Pin-up: Wolalina

This piece was done for awhile, I was asked not to post in public until now.
Here is a little information on the character to help promote the book:

Orang Utan Comics is the publisher for the Wolalina comics that are about a lady, who is a former secret agent for the M.Y.T.H. (Mythological & Young Terran Heroes) agency, where people from ancient mythologies actually exist and they work together with humans to stop evil organizations from across the universe. Now she works as a time-traveling private detective to find people who have mysteriously disappeared in the past.

There are going to be 5 bi-monthly comics in color with 40 sequential/comic pages in each comic and Wolalina: The 52 Weeks Gallery is a 52 pages long pin-up gallery book to show where is Wolalina during each week in her busiest year that has 2 Eisner award winners, a Russ Manning award winner and tons of artists, who have drawn comic books like 52, 2000 A.D., Action Comics, Army of Darkness: Ashes 2 Ashes, Astro Boy Movie Prequel, Authority, Back to Brooklyn, Batgirl, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Cable & Deadpool, Caliber, Captain Planet & the Planeteers, Castlevania: The Belmont Legacy, Crecy, Criminal, Darkness, Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, Deathlok: The Demolisher, Dynamo 5, Elmer, Emma Frost, Excalibur, Fables, Fallen Angel, Fantastic Four, Fathom, Fear Agent, Forgotten Realms, Galaxy Rangers, G.I. Joe, Gravel, Grimm Fairy Tales, Hack/Slash, Hellblazer, He-Man & the Masters of the Universe: Icons of Evil, Immortal Iron Fist, Incognito, Incredible Hulk, Jungle Girl, Justice League of America, Lady Death: Dark Horizons, Lockjaw & the Pet Avengers, The Losers, Marvel Adventures: the Avengers, Marvel Zombies, Micronauts, Nightwing, Noble Causes, Northlanders, Nova, Peter Parker: Spider-Man, Power Rangers, The Punisher MAX, The Real Ghostbusters, Red Sonja, Robotech, She-Hulk, Silver Surfer, Sleeper, Spawn, The Star Trek Manga, Star Wars, Street Fighter, Supergirl, Superman/Batman, Tales of T.M.N.T., Teen Titans, Texas Chainsaw: Massacre: The Grind, Thunderbolts, Thundercats, Tomb Raider, Transformers, Uncanny X-Men, Voltron: Defender of the Universe, War of Kings: Warriors, Wetworks, WildCats, Witchblade, Wonder Woman, X-Factor, X-Force, Y: The Last Man and many more.

Here is the Wolalina site with a youtube trailer and a link to the digital version of the first Wolalina comic

Wolalina #1 that has a cover drawn by Adriana Melo (Amazing Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel) and colored by Dominic Marco (Grimm Fairy Tales, Hack/Slash) is now available as a print comic over at IndyPlanet.com and ComicMonkey.

Cover: Transformers: The IDW Collection vol.I

I think it's safe to post the cover, since it was made public for quite awhile now.

IDW came to me asked me to be involve with designing the look and feel of this series of hardcover. So in case you are wondering why I posted the typefaces and designs, because I got to design the whole thing this time.

This series of cover will feature one character who would be pretty prominent in the particular volume of collection. The first one stepping up to the plate is Megatron.

The artwork were drawn in ArtRage, I really liked the pencil texture from Artrage. Looks pretty close to authentic graphite pencil. The graphics, logos and title graphics were layout in Adobe Illustrator.

Here's the link to Amazon for Transformers: The IDW Collection Vol. I, you can find out more about the content there.

Weekly Sketch: Poison Ivy

Sketches: Sketch dump

So busy for the last few months, but come to think of it, it doesn't seem to ever end. I guess with the state of economy that it is today, it's a good thing.

Restless

Mylan is not sleeping well tonight. I have been trying to comfort him. He fell to asleep in my arms and drift off to asleep as well. During this time, I had a dream of me dropping the baby, I woke up in cold sweat and thank God Mylan was still in my arms.
He didn't sleep long, had do it all over again.

Daddy has deadlines to keep, my dear. please go back to sleep!!
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-E.J.Su
Made in Taiwan
"Talent is worthless without hard work."
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News: More PSP comic

Another one of my Transformers comic just been released on PSP. Revelation#4: Sideswipe. This issue holds a special place in my heart because I got to color the entire book myself. It marks a milestone in my creative adventure.

http://bit.ly/b6lG2u

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-E.J.Su
Made in Taiwan
"Talent is worthless without hard work."
| www.protodepot.com | ej-su.deviantart.com |

News: Cyclonus on PSP

Some of you may know that IDW Publishing has been putting out their comic books on PSP. Yesterday one of my Spotlight, the Cyclonus is out on PSP format. If you are interested, check it out!

Key twitter accounts
@psncomics
@idwpublishing

Transformers: Spotlight: Cyclonus
http://bit.ly/byls5n

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-E.J.Su
Made in Taiwan
"Talent is worthless without hard work."
| www.protodepot.com | ej-su.deviantart.com |

Update: Spotlight Prowl

I turned in the last page of Spotlight: Prowl last night.
The entire issue was drawn digitally in MangaStudio 4.0 EX. I haven't done anything Transformers in this software until now. I've always thought drawing something as mechanical as Transformers digitally would be kind of difficult because of the more precision lines that they required, but it wasn't as difficult as I had imagined.

I've always wanted to try more industrialized look on Transformers. Something along the line of stuff you may see in Steel Battalion. Military looking and leaner alien robots rather than more human-like. I tried some Prowl design that never made it into the book. Looking back, I may not even go for it myself.


Oh well, going back to the drawing board. :p

Over Heat

My computer is on its last leg, every operation has been lagging. Even takes a few seconds to bring up the right click menu. Its internal CPU overheating alarm has been going off all the time.
I put a heat monitor program to keep an eye on the temperature, it's almost always around at high 80's while I am working, and if I run any sort of multimedia program, the temperature would spike over 90's. I am not comfortable running the CPU constantly at such high temperature.

I put this computer together quite a few years ago, back when Pentium 4 was new to the market. It served me well, maybe it's time to move on...
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-E.J.Su
Made in Taiwan
"Talent is worthless without hard work."
| www.protodepot.com | ej-su.deviantart.com |

Spotlight: Prowl

I've been cleared to post the cover to Spotlight: Prowl.

In this cover I used Sketchbook Pro for sketching and inking, then imported into PaintTool SAI for coloring.

This is the first Transformer comic that I'm doing since Spotlight: Jazz, and the first one since the birth of our twins.

Happy Holidays!

and saying goodbye to 2009. I wish everyone have an even better year in 2010.

Fusion Canon

So this is most likely won't be used. Direction has been changed.

I have no attempted to use ArtRage for anything professional until now. I really love the graphite pencil tool, it looks almost like the real deal.

[News] Twins Twins!!

Just a quick note, my wife has given birth to a pair of twins on Sat. September 12th.

The boy is 6 lb 10 oz, The girl is 6 lb 8 oz. They are both pretty good size even for single birth babies. I am amazed by how much my wife could store inside her tummy.

Exclusive Astroboy preview

On USA Today website, they got an exclusive 10-page preview of my upcoming Astroboy movie adaptation comic. Go read it and let me know what you think. :D

http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2009-08-16-astro-boy-1_N.htm

Wild Thing

Eventhough I am readying my humble little home for the arrival of the twins, I still trying to sketch as much as possible.

SNAIL-3000

I am start posting again, just so my website won't completely go to waste.

This is a mock industrial design practice project at Conceptart.org

I'd like to participate more in the future, just to kind of get back to my root.

News - Gallery

Ok, my gallery script is broken for the n-th time. I am too sick of fixing it. So for the moment, I will be directing the gallery link on the top of the page to my off-site DeviantArt account. I've had the account for a long time, but never actually used it much until recently. It appears that my DA account is a lot more popular than my personal website...

...and for those who prefers to visit my DeviantArt page, here it is: http://ej-su.deviantart.com

Christmas 08

I am having a busy holiday... again.
but anyways, here's season's greeting from our family.

Happy holidays, stay safe!

Sketch: Tetsuwan Atomu

The available time to draw has been significantly lacking compare to my work hours in the past. Myra has grown so fast, she just can't go through the day without having attention on her most of the time. Being a stay at home dad, naturally, I am her only play mate during the day. That leaves me between 2-4 hours of work during the day. My real work day don't start until the mom comes home, and most of time doesn't start until Myra goes to sleep, which is usually 9:00pm. So that really doesn't leave me much hours to work. 

So I am mostly doing the night shifts these days, I work when my wife and baby are sleeping. Somtimes in the middle of night, I would get tired from working on regular stuff and goof off on some quick sketches. Which brings me to the title of this entry...

I've fell in love with some of the techniques used by some of the European artists, the crosshatching techniques that creates light and shadow as well as depth. So I eager to experiment this technique. So resulting this sketch of Astroboy. I wanted to finish the background, but I am tired. Maybe I'll get back to it when I have more free time.

News: R.I.P.

I finally decided to update my blog, but it's a sad sad day. On the day that America made a history by electing a African American President, which I never thought I would see the day, was the day that Michael Crichton Pass away. If it wasn't for him, one of my favorite movie Jurassic Park would never be possible. I thoroughly enjoyed the novel much more so than even the movie.
Thank you Mr. Crichton, may you rest in peace.