Updates!

Hey Everyone,

 It has been a few days sense my last update and I'll right let you know why. I have been trying frantically to find a steady job although the economy is on the rise unemployment does seem to have changed any only gotten worse. I have been working on a comic that I ' am sure most have you have seen here on my blog and as of late I have put it on stand-by not only because I don't have the time to focus on it, I also don't quite like the way it is turning out.

 So in the future I will complete the comic and I will be releasing it for free instead of on +Kindle  due to the amount of time it is going to take me to complete. As of right now I' am spending a lot of time in +Adobe Illustrator  drawing and coming up with new things daily.

(Here is a little cartoon I have been designing and working on for a little while now.)

(Here are some sketchbook entries.)

Let me know what you think of the toon and I will be posting more art here very soon.

Also check out my +deviantART page @http://hastingsillustration.deviantart.com/

Until next time, Cheers,

Joshua

.Hastings Community Project

                 With my new store up and running it got me to thinking. Right now I only have two of my illustrations uploaded to the store. Seeing as I'am not a great thinker and cannot come up with thousands of ideas completely on my own all of the time.

                  Now don't get me wrong I do have my own ideas and here is one for the community. I have started a .Hastings Community Project page in Google+ . what does this mean for you, well keep your pants on and I will gladly let you know.

                  What I would like to do is build a community of artist who can submit their sketches to me. I will then take the sketch and turn it into a illustration and apply to a product in my store. If that item should ever sell, the individual who provided the idea/sketch will then be paid 50% of the profit. Now there will be some guidelines and terms to adhere to so please visit the .Hastings Community Project page for all of the details.

I hope to see you all on there soon.

Cheers,

Joshua

Zombie Link first attempt.

Well I spent quite a few hours on this today so my buddy could have it . Not quite happy with it yet , but I' am liking the concept. So check it out and let me know what you think.

(Zombie +Link Zelda  By: Joshua Hastings)

Cheers,

Joshua

Have you ever just felt the need to color?

Well today I had one of those feelings so I got on Google and tried to find something to color. After coming to +deviantART  I found artist Bomu and his line art of  Gynoid for SVV Line Art.

(Here is the original line art.)

(Here is my rendering.)

Let me know what you think.

Cheers,

Joshua

Zombie Pikachu- Rendering

After the past two days helping family move, all I wanted to do was get back to draw and get this ball finished rolling. So tonight I wanted to do a digital coloring of a scanned in image to brush up on the techniques that I have learned but haven't used in a while.

After about 20 minuets searching +Google Images  I came across a image of +Pikachu  as a zombie. Instantly it was a winner. Now I wanted a line art photo because I had planned to paint it digitally in +Photoshop. Here is the line art as provided by www.dragoart.com.

I didn't take me long to get back into the swing of the workflow and soon I had a completed photo that I' am sure some of my friends would enjoy.

Below is a large image of the finale rendering.

(: Please let me know what you think. :)

Cheers,

Joshua

First cover concept.

                          Hey so I haven't really figured out what I want to do about the cover yet so here is one that I ran through +Photoshop.

                           This may or may not be the finale title I' m not sure yet, if you have a suggestion feel free to let me know. The rest of the comic is being scanned and finalized right now. SO you get to read it very soon.

Cheers,

Joshua