Psychology Children's book

I had to make a children's book based off of a dream I had.

But... Dream analysis is hogwash. It is completely at the mercy of hindsight bias, and the ability/tendency to "see what we want to see" If you are told, your dreams have a deep meaning you can extrapolate a deep meaning but that does not mean that it is the meaning.

Anyway, we had to make a kids book based off of the analysis and I did honestly see from my analysis that I have been struggling with fear and worry. BUT I am 100% with Dave as far as what I plan to do about the dream.

I made a hard copy of the book, saddle stitched. But I have presented the book in digital format here for your viewing pleasure.






I hope not to be a victim of self-fulfilling prophecies. Just because a dream says "I should be afraid" I choose to rise above this and write my own story.

Mini Comics: Side Staple Comic

I know there are lots of words (with poor grammar) and you're likely here for the art but I hope you'll read along to gain deeper insight.

Our second assignment in mini comics was to make a side staple mini. You can see in these concept
sketches my process, story development and pre-visualization.

My story is about how a phone gets between two lovers so I wanted the book design to look like a phone.



Each page is printed individually and then stapled together.

The back paper/staple cover is a wrap around as you can see here.

Although the front cover is printed, I did have to hand draw each of the back cover details with a white paint sharpie by hand. But I got in a rhythm and breezed thru it pretty quick.



I don't usually do autobiographical stories. But phone addiction is a growing problem and I hope that this story can help people realize that reality is better than the 3x4 brick in their hand.

Other than the 24 hour comic where I made a 24 page comic in 24 hours this is the fastest I've ever made a comic with a final quality and look that I am happy with. I did all the art of the 6 page story in under a week, with other school projects on my plate, I would love to see what I am capable of when Sequential Art is my full time job and I can commit full time hours to it.

Here is a tease of the first two pages




Like last time I will be selling this at Cons but if you wont be at FlukeCon or HeroesCon feel free to email me for a copy. I'm working on setting up an online store but that may take some time.

Mini Comics: Previous work Mini

I am taking a class called Mini Comics where we are going to be making, you guessed it, Mini Comics!

Our first project had a crazy fast turn over but that is because it is just a compilation of previous work. This is meant to be used as a "leave behind" when going to portfolio reviews and when meeting people. I actually went to an event at aTVfest here in Atlanta and I gave one to a producer I met there. He doesn't work in comics but you never know. I view it as a smaller portfolio but a bigger business card.

Anywho...

First I compiled my work, I knew I wanted to include sequential art since that is what I'm shooting for so I included two 4 page stories, one is more horror, the other is more comedic so it helps to show my range. I then filled the in-between with sketches to give a pause between the action and show the breadth of my skills.

Here is the planning out of the book, as you can see its a little complicated... Thats because with saddle stitching the first and last pages of the book are printed on the same page... So yea, lots of planning and trouble shooting went into this.

Oh and here are some of the sketches.



And of course you need a cool cover on cool paper.



This book had to be saddle stitched, usually done with staples. However, I was sick and the production room here at SCAD ran out of staples... so I ran to target and got some thread to do it the old fashion way...



I will be going to Fluke Con in Athens, GA in April where I will be selling this, and the other minis that I will be making this quarter.

Figure Drawing session

These sketches were between 1-5 minutes I used Charcoal and marker.

Todays Sketchy 2016

Today's Sketchy is a daily sketch journal I started back in 2014 and have kept up for the last three years. At the end of each day, or sometimes at the start of the next, I will sketch the things, people, and events that made that day what it was for me. Because I am a visual person I am able to look back and spark a very special memory of each day from these drawings. At first, I was just going to do it for one year but now its part of me and my day to day life.

I also made a video of each day, there's nothing new in it, it's just a simple 3 minute way to 'watch' my year.

Each day is drawn using pencil, ink, and markers. Each page is 5.5"x3.5" A few of the pages here look discolored or altered and that is because I scan them throughout the year and different scanners have different default settings.  

Here is my year by month, enjoy.