Polterguys: An Original Online Manga Series

Color & Marker Test

Yey! I’m pretty excited to share the first promo image related to my new project, Polterguys. I’ve been working on the comic pages since the first of this month to give myself a buffer so I should be able to start publishing pages around mid-July.

Polterguys is the story which I based from to create my Yen Press Talent Search entry, Final Track. It’ll have comedy and drama elements (just the way I like ’em!) so I hope you stick around for it!

Contest Results + New Project

Red Head and Magic - Warm-up sketch

Thanks to everyone who commented over the weekend! You can view the winner’s commissions, plus a few more drawings here on tumblr. I was hoping to livestream while I worked on the commissions but it seems to make Photoshop super laggy. Can anybody recommend what I should do? I checked my internet speed which seems to be more than capable and I was using the normal setting. I can try testing it again later since I have one more commission to finish.

My sister Kay stayed over last week and is helping me with preliminary work for my new project. Together with my youngest sister, we’re working out all the tedious mediocrity in my character designs and preliminary thumbnails. While my love to tell a good story is incredible and vast, my ability to convey exciting visuals is still lacking in some areas. Glad to have an animation student and a fashion-conscious teen go over my designs and push them to the best it can get.

Meanwhile, I also introduced Kay to Baccano while she made me watch Paranoia Agent.

Rewatching Baccano for the first time in English is a delight! Firo and Luck’s voice actors are so dreamy. I’m particularly susceptible to accents so I really recommend Funimation’s dubs. Paranoia Agent, on the other hand, may be unsettling but the animation quality is so rich – it really is a must see for fans any animation buff.

Expect another update this week. I’ll be showing previews of my new project! I’m pretty excited to share them.

Site relaunch! Contest time!

I decided to start my wordpress site from scratch and streamline a lot of the areas to “read better.” Ofcourse, what followed was an intense two-week struggle against the nearly alien language of php and css. Crazy times, but I did learn much!

I’m happy to announce I’ve uploaded several comics which have previously only been available through Deviantart in “vertical stacks.” It took a while and I’m very grateful the Webcomic plug-in for wordpress took care of all the navigation and archive coding for me. While there is a learning curve to customizing your pages, I do recommend it for people interested in making webcomics with wordpress. Unfortunately, comicpress refused to place nice with my local files so I can’t make valid comparisons.

Breathe is now available to read in its entirety and while it looks fairly dated now, like perhaps some of the other comics here, I like to think of each one as stepping stones toward improvement. Each of these short stories really helped me improve my craft. I still hope you derive some enjoyment from reading them here.

Subscribe to my blog feed, or follow me on DA, Tumblr or Twitter for updates on my next project. I’m pretty excited to be finally working on it after working on it off and on for three years.

CONTEST TIME!!!

Have a look around! Let me know if links are broken or some weird stuff is happening and just comment on this blog. You can also just let me know what you think about the site or comics. Any suggestions or recommendations for improvements? Which comic did you enjoy most and why? Comments that aren’t just one-word entries will be automatically entered into my little raffle. : )

PRIZES

I’ll be raffling off a full color commission for a random commenter and come up with special prizes for those who provide feedback I’ll be adapting.

DEADLINE

Sunday midnight (That’s Sunday 11:59PM Pacific Standard time.)

Thanks for looking around!

Final Track: Yen Press New Talent Search submission

Well, here it is! 2 months worth of blood, sweat and tears. In November last year, Yen Press announced a New Talent Search calling for original 32-page short stories. My writing partner Nathan and I collaborated on this story and I spent most of November through the New Year on the art. We’ll see in a few weeks what actually becomes of this story but for now, I’m sharing it with the world because boy am I proud of this sucker.

Read it online here!

Unfortunately, the comic was made for print specs so I can’t do anything about the terrible moire patterns. If you have an easy way to get rid of them, I’d love to hear it but otherwise, I don’t think it’s feasible for me to re-tone everything for web.

Don’t forget to check out my blog posts if you’d like to know more about the processes involved in making this comic. Thank you for reading, hope you enjoy and do let us know what you think!

Voltron 101 in Voltron: United and Drawn

The Voltron books arrived and they’re very shiny! My piece “Voltron 101” is on page 138. Check it out at the Voltron Webstore!

The following are some of my favorite illustrations in the book and really stand out for me.
– Sean Moore’s DOOM Propaganda Poster-esque illustration is fun.
– Brent Schoonover’s inspired vintage comic book cover ala Jack Kirby is just wonderful.
– Andrew Griffith’s piece is a very cool what-if scenario with Voltron as a kind of Steampunk Viking warrior.
– Dave Perillo’s adorable retro portraits of the Lion Force team
– Fernando Peniche Vargas’s illustration of BOTH Lion and Vehicle Force Voltrons is not only inclusive but also super dynamic!
– Michael Borkowski’s depiction of Voltron vs a Robeast is pretty kickass.

I recently participated in February 1’s Hourly Comics Day. You can read how my day went on my blog here.

Also, uploaded a few new pieces to the illustration galleries.
3 Pages in Original Comics – Can’t seem to get them to show up properly so you can read them full-size here instead.
1 Original
2 Fanart