Monday, October 25, 2010

Sketches - Upcoming Project - Carmen


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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Film Society Update: "Jack goes boating" and "You will meet a tall, dark stanger"

Enjoy!
























- Gus

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Behind the Scenes - A Russian Doll gets an Abortion

Today, one of the most popular strips on the Wiseguypictures.net site.

OK for this one I actually had to look hard to find something interesting to put up. You'll understand what I mean soon. For starters, lets bring up what I actually managed to find:

























These are the very early doodles of the strip. I tried to have three different options: one where you could see the dolls head, one from the point of view of the doll, and one where you could see everything from a wide angle shot.

I was of the idea that since the smaller dolls had been aborted, they should look dead. But the writers wanted the dolls to look stoic like they normally do, so we went with that. Now here's the part that explains what I meant before. This is the draft I made of the strip:




















And here's the strip itself:






















The changes are literally non-existent. The dolls on the back went from a box to a table. That's it.

It's good when things flow this well! This strip is very popular both for the joke and for the art.

- Gus

La Parroquia del Monaguillo!

So I entered this contest to win an iPad. It's hosted by a spanish radio show called La Parroquia del Monaguillo (The Parrish of the Altarboy) but it has nothing to do with religion lol. It's a comedy show.

The first design I made was this:



















It was not well received by the community of the site... Honestly, I kinda rushed it because I thought the deadline was sooner than expected.

So it didn't do very well and apparently you can only use 5 colors or something, so I had to re-do the thing. I didn't want to get rid of the drawing, so I used it for the next one. As you can see it says "Delorean" on the Vespa, trying to reference them going back in time, as the new book they have out is about the 80s in Spain. That didn't translate well apparently so I changed it a bit:



















Added some 80's motifs, the time-traveling clichés of the clocks and calendars, and added the title of the book (oh, and reduced the number of colors).

This one did a little better. The contest, however, isn't over yet. You can vote if you'd like here:

http://www.pampling.com/ficha_diseno.php?id_diseno=12616

Wish me luck! :D

- Gus

Saturday, October 2, 2010

I'm really excited about Black and White















I know, it's a "kid's game". But I've been playing it for years and the new games look awesome.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Phone Doodles - Naruto's Sasuke

Drew this while on the phone. Really liked Sasuke's face.

Not really crazy about Naruto, but I've been re-reading it recently. It's better than I remembered.


















Anyway, just a doodle. Soon, more stuff. :D

- Gus

Behind the Scenes - Heroes in a Half-Baked Shell

Hey everyone!

Sorry it took so long to update! I don't know if you've seen the new strip at http://www.wiseguypictures.net  but we've recently updated with the famous "Heroes in a Half-Baked Shell" strip. If you haven't seen it, go check it out before reading this post!! Spoiler alert!

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Welcome back. Now that you've seen the comic strip, let me show you some behind the scenes embarrassing stuff I wouldn't show you ever. The only reason I do is so you can understand how much I like drawing :D

This is the original, very first draft of that strip. As you can see from it's very VERY low quality, it was done on the spot in my notebook.

























It was a quite straight forward concept from the beginning. The complicated thing was, the second panel had to have all of the Ninja Turtles characters in it (or at least the good guys). So I got to work and I came up with a second sketch:




















Fun fact: Leo's line wasn't actually on the script. I came up with that one because I never knew WTF the Foot Clan soldiers were supposed to be. It got fixed in the final product by the writers. Much better! :D

So as you can see it didn't change much from the original scribble, except by adding all those characters. Now came the REALLY hard part. Putting them all together in actual good quality.

I don't really want to give it out, but here's the final product:



















Another fun fact is, the reason Michaelangelo is the one in the foreground is because he used to be my favorite Ninja Turtle. He rocks.

I'm very happy with it. As trivia, I'll say that the reason there's a TV with "Family Guy" playing in the foreground is an inside joke with the writers to repeated very similar situations we experienced... Don't tell anyone I said that.

As a final treat, I'll put up the first idea I had for the first panel. Originally I was very adamant about the fact that I wanted it to be rainy. I mean, I live in New York too, and that's very much what it looks like. In the end, the rain would've made the panel too busy, so I never ended up using it. So now for your enjoyment, my own private rejection, the original panel 1:




















That's all for now. Stay tuned for much more coming up!! :D

-Gus

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