Let's make a book

What's up fools? Copying and pasting from my Facebook:

I was reading a graphic novel called Flight yesterday. I've had it for a long time, but decided to pick it up again. If you don't know what it is, it's basically a collection of illustrated short stories from various artists. Some are amazing, and some are well... let's say it got me thinking, "hell, me and my friends could do this easy". It's not a new idea, we've talked about it before at various times, but never really followed up on it.

A couple of months ago I came across this site called www.blurb.com. It's basically a site for creating your own books, which, if you so choose, you could also publish. My brother and I used it to create a photo album of our trip to Asia earlier this year. It was simple, cheap and very efficient. It's free to create the book, and then you can order as many or as few as you like. Prices are very reasonable for what you get, and the range of binding and size options are impressive. Anyhow, I got to thinking... if even a handful of my friends got together to put it together, we could have a book in no time. I figure if each artist dedicated themselves to 12 pages (6 pages front and back), at 2 pages a month, we could have a book in 6 months. I say 2 because it's achievable, and I know that you're all very busy. You guys are so talented though, and I've seen what you can do when applying it to your work. I can only imagine what you could produce for something that is close to your heart. I know you guys all have ideas rolling around in your heads and personal projects you've always meant to get around to, so I thought this would be a nice opportunity to make it happen. Ideally, we could meet one night every month to give feedback and support and check on our progress.

If you're interested, please let me know, as I'd like to get things rolling while I'm inspired. In the meantime check out these links:

pricing:
http://www.blurb.com/create/book/pricing#standard-portrait

flight:
http://www.amazon.com/Flight-One-Kazu-Kibuishi/dp/0345496361/ref=pd_bbs_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223332348&sr=8-3

flight comics:
http://www.flightcomics.com/

You can contact me through facebook if you're on it. Otherwise you can email me at jone mnemonic at hot mail . com (all one word. sorry for all the spaces, but don't want webcrawlers getting my email address).

ZOMBIES vs COWBOYS!!!

Hi all, here's a thing I just finished. Zombies vs Cowboys! This is a bookcover I did for my friend William Harms. His book will be published late this year or early 2009. You may see another variant cover emerge in October...:)

If you'd like to see a timelapse movie of my somewhat chaotic process check this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AngqeFtdjQ

Anyway thanks for looking -Ray

Street Fighter Late Submission

My version of Dhalsim in photoshop vs my Balrog in Painter i just drew.. Drew both quickly.. i always thought of Dhalsim as a magician.. hence the pose... no colour on this sucker.. .. balrog ... what i think he would look like in my eyes. just the usual portrait shot.. trying to learn how to use painter x .. hehe. any critiques are welcome.

Chun Li - Pun ver.

Here she is. My other super late Street Fighter challenge picture. There was another version of this picture but it started to look very hentai because it was in a worms eye view of her doing a high kick. At least this one, I can use the shadows to hide the crotch a little easier.

IMC Final Project

It's been a while but I've been busy:) Here's the final barring any tweaks...

The illustration is from a design brief for a book called Green by Jay Lake that is due to be published soon by Tor books. Dan Dos Santos has the honor of illustrating the real cover and it's a beauty. I'm fortunate enough to have had some great input from Dan, Scott Fischer, Greg Manchess, Donato, Boris and Julie, and the rest of the IMC alumni of 2008. Thanks all! I could not have progressed as far as I did without your help and encouragement!

Medium: Digital and Oil on Panel

Hulk Smashed

Hulk head doodle sculpt I did awhile back, based off the Ed McGuinness art for Red Hulk.

Sagat!

Here is my super late Street Fighter entry. I orginally wanted to do a Chun Li picture but Sung did it faster than I could so I am back with another naked dude. Hope this doesn't become my "thing". Ha ha.

3D Total 4 Hour Sculpting Challenge

This is for a Speed Sculpt Challenge at 3dtotal. The topic is realistic cartoon. Its a four hour challenge where you take their provided generic base mesh and speed sculpt it into a realistic interpertation of a cartoon character. Yeah, its not very realistic but its in glorious 3d!!

Yubaba from Spirited Away at 4 hours of sculpting.

Aidan wall illo

This is for Aidan's playroom wall. It will be sourrounded by different learning posters, numbers, letters, calender, etc. I tried to capture a bit of Olie Josman's amazing rendering style. Started in Photoshop, did clean linework in Flash and color work back in Photoshop.

Life Drawing - 25min poses

I had a pretty good morning at life drawing Saturday. I threw away a few disasters but salvaged some lessons from today's experience.
I'm beginning to utilize some of the advice of Richard Schmid from his book Alla Prima in identifying edges and blocking in values while also incorporating line drawing to identify my proportions and add some flourish here and there.

After Wedding.. the cake toppers

Hey all,

I've been busy with the wedding.. and family stressing me out this last month! but here is the badly painted finished product.. the gorilla was an afterthought.. as i had no time to model myself .. and i just made it fast.. cut off a hand.. just sad. . . when i have time later i'll remodel a version of myself. . . I was so drunk on night of the banquet.. i can't remember half of it.. surprisingly i didn't puke~!

-10ske *MARRIED*

word to your mother

i did a old rough draft a while back ago, and i just added more details. I guess i could add more, but i'm kinda done with this one. I used 3d to layout the perspective and the buildings and just added shit in and out.

Zbrush Tomfoolery

Started messing around with Zbrush again recently, this is a sketch I worked on over the weekend.

Wedding cake Topper..*UPDATE*

well.. I think i spent about 6hrs on this so far.. including skele, light foil underskinning and then the putty. i'm thinking of adding a couple of bows after i've cooked her.. missing the head.. i'll be working on that tomorrow night. wish me luck.. i still have to make myself and paint this model...
critiques or suggestions please. thx.

ps. forgive my modeling skills.. this will be my second time making an actual model with my hands.. so far its all been 3d.

Ibuki

Another Street Fighter to make up for the craptastic last one. This idea was jacked from the end of the latest TF2 vignette.