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."
| www.protodepot.com | ej-su.deviantart.com |

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.

Artwork: Spotlight Sideswipe preview pages

I've always wanted to get better at coloring. There isn't a whole lot of chance to do that when I am always rushing to meet deadlines, spare time seems like a luxury item these days. There's nothing better than to learn on the job. When the opportunity to color my own comic turns up, I couldn't pass it on. I started to work on the ongoing series of IDW's Transformers back in 2005, if I remember correctly, I started sometime in June of 2005. Now that the "Dead Universe" story line is about to conclude, there's no better time than ever to end the ride with the best effort I can muster, and hopefully I don't fall flat on my nose.

The first 3 pages are especially difficult to do, mainly because I wanted to find the most efficient way of doing this, I mean doing this 22 pages isn't an easy task, especially I have not ever done this before. 3 pages took couple of weeks to do, but after the initial "growing pain" I think I've started to fall into a better working pattern. Things have been moving along a lot better than I first did.

Book: Mecha Force

Mechaforce is the result of my laboring over for more than 6 or 7 months. This is the first book that I ever written, so the excitement for me is without word. Impact Books came to me about an idea of a book to show people how to draw robots, I just couldn't pass up the opportunity.

The book was divided into 3 chapters, chapter 1 being fundamental of all things, not just drawing robots. I've always felt that artworks will look better if you could build it up from the very basics.

Chapter 1 deals with perspective and some sketching techniques. No artist should be without these skills, even if you are not drawing robots, perspective also applies everything in life.

Chapter 2 deals with robotic anatomy. I'd like to get novice artists a different perspective on robots, a view on the inside. How to translate flesh, tendons and bones into something might function mechanically.

Chapter 3 is all about step by step instructions. Taking a few different body types of robotic and show you how I would draw them from scratch, and also in various different angles.

Those who are interested in drawing robots, please check it out, and let me what you think of the book. This is my first book, it's far from being perfect, I hope I get more chances to do more books like this. The more comments and suggestions I can get from the masses, the better I can hope to do in the future.

Mechaforce on Amazon