First page of my webcomic: Gods vs. Monsters vs. NJ. It stars the Jersey Devil and his return to the Garden State after a 25 year self-imposed exile. Actually, he abandoned his post and went into hiding with the intention of never coming back. However, he was found by the most unlikely person and forced back into this world. Now powerless, he must fend off old enemies and create new alliances in order to survive that screwed up state called New Jersey.
Sketches, Cab Driver
Working on a character for my GMNJ comic. This cab driver was sketched in Mypaint. Mypaint is an outstanding, lightweight drawing and painting program for Windows and Linux.
iToaster comic
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This is an idea I had over a year ago. I really wanted to poke a little fun at Apple and it’s devoted fans. I had already drawn the iToaster but it sat on my hard drive. The toaster was an outline of an existing model found through Google Images (I can’t find the original reference.) It seemed perfect, as if it was designed by Apple themselves. The fonts are courtesy of Blambot, whose site offers a lot of cool comic fonts for free. Everything was drawn in Inkscape.
Jersey Devil Sketch
This is the first sketch I’ve done of my lead character for my set of short stories: Gods vs. Monsters vs. NJ. I thought I deleted it by mistake but found it on a backup disk! The final drawing is very similar, but the head is shaped slightly different and he doesn’t have eyebrows. Drawn and colored in Krita.
Morning Worship
Rendered in Inkscape.
When Rappers Go To Heaven
I have a lot of ideas for comic strips in my head, but not all of them make it to the end. This is actually the first comic strip style drawing I ever did. All Inkscape.
Balloon Animation Test
The first balloon animation test. Animated and rendered in Synfig. ffmpeg was used to render the image sequences into movie format. I originally encoded the images in ogg format but ffmpeg rendered a lot of artifacts. It was probably due to my lack of knowledge. But I re-encoded it as .mpg and it rendered a lot better. I’ll get to know ffmpeg better once I get to the final animation.
Animation Background Test
Background image of a circus tent made in Gimp. Added the crate, briefcase, and balloons to get a feel for how everything will be integrated.
Skullface Animation
Another art test for the Skullface animation. Added the briefcase and some balloons to the crate posted here. The balloons were done in Inkscape for testing only. I’ll probably redo them in Synfig and then animate. I could export to Synfig using the Inkscape exporter found here.
The crate is almost done, I just need to add a hand painted “Free Balloons” sign on it.
Finally, I need to start on the background, which will consist of a striped circus tent.
Crate for New Animation
This is a WIP of a crate using Inkscape and Gimp. This is going to be used in a new 2d animation I’m doing with Synfig. Although Synfig has vector drawing tools, they are vastly inferior to Inkscape. I used Gimp for painting and texturing.
I’ll probably finish this off by adding some scratches and dirt, but I don’t want to overdue the paint effects as I want to keep a vector art feel.
