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Dec 9, 2010
Dec 1, 2010
I always wanted to figure this out
These are some of my favorite movies, and now I've finally found something to help me explain it.
Nov 29, 2010
MBM cover
I'm working on a fancy cover for Mini Battle Men. I hope to finish it before Tuesday. Good news is, I already finished this week's comic so it will be on time this week HOORAY!
Anyways, here's the pencil sketch and the WIP (click on them for a bigger image):
Anyways, here's the pencil sketch and the WIP (click on them for a bigger image):
Nov 17, 2010
Mini-Battle Men #13
Mini Battle Men #13 is up to view now! Hit those 'Like' buttons...I really wanna win that contest!!!
Nov 15, 2010
Ghetto Manga Cover - Luke Cage Tribute
My good man, Samax, let me grace his Ghetto Manga Quarterly for the 2nd time. This time it's the Mini Battle Men, reenacting a scene on the cover of Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #1. Each of the trio is rocking a different Cage costume.
Not only are the Mini Battle Men on the cover, but there is also a 1st time printing of MBM #1-9 (week 7 was a "technical difficulties" comic, so it is not included).
I'm also working on a actual cover for Mini Battle Men. I will include both of these on the wevolt site in a couple of weeks. Yanno, it'll help me get some hits for the weekly rumble contest.
- ZEES
Nov 5, 2010
Mini-Battle Men #11
Just dropped Mini-Battle Men #11 on Wednesday! Do me a huge favor, when you're done read it this week, click on the "Like" button, right below the comic:
I'm entered a contest to get the most votes per week. You can also go back to last week's and click "Like" as well.
Oct 19, 2010
Its number 10 already!
For those of you who haven't been keeping up....I'm up to number 10 already! YAY!
They're finally leaving their planet. Mega Neutron wants to get to Earth immediately, unfortunately, things don't go the way he wants.
Mini-Battle Men #10
Catch up if you didn't read the previous.
They're finally leaving their planet. Mega Neutron wants to get to Earth immediately, unfortunately, things don't go the way he wants.
Mini-Battle Men #10
Catch up if you didn't read the previous.
Sep 28, 2010
Dr. Octopus 2
Sep 27, 2010
Sep 26, 2010
Marvel redesigns
I started doing these again...but I'm actually redoing the ones I did already. I'm coloring them in half the time, and I learned some great PS painting techniques. I only finished Namor...Ghost Rider & Galactus are WIP.
Sep 21, 2010
Mini Battle Men #6...that's right 6!
So I guess I've been doing this for over 2 months already. I feel accomplished!
Check it out, #6 is up on wevolt.com
Check it out, #6 is up on wevolt.com
Sep 7, 2010
Mini Battle Men #4 - A bit of a delay
Man, I didn't want this to happen, but I have another project I'm working on for a group show. So Mini Battle Men #4 will have to wait until tomorrow. But to prove that I didn't completely slack on it. Here is a quick scan i did before I erased the pencils.
Sep 2, 2010
Sculptris
I got turned onto this awesome FREE computer modeling program called Sculptris, its made by the same company that did Z Brush. Its way more intuitive than both Mudbox & zbrush, which makes it really fun. This is what I can up with so far. It works really well with a pen tablet.
Aug 30, 2010
Mini-Battle Men #3
Ok so wevolt.com is acting up on me. So I'll post Mini-Battle Men #3 on here 1st
Update: I took it off the blog and you can see it now on wevolt.com
Update: I took it off the blog and you can see it now on wevolt.com
Aug 21, 2010
WeVolt - Mini-Battle Men
This is a site that my brother introduced me to. Its a cool site to post web comics on. As a matter of fact, I started putting Mini-Battle Men on there. I hope to update it at least every 2 weeks, if not every week, maybe on Thursdays.
OK UPDATE: I just contacted the Admins and they changed the URL to:
http://www.wevolt.com/MiniBattleMen/
OK UPDATE: I just contacted the Admins and they changed the URL to:
http://www.wevolt.com/MiniBattleMen/
Aug 20, 2010
Aug 19, 2010
Aug 10, 2010
Aug 5, 2010
Review for AM/UK Rocktronic Mixtape Vol. 1 - With finished cover
From: The Jalopy Blog
Americans UK: Rocktronic Mixtape Volume 1
Created & Edited by Jef UK
Written & Illustrated by Jef UK, Donal Delay, Sam Vaughan, Aaron Bir, Ronald Salas, Ben, Nick Thompson, David Kushner, & Jeff Powell
Cover by ZEES
Self-Published
the three cents:
The Americans UK are a real-life, New York-based band fronted by Jef UK. After producing a fun mini-series the team is releasing this, their first anthology. Five stories are presented by the Am/UK and friends, loaded with more attitude than your best local dive bar band just getting started on tomorrow's hangovers. Generally comedic with elements of sci-fi and fantasy and left field bizarre, Rocktronic Mixtape is a hard one to pin down. Even if I might well be one of the only reviewers in the world who has covered every issue thus far.
The first story, John Loves Wayne, is a Western, though not necessarily in the Brokeback sense. This is far, far worse. It has six-shooters. And, it is a direct adaptation of lyrics from one of the band's newer songs (which you can size up here).
Story two is a slice of life tale if by slice of life you mean finding a headful of gold in your freezer. Cause yea, that doesn't happen. At least not outside of Texas.
Story three has little to do with the band, with rock and roll, or with bodiless heads. It is however, a fantastically-drawn short that twists a stereotype around until ears bleed.
Story four may be my favorite of the book, even if it is rendered in a style comparable to that of most ten-year olds. Actually, this tale is a somewhat continuation of events that transpired in the series, with a fun Anime-like fight sequence and a shocking guest appearance from one of the world's greatest bands of all time. No, not Winger.
And the final story is also very easy on the eyes, and smartly spoofs a toy that most self-respecting adults own. And the kid getting drunk and macking on his friend's mom? Icing on the cake.
Americans UK are an imaginative, colorful lot. They are comic book-knowledgeable and do not shy away from lyrics involving time travel and/or monkey men. What Jef has done and is doing with these comix is a world of fun, a gas and a half. Honestly, these are the sort of comics that Fredric Wertham got a hard-on over, undoubtedly. This is degenerate material, even if it lacks nudity or verbal vulgarity. Yet this does attempt to capture in sequential art form the spirit of the music...or the music of the spirit. It may not be for everyone, sure, but then what is?
No, not Winger. Damnit.
Americans UK: Rocktronic Mixtape Volume 1
Created & Edited by Jef UK
Written & Illustrated by Jef UK, Donal Delay, Sam Vaughan, Aaron Bir, Ronald Salas, Ben, Nick Thompson, David Kushner, & Jeff Powell
Cover by ZEES
Self-Published
the three cents:
The Americans UK are a real-life, New York-based band fronted by Jef UK. After producing a fun mini-series the team is releasing this, their first anthology. Five stories are presented by the Am/UK and friends, loaded with more attitude than your best local dive bar band just getting started on tomorrow's hangovers. Generally comedic with elements of sci-fi and fantasy and left field bizarre, Rocktronic Mixtape is a hard one to pin down. Even if I might well be one of the only reviewers in the world who has covered every issue thus far.
The first story, John Loves Wayne, is a Western, though not necessarily in the Brokeback sense. This is far, far worse. It has six-shooters. And, it is a direct adaptation of lyrics from one of the band's newer songs (which you can size up here).
Story two is a slice of life tale if by slice of life you mean finding a headful of gold in your freezer. Cause yea, that doesn't happen. At least not outside of Texas.
Story three has little to do with the band, with rock and roll, or with bodiless heads. It is however, a fantastically-drawn short that twists a stereotype around until ears bleed.
Story four may be my favorite of the book, even if it is rendered in a style comparable to that of most ten-year olds. Actually, this tale is a somewhat continuation of events that transpired in the series, with a fun Anime-like fight sequence and a shocking guest appearance from one of the world's greatest bands of all time. No, not Winger.
And the final story is also very easy on the eyes, and smartly spoofs a toy that most self-respecting adults own. And the kid getting drunk and macking on his friend's mom? Icing on the cake.
Americans UK are an imaginative, colorful lot. They are comic book-knowledgeable and do not shy away from lyrics involving time travel and/or monkey men. What Jef has done and is doing with these comix is a world of fun, a gas and a half. Honestly, these are the sort of comics that Fredric Wertham got a hard-on over, undoubtedly. This is degenerate material, even if it lacks nudity or verbal vulgarity. Yet this does attempt to capture in sequential art form the spirit of the music...or the music of the spirit. It may not be for everyone, sure, but then what is?
No, not Winger. Damnit.
Aug 4, 2010
Mini Battle Men #2 - part 1
I just finished preliminary coloring on Mini Battle Men 2. I'm going to drop some background color in photoshop. I like using marker & ink way more to color the fore & midground. Then I just need to add the borders & letter it.
Cool color correction through "Levels"
So I just figured this out yesterday, say you have something you colored in with markers, or in my case, I painted something with watercolor. I don't have an example, so I can just walk through the process. Its using levels, but I didn't have to keep sliding the shadow, midtone, & highlights arrow back & forth until I found something that was sort of what I wanted. It usually would blow out my hot colors like red & yellow and make my dark pencil lines over bearing. This hit it every time.
1. So you just scanned your image, the colors look like shit, because scanners aren't a magical piece of machinery like in the movies and don't scan exactly what is in front of you.
2. Either go to Image > Adjustements > Levels or hotkey: Apple + L (Mac), or Ctrl +L (PC)
1. So you just scanned your image, the colors look like shit, because scanners aren't a magical piece of machinery like in the movies and don't scan exactly what is in front of you.
2. Either go to Image > Adjustements > Levels or hotkey: Apple + L (Mac), or Ctrl +L (PC)
This should be what comes up, make sure preview is selected.
3. Open "Options..."
This is what you should see next.
4. Under Algorithms, click the 3rd option, "Find Dark & Light Colors", then hit ok.
If you have preview selected, it should show you right away. I used it for all of my scans yesterday with my paintings and it was perfect everytime. I have no idea what the other options on this window do, but I'm assuming if you have a one color image the 1st option would work well...play around. I'm going to need this when I scan Mini Battle Men #2 this week.
Jul 26, 2010
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May 7, 2010
Just Super #1: pgs 1 & 2
Here are some sketches. These are the 3 main characters. I still have to do a sketch for the villian.
Also, here's a link for the AM/UK anthology.
--ZEES
Background painting
This is what I've been working on the past couple weeks...its a preschool age show. I'm creating the look of their world.
That's the sketch I work from. I'm 'painting' them in photoshop....my 1st full scale photoshop coloring project. I'm learning alot, but its not something I want to completely transition to. I love working on paper and with my hands, and I always will. But I'm using alot of Mary Blair and Hanna Barbara backgrounds to influence my coloring. I mix some splatter brushes with charcoal and water color brushes to get that texture with the brush.
--ZEES
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