Blunt Instruments, With Which To Crack..

I'm pretty deep into the first issue of My Neighbor Is A Psychopath! right now, having inked about half of the book, and even more than that by the end of the day. I originally wrote the comic and sketched it out probably.. two years ago, and was very hesitant on inking it afterwards, as inking other projects never seemed to work for me the way I intended. So I held off on that until a solution presented itself. The solution, as it happens for me, was to ink the thing digitally with my fairly new tablet in Manga Studios. A very cool program for making comic books. I should mention that at this point I am working harder and faster on comics than I ever have before, and if it weren't for school and work it is all I would be doing right now.

Aside from working to finish the first issue of my book, entitled 'A Beginning.' I am also editing the story and drawing out thumbnail pages for the second book called 'A First Impression.'

I didn't do this for the first book, but I like doing these thumbnail drawings of the pages because it sort of allows me to get a better idea of what the pages will look like as a whole. Included below are a few thumbnails I did for another project I may continue with called Meat Planet. At regular size I can't help but look at an individual panel at a time, and I really like the idea of keeping the entire page looking attractive, rather than a mess of nice looking panels.

There are actually a couple of those in the first MNiaP book. I know there is one page in particular on which I like the look of every panel on it, however, it really is too many panels for a single page. Don't get me wrong, MNiaP #1 looks more beautiful than I ever imagined it being, so far, but book 2 is going to blow that one away, and as I continue after that I can finally begin working on all of the other stories about all the monsters, villains and other sorts of antagonists in the world of Nailsville.

I'ma get back to work. More on stuff as it happens.

-Ryan!

Wrapped Up Loosely, Flailing Now.

New real post coming soon on the progress of the first issue of My Neighbor Is A Psychopath! as well as the second!! Exciting. Furthermore, as Xanga and Livejournal seem to be abandoned outlets I'll probably start blogging here a bit more regularly instead of picking up on those ones again.

Bossanova Monster In His Trashbag Zoot Suit.

This past quarter I finally ended up working on something I've been wanting to do for a while.

I made a 3D version of one of my characters! Mostly for reference sake, as that enigmatic head can be complicated to draw at times, though I may go ahead and rig him up for animation some time, just to see how it looks.

Which reminds me, here are the bits of animation I started this past quarter. Both are only just started, and have no audio at the moment.

Tom looks for Sid in some museum.

Sid waits for Tom in the (exposed) bathroom and talks to the audience.

The door was going to be animated eventually, so it's not there.

Also, I made this kinda neat thing some time ago.

Looking at it now though, I'd like to make the whole thing a bit more interesting. Maybe I'll do that too. Ah dunno.

-Ryan!

Crinkly Button, Tapered & Wronged.

I've been working on my My Neighbor Is A Psychopath! comic a lot more lately. Here's the first page for your viewing dismay. I'm finally in the scanning and cleaning up phase of the comic making process. Don't know if I'll be posting more full pages up here anytime soon, but I may very well have new have new colored pieces up here fairly soon.



This comic was originally drawn a couple of years ago, and though I've drastically altered some of the artwork in the book to keep a more appealing look to it, a lot has been left unchanged, including this page. So, this image, as you may be able to tell, has a more amateurish look to it than, say, the image in the last post.

I mostly went in and redrew pages that looked exceptionally bad, and was correct in thinking I would like this one the way it was when I finished it, so I didn't alter this one. Crummy, though it may be.

I've since, however, begun trying to apply some cartooning techniques I've picked up from cartoonists such as Walt Kelly, checking out his Pogo comics for the first time.

Walt Kelly was a brilliant cartoonist that any aspiring cartoonist honestly needs to be aware of.

Check out this book. Walt's got brilliant style and is incredibly funny:

The Cow Jumped Over The Mood

I love little jokes that occur with out even telling jokes. Like Pogo's (or Jack's, in this story) elbow in Cruel Stepmother's caviar.

Fact: caviar is one of the top seven funniest foods.

Kelly has great poses and his style is simply beautiful. He's got quite a talent for cuteness too, doesn't he? Another thing I love about Pogo is the way the characters talk. I've always loved reading accents, I think.

He has good staging in his poses, and gets everything he needs in each frame without cluttering it up. I love his cow, possibly the most appealing cartoon cow I've ever seen.

More great staging here, and more great cow.

Some brilliant stuff in this book. Follow that link above to read this whole story!

Next time I post artwork I'll show you some other cartoonists I've been studying. Till then, thanks a lot for stopping by! Check out the MNiaP Livejournal for other My Neighbor Is A Psychopath artwork, characters, story ideas, etc.

-Ryan!

Weather-Beaten Wonderland!

Hey there!

I'm finally going to be getting some time to do some new artwork for a project of mine called My Neighbor Is A Psychopath!
These two here are the main characters Tom and Sid. More on this later.

In the meantime you can check out some related information on my My Neighbor Is A Psychopath! livejournal page!

Thanks for stopping by!
~Ryan.

Battered Kids And Worn Out Wigs.

Hey, folks!
I'll soon be blogging here occasionally on things I feel need blogging about.
I'll try and keep this thing interesting.



















See ya soon!

-Ryan!