Color Test - Termian

Here is a color illustration I decided to do to test some uses of patterns within a color picture. I created a thumbnail rough of this picture about two years ago. At that time it was for the cover of a story but now it represents nothing in particular... just a color test. I'll probably revisit this image in the future when my eyes are new to it again. Photoshop 16" x 11.5"

Futuristic Jack and the Beanstalk

A futuristic version of Jack and the Beanstalk I drew for a fairy tale book being put together in the Digital Webbing comic book forum.

Termian Art - King

 

Thanksgiving holiday has passed and I've finally had a chance to finish this King portrait. It is a companion piece to the Queen portrait I created earlier. Both images are part of the Royal family series I'm currently working on. The bottom image is a closer detail of the King. Photoshop 16" x 20"

WIP - Termian Art - Queen

Here is the finished image of my work-in-progress. She is a queen in this universe I'm creating. She is part of the story that includes my previous Deity Dreams series of images. I'll soon make prints available. Photoshop 16" x 20"

WIP - stage 03

Stage 03 begin count down to inversion.

WIP - stage 02

Here is the second stage of this work-in-progress. I have begun to workout a bunch of the shapes, create the interior patterns, and apply textures.

WIP - stage 01

Here is a rough sketch of the next illustration I am working on. It has been awhile since my last work-in-progress. This illustration will be similar to a portrait of a queen in the 15th or so century.

Dream of the Barron

This is the 4th image of four in my Deity dreams series. It is called Dream of the Barron. Photoshop 29" x 14"

Dream of Solawe

This is the third of four of my Deity Dreams Series #1. It is called Dream of Solawe. Photoshop 20" x 24"

Dream of Aranedeus

The title of this drawing is "Dream of Aranedeus". This is the second of four drawings in series 01 of  my Deity Dreams collection of drawings. Prints of these drawings will be available soon in a variety of sizes so you can display them in your home to welcome your guests. :) 20"x16"

Dream of the Aberration

I really enjoyed creating this image. I believe it is the first stone in the foundation for my modern Termian art style. 28"x26"

Bernal Media Motion Comics Services and Development

Hey, my Motion Comic Service is in the News at Comic Related!

Termian Art 1991

 

  

  

The themes in this early Termian art (1991) are much more aggressive then much of my current art work. I will create the next iteration of this style in the near future. Some of my Termian style works from earlier this year should just be regarded as warm ups to my true modern day Termian expression.

Photoshop Drawing - Punk 01

 

Here's a new drawing I made in Photoshop.

It's a character idea for a new story.

Lost Princess Found

 

Now that the nice long holiday weekend is over... Here's a drawing I just completed. I originally set out to draw a somewhat normal looking female but the drawing turned into more of a muscle structure sketch of a very athletic woman. It looked nice but when I got home I decided to scan the pencil drawing into the computer, clean it up in Photoshop, and make her look less like an athlete and back into what I originally intended. She is in a sense... a lost princess found.

New Website Look

I guess I should mention that I've changed the look of my
Bernal Media website. The layout is now done in CSS and the focus is more on motion comics and graphics. I'm still fixing the content so the actual sections will change and the gallery content needs a big overhaul.

Once Upon a Time in 3D

 

Originally I considered creating One Strange Way in 3D. Here are two 3D concepts I made at that time of the kids and their environment. The kids were supposed to have a bizarre kind of look to them that was influenced by the art of Mark Ryden. and the house was supposed to look like a stage set/dollhouse.

In fact the whole title was more of a game at the time. It was similar in game play to Telltale's Sam and Max Freelance Police but with out the puzzles impeding your progress so much and allowing the viewer to simply watch the story.

New Motion Comic Samples

I recently added several motion comic samples to my website. The top image is from Triptych Voyage and the bottom one is from King Beat a music video motion comic. Check them out!

Added One Strange Way Facebook Widget

If you would like to become a fan of One Strange Way on Facebook I have just added a Widget below in the side column to do just that.

Drama Theatre- Sketch

Here's a sketch I did today. I figured I'd share it with you. It is some kind of theatrical drama.

Update

Earlier this month Bernal Media had a booth at the Chicago Comic Convention... it was a bit of a let down. Very few of the people walking through our area were there to check out comics. The booth was located between some retired wrestling stars, some lesser known celebrities, and the Suicide Girls. While the location was amusing, most of the crowd that came our way were more intent on becoming the new best friend of Lou Ferrigno (The Hulk), Todd Bridges (Willis on Different Strokes), and Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca of Star Wars).

One thing that really made the comic convention feel more like a "B movie/tv star" convention was that Marvel, DC, Image, and Dark Horse didn't attend... yep a comic book convention without comic book companies. Ok, there were a few, most notably Ape Entertainment and Avatar.

Some of the artists in artist alley where:
A former Kuburt School classmate and Archie artist Dan Parent
The awesome "Cursed Pirate Girl"creator Jeremy Bastian
Superhero artist Franchesco
and one of my new favorite weird creature artists Bobby Chiu

Check out their stuff!

OSW Printed Version

Just received the full color printed version of One Strange Way. I'll be selling them at the convention this weekend. If there are any left after the show I'll sell them online.

Convention Flyer Art - The flip side

Here's the flip side of my flyer for the Wizard World Comic Convention. As you can see it is promoting Motion Comic services. Motion Comics are a growing part of the industry. I like creating multimedia projects and look forward to exploring this relatively new medium of comics.

WIP - Street Scene Taxi

Here's the almost completed second panel to my work in progress. The background will be changed and I need to do more shading. I'll finish it up tomorrow.

Convention Flyer Art

Here is the front page art I'm using for my Chicago Comic Con flyers. I decided to use a new main image for One Strange Way... that of the curly haired boy being attacked by a demon. I'll also have a poster that looks similar to this flyer at my booth. I think convention goers will find the image funny and and disturbing at the same time. :) Also note... If you look closely there is a 20% off promo code "chicago" in the lower right corner of the flyer. You can use the code at www.onestrangeway.com

Adobe Users Group Presentation

I'll be speaking in beautiful downtown Chicago at the Adobe Users Group meeting this Monday July 20th at 6:30PM.
It's a presentation about how I use the Adobe Creative Suite to make motion and interactive comics. Admission is free. Register and get more information at this link:
http://augchicagojuly2009.eventbrite.com/

WIP - Street Scene 2nd Color Pass

This is almost finished now. I have to go over it one more time and fix a bunch of little things. Then I need to add the two main characters.

WIP - Street Scene 1st Color Pass

Whew! It's been awhile but I finally did a first pass of color to the street scene. Now its time for a bunch of tweaks accross the board. The taxi doesn't have any shading on it at all and I have to start dropping some more shadows in. I'll be shading here, highlighting there, adding texture, and special effects.

Bernal Media Store - 4 more Tshirts

Here are some more tshirts I've added to my tshirt store. War Mask, Alien Rocker, Pet Monster, One Strange Way Demon. Check' em out! They are available in a variety of shirts and colors.
http://www.printfection.com/bernalmedia

Ink Drawing - Deity Primitus

Here is another strange page I drew around 1986 or 1987. I like the deity quite a bit but the other character looks like a Simpson. The funny thing is that this was drawn before The Simpson's TV show. I think Matt Goening and I may have been on the same frequency at that time. I painted the illustration below around the same time as the page above. Its characters also look like Simpson characters. (Note that the painting is dated "87")


At the time, I would ask people to guess what the character in the painting was saying. I'd then tell them that he was saying "I bet they are wondering what I'm saying."
Nowadays I should probably tell people that he is saying "We aren't Simpson characters." :)

I'm sad to say that I don't particularly like this painting anymore. I like the idea and the composition but the painting isn't done very well and the similarity to the Simpsons bothers me. I think I'm going to make a modern version of this painting very soon.

Oh, and one more thing about the inked page above.... Yes that is a nose hair mustache! 8D

Bernal Media Store - Three Shirts

Three of my illustrations are now available on a variety of shirts and you can choose from a wide range of shirt colors. Check out the store at Bernal Media Store

Ink Wash - Walking Pet

Here is a bonus picture for today. This is an ink wash illustration I made during my school days at the Kubert School. We were supposed to make a funny single panel cartoon in the style of a certain artist whose name I don't remember. He probably drew for New Yorker magazine at least that is what this style reminds me of. If anybody (kubies?) knows the name of the artist this style represents let me know.

WIP - Street Scene Assistant

Here is the female character in the street scene. She was drawn mostly in Photoshop. In this panel she will be guiding the voyager to the waiting taxi cab. I think my next task will be to do some rough color tests over the entire scene. - Photoshop 3 x 7

WIP - Street Scene Voyager

Here's my first drawing of one of the characters in the WIP - Street Scene. It will be modified for walking down the stairs and sitting in the cab. - Photoshop 3 x 7

WIP - Street Scene Lines

Here is the updated and refined street scene. I scanned in the original pencil drawing and tightened up the line drawing in Photoshop. I'll add the people next.
WIP = Work In Progress. - Photoshop 10.75 x 6.5

Motion Graphics Sample 1

Here as a motion graphics sample I just completed in After Effects. It's a happy general audience clip with simple graphics. Kind of like a children's book animated illustration.

Comic Page - Tylis Page 01

Here's an inked comic page I drew probably about 18 years ago. I remember being really happy about the quality of this page. The composition, the line weights, the flow of the page as well as the layout within each panel, everything seemed to come together really well. Heck even the panel borders were decorative with abstract expressionist corners.

I was really being influenced by a wide range of fine art at this time. Klee, Kandinsky, Klimt, Schiele, Miro, Picasso, Giacometti to name a few. I'd often visit with them at the Art Institute of Chicago Museum.

Its unfortunate that despite how good I felt about this page, I didn't continue and create more pages for this story. Someday I'll have to post some pages that really show my fine art influences.

The characters were named out of respect for some old friends of mine. Below is a detail from panel 1.
- Ink on paper comic page 8" x 12"

WIP - Street Scene

I started drawing a short story I recently wrote. Here is a rough sketch of one of the panels. It's a street scene where one character is leading another to a waiting taxi. I drew this image in about 8 minutes roughly trying to figure out the general layout and what elements should bein the scene. The next image will be much more refined. WIP = Work In Progress. - pencil 5.5 x 10

Ink Drawing - Angel

I really had a strong desire to draw this image, a 3/4 decorative portrait. Over time it manifested itself into an angel. As I was drawing background and all those dots, I thought to myself "This must be kind of how a tattoo artist must feel" inching along dropping ink.

I really like making decorative patterns and textures. For the most part, I don't just draw them haphazardly. I try to find a nice balance between the design patterns and the overall composition. I say for the most part because once I know the general layout of the design I allow for imperfections as I ink the design. I like it to appear more organic then perfect. - Pencil on bristol vellum 8"x 10"

Two Headed Flocker

I wanted to do another female figure study so here it is. I didn't know what creature to add in the background for awhile. Then I saw the Pixar trailer for "UP" and liked the dodo bird type creature. I decided to draw something like that to give the lady some company. - Pencil on bristol vellum 8.25"x 7.25"

Ink Drawing - Blind Sentry

This is a profile portrait of a blind sentry I drew today. His helmet consists of some kind of implanted lizard head. The helmet keeps the visual system of the dead lizard functioning. It interprets and transmits the lizard's superior sight information into the sentry's brain. The helmet bypasses its host's own visual faculties - Ink on bristol vellum 8.5"x 10"

Ink Drawing - Shuuka

This is the first ink drawing I've done in awhile. I inked over the pencil sketch using a Faber Castell artist pen/brush. I bought it at an art supply store called Dick Blick. I enjoyed working with this pen/brush since I didn't have to worry about knocking over an ink bottle. ;) I guess the down side is it has limited range when varying the line width. The ink with stood erasing the pencil lines really well, better then ink I've used in the past. - Ink on bristol vellum 8.5"x 11"

Pencil Drawing - Eternal One

This strange and bizarre drawing style is from the Termian part of my brain. It's an expression from my brain's dark gray region. This is the Metal Hurlant drawing side of me that I haven't expressed for many years. I'm glad it's back. - Pencil on bristol vellum 9"x 6"

Pencil Drawing - Female 01

Just finished this quick sketch. It's approx. 5"x 7", pencil on vellum bristol.

Motion Comic Sample 1

This is a motion comic I recently completed. I drew it for an assignment some 24 years ago at the Joe Kubert School. The assignment was to draw a three page story where in three characters were either very big or very small in a human environment. The reader wouldn't find out where the characters were until the last panel. 25 years ago I would never have thought that I would convert these pages into a motion comic.

One Strange Way

I created an interactive comic called One Strange Way. It contains interactive word puzzles and picture puzzles. As well as clickable side stories, voice audio, and background music.

I think people who enjoy Harry Potter movies or other fantasy books may like it. It's intended for ages 13 and up mostly due to the demons' scary rhymes. Episode #1 is currently on sale as a download for $2.99

Check out the free Demo, Special Features video, and the screenshots. http://www.onestrangeway.com

Ink Drawing - Alien Rocker

Here's a picture from my achieves. It's an alien rocker I drew in 1991.

Pencil Drawing - New Path

This is actually the first pencil drawing I did in this new beginning with "real media". I did this before I went to Texas.

Photoshop Drawing - Elf Caster

Here's a drawing I did in Photoshop of a female Elf Caster. After having drawn in pencil a few times I decided to see if it improved my drawing on the computer. What improved the most was my focus and my patience in drawing the image to the best of my abilities.

Pencil Drawing - Demon Warrior

This was the last of my "Tex Lot" drawings. I decided to go back to my roots of fantasy art with these drawings. It had been a really long time since I've drawn in this style probably not since my Bungie Software days. I also haven't really drawn on paper since the 90's... Yeessh! My advice to any artist is to work in both traditional and digital media. -- Pencil on bristol vellum 8.5"x 8.5"

Pencil Drawing - My First Day

This is actually the first drawing of the "Tex Lot" series. It kind of expresses how I felt after the first day in the office brushing the cobwebs off my 3d Max modeling skills. It was a smaller drawing then the others due to reintroducing myself to pencil and paper and adjusting to my car cubicle ;) -- Pencil on bristol vellum 5"x 4.5"

Pencil Drawing - Giant

The Texas weather was so nice in February compared to Chicago that I wanted to draw outdoors while I was there. I would drive to some nice parking lot in the area and draw in my car... with the windows down of course! -- Pencil on bristol vellum 6"x8"

Pencil Drawing - Warrior Woman

While I was in Texas doing some contract work I decided to get back to drawing in pencil instead of exclusively drawing in Photoshop. It felt great to get back to putting pencil to paper. I knew I couldn't easily "undo" early layout and construction mistakes so it made me focus on the execution of each stage of drawing. -- Pencil on bristol vellum 5"x7"