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lovin' these jurassic park illos by pakoto :. via

so i did a one-page illustration for UNO's july issue, the one with aubrey miles' boobs on the cover. it was a high-concept "wordless" issue: images would tell the stories instead of fat chunks of text. my bit was supposed to be a film review or essay, in pictures, about four major hollywood releases coming out that month. apol st. maria and manix abrera also did one-pagers.

click on image to enlarge rejected character design, based on an existing costume, for an adventure company. the turnarounds at the bottom were provided by the company.

National Artist? Not Applicable. this image is available for free for personal/commercial use. source file available here . spread the image, spread the message. sign the online petition here .

if you read local blogs you've probably heard of the "great book blockade of 2009" (if not here's a good place to start, and there's a timeline here ). besides being outraged by the greed and temerity, etc. etc. i also have a kerascoet book that should have arrived weeks ago that i think is among the books being held by customs. so i thought i would try and do my part as a visual person, and made this: you can download the full editable file for free at my deviantart . use it for posters, signs, even merchandise, if you like. anything to help spread the message.

earlier i described my process for drawing my comic "ang maskot". you can read that here . so now i have all 48 pages done in individual adobe illustrator .ai files, and the next step is to get them ready for the photocopying shop. not having any desktop publishing software (and not knowing how to use 'em anyways), i did some common-sense improvisation: taking fourteen pieces of scratch paper, i folded them together in the middle to make a mock-up pamphlet, numbered the pages using a ballpen, and then took the pamphlet apart gain. now all i have to do is replicate the ordering of the pages on the sheets using the same program i started with, adobe illustrator. i open a new document 11 inches wide by 8.5 inches high in illustrator. based on the mockup's page numbering, i paste the two appropriate illustrator files onto the new document. here it's the front and back cover-- the outer face of the first sheet. i then arrange them by hand, leaving a bit of margin al...

five days to go before komikon! i made a crude sldeshow of my comics-making process for "ang maskot" described in my earlier post . but blogger doesn't seem to support flash animation, so i had to upload it to my deviantart . click here to see it.

this is a sample page from my self-published comic, "ang maskot", which i created entirely as vector art in adobe illustrator. the techniques i describe below were essentially made up as i bumbled along, so they may amuse and/or tick off any comics pros reading this. so let's start off with brainstorming. "ang maskot" began long ago with an overheard conversation about a friend who may or may not have dressed up as a mascot for a children's party--i'm a little fuzzy about the details. but eventually ideas started coming together in my head until one day i finally sat down and started drawing thumbnail sketches (if you can call 'em that): just quick scribbles on the cheap mini-intermediate pads i favor as scratch paper. plot, layouting, pacing, a smattering of dialogue... i lay things down so i won't forget later. and since i'm both writer and artist, the drawings only need to make sense to myself (but even there i've failed once or twic...