Comic Pages 3 - 4 ruffed out.

Hello again,

          Well I got pages 3-4 ruffed out today as well  and here they are. I' am trying to get half of the entire comic ruffed out today.

(Page: 3)

(Page: 4)

 Well I hope you are enjoying these if so let me know. Until next time.

Cheers,

Joshua

Camera is down ! But I shall update anyway.

         Okay so I have been drawing for two days now and my camera is down (Bummer). The main character designs are drawn and are currently being colored. Once the character designs are scanned I will make sure to get them in. The current names for the characters are:

1. (Main Character) Stanlee
2. (Stanlee's Roomate) Matt 
3. (The girl across the hall) Sally

        There will be more characters but the story line focuses on these three. There is no love drama, family sit down dinners, or any talking animals (SMH) also no cliff hangers, flashbacks (unless necessary), or +Conway Twitty  songs. You'll just have to check it out purely because you want too.

         Moving on.

         Storyboards for the first full comic are half done right now. The entire comic will be 39 panels over 9 pages. Once the comic is scanned in it will be colored then a few copies will be printed. These copies will be sent to winners of an up coming contest I have planned. The comic will be turned into a PDF and will be available on your Kindle for $1.99.

          If you would like to reserve a copy of the printed comic please email me with your information and I will contact you back within 24 hr.

          Well I'm going to get back to the storyboards.

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

Comic and Cartoon design process.

Here are a few of the visual steps I like to take when creating a new project.

I like to start with a shape for the head and draw it from each angle.

• Looking to the left and up.
• Looking to the left.
• Looking left and down.
• Facing front.
• Rear facing.
• Looking right and up.
• Looking right.
• Looking right and down.

This may seem like a lot right now but it will save you hours of time in the future if you take care of this now.

Here are many different eyes and noses to be used for characters faces.

Here are some hair styles.

Here is the characters body sheet.

                       Body sheets can include the full body from each angle that will be viewed in your comic. You can also cut the body up in to smaller pieces to give yourself a quick reference guide to use late.

Here is a full character design. (The Ghost)

                       I have found in my years of drawing that if you give yourself a base design sheet you can reefer back to it at anytime to make you drawing workflow much smoother.

                       I hope this has helped you and if so let me know. If you would like to know what the lines mean on the head angle sheet let me know and I will add an explanation.

Here is a link to my official cartoonist studio.

http://www.thecartooniststudio.com/CubicleDetail/675/Joshua-Hastings

Till next time,

Cheers

Video's.

                  Well I have managed to have one video posted so far of this current project. I would have a complete video but the camera I' am using is a +Samsung USA  and is about 10 years old. With a future new camera I will be sure to have video +Tuts and video progress of my paintings posted soon.

                  Now the other day I was getting my blog registered with all of the major search engines. As I was doing this I came across a young women with the same last name as myself and was also an artist.

                 Her name is KATH HASTINGS and on here blog she has these awesome "Iconic Toxic Drums" Paintings.

                                  I wanted to share a few of the ones that stood out to me with all of you.

        
                    Now these are just the few that I picked out that I enjoyed, but don't just judge on these two go and take a look for yourself at her other works.

We have color!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are a few shots of the current state of the panting.

  

Bio-Mechanical Dry Brush Oil Painting

                                 

              Here Is a video as I continue on my current painting. I' am currently shooting the next video right now and will have it uploaded as soon as I' am done.

Progress.

          I got some painting done last night. I also found an old camera so today I will be recording my progress and will post the video when it is complete.

New commissioned work thanks to the blog readers.

      I' am very happy to say that thanks to some viewers I have 6 new commissioned projects. Three of these are photo realism dry brush portraits. The other three are abstract bio-morphic paintings in oil. The good news aside from all of the obvious reasons is I now have a price range.


      For a 24x18 canvas oil painting the starting price is $100.00 the price value may increase on the amount of fine detail needed to complete the painting.


      For a 18x12 canvas oil painting the starting price will start at $20.00 the price value may increase on the amount of colors and fine details needed to complete the painting.

      These prices are based on what other readers commissioned their paints for. There is a price break if you commission multiple paintings at once. The price break starts at a 15% for three.



       If you would like commission your own head to the contact me page for details.

Update on current project.

Here is the current state on the dry brush oil painting.

The theme is bio mechanical. I also have the painting of +David Tennant and a pencil drawing of +Lisa SIMPSON  done by commission.

Both of these works are currently on display.

Current Project.

                 Currently I' am working on a bio mechanical dry brush painting in oil. Sadly I' am have some     issues with my camera right now or I would add a progress photo. Current items in painting include (wires,skull,cogs,bolts,screws etc.) the painting is going to be my third attempt at dry brushing

                 My first painting with this technique was of +David Tennant from +Dr Who which did not come out bad at all but showed I had much room for improvement. The second attempt was of this man.

                  This was just a photo I came across while searching +Google for "portrait photography". I just thought the wrinkles and hard to soft shadows would prove as a good test. I spent two hours on the painting and was very happy with the result. This attempt was light years better than my +david tennant painting. After finishing the painting I had given it to a friend because they had liked it so much. Because of this I only have a image I took with my phone that is only a portion of the full painting.

                   So once I see this person again I will be sure to take a digital copy of it for this blog.

Cheers,

Joshua

Past work.

Zombie Nurse - Title : Infection

Biomorphic Skull- Title : Bad Candy

Skull Tattoo design: I saw a similar picture online an re drew it .

Grim: Title : Don fear the reaper.

"We're back a dinosaur story".

Biomorphic: Title : Blue Monday

Zombie: Title : Day Z Mothers Day

Zombie: Title : Bad Breath

Zombie Girl: Title : Can you give me a "Z!"

 Hello,

       These are not all of my past works, I have a ton more that I need to get added in. There should a be a new batch of uploads weekly. Or as soon as I find more of them.

Cheers,

.H

Overview.

Purpose of the blog.

      .H is a blog about drawing, sketching, painting, comics, cartoons, illustration, digital art, concept art, gallery art, artist tools and techniques, motion graphics, animation, sci-fi and fantasy illustration, dry brush paintings, storyboards, matte painting, 3d graphics and anything else I find.

A little about me.

      I' am 28 years old, I attended +School Of The Arts until 2002 and joined the Army in 2007. During the past 6 years I have been looking into new styles of painting and i believe I have found one that I can really get in to.I have been an artist for about 20 years now and I have figured why not share my art with everyone. So here you are, I hope you enjoy.