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This is a makeshift page to contain a few sample works i made (i just filled up three of my sketch books in three months, to see how much i love drawing) and a LOT OF RANTING. So just page down below to spare yourself the dribble. I've always wanted to put up a web comic and actually bring my old web page (Who is Quentin Montejo??) a life of its own. I'm appreciative of the manga/anime style art because i think it's more expressive in terms of emotion. Them damn Japanese are just too good (the same way i feel about them damn Afro-americans for making god damn great music) to leave their art on their own. I used to be a Western comic fan, but i think the reason i left it is because i could see Wolverine clones everywhere. Not to mention i got tired at looking at all the monotonous body/armor/weapon/glowing hands/flying types that its not entertaining me anymore. I have yet to see them use another genre (which manga covered more readily) in their works besides superheroes and gothic stories. That portion of Dexter's Lab where superheroes deal with daily lives really hit the nail in the head. And to those people, please don't ever, ever tell me that it's impossible to make something ORIGINAL nowadays and that everything can only be a rehash of the other. I say, people are not just thinking and trying HARD ENOUGH. Being original does not mean doing something nobody else has done before, but it can be you saw something no one else had and people just overlook it ... if you know what i mean. So what else ... ah yes, ever since i worked for the company i'm presently in, i became a fan of web comics like PvP Online, 8-bit Theater, and Sinfest. That and the proliferation of bastardized anime on local TV (sorry little kids, local TV industries are in it for the money and they will suck all the anime in Japan just to raise ratings ...) prompted me to do things like this. Someday i'll be good enough to do decent comics, but until then, i practice. And for the last word on all those noble attempts to infuse the animanga culture into ours (yes Culture Crash, i'm talking to you) i'll believe in your endeavor only if you can sell your works even WITHOUT color. Pugad Baboy did that, Beerkada did that, hell, even manga did that, so ... eh ... i'll shut up now since i'm having incoherent thoughts about pork sisig and beer :)
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This is what i call a cell practice. When you feel that burst to draw it all and afraid you'll waste it, i guess this is a nice way to spend it. I basically expressed my thoughts in each cell. This does seem a good idea to let all your ideas out in to the open and just arrange them later. |
| Here is my character July. I still need a lot of perspective practice. to think i had an above average grade in my Drafting course. |  |
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Another one of those accidental character creations (the girl with the glasses). |
| Here i was just practicing on how bodies interact with each other. I do this even though i'm still crude at anatomy (I have thoughts on those how to draw books later) |  |
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Back when i was in college, i frequently draw girls faces a lot (ofcourse, that's beside the super hero character drawings which i value a little less). Wouldn't i want to draw my own Galatea, eh? |
| Ok, i was supposed to do a roundup of the characters i created but i ended up practicing a few more faces. |  |
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This is not a mecha drawing or an attempt to do such. It's just one of my ideas to draw something funny. If you don't understand it, the first two sleeping guys had those dreams normal men have. The last is experiencing some Freudal dream sequence only a nut like Freud would understand. |
| Ok here is from one other creation i had (basically i had three creations). I was just practicing on drawing mecha only to be perplexed as to how to make it look nasty and cool at the same time. The girl to the left is called (or codenamed) Elf, a thieving technophile teenager. |  |
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Although this is very old stuff, this is a mouse art i did in Macromedia Flash years ago. The quality is bad because i was thinking of using little space when i exported it. The original looks very good though. This is my character Tami from my Age of Darkened Earth which was my first stab on manga of the fantasy genre ... |
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