Lost in a sea of creativity (NSFW/56k) - - updated Aug 10 2009

[tensai]

these look really great man. a pity that your camera is so crap. the shapes and characters all look really strong. lovely work.

[kateoo]

Your work is really awesome - I love the expressiveness of the heads that you fill your pages with. I'm amazed how your style can shift between 60's magazine illustration-looking work to amazingly subtle yet exaggerated cartoon expressions so effortlessly.

[Nom the puppet]

Those animal studies are absolutely fantastic! especially the crocodile and the monkeys... they had a real definite weight to them and in the crocodile you could see its little hind legs trying to propel itself along the floor

very nice sketches

[Lukias]

Those life studies are freeeekin bootifull! Serious, you have this blatant animator fluidity combined with wickedness.
Say.. do you lay down real basic general/directional/proportional lines super quick like and then upgrade your charcoal and then lay down firm slightly slower more accuric lines??. Do you also look at the figure as 'a whole' so you are seeing all the proportions at once?

[blog]

very nice sketchbook dude, and I mean like fuck yeah type nice.

[maxetormer]

Hey!! those comic pages are the shit thanks for posting em!

[Shobunkin]

Really great conceptual stuff. You have a unique and creative style!

[BludHund]

Comic book pages look great: energy, composition, storytelling... post some more!

[kaktuzlime]

I'm amazed. Huge progress! Absolutely beautiful. Love it all.

[TheGnoll]

i wish i could see a bit more, but what is see is lovely as usual.The loose confident lines, the strong expressions...and damn, there's some street fighter and a batman, what more could i ask for?!

keep sharing!

ciao

[Amazing Action Ape]

Sorry for the small update guys, all my work is usually of traditional means, and taking photos sucks.

This I guess, is a sneak peek look at the main character of a comic pitch that I was hired to draw. Ill be adding the antagonist in a few days. The comic itself sounds fucking awesome, and If the pitch is picked up (please god please!) more fun work for me! if not, then eh, atleast I get SOME money out of it, and some kickass portfolio pieces out of it! Atleast you guys can look forward to seeing those in a few months!

Alex5 - Thanks!

Deathchalupa - Yes! and No! i dont work for udon, these 4 pages were just a fun short I did for a comic portfolio I showed around to companys. Would I love to work for udon? HELL YES! so if you got the hookups brother, HOOK ME UP!

Laurentius - Thanks man! You probably wont ever see that Street fighter one finished, I gave the pages away to close friends. However, the future is open to possibilities of new ones! LOL I personally always use Hugo, Sean, Ken, Q, Twelve, Dudley or Elena.

Tensai - Thanks man! I think I remember seeing a design you did for a shoe shop! All red, with boxes on the interior, (cant remember if that WAS you, but either way, your stuff rocks!)

Kateoo - Thanks! I love both those classic timeless illustrations, and animations of the old days, the golden days.

Nom the puppet - Thanks man, I am always trying to get the weight, and movement of poses down. Be it man or machine or beast! LOVE that stuff!

Lukias - Thanks dude! I Pm'ed Lukias my process, but if anyone else is interested, I could make a future post about it.

Blog - Fuck yeah! Thanks man!

Maxetormer - Anytime bro! keep pumpin out those sweet illos!

Shobunkin - Thanks, Im always trying to push myself farther! glad to hear my work is starting to look unique and creative!

Bludhund - Thanks man! the pages themselves are a little weak in the compositional/storytellling areas, but my next ones will be better!

Kaktuzlime - Thanks dude!

TheGnoll - Yeah, I cant wait until I can use my school's scanners again hehe, they spoiled me. You could always ask for... MORE HOT BABES!! atleast, thats what I would ask for. MORE HOT BABES HERE WE COME! (NEXT POST!)

[Taj]

Wicked dude, tell me more about this pitch, what's going on now?

[Amazing Action Ape]

The other design needed for the comic work.
The sinister caterpillar.

Taj: Well, i've started thumbnailing the 5 pages needed for the pitch, if its successful, then Ive got another 83 pages to pencil. The writer im working for is a cool dude, you can check out his other book in progress called space double at www.th3rdworld.com . Things have been going smoothly so far, lets hope it keeps up!

[Mitchell]

Wow those sb pages are so awesome. Lovin' the life drawings too, so much charcter in them. I'm learnin from you!

[BludHund]

Ooher, hope this gets greenlighted. The minimalistic style is very interesting ... is this how the whole comic is going to look?

[Amazing Action Ape]

Some quick digital sketching to warm myself up for some comic stuff.
Sorry for the small, and increasingly few updates, just been busy with life and stuff

Skeiff: Thanks man, glad you are seeing something useful.

Bludhund: Well that all depends on the inker and colourist I suppose. My pencils are fairly detail absent though, if thats what you are asking? Yeah, I hope it gets greenlighted too! It would be nice to work on it fulltime for a while.

[Wheeljack18]

Great Stuff as usual. I especially enjoyed the previous comic pages and the transitions as the main character was walking down the subway. Looking forward to seeing more.

[Amazing Action Ape]

experimentation in painter using oils, artist oils and chalks.
was going for an optical blending self caricature, went to dark on the beard id say. What do you all think ?

Wheeljack18: thanks man

[Inkjexion]

mann, looking at your sketches I have alot of work to do. really cool sketches mann, its really nice to look at them.

[Taj]

im really digging the color's in your last self portrait man. good job.
TCAF. Paul Pope. james Jean. See you there.

[m0uS3r]

hei there ferry nice work ... i like your comic ones ...

chears

[jMarkus]

i really enjoy those characters a few posts back... want to see more from u!


stop by my book if u wanna look at some crap =./

[SMILEFACE]

great pics i like your brush and pincel lines

[Amazing Action Ape]

I was given the go ahead to post the 5 pages of work i did for this smalltime publisher. Just a pitch so far, but here is pages 1 - 4 and 16 (introducing the villain).

Inkjexion - man, looking at my own work, I've got a lot of work to do bro! One should never stop wanting to improve, or else they will stagnate! Keep going man.

Taj - Thanks dude, im on my way down to TCAF shortly!

m0uS3r - Thanks dude!

jMarkus - Thanks dude! hahaha why would I want to look at some crap? have a little more self confidence mate! Ill stop by soon and post a comment.

Grandmassa Mr. Spect - Thanks man.

[Chiko]

You have some AWESOME work in here. Glad to see you got hired for some comic work I hope you get picked up too , cause I would love to see some more pages (that is if you're allowed to post em)

I am i love with your animation stuff too. I'd love to see some pencils tests from yah.

Cheers!

[artmessiah]

Awesome SB. The comicbook stuff is really great. I'm following your path of animation school and comics on the side, so seeing your work gives me inspiration to get cracking on my visions. I'm glad I stumbled up on you SB... added subscription.

[chrishly]

what an inprovment I just watched true the hole sb!
I love your comic stuff

[Taj]

paul pope is a machine

[SirGreenSock]

*cough*


Am i gonna have to hunt your ass down?

[Sirio_Brozzi]

Ahhh...Amazing Action Ape, its been a while ! D; Dude, really damn good sequentials, and that self portrait on crack turned out cool too(nice strokes). You should really try and get more out of that street fighter comic, I really thought you worked for that Udon company at first sight. That last one, really liked the frames of him getting thrown into the asylum room. That second frame, is that an eye in the background? Adds to the sense of wierdness. But hell, good stuff man. Dig it, keep kicking butt.