tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215938502011-12-02T03:06:59.301-08:00T.J. Collinsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger531100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21593850.post-16800247344404728492010-11-04T09:53:00.001-07:002010-11-04T09:58:57.262-07:00

Several months ago I took part in an effort to produce "Monster Mythos: A Folklore Bestiary". It's a book where 19 artists illustrated 50 monsters from around the world for your viewing pleasure. Below are snippets from three of the five illustrations that I did. The books are finally available for purchase on my blog so go and get 'em! The first 50 buyers to purchase a book from me will

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Seth sent me an update on his Jolina sculpt this morning. Pretty sweet! I cannot wait to see more!!

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Here's a marker comp I did of Jolina a few weeks ago. I need to darken her skin tone a bit. Enjoy!!

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Here's the first batch of photos from Seth. I think it's pretty fun to see how things are "shaping up". Get it?! Man, I should've been a comedian. Anyways, he's got me pretty excited about this. You can check out his blog HERE.Thanks for dropping by and enjoy!!

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Well, I finally got around to finishing my Jolina design! I still might have to tweak a few things here or there but it's basically done. I am excited!! I'm not only excited that I finished her design but I have also found someone to sculpt her into a maquette for me. His name is Seth Astle and I was quite impressed with the photos he sent me of previous sculptures he's done. I'm going to

T.J. Collinsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21593850.post-36215570509477529152009-02-09T23:20:00.000-08:002009-02-09T23:26:27.688-08:00

Well, I was pleasantly surprised to come here and see that I have people following this blog. I guess I was surprised because it has been ages since I have posted here. In appreciation of you four I did this quick sketch of Jolina to say "Thank you!" I am doing a lot in my free time for this project and I hope you'll follow along. I promise it will be exciting!

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I really liked how these came out. It's really close to what I want. So, let's hope I can "find" her final design soon!

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I recently took a trip to the Dominican Republic and had a chance to do some sketching. Here's a rough body for one of the main characters Jolina. Also a few small sketches of Jestony and the Buwaya (crocodile looking thing). Enjoy!

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Back in the day I did this sketch and when I originally posted it I listed as having copied it off of the amazing Dave Colman. A gracious fellow and fat-talented artist by the name of Mark McDonnell informed me that I actually disgraced, er, ripped off the ever so talented John Nevarez. Sorry for the mishap and thanks for the correction Mark!

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Starting in a couple of weeks, I'm going to dedicate this blog to the stories I have conjured up in my brain about these fantastic creatures. I will share snippets of stories and sketches for some comics/graphic novels I am working on that involves the aswangs. So, keep your eye out! Oh! If you still want to see my bad artwork just check out my other blog hereThanks!!

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Here's a load of sketches from this last week. Enjoy!!

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Here's a set of sketches from last night. It was a long sleepless night but I was proud of some of my sketches. Enjoy!!

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Sorry about the drought in posts but my wife and I had our baby on January 8th! He was born healthy and life has been wonderful since!! I'm still adjusting to life with a baby and going back to school but I'm still trying to sketch. Here's a few pictures of my son and some sketches I did the other day during my physics lecture. Enjoy!!

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Good idea. Bad execution. Whatcha gonna do?

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yeah. i have no idea how to color so here was an attempt to color one of my sharpie sketches. if any one has tips, critiques, comments, or suggestions they are more then welcome to leave them. thanks for stopping by!

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Some sharpie sketches:Some reconstruction of a few favorite cartoon characters:Some inked peices (some unfinished....don't ask why cuz I don't know either):And some doodles:

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I drew the characters and not the actors because I didn't want to uglify such beautiful people. Enjoy!!

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T.J. Collinsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21593850.post-1155258621113628552006-08-10T18:09:00.000-07:002006-08-10T18:10:21.160-07:00

Just ask my brothers or my wife, I love Puffy AmiYumi! So, here's a small tribute to them I did for a cartooning challenge at the Action! Cartooning Forum. Enjoy!!

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T.J. Collinsnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21593850.post-1150315576485623142006-06-14T13:03:00.000-07:002006-06-14T13:06:16.496-07:00

If you like pirates you have to check this out! It was an animation project for 5 french animation students in Paris (hence the french students). It's my new favorite thing in the world.....http://www.pyrats.net/watch-movie.html

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I started my summer semester of Math last night and needless to say my math teacher was overflowing with eccentricity. How could I not take him and make a cartoon character when his whole personality oozed with character. Here was my sketch from last night (again with the Sharpies!) and I'm sure there'll be more to come through the semester! Thanks for stopping by!!

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I've been studying some Ben 10 SB's lately and decided to try my hand at drawing a T-Rex becuase Scooter Tidwell's dinosaurs are amazing! So, here was my attempt to copy one of his and I thought it came out fun! Drawn with my loverly Sharpies and colored in PS. Thanks for stopping by!

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Ben Caldwell's Forum had a challenge to draw a demon and here was my entry.

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Well, many people nagged and begged and pleaded with my older brother, Mike, to start a blog of his own and he constantly shut them down. Talk about rejection! I mean, how does he keep any friends? (I'm being very sarcastic at this point) All jokes aside, David Colman paid my brother a nice compliment on his blog and after that Mike felt obligated to get a blog up. I'm happy to put a plug in for

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The Action! Cartooning forum has a weekly challenge and this week's subject was X-Men with the opening of X-3 over the weekend. I chose to do Psylocke because she's my favorite. I think if she played hockey she'd be the ultimatum of a man's fantasy! Anywho, I finally had a chance to use my tablet again (my brother's had it for a loooong time) and I sketched this picture out. I hope to use my

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T.J. Collinsnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21593850.post-1146778484392461352006-05-04T14:29:00.000-07:002006-05-04T14:34:44.413-07:00

Here's an awesome sketch done by David Colman.Here's a quick sketch I did sort of ripping off the picture. I did it on a Post-it note with my beloved Sharpie and some crayons.

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Every Thursday on my other blog I draw as many hands as I can while I'm at work. My goal is to one day be able to do 100 well constructed hands as right now I can only do about 50 (and only about one-third of those are good). Here are my last two attempts. I color the hands that I think are drawn well. Enjoy!!

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Here's another sketch I did for sketch-it. It was one of those pictures that you don't want to finish drawing because you're enjoying it way too much! I drew it with a Sharpie and then did a quick coloring job in PS. Enjoy and thanks for looking!!

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Just a quick sketch I did in Illustrator for sketch-it. Not much but I had fun doing it. Enjoy!!

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I just found out one of my heroes and inspirations, the talented John Fang, has his own website. Here's some sample pictures from his site. Head on over there and see the rest for yourself. He is simply amazing! I was introduced to his work through my brother who worked with him on the Cartoon Network show Ben 10. It was love at first site and now I study John's SB's to help better my own skills.

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Here's some sketches I did. Most of them are studies from some Teen Titan Storyboards by Scooter Tidwell. I also have s random sketch of a space monkey, a gesture drawing, and some sketches of a couple people I saw while waiting in an office the other day. Enjoy and thanks for stopping by!

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Not much is known about the buso. It lives in the trees inside or around graveyards. There have been accounts of the buso being jovial and playing around the graveyard with others from its kind. They love to feed on freshly buried corpses and little children who play in the graveyard at night. They will not eat the bones. There is rumor of a ritual, that if done, one can see the buso in its true

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A legend exists of three robed figures that travel the Philippines. They visit homes and knock on the doors in the dead of the night. One of the occupants of the house they visited, usually the eldest or the most ill, would die soon thereafter. All that is known about them is that of the three, two are older men and one is a younger female. Legend has it that no one has ever dared talked to these

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The other day at work my boss gave me a huge stack of paper he wanted thrown away. I quickly hid the pile in my desk and whenever I get a chance I do some quick sketchies with my Sharpie. I've drawn hundreds of pics over the last few days and here's some of the ones I thought came out fun. Enjoy!!

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Here's Jestony cleaned up in Illustrator and colored in PS. I'm liking it! Now, to nail the other characters...

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Here are some more rough sketches and colors of the characters I'm developing. Jestony (the boy) is coming out great! Now I just need to get Angel and Jolina where I want them to be on a consistant basis....

T.J. Collinsnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21593850.post-1141681390637369602006-03-06T13:40:00.000-08:002006-03-06T13:50:59.063-08:00

I have several cartoon ideas floating around and over the weekend I decided to try my hand at drawing a few rough concepts of some of the characters. These were heavily influenced by Ben Caldwell and John Fang. Two extremely talented artists. I liked how these roughs turned out so I colored them. I still need to change a few things here and there but I enjoyed these a lot and will probably do a

T.J. Collinsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21593850.post-1140774797327788042006-02-24T01:43:00.000-08:002006-02-24T02:15:09.450-08:00

The Kapre are giants! How giant they are though is a mystery. Some say they are only 7-9 feet tall while others say they're so big that the cigar they smoke is the size of an average human leg! That, my friends, would be a giant! The Kapre are sort of the Filipino Saskwatch. They're tall, hairy, and I bet they have nasty wicked breath from smoking all the time. The Kapre love to just chill in

T.J. Collinsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21593850.post-1140774193778325032006-02-24T01:40:00.000-08:002006-02-24T01:43:13.776-08:00

Yes! The almighty Kapre are afraid of fire and metal objects. Many farmers carry jewelry and matches while traveling at night to ward the Kapre off. The Kapre are infamous for always smoking giant cigars so I used to always ask the Filipinos how the Kapre lit his cigar if he was so scared of fire....I never got an answer!!

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Just a few sketches through the week trying to capture what I thought a Kapre to be. Enjoy!!

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The Bulalacao are by far my favorite out of all the aswangs! These monsters are the Filipino's explanation for shooting stars. They are human-like in form, are able to fly, and have fire for their hair. Thus, whenever they fly through the air at night, their flaming scalp is what we Americans perceive as a shooting star. You can tell the males from the females by whether or not the shooting star

T.J. Collinsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21593850.post-1139592945867854222006-02-10T09:02:00.000-08:002006-02-10T14:46:26.066-08:00

The aswang may be the most popular aswang but the manananggal is by far the most feared of all the aswangs. It is the Philippines' version of the vampire. It usually is depicted as an older beautiful woman but where I lived it was usually a man so I drew it as such. It is similair to the aswang in that it's nocturnal and feeds on blood, liver, and fetus'. A few of the differences are that it does

T.J. Collinsnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21593850.post-1139461458894594702006-02-08T21:01:00.000-08:002006-02-10T14:47:25.746-08:00

I usually color in Photoshop because it's easier to do. I did all of these pictures in Illustrator (both the line work and the colors) which is a first for me. I think they turned out alright.

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The Aswang is the most popular aswang in the Philippines. I don't know if it's because the word aswang is also used as a generalization of all their mythological creatures or if it just simply popular. Aswangs are human in form during the day and at night turn into demonic creatures. They can be indentified during the day by it's thin and sickly body and by seeing an upside-down reflection in

T.J. Collinsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21593850.post-1139003796860811812006-02-03T13:53:00.000-08:002006-02-10T14:47:55.076-08:00

I drew this for the love of my life, Rachelle, who is also my wonderful wife! Happy Valentine's Day Sweetie! I love you!!

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I was wanting to draw a mascot of sorts of this blog. These are a few aswangs I tried to create. I think that most of them are fun designs just not what I wanted. Back to the drawing board!

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I recently watched the Indiana Jones trilogy with my brother and decided to try my hand at drawing a few. Well, I actually drew a lot but these are only some of a few that came out good. Enjoy!!

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