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Oh yes, been busy as HELL.
Nothing much to SHOW, since I can't be bothered with scanning 11x14 pages with this tiny scanner.
But next week starts summer quarter of school, and I'll have access to the sweet mega tanning bed sized scanners mhmhmhm.
FOR NOW THOUGH, i have a lil featured piece!
Cafe, latino lifestyle magazine did a lil piece this month on DIY comic artists, and they interviewed me YES.
So go check it out!
Gearing up for SDCC, HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
MORE SKETCH LOVE FOR ALL YOUS.
This is about 3 days worth of just dickin' around at work.
And then today i managed to get some colors on them.
Just tryin to beef up my faces, women's particularly, and get some color flex on there!
I finally finished up my new lil story though.. rather.. the first 8 pages of it.
So i'm super excited to get on to the color.
So much to do during break, gotta get some animation done this week!!!
Been cranking out pages like a mad man lately.
Nothing i really want to unleash yet, as its my second zuda entry.. and I haven't even unleashed the first one to you people! I'm happy to say though that the entry is compeltely done.
Now i just have to start building up my rep, so i can get those votes in.
Maybe this time i can place in at least the top 5! HA.
The following is some mindless sketching i did at work.
The girly there, you'll be seeing very soon.
VERY SOON HMHMHMH.
Just a lil something i conjured up for my boys at blackcherrybombshells.com
If you guys haven't read this comic, DO IT. Its a fun read, and godamn it would make an epic movie.
It'd be a dude flick FOR SURE, something that would have to have megan fox duking it out with scarlett johansson fo sho.
but i digress.. here is some fan art love..
my fav character.. SLAMAZON.
why? cause she's a luchador chick.. and they murder mejicanos. Its true-- read the news!
Another month passes by and I neglect my poor lil blog spot...i really wish i could get more posted, but somehow I feel that posting obsessively would be a waste of my time?
I reckon i draw enough on a weekly basis to update this bad boy constantly, but i hardly scan my stuff... I think I've grown out of the "I WANT TO SHOW OFF MY NEW ART PIECES TO THE INTERNETS!" mentality.
Then again, why would i be doing this?
To be honest, so the handful of people that come here know i'm still alive heh.
I reckon its also a nice record of what kind of person i was at this time in age.
I've read over some VERY OLD posts from when i was younger, and Christ all mighty have I grown up. The shit i used to say, i'll never understand why i acted like that... but anyhow, onto the progress of gabo.
Winter quarter of school wasn't that hard or stressing.
The first few weeks were really dragging, I had a materials and lighting class that really didnt go anywhere, the teacher didnt really come out of his shell until mid quarter, so I felt as though we could have learned A LOT more, but what can you do?
3D modeling class i managed to show up to late everyday, by at least an hour. Didn't matter much as the teacher didnt really start teaching/lecturing until an hour into the class.. which worked out perfect. I managed to learn a lot in that class, we modeled both male and female human bodies, in different ways... so that was rewarding.
I even had enough time to model my own character.. which was really awesome.
I've got the same teacher next quarter for character rigging, which means i'll be able to animate this lil dude, which will be damn awesome.
2d animation started off really slow, i tried putting together something that was just too advanced for me, well maybe not so much ADVANCED but just a pain in the ass to animate. I picked this guy on the bike to animate, and after a few motion studies i realized that i needed to something that i could actually get done in the 11 weeks we had in class. Something SIMPLER. Unfortunatley I didnt finish my animation, but it IS looking mighty sweet. I'll be sure to post it when its done for all you to oogle at.
Now the biggest thing of all this first quarter was WONDERCON. I got to hang out with a fantastic man, mister Justin Norman.. the artist for elpehantmen. This guy has done so much for me in terms of comic gigs, that its insane. I'm so damn grateful to him for getting me talking to the poeple that i need to talk to. I got to hang out with him and the ever graceful, mystical and powerful Richard Starkings, owner of Comicraft, and writer for Elephantmen comic. I got to hang out at the Image booth, selling Elephantmen and drawing sketches for patrons all weekend long, it was the most humbling and rewarding convention experience of my life.
Those two guys have really brought me up in the pro ranks so fast, that my head is still spinning, i'm so grateful I've had the opportunity to work with and for them.
There's a bunch of other stuff that's cookin on the gabogrill right now...but i'd rather not discuss it till its a bit more cooked.
More latros.
Back once again, with the ill behavior ladies and amigos.
Been hella busy working on elephantmen flats, and school work.. and while I'd love to show the colors I've been doin, you'll have to run to your local comix shop to scope THAT OUT.
WHAT I CAN SHOW YOU THOUGH--- New work i been doin at school.
My first class in line is intermediate 3d modeling, so in essence -- learn how to model a human character. One of the first assignments in class was to draw up a design sheet for a character we'd like to model near the end of the class, so i conjured up my lil buddy SQUARDO, level 7 glory monk. I'll be unleashing a lil mini comic with him in a few weeks, its sort of an experimental comic me and my boy NAMNIK are whippin up, where i draw the panels first, and he fills in the bubbles-- without any of my help. We'll see how that turns out! He does some good writing, so i'm sure it'll be tasty.
Along with that, here's a screen cap of the current 3d model we're building, built up from a single box, so thats pretty neat to learn. This whole 3d mess gets a bit tricky, specially when you get triangles or 5 sided polys going on, it can really mess things up when its renderin, SO AVOID THOSE BADDIES, KIDS!
This class is really giving me a deep thirst to want to model my own characters just for fun, maybe even animate them.. which will be done next quarter when i take intermediate 3d animation! YAH.
MORE LATERS.
Now i must prepare for WONDERCON.
Much more on that when i get back!
DONE. FINALS BE DONE AMIGOS.
FINALLY. I made out pretty good this quarter, managed to score to jobs doing colors for elephantmen, and a third coming up during xmas break, so i'ma happy camper right now. The only troublesome class was AUDIO, which wasnt so much hard in terms of work, that part was easiest thing i've had to do to date, but it was waking up on time to get there on time that really tore me a new one.
The teacher was a real tight ass, and I for one appreciate his attitude, but godamn does it suck. He gave tests right at the start of class (8am), so i managed to miss all of them. It's not as bad as it sounds, the tests were bullshit lil points, and there were only two of them, but still -- a zero is a zero and two zeros can really put a drag on yer average.
Most teachers give you till the end of the class if not the end of the day to turn in projects, the day they're due... but this guy gave you till 10, 930 or 9 to turn them in. If they were in a minute after you'd get 50% off the grade, thats HORRIBLE. And that's were i appreciate it. In the real world, if i turned in a project late... i'd prolly just straight up get fired, so i'm thankful for getting 50% as opposed to nothing at all.
That info was news to me, so the first project ended up being 50% off. I can't blame anyone but me though, i didnt show up to the first day of class-- rather i showed up minutes after he let the class out early.. which meant i missed the syllabus reading, which i should have read on my own... then i woulda known about the 50% off bullspit.
MOVING ON --->Eco biology was a breeze -- twas one of the toughest classes i've had at the school, only because he expected you to actually remember things. Other gen eds at school have been easy, and usually we take a test on one or 2 chapters. This guy gave tests on 3 chapters which all covered shit tons of information... needless to say i never really studied, but i know i came out with a B at least. Learned me some nice things about the environment too, stuff i'm implementing into story ideas right now actually.. so that was worth while.
Last class i took this quarter was 3d animation. Yer basic animation class on 3d, learned how to use 3d studio max for animating. Last quarter i took a class learning how to model basic things, so this was the next step. In the end we were supposed to make a 10-30 second animation, but good ol me missed that tid bit -- so here i shelled out a movie that ran about 2.5 minutes long. It was a great learning experience nonetheless.. i'm really starting to dig this 3d stuff.
I'll be uploading that soon, but for sneakums, here's a lil render of the room i designed, and the full movie can be download here-- (RIGHT CLICK SAVE! 220mb!) FINAL 3d ANIMATION
I've been wonderin when in God's name we were gonna get our permasnow -- and holy wow, its here. By permasnow i mean, snow that actually sticks around for more than a day...
School's really been kicking my ass lately, so i haven't been able to knock out any real drawing, which is always really upsetting, cause damn its like my wife this art game -- and i need some lovin.
I actually made a bold and prolly really bad decision, but i went ahead and sold my xbox. Yah. To be honest i never play it to begin with. Leah likes to watch tv, and sometimes i'd rather watch anthony bordain's "NO RESERVATIONS" than play a videogame. Could it be that i'm getting to be an old man, and those types of things just dont do it for me anymore?
I've even been getting the itch to READ. And i dont mean like back issues of spiderman -- i mean books, novels. Maybe not just novels but maybe things that can expand my mind in terms of world culture.
I've come to realize while being in gen ed classes that those clases are actually really valuable. A lot of the kids there go on and on about how gen eds are a waste of time, as they'll never be useful in the art world, but i'll tell you what, if it hadn't been for US history, i would have never done a comic about manzanar. History is pure gold in terms of brainstomring for ideas. You dont know how many ideas of thought of where i take history, science and math and inject it into the worlds i create... its so uplifting to be able to pull from that bank of knowledge, it really is.
Anyways
, before i start writing an essay on why gen eds are important to growing artists, i'm gonna leave you with a lil taste of something thats been baking in my oven brain for the past few months.
Mailer Daemon is the story of a young lad who is one of the last physical mail carriers left in the universe. With the advent of electronic mail, snail mail has been getting less and less popular-- so i took it a step forward and peek into the distant future where snail mail is damn near extinct. Our protago is assigned to devlier a package that he later finds out is something that will not only completely revolutionize the way poeple communicate and send mail-- but will also make him and his electronic friends completely obselete.
Its still very much in the fetus stages, so i wouldn't hold my breate for anything complete for quite a while. I had a hankerin for some watercolors, so i listened to my urges and played around with some dual lighting power.
I like the warm glow on the back of daemon -- i'm totally proud of that NO LIES.
I think i might go back and add a couple more layers to it in the future, i dont feel that its quite done yet... till then - keep warm kiddies.
I'm not gonna bother checkin when's the last time I've updated this thing, so instead i'll just get kickin into what i've been DOING.
Past two months have been 75% school, and 25% comic work.
Most of the school stuff i'll be able to put up shortly, but as for the comic work- its been more colorin than actually drawing (unfortunately :/) But it's not so bad being as its paying work YAH!
http://elephantmen.blogspot.com/2008/11/gabriel-bautista-colour-flats.html
READ UP KIDDIES.
I'm really getting a feel for the way moritat colors, i'm really diggin it too.
I don't want to say its EASY, but it is fast - but also really emotional.
I'm wrapping up flats on issue 15 and i've been able to study his style a lot more, so hopefully soon he won't have to do so much touch ups on my stuff!
OH, and a new shirt for any of you runnin around naked!
Get yer self one at REDBUBBLE.COM
(other shirts are >>>HERE<<<)
I've very excited to announce that TOUT LE MONDE: THE HUNNY BUNN EXCHANGE BOOK 1 is out now!! I finally managed to get it put together and up for sale on indyplanet.com, click on the cover there and it'll guide you to the site. I put up a quick 6 page preview to wet your appetite! Big things comin this month, it's gonna be an INSANE SUMMER.
The characters and story LOOKS like its geared towards children, but believe me mommas and poppas, you dont want lil junior and cindy lu reading these pages!
The story revolves around a planet called Pan Mundo, where bread persons are as charming as any man-person, and as evil as any bee-man that you might cross! In a world run by sugar, join our two sugarless friends, Sally and Frenchee, as they are sent on a mission to rescue the lovely, and ever so sweet Ms. Hunny Bunn from the clutches of the Mother Bee!
I'm hopin to start up a web comic that covers this book, i'm about 90% done with it, i hope to launch it sometime in august, with updates twice or maybe three times a week. I can't wait to see how people recieve it!!
FAT CHUNK VOL 1 : ROBOTS IS OUT RIGHT NOW. Wow, i've waiting so long for this, i managed to slip in a short two page story (most of the comics in there are 2-3 pages, if not just one.) I dont know how well this book is gonna do, i dont think i've ever seen a book comprised of 30+ 2-3 pg entries. Then again, if you've ever read comics like milk and cheese or johnny the homicidal maniac, you'll be used to that format. Either way its exciting to see this finally come out. There's a lot of amazing artists in this lil book, and i cant wait to get my manly hands around it. I wish i had time to put together some for the zombie issue, maybe i can slip in my lil 2pgr this month. GO GET YER COPY RIGHT NOW, ITS NEAT.
Where can i start this? Its been entirely too long since i've posted, i really hate falling off the blogger horse, .. so i'll do my best to get back on track with some highlights.
In may, i hit up seattle con, and had a wonderful time. I struck up an amazing friendship with Mr Justin Norman, AKA MORITAT. He's taken me under his wing as his lil apprentice of sorts, at least thats how it feels, and i'm so grateful.. i've learned so much from him in the past few weeks. Him and Brandon Graham are like my senseis, one in the art of crazy dynamic comics, and the other in the ways of business and speed.
over the past few weeks i've been doing a lot of pr
epping for the con season, just putting together stuff i can sell, and its been okay on the profit front, but this past weekend really bombed. Wizard World Chicago was a complete bust, it turned out that there were a few other festival type events going on in the city of Chicago, so a lot of the usual traffic that the con gets in august, was now dispersed across the town. That was a bit upsetting, the only upside was a visit from a gentleman from Wizards of the West Coast, and i've punched myself repeatedly in the face for not having gotten his info or even bothered to jot down his name.
I dont want to get too caught up in too much right now, so i'll disperse what i've been up to in lil installments.
for now, here's some watercolor pieces i did at the con...
Just a lil something i conjured up for my boys at blackcherrybombshells.com
WHAT I CAN SHOW YOU THOUGH--- New work i been doin at school.
Along with that, here's a screen cap of the current 3d model we're building, built up from a single box, so thats pretty neat to learn. This whole 3d mess gets a bit tricky, specially when you get triangles or 5 sided polys going on, it can really mess things up when its renderin, SO AVOID THOSE BADDIES, KIDS!
Last class i took this quarter was 3d animation. Yer basic animation class on 3d, learned how to use 3d studio max for animating. Last quarter i took a class learning how to model basic things, so this was the next step. In the end we were supposed to make a 10-30 second animation, but good ol me missed that tid bit -- so here i shelled out a movie that ran about 2.5 minutes long. It was a great learning experience nonetheless.. i'm really starting to dig this 3d stuff.
, before i start writing an essay on why gen eds are important to growing artists, i'm gonna leave you with a lil taste of something thats been baking in my oven brain for the past few months.
epping for the con season, just putting together stuff i can sell, and its been okay on the profit front, but this past weekend really bombed. Wizard World Chicago was a complete bust, it turned out that there were a few other festival type events going on in the city of Chicago, so a lot of the usual traffic that the con gets in august, was now dispersed across the town. That was a bit upsetting, the only upside was a visit from a gentleman from Wizards of the West Coast, and i've punched myself repeatedly in the face for not having gotten his info or even bothered to jot down his name.
I dont want to get too caught up in too much right now, so i'll disperse what i've been up to in lil installments.
