Manga Studio 5 EX

I picked up copy of Manga Studio 5 EX , earlier this week. I gotta say, I love the way it handles digital Inking, especially for comic book or cartoon related styles. I'm still new to the program ,but I look forward to exploring all of it's comic book creation options and also the figures that can be posed and used to your liking. You can check out more of what this program has in store here. Below are a few of my first couple of experiments, inking over old sketches for practice and doing some quick coloring in Sketchbook Pro. Thanks for stopping by, Enjoy !!!!

Sketchy Ladies

Some sketches done for warm up before work. Enjoy!!!!

Sketchbook post

Some more of the same...

Girlz and Grafitti

Warm up sketches: A couple of dime pieces and some grafitti.

a scribble a day

A scribble a day to keep the creative juices flowing.

Deadly Mai Lin

I named her Mai Lin after a cute little Vietnamese 2 year old that I met while working at as a cashier at a Vietnamese take out restaurant when I was a teen. She would get the cooks angry, because she would yell out the names of dishes and they would think someone placed an order so they would cook the dish. This worked in my favor, since I got to eat it, so it would not go to waste. We were an awesome team, me and my baby faced gangsta Mai Lin.

swaggy DA Post Apoc Bad Girl

A Post Apocalyptic chic with lots of swag. Somehow amidst the ruin and decay she still manages to be fashion forward with whatever she can piece together for gear. Inspired by the works of Japanese artist/ character designer Shunya Yamashita. The idea for the weapon came from various power tools. The clothes from various pics of Japanese kids in their street clothes (these kids have an amazing imagination), and the body by DARAF of course.

Lucky Robot N0. 007

Painted version of an earlier post.

Lucky Robot

I call this one Lucky no. 007.  highly influenced by the works of Masamune Shirow and the Ghost in The Shell Movies.  If you have not seen these flicks and your into Anime, do yourself a favor and check out part one and two on blue ray or dvd. I also recommend Shirows Intron Depot books, the full of awesome robots and pin-up girls.

Morning sketches

Today's warm up sketches

Girls and more Girls

Some more female sketches.  Keeping myself sharp when I got time in-between work.  As always I experiment with shapes and pushing the curves as much as I can without the design falling apart.

Brooklyn Burner

Here's another Graf piece. This one would look awesome as a top to bottom burner on a train, don't you think?

Some more sketches

Here are a few sketches from my hard cover sketchbook. I will probably start cleaning these up and reposting them as completed pieces. These were done with color pencils, ball point pen, and brush markers of different colors.