Anyway, I've been pretty busy drawing some comics in the last 12 or so months. Here's my manga and sequential art portfolio (well, a lot of it anyway) as it stands.
-BTW,
from now on, if I do publish my own manga online, it will be here, on my blog, so check back for more updates with each passing month or so. I tend to do a few comics pages a month, but I'm aiming for more by the next 2-7 years. Trying to work on a schedule plan for producing new comics in the future. I know some of these are sloppy, but my philosophy is what you produce isn't as important as the fact that you CONTINUE producing and keep at it each week, if not every day.
Now before you go HATIN' ON ME ALL OVER THE DEVIANTART or WHATEVER it is you kids do nowadays, keep in mind, I'm not emphasizing pure drafting ability here. I'm emphasizing storytelling. Truth be told I can dream up and poop out shit that looks 5,000 times PRETTIER than some of this if I really wanted to and was doing individual illustrations and designs
Lest we forget, I'm the guy who drew THIS:
As I was saying, drafting ability isn't as important as working hard at your storytelling and sequential art abilities. I could do a million of that noir type thing, but I realized, it's not about how pretty your drawings look all the time. It's about sequential art and VISUAL NARRATIVES. And drawing illustrations is NOT the same skill as drawing comics pages, as I quickly found out upon attempting that very thing hundreds of time in my offline pen and pencil archives. Many artists online are the best illustrators and Photoshop users IN THE WORLD, but when you get to see them attempt drawing actual comics and sequential art, (you know, 2 to 3 panels or more) they're no better than people like me. BUT it's important to realize, it's important to at least TRY.
So without further ado, more recent comics pages...
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