CTW. . .Class Time Fun!!

So for my class tomorrow, or later today rather, I decided to follow up on the advice from my boss and give an exercise that's light on the lecture and heavy on the process. Though I still intend to give a lecture about cartoon hands to my older students, I created three different images for my students to work from or to be inspired by. The basic idea is that I give them a photocopy of a basic figure and from that they add the details and make their own figure from it. Hopefully they enjoy. As for the figures I did for them:

Fancy Prancing Patsy

Standard:

With figure overlay:


Ms. Flightree

Standard:

With figure overlay:


Pickles

Standard:

With figure overlay:


Along with creating these characters and the ever-depressing hunt for a job (sorry for the whine but it really is just downright depressing at times), I also finished page two of my sample pages pulled from All I Want is a Brother.



Namaste,
Jon Jones

Trick love da kids Pt.2

Bringing up the second post of drawings for the chittlins, I have a second Naruto:

and my take on Kakashi from the same show (for those not in the know):

Also, after drawing a gesture that was way too bulky for Danny Phantom (another request), I made a super angry, super huge Freakazoid:


Namaste,

Jon Jones

Caricatures

Fun times today at the Mable house as I had the students work on caricaturing today in class. For warm-up I gave them this charming self-portrait.


Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to upload some more of the drawings for the chittlins.

Namaste,

Jon Jones

Trick Love da Kids!

So as an end of class special for the little chittlins I teach up at the Mable House, I had them all give me a character they wanted me to draw for them and have thus begun to create all the characters. Today, I have the first two, or at least the pencils for them. Though I'd like to ink them before I get them to the kiddies, I may leave them in graphite, try that whole coloring over the pencils thing with the photochops.

First, my take on Ang from Avatar. Though he's way too old in the pic (oops) I'm still pretty happy with it.

Second, my first take on Naruto (I've gotten two requests for him, the other to come soon).



Namaste
Jon Jones

Revisiting Brother

In lieu of the upcoming SCAD comic art's forum, I've begun working on redoing some of the pencils from my senior final for All I want is a brother. Here's page three with more to come in the next couple of days.

Previous page:



New Page:


Namaste,

Jon Jones

A Variety of Content

Just a variety of updates for today. First, some stuff I've been getting together for a webpage and second, some random, business images. Third, just some people. Enjoy!

Namaste,

Jon Jones

The time has come my little friends,

to talk of many things.

So, after a few days on the grind, I have a few new things to show you guys. First, while I enjoyed my foray into digital inking, the purist in me would not let me be and as such, I have gone back to the faithful brush and nib.

For the Stardust pages, I'm trying something very much difficult for me, something I played around with in college. . .hmmm that didn't sound right, nonetheless, I'm working with very, very quick and loose pencils with the majority of the work being done with ink. And here are the results:
sloppy messy, but a joy to do for sure. Slowly I'm working to combine my anal retentive nature of hatching and minute detail with much more free-flowing line work. Will it work? Who knows!!

Namaste,
Jon Jones

Something New

So recently, in an effort to speed up my production time for producing sequential work, I looked towards the Wacom and Painter to see if if could help me out a little. The idea, of course, is to combine penciling and inking into one step.


Here are the results of page one. The inks, while not complete, do give an idea of the final product. Overall, I'm fairly happy with how it's coming out, though due to some outside concerns, I'm not sure I'll make it by the Feb. 8 deadline. Here's hoping.

Namaste
Jon Jones