AWOL'd : Chapter One REDUX

It's been a long while since my last blog. I've been pretty busy working on AWOL'd and recently completed Chapters 01-02 for the graphic novel.
Here are pages 6-8 of Chapter O1. If you happen to own the first draft/print of AWOL'd issue 1, hold it up and compare those pages with these. There is an improvement.

Life Drarwing: January 24 edition

Medium: medium marker pen, brush marker (Faber Castell), and a dying brush marker (Pentall sp?).
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Life Drawing Jan07/2008 edition

Here's some ten minute drawings I did. Sorry for the blurriness, my digicam batteries were dying so I rushed the shots.


I cheaped out on not drawing the stick he was holding that kept his hand up, so I just added a thumb up. In the words of 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan, "HOOOOOOOOOO!!!"



The model had a strong resemblance to Stallone (Sly/Frank/both?).

Part of an anthology...

I'm doing some pro bono work for a comic anthology by The Max and Beatrice Wolfe Centre for Children’s Grief and Palliative Care.

Life Drawing - Dec 06/07

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AWOL'd REDRAWN!

A month ago, I finished inking issue 2 of the AWOL'd series. The day after, I had a Skype chat with comic icon Larry Hama about my work on issue 1. To sum things up, he listed all the faults in my technique in storytelling and art and left me devastated. Then I looked at the freshly-inked work from the day before and I felt sick of it. Hama was right. So the next day after our chat, I took all of his advice and applied it while redrawing issue 2.
Now that I've finished redrawing issue 2, I'm going back to redrawing issue 1, and by then ... the third chapter should kick ass.

The majority of chapter 2 takes place in a train station where Karli, Norton, and Leeves talk about their game plan after escaping their covert-ops unit. Lots of talking for 15+ pages, and I had a habit of drawing too many close-up shots and less shots of the characters 'acting'. The second draft fixes that.

Here are sample pages displaying the before(left) and after(right).

page 5


page 14 - Notice the first two panels in the first draft of page 14 is similar to the last panel in page 5 (first draft). Some pazazz is added to the second draft.


page 15 - When I add the ziptone, it'll help show Karli, Norton, and Leeves being followed by an agent then split up.


Bye!

-J

Life Drawing - Nov 15 + Nov 29 edition

I've taken some of my friends suggestions about relying less on the graytone markers and using more ink in the dark areas. It took tons of unwatchable experimental drawings until I found my niche.
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10 minutes...since the previous session, I decided to toss out the pencils and draw directly in ink. But I cheated a little on this one by using a dying brush marker to roughly sketch out the dude...guess I lost my confidence.


10 minutes...I thought the left lower leg was a tad long. But no graytone markers were harmed in this one.


10 minutes...Uh-oh! I brought out the graytone markers...but at least I applied some core shadows.

15 minutes...a bit too sketchy for the time I was given. Especially on that left arm.
Bye!

Bollywood caricatures...

Here's some caricatures of Bollywood celebs Hrithik Roshan and Shilpa Shetty I've done freehanded on Adobe Illustrator. It's part of an upcoming web project.
Enjoy!

Return of Drawing from Life

After a long unexplainable break from life drawing, I'm back at it. I find it's a good way to rid of my dying brush markers in the best possible way.
Compared to my past sessions, I've now gotten avoided the pencilling stage for each drawing and just gone straight to inking on a blank page. That's guts and balls, I say!

10 minutes...I was really experimenting with this one. I wanted to see if I can shade this drawing without graytone markers. I ended up using the markers half-way through.


10 minutes...Just finding the contours. Never mind the hiccups around the arms. Yikes!


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Life DrawingS aka Pam Beasley in the nude.

From a month ago...



May 3rd...because I was missing a new episode of the Office that day, the challenge was turning the model into Pam Beasley.


"That's what I said, Michael." - Pam

Life Drawing Mar05/07 -Vampire Challenge

Life Drawing - March 8/07

I'm really digging the new life drawing studio we've been going to lately since early-January. The ratio of female to male models makes my new sketchbook a pretty sight to see than my last sketchbook from the last studio labelled "sausage fair".

Luchador Challenge.
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5 minute drawing. She looks anime-ish.

background study...

Just trying to nail down a colour scheme for the beach scene in Popper Cosmix the webcomic. I'm sorta not happy about the colours I used in the sand...guess I still need to play around with it.

Life Drawing - Feb 22/07 - Boxer Challenge

I killed two markers in this session. Enjoy!

The New Popper Cosmix!

I'm in the planning stages for my new Popper Cosmix webcomic. Here are the new character designs I'll be using as reference for modelling and colour schemes.

Life Drawing - Feb 15/07 - Barbarian challenge.

This week's challenge was barbarians. It was a bit of a challenge to come up with barbarian references by memory.

Life Drawing - Feb8/07

Last session's challenge was Pirates!!!
First attempt drew some blood when I drew the sword handle at a wrong angle.
Second attempt. Much better.
Yarr-rific!

Life Drawing - Feb01/07

After 5 consecutive dudes in my life drawing sketchbook, a female finally blossoms!



I made a challenge to my fellow Sketchkriegers to have one sketch in each life drawing session be manipulated in someway. This session was superheroes and I was the only one there that remembered. Next week: Pirates.

Life Drawing - Jan25/07

I came into the studio with about 9 dying markers. About 6 of them were used up in the drawing process and only 3 came back home with me. Here are the drawings.

I'm a sexy model pt.2

Here's another small preview to one of my new pieces for the upcoming SPY! artshow, with myself x3 posing for reference.

Life Drawing - January 18/07

Here are some of my sketches from today's session, which can also be seen at the new Sketchkrieg! blog along with work by Tyrone and Alana McCarthy, Arthur Dela Cruz, Zen Rankin, and Evan Munday.

Artshow shout-out!

Breaking out!

It feels like it's been months I haven't blogged with new work. Well, most of my time is spent on new pieces for my art show which is top secret. Though, a while ago my friend Steve B hooked me up with an illustration spot in Chart, which is pretty awesome. I did a two-page spread on 2007's Break-out artists. Here's some process work I sent to Steve as we corresponded through emails.
These are rough ideas I came up with on the feature.



Steve wanted to go with the third one, but the positions of some of the figures needed to be reworked. So I did a quick sketch to fix the composition and got the thumbs up!

The linear drawing before it gets coloured and rendered, or should I say "Loo'd".

The final piece can be seen in February's edition of Chart! Make sure to pick up a copy.

The Golden Scarab, now found on Amazon!

Hey, would you like a copy of the Golden Scarab, the graphic novel I originally did for Rubicon/Scholastic Canada? Now you can get yourself a copy on Amazon.com by simplying searching "Jason Loo", or by clicking this link!

Cheers!

Long time, no blog.

It's been a long while since I last blogged. I missed life drawing last week because it was another dude (would have been the fourth consecutive dude in my sketchbook), so the only drawing I've done during the holidays was for my art show coming up at the Steam Whistle Brewery. All of chapters including the holiday special to A Battle between Light and Dark are currently up, so if you've missed any chapters, just click the link. Besides focusing on new pieces for the upcoming art show, I think I should give some attention to a new Popper Cosmix book I've been planning out.
Hope you all had a Merry Christmas!

Life Drawing - Dec04+11 /06

Holy cow! Two weeks in a row of just dudes. It wouldn't have been that way if today's female model didn't call in sick. You're lucky that you went to see Rancid and missed out on today's session, Arthur.
2 minute sketches...

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10 minute. Yup, I had to leave it out since there was too many of it from past sessions.

An early holiday cheer!

Hello all,

I've made you all a holiday webcomic for your viewing pleasure. Simply visit http://www.jasonloo.com/sunstone/ and click "Holiday Special" found on the left menu. Enjoy!

Cheers!
-loo-bot-

Review of "A Battle between..."

"A Battle between Light and Dark" has been reviewed very generously at Webcomicgeek. Check out the review here!

Made in Canada.

Behold! Rick Mercer, the action figure!

page preview: Colonel Kringus comes to Town

Coming to you early-December.