say...
uh um...
here look at this pretty picture.
It is the first of my four pages for my current contribution to the on-running
DC Conspiracy jam book "Dr Dremo"
I still have to do ink wash and lettering...

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