Project Green Screen - Robert Rodriguez

So I just found out about Robert Rodriquez's project called Green Screen. It's a really neat idea having fans contribute content to the finished product.

http://keepmoving.blackberry.com/desktop/en/us/ambassador/robert-rodriguez.html#get-involved

Of course when I found out he wanted people submitting monster designs, I had to jump on that.
Here's some of the pics I uploaded. I probably won't hear anything back, but it was fun to participate.

Panel 2

So here's panel 2 of page 1. I would have put them both together, but I took the pic with my phone and it looks terrible. My brother got an 11X17 scanner recently and I think it's time I did the same :)

I'm back!

Sorry gang. I was out for bereavement last week. Back to life, back to re... ok, no 80's song lyrics.

I jumped back on the grind stone and started drawing issue #3. I'm listing a sneak peak of the pencils below. If you haven't read the second issue it's not going to make any sense.

Enjoy.

I think I'm just going to power through and do #3 and #4 back to back, then color everything in Photoshop afterwards. We'll see how that works out.

Dreams

One of the things I got into for a while was writing down my dreams. I'm not going to say your dreams are an untapped reservoir of potential, but they are definitely a good place to pull out some wacky ideas.

Several years ago I dreamed I had an alien organism on my back trying to control me, like the movie the Puppet Masters. I also recently noticed it had a really close similarity to the harness creatures on Falling Skies. It's not the first time I've dreamed about something that I see later on, but that's another post all to itself.

Anyway, I jotted it down in my sketchbook the next day. If I had dreams like this every night I'd probably start keeping a visual dream journal more often.

Sketch - Glob Monster

I spent all night submitting Black Hole Cafe to Comixology Submit, so I didn't have time for a full post. So here's a pic of a glob monster I did on my iPad. :)

Conductor Sketch

Since it's Friday and I'm going to the symphony tonight, I decided this would be a perfect post for a sketch I did several years ago. http://www.austinsymphony.org

As you can see it was very rushed. I was more interested in capturing the idea then doing a finished drawing. (Note to self: Start posting finished pictures you hack!)

It reminded me of something you would see in the movie Brazil. It's an idea that's stuck around, so I may incorporate it into Black Hole Cafe. 

Storyboards

Since yesterday's post was about thumbnails, I figured I would go with a similar theme and talk about storyboards.

Storyboards are typically created for movies, cartoons, commericals, etc., in order to give the director and producers a visual representation of the script. it shows the action and gives direction for framing shots.

Storyboards can be as simple as stick figures in boxes, or as complicated as fully animated test reels. Even though it's not necessary to make storyboards look great, many have turned it into an art form unto itself. 

I dabbled in making short films with some friends of mine for a while, so I had the rare privilege of storyboarding about ninety pages worth of script. It was grueling, but incredibly satisfying. Storyboards are basically comics broken into individual panels, it's all sequential art. 

I feel like I grew a lot as an artist. It required me to draw normal people doing normal things. I have a ton of boards, but I've posted some of my favorites below. Notice that some have arrows. That's to indicate the movement in the shot. Sometimes these are for the actors, but other times they can be for the camera movement.