Japan

It would be really remiss of me not to share this one with you. The artist is Yumiko Sasakawa(her full email below):



Hi Friends!

I am raising funds for Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami relief and was needing some friend-power to help me along.

I drew a picture for Japan and have been getting requests for prints, and it has now turned into a fundraising effort. The Financial Literacy Counsel Inc (flci.ca) has so kindly donated me funds to pay for my printing costs so that 100% of all donations can go towards the Red Cross.

I was hoping you could share my print and pass along the info to your friends and family, via word of mouth or social media.

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Original post of drawing: http://yumsdesigns.blogspot.com/2011/03/nippon-makeruna-i-guess-that-loosely.html

Nippon Makeruna! (Japan, Don't Give Up!) print

8.5 x 7.5" digital print, 12 pt cardstock, coated on one side, packaged in a plastic sleeve

$10 minimum donation

100% of all donations will go to the Red Cross

People can purchase through my Etsy store at www.helloyumiko.etsy.com

or email me directly at helloyumiko@gmail.com

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If you or your group of friends are interested in a print, and would like to meet up with me to save on shipping fees, or you would like a batch of prints to sell amongst your friends, please let me know and we can work something out too :)

Thanks so much for your help and care for Japan!

Yumiko

ps: I will be at this event tomorrow, selling prints, if you are interested: http://bc-jerf.ca/friends-across-the-pacific

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And there she is:
Will add the dial tomorrow and upload.

Update:

I decided to remove Das's hand from Rifter's shoulder in the final panel. I thought in retrospect that it was a little too "touchy/ feely" for these characters .

It's now up on UXBCOMIC.


Update 03/04/11: Revised the colours on this one so it is more in line with 36. Also the sky colour in retrospect wasn't really working...it was too similar to Rifter's colours; he pops a little more now...

Page 35 update

That update to the previous UXB post took a little longer than expected. I'm afraid other stuff got in the way of it's completion. It's tough with UXB- it really is a labor of love. There's no money involved, no co-creator to banter with over story issues or bitch with over the artwork, no editor on my back to help motivate me towards deadlines...

Just me.

I'm not complaining, just a late night ponder.

...and it is now 4AM. I must be mad! I gotta take my son to the Paddy's Parade tomorrow - F#*KING HELL!!!!!! BED NOW!!!

Oh yeah and this page should be complete for tomorrow!!

Doré was way ahead of his time.

I don't think even Blake had visions to match this:

Process UXB

I'm a little behind on the latest page for UXB. It's almost there...will try and finish it off tomorrow.

Until I get it completed, here's some images of the latest page in progress (Well to be more precise: the first panel)


1) Really rough doodle, basically just working up the composition and the rough posing.



2) Rough penciling. I usually skip this stage and just go straight into the inking stage, however sometimes it nice to have something a little more to work with...


3) Rough inks. I mentioned in a previous post that my inking technique is quite organic, as it's digital inking I can play around with the image until I get it to where I want it to be. Still a bit more to do to this one. The hands aren't finished and it certainly needs a little fine tuning- it's also minus the BG.
I'll update when complete.

MIA

Hello there!

Apparently I messed up my settings on the blog and it was off-line for a bit.

Here's another couple of Earp from issue 3. I decided to add some grayscale to the work to add a little more depth. I was quite happy with how they turned out. The pages don't give too much away, so should be OK to post.

Earp 2

As Earp 2 is out tomorrow I thought it would be a good time to share some of the pencils with you:





Update: Here is the top page coloured by Kyushik Skin. Looks pretty damn nifty !