Earth Day Style: Kwami

"You See When You Want To See" Editorial Comic for the Connector newspaper

Premise: This piece is meant to make a statement about people seeing the unpleasant things on life only when they want to. On several occasions we seem to have our eyes put away. Color Test 2: Here is one idea as to where I could go with color. I left the mirror blank so that I could paste an image in later (maybe I could use this for an ad).

Color Test 2: Here is one idea as to where I could go with color. I left the mirror blank so that I could paste an image in later (maybe I could use this for an ad).

Color Test: Lately, I’ve been coloring my illustrations with this four-step method. Keeping each step on its own layer defiantly gives me a lot of control when it comes to playing with color options. For this project, my primary colors are going to be red and blue-green.

Line Work: It was a little challenging to do all of my line work in Photoshop, because I wanted to achieve a Flash-like stroke. However, I didn’t want to go back and forth between programs (Flash for line work and Photoshop for color). Overall, I am happy with the way the lines turned out, but maybe next time I’ll use Toonboom.

Sketch: It took quite a few lines to get the correct perspective for this image, but I don’t like to “eyeball-average” those kinds of things.

SCAN Magazine International Article Winter 2010

Final Layout












Color Correction and Painting












Scanned Images: Water color stain background and pencil map

"Generate" Editorial comic done for the Connector newspaper

"Final Color"

















"Sample Color"

















"Line Work"

















"Sketch"

"Knock Out Finals" Editorial comic done for the Connector newspaper

"Final"











"Color Sample"












"Line work"












"Sketch"

"Bee Fauve" Editorial comic done for the Connector newspaper

"Dreaming of More Shuttles" Editorial comic done for the Connector newspaper

"Microwave Dinner Covers Can Be Deceiving" Editorial comic done for the Connector newspaper

"Projects Got You Tied Up?" Editorial comic done for the Connector newspaper

"Scream If You Have Finals" Editorial comic done for the Connector newspaper

"Graduation Wet Feet" Editorial comic done for the Connector newspaper

"Professor No-Show" Editorial comic done for the Connector newspaper

"Jabba the Hub" Editorial comic done for the Connector newspaper

"Package Youself Well" Editorial comic done for the Connector newspaper

"Do Something Green" Editorial comic done for the Connector newspaper

Sketches that I scanned in for the final line work.