Comic book drawing club/Comics movement here in Cebu!

[cmontoya]

(OT) Speaking of assets, just out today Ellen Adarna posed for UNO. Dang, I saw this girl in person in the Centennial airport and I prefer her "innocent" look in the gazillions of photos of her on the web prior her UNO pictorial. There are just some things better left to the imagination, you know what I mean.

Back to lurking...

[HoundedbyHeaven]

Quote: Originally Posted by cmontoya There are just some things better left to the imagination, you know what I mean. Back to lurking...

Wow, that's a new, refreshing side of you, man, hehehe.

[cmontoya]

@HbH: (OT) I'm what that what's-her-name singer describes as, "maginoo pero medyo ba$+()$."

[john__amor]

Happy New Year, whoreheads!

Here's to a more productive and energetic mother-effin' oh nine!

[chikadora2009]

This thread is very interesting, i'm just wondering if anyone here is a freelance artist who can do a children's story book illustrations... can you pm me with your rate and samples? Kanang affordable lang. We are going to publish a story book for children, ngita mi illustrator. I am not sure kung ok ba ni akong post diri, deleta lang if I have violated any rules here, first time pa man gud nako post diri. Thanks!

[cmontoya]

@chikadora2009: I sent Weebong an e-mail asking if he'd be interested. He did a mural at Frobel and his style may be something akin to the illustrations I've found in some children's book.

URL:

- Weebong - The Endless
- Weebong - My Paintings/Mural at Frobel. Pre/grade-school

There are others here who can also draw well but their styles tend towards manga and western comic books.

[john__amor]

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Let's talk about original graphic novels for a bit... over at Border Break

[Isteb]

@JA

I can send you a copy of the Communist Manifesto if you don't have one already... or Das Kapital. Or Mao's Red Book.

What's OVERTHROW about? If I'm not mistaken, it's a project of yours, correct? Well allow me to share a few thoughts...

Judging from your samples, what you have are posters of the USSR when it was already established. See, the mindset of the established Communist party is somewhat different from that of the Party while conducting their war against the so-called imperialists.

Post-revolution posters focus on trying to keep the communist system working.

Before a revolution, the party would focus on trying to unite the masses, urging them to bear arms. Oftentimes there would be three groups depicted: Factory workers, those involved in agriculture, livestock, etc. and professionals such as doctors, teachers and so on.

I haven't read your site thoroughly, so forgive me for asking. Where is your story set in? If it's in a place that resembles Europe, then posters of the USSR (Marxist-Leninist) are fine. Kung Asian nga lugar, try China or Vietnam (Maoist).

Anyway, I totally agree with JA's post over @ Border Break. I wanted my first comic book to be a smash hit, too... Something mind-blowing, original, mind-blowingly original. I spent so much time trying to come up with something that I soon realized I was making no progress at all.

So I drew inspiration from Fables and started collecting stories that belong to public domain. Very good stories, free for everyone to use. Right now I’m trying to adapt an American civil war story.

That’s it. My eyelids weigh a ton each right now.

[vemp]

Overthrow is simply IN SOVIET RUSSIA, COMICS EATS YOU.

No, it's actually about Russian space satellites making love. And tentacles. Made in China.

[john__amor]

@ isteb

Thanks for the insights, man. You should post a comment on the site about your OGN realizations. Overthrow, as far as I can tell, has nothing to do with Russia or Communism. It's set in the future and talks about a retired superhero's adventure after the villain has already taken over the world. Not the most original concept ever, but it's good fun. I'm only studying Soviet propaganda for the Overthrow covers. Nothing else. We're trying to capture that same visual aesthetic.

[HoundedbyHeaven]

Quote: Originally Posted by john__amor It's set in the future and talks about a retired superhero's adventure after the villain has already taken over the world. Not the most original concept ever, but it's good fun.

It's a great concept and I, for one, would probably never be bored of finding out what another author's idea of a future long fallen but is now being redeemed is (cough, doing one myself too, cough).

Quote: Originally Posted by john__amor I'm only studying Soviet propaganda for the Overthrow covers. Nothing else. We're trying to capture that same visual aesthetic.

Hmm, something tells me Nazi propaganda would be more appropriate to the theme of this work's cover.

Peace.

[john__amor]

Quote: Originally Posted by HoundedbyHeaven Hmm, something tells me Nazi propaganda would be more appropriate to the theme of this work's cover.

True, if we're talking about ideologies. But we're only after the art syle. The soviet ones were very abstract, almost cubist at points, whereas the nazis used a lotta normal rockwell-like stuff. Who knows though, we might end up doing exactly that, if I grow a third arm.

[gnobeew]

Happy New Year

[gnobeew]

I have been busy with work in night shifts and cosplaying
I think I need to draw new works for this year....
I hope you keep a look out for Story Philippines issue for this year....ahehehe

[john__amor]

The Patchwork Comics website has just gone live.


And with it, my first solo book, the Mask of Manolo.

Sick of me yet?

eeeeexcellent...