Tuesday, April 21, 2009

HAPPY Earth Day!!

More color studies and concept sketches ... I am hoping to make a graphic novel during my up-coming vacation, so have been trying different kind of painting styles. The graphic novel will be a travelogue - since it will be a small book, I don't want to reveal too much about the book. HA! HA!! Otherwise, it wouldn't be fun to read. The trip is only a week, it will cover stories related to the trip. And YES!! This will be the VERY FIRST MINTY COMIC BOOK!! WOO HOO!! Although I have been drawing Minty comic diary often, I never done a comic book before, this will be a challenge, especially it will be done on the run. Right now I am experimenting new technique and styles, which could maintain the fun and loose quality of my normal Minty comic, but with much higher visual quality. I may end up have to do some model sheet for ... Err ... Minty and MYSELF?! Humm ... I will post some study sketches a long the way!! Wish me luck!! Cross my fingers I can pull off this graphic novel travelogue idea ... *Nervous and exciting*

25 comments:

Jessie Lilac said...

How exciting! It's going to be lovely.x

Mike Lee said...

Hey Alina! Your comic sounds pretty awesome! I hope you have fun on your trip and keep up the great work!

Jeremy Elder said...

Your color combinations on your top watercolors are very good - they have Hawai'i written all over them.

Marcelo Vignali said...

Way to go, these look fantastic!

aermio said...

these look great. sounds like a fun filled art trip. can't wait to see the book.

Gerald said...
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Heidi Smith said...

I love the watercolors!!

Yelokehay! said...

Is increible, very good!;)

RAWLS said...

Happy Earth day to you my friend! These are beautiful!!!

Alina Chau said...

THank you everyone for your kind word and visit ^__^

João Edno said...

Hey! Thanks for your coments! Beautiful your work!
Parabéns!
: *

hadi tabasi said...

thanks
awesome

Suana said...

beautiful mountainscape!

Amy C said...

soooo exciting - you can totally pull this off - what are you talking about?
Where are you going?
Or is that top secret?
Have a lovely time, cant wait to see the mintyness

Laura said...

What a nice idea, a graphic novel travelogue!!^^
Can we see?
Those drawings are beautiful, I like!

Hope you have fun on your travelogue =D

Alina Chau said...

THank you everyone.

Amy C,
THank you. I am going to Hawaii next month, so right now I am perparing for the trip and try to figure out how to make a comic book. ^__^

Laura,
Thank you. I am hoping to publish this Travelogue, if it turns out to be what I expected. LOL So I don't think I will post pages on the blog, that will reveal too much of the book. Although I am thinking to post photos of the work in progess, and share my first graphic novel making experience on the blog. ^___^

ArtSparker said...

I see a sea turtle in there...Looks like you'll be having some fun in the waves.

anima-base said...

Hi Alina..
Your watercolor stuff is really beatufiful.. Ir's color is very awesome~

jeremy Charpentier said...

very beautifull sketches! my favorites are the two first! I really love

Pepi said...

Thank you very much for the comment you left on my blog.Tus all illustrations are very bellas.Que te balla bonito.Espero that the text is correct, I used a translator because I do not understand anything about English and thanks again.

Khylov said...

Dang, silhouettes and shimmery water effects. That's tough to pull off in PS, let alone in watercolor. Nice handling of that.

Ahhh, right right, model sheets. What's funny is that even if the style of the character diverges during the course of the comic, it almost doesn't matter, so long as it can kind of fit the art style - or an art style established at the beginning of the story (whether loose lines, extreme exaggeration of the characters, etc). But I think so long as the story or scenes/dialog is interesting or involving, people won't be thinking about consistency of style or line weight so much as "This is a cool/fun story".

Good luck for sure with your comic; hope to see it soon.

And btw... Yes, the spirit of CG/mocap does take the form of a Darth Vader-like character. I've seen him several times at one of the taco trucks in Hollywood during lunch break, ordering nothing by hot sauce and tin foil.

Ria said...

This is sooo interesting! And happy Earth Day to you too!

marcello murru said...

life.live,live,fresh,dinamics beautiful!!!

Alina Chau said...

THank you all!

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