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

.Hastings Illustration Company.

 Well I have decided to go ahead and start my own illustration company. Oh yes. I will be finishing the pages for my work portfolio and a new contact page to allow for better contacting for commissioned work. For right now here is a sample of my work as of late.

(The base sketch)

Once I have my base sketch I scan it in to be used in +Adobe Illustrator to complete the line art and coloring.

(Here is the image after it has been lined out)

(Here it is after it has been colored)

I choose not to do the hair because where I intended to use the image had a black background and it would have just blended in and looked off. So after I have completed the image in +Adobe Illustrator  I can then transfer it to +Adobe Photoshop this will allow me to produce the images on lets say:

(A t-shirt)

Or a

(Book-bag)

Once the contact page is complete I will be accepting request for art work. I will be able to mock you image on any type of product you can think of from clothes to electronics. If you would like to use my Frank image for use of your own please feel free.

(This is the line art .png file I assure you if you save it the background is transparent not black)

I will update again once I have all of my pages complete.

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

Page 1. The rest should be available on Kindle in the next few days.

Well after 3 or 4 attempts to color my comic I have decided to take a suggestion from my girlfriend and well with in ten minuets I had completed one page with very little hassle.

Here is the first page of the comic, Let me know what you think of the art work. The entire comic will be uploaded to +Kindle  and you will be able to purchase it there for you reading pleasure.

(Page one: Issue one: Day one)

I was previously asked by a reader as to what the comic is about and to be honest at the time the answer I could give was it's about funny things happening. Well Ill give you some insight as to the back story for issue one. Stanlee and Matt have just moved into their new apartment and in the course of them getting settled in they manage to meet there neighbor from across the hall.

As always let me know what you think. Soundtrack that was pounding in my ears while I colored my comic can be listened to here.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKFPQzireLo It's +Knife Party  

Ultra Music Festival 2013

Cheers,

Joshua

Comic Project Pages 1 - 2 ruffed out.

Hey everyone,

        Well I got pages 1-2 ruffed out today and scanned in so I figured I would let you all take a look and let me know what you think so far.

(Page: 1)

(Page:2)

        Let me know what you think, more work is coming fast and should get uploaded soon. All of the work is done by myself so getting everything that I do uploaded takes time out of getting it done. Well until I have more for you .

Cheers,

Joshua

New Comic Book ! " The Funny Pages™ "

                            This comic will be made up of multiple short stories. The story will be confined to these restraints, If the story can be told in one page then the following page must also be summed up in the one page. In order to use a two page story, the story must begin on the left page and end on the right. The reason I chose to plan out the book like this is because every page you look at is a story. 

  Here is the second addition to " The Funny Pages ™ "

I apologize for the picture quality, here is the dialog  in the order it would be read.

1. HA  HA  HAHA HA
2. O-Kaaaay What's so funny?
3. HA HA  HA HAHA HA  HA HA  HAHA
4. What! What the fuck is so funny!?!
5. It's  It's It's  It's It's It's  It's It's  It's
6. It's what?
7. It's Ur Face!

I hope you enjoyed that, Let me know what you think.

Cheers,

Joshua

New Comic Book Project.

                           Hey there guys and girls, after having a long day with the girlfriend we came up with a very cool concept for a new cartoon. The full concept is still being ironed out but in the mean time i thought I would take one of the characters and make a comic book of short bits with that character.

Here is the first page of this comic.

                           The comic follows a ghost from his perspective. The people in the bits are people visiting the haunted house is search of ghosts. In the first page the ghost is sleeping and the light is flipped on and he is woken up. He then finds a ghost investigator that turned on the light. 

Page 2

                       Clearly upset the ghost decides to give the investigator what he is looking for. With the night now off the ghost is free to sleep A-GAIN! Muhahahaha No!! anyways. If the text is to hard for you to read pleas let me know and I will post the text .

                       Let us know what you think more comic bits coming soon.

If you would like to submit a story to be drawn out head to the contact page.