Tonal Studies

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 Some tonal studies I did for homework. I'm surprised with how they came out. I wish I could paint like this regularly.

Sketch 05.13.13

Sketch based on the theme: Fear of the Unknown. I'm going to try to do more projects, usually one a week, giving myself only a week's time on each.

My Thoughts On Who Should Win Stripsearch

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So it's half way through the show and it's been a pretty great competition. Rarely can I watch a show that I feel I could connect with, and Penny-Arcade's StripSearch as been amazing at that. At this point in the show, (spoilers) Abby fought Erika in the elimination challenge and came up the winner. Now we're down to the final six: Abby, Tavis, Maki, Monica, Katie, and Lexxy. So who should win? For me, I don't feel as if the winner should be who I think is the best artist and it has more to do with who deserves it more.

Who's the Best Artist in StripSearch?

My rankings go as follows:

1. Katie
2. Lexxy
3. Maki
4. Tavis
5. Monica
6. Abby

Hands down I think Katie's the best artist on the show, and she's proven it time and time again that she's the best overall artist in the house. I feel like she jut missed the mark on a few challenges, like the Wizards of the Coast challenge where her drawing was too risque. If there should be an overall winner on best it should be Katie. That being said, I don't think Katie should actually win the show.

Who Should Win?

I don't think Katie should win, mostly because she is already established in the animation industry. She's already made it which I feel the point of the show is to give exposure to those in the trenches. I think that Lexxy is the second best artist there, but at that point in the show she hadn't even made a comic strip so I don't she really deserves to win on that technicality. Abby is definitely an underdog story who's funny and a great artist, but still seems too inexperienced.

Personally I feel like this competition comes down to either Tavis, Monica or Maki. And more so Tavis and Monica and I just feel like their strips fit in with the Penny Arcade style.

At this point I wonder if it even matters who wins (Besides the money of course). They've all gotten loads of exposure and have even been able to make money off the show by being able to sell prints of their eliminations comics. Also don't forget the new Pineapple Maki clothing line. Overall the show is great and hopefully it can continue on to more seasons.

Chael Sonnen Sketch

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Just a sketch I started to play around with but ended up not finishing. I like where it was going though. I might finish it up in the future, maybe when he fights again.

sketchyHUMOR: Snapshot 8

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My Stripsearch Elimination Comic #5 (nsfw-ish)

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My Stripsearch Elimination Comic

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So I've been following Penny Arcade's webcomic competition show StripSearch. It's been a pretty interesting show and the challenges the artists go through are entertaining. at the end of each day they have an elimination comic strip with two artists voted in, and they each pick a word to make a comic strip in 90 mins based on the words chosen. The two words this week were "flatulence" and "county fair."

I tried doing the elimination challenge this week, and yea it's really tough to complete a whole comic strip in 90 minutes. I had so many problems as far as laying out the strip and trying to use flash for everything. Usually I do the line art in flash and flip over to photoshop to color, but I didn't have time to be flipping around different programs. Also usually I would use photo references for stuff like backgrounds and animals, but I also didn't have any time for that either. Also, it's not really fair since I had way more time to think up the strip instead of having minutes which the contestants did. Overall if was a fun experience, but I don't think my strip came out all that well.