•Destroying Röy•

A New Squarish Friend

2011-08-12T04:00:00.002-05:00

Look for his print in my Etsy shop soon!

Floating on a Cushion of Plasma, Realized

2010-04-05T17:46:00.005-05:00

Available For Purchase Now on my Etsy shop to your right!

Floating on a Cushion of Plasma

2010-02-04T21:36:00.003-06:00

A vector mock-up of a painting in progress.

Nothing Could Be More Pleasing

2009-07-13T16:48:00.000-05:00

If You Like It Just Take It

2009-06-04T22:36:00.002-05:00

And We Give Praise To The Gods Of Berries And Bush

2009-05-05T23:43:00.003-05:00

A Boy And His Cow

2009-04-28T23:18:00.001-05:00

Big Cats Violating My Personal Space

2009-04-12T22:56:00.002-05:00

Little Boxes - Elephant

2009-04-08T16:46:00.006-05:00

Third in the series, now available for purchase
at my Etsy shop to your right!

Man! That's So Cool, How'd You Do That?

2009-04-07T19:49:00.009-05:00

#1
Paper Tearing

#2
Paper Stenciling

#3
Screen Printing

#4
Print Drying

#5
Repeat Steps #1 through #4

From Here On Out It's Nothing But Smiles & Trunks

2009-03-30T22:44:00.006-05:00

coming soon as part of my series "Little Boxes"

Grasping Danger, Bearing Hood

2009-03-24T20:28:00.003-05:00

Hugs, Torsos, & Drop-Shadows

2009-03-23T22:17:00.003-05:00

Rough Rough

2009-03-20T16:05:00.002-05:00

Of mice and man-sized mice.

2009-03-12T16:39:00.002-05:00

How Blob Begot Blob.

2009-03-08T23:40:00.002-05:00

Trash-heap of unimaginable refuse.

2009-03-03T22:15:00.003-06:00

This place, it's clearly death!!

2009-03-02T21:34:00.001-06:00

Little trees continue to disrespect sunny day.

2009-02-26T21:45:00.004-06:00

Problems?

2008-08-13T16:44:00.003-05:00

Shut up your cricket mouth!

2008-06-06T15:41:00.003-05:00

Words of advise to live your life by...

2008-05-15T15:59:00.003-05:00

Little Boxes - Turtle

2008-05-09T20:58:00.001-05:00

Second in the series, more to come.

Little Boxes - Bunny

2008-05-09T20:55:00.004-05:00

This is the first in a series of screen prints called Little Boxes.

BAM!

2007-12-02T15:12:00.001-06:00

-Soon enough I'll slap this guy on a canvas, a big one-

Adobe Illustrator CS3

2007-08-08T17:22:00.000-05:00

Ok, so I accidentally opened an Illustrator file in the new version of illustrator, CS3, and I started playing around with it. It actually is a better program, it makes it way easier to select elements, and all the tools are close at hand. The next video I make will be in CS3, and if some action differs from CS2 I'll tell you how to do it, but I strongly urge you to DL and try it. I think you'll like it.

a comicstrip show

2007-08-08T02:14:00.000-05:00

Ok, learn clipping masks, they're real easy and are great for working with the cells. Mayhap I'll make a quick video for you tomorrow. I spent some time putting this guy together today.

We definately need to devote some time next week to brainstorming good story ideas, then we can build the cartoons around them.

It's true!

2007-08-04T15:18:00.000-05:00

Ok, so I've been working on stuff, so I'll put some more up later today, for now here's something I've had on my mind for awhile.

Oh, and I'm working on a 3 or 4 part series that shows me using Illustrator from the raw scan to polished piece. I've got audio narration too so you's can here my sweet sweet voice. I'll email you the first one in a bit-

Rugs McSpittle

Is Fudgicle Too Racist for the Public?

2007-08-04T03:44:00.001-05:00

Does he offend? It's just because it's our first black character. But he's not even black, he's brown. Brown like a fudgicle. I don't think it's racist. There's no other race that a personified fudgesicle could possibly be. I could make a banana cremesicle and name it Eminem. And they could live in a popsicle box house.

There, I did something

2007-08-04T00:02:00.001-05:00

Trying to develop my skills. Yeah, backgrounds are hard. I'd like the stars to kind of fade into the rest of the background. So they're not so cookie cutter or whatever. How might I do that? Should I just adjust the graient to incorporate some red and yellow, or can I mess with the opacity?

Answer: You can decrease the opacity and set a gradient that blends in... Unfortunately, I atleast cannot find out how to set a gradient with 100% opacity on one end and 0% on the other... there has to be a way, Photoshop lets you do that!

David's Friday

2007-08-03T22:21:00.001-05:00

I did absolutely nothing in service of our project today. I did however find this picture on Google. So that's something.

Risk: Not Just For Humans Anymore

2007-08-02T14:32:00.001-05:00

No, I didn't use the stroke tip, I just used a fatter marker when I was going over my drawings in pen. I will have to start using the stroke thing though, because I didn't do such a hot job on some of the others.

You know, it would be really easy to make little animations. I don't know what programs to use, but we could even print out characters to a thicker stock paper and then put them in real world environments and do cheesy stop motion animations.

Today smells like roses.

2007-08-02T12:14:00.000-05:00

Hey, those are looking good, did you use that stroke pointer I gave you to get the outlines thick? Oh, I found this program that video captures your computer screen. I'm gonna upload a short clip of me using the gradient tool, see if that helps.

Top of tha Mornin!

2007-08-02T09:54:00.000-05:00

I think I missed a post. You'll have to spank me with nachos. So I'm kind of getting gradients now. I still don't know how to change the direction by dragging the line. I mean, I get the concept, but I don't get how dragging the line sets the gradient and then you have to apply it or something... I drew 6 characters today. and it's only 10am.

Teenage Worm-Torso gets a talking to...

2007-08-01T15:40:00.000-05:00

Here's today's contribution... I had a test in school today and while waiting for teacher I drew these guys, I just love when stuff comes out of holes.

Judge Craig

2007-07-31T21:32:00.000-05:00

Allright, one more post for tonight... Just live traced this sucker in, though I had to have spent just as much time cleaning it up than it would have took me to draw it. You do get some cool rough corners and a boxeyness to it when using live trace.

Anyways, Allie was talking about coming to Tyler to hang out and meet up with your friend who's taking some test here? Well I remember her saying the 8th of some month, was this something ya'll were planning on or just a thought?

Enjoy

We got space!

2007-07-31T16:42:00.001-05:00

So I finally remember how to get to my old man's webhost. Check your email for login instructions.

Here's a pretty pretty picture to brighten this blog up, my friend Steffy made it. Nice colors

David's Tuesday

2007-07-31T12:55:00.000-05:00

it's early in the day, so I may post another, but so far I doodled around in illustrator, mostly to no avail. Got one good character out of it so far, albeit no fills yet. stupid gradients. refer to email if you haven't already.

in your guy below, the outside outlines are all really thick, and inside not so much. Is that because you drew it that way and so live trace picked up on it? Or did you go in and change the stroke for those lines? And if so, remind me how to select just those lines..

You seem to do that with most of your characters, and I really like it. And although I don't think we should necessarily try to exactly match each others styles, I think there should be some similar conventions we use to make our work cohesive and relate to each other. And I think that little element might make my work pull together with yours, while still retaining my style.

Every blog post looks better with an image. So I Google imaged "cute" and this is the image I chose. This is a band named, "Cute Is What We Aim For." Kill me now.

Monday's Post

2007-07-31T01:26:00.000-05:00

Even though it's technically Tuesday. I traced up another character, then scanned in a couple more. Don't feel like posting them yet, not very polished. me go bed now.

Poop!

2007-07-30T21:54:00.000-05:00

I used some very simple gradient fills to flesh out this simple line drawing, I think our small B&W comics could benifit from this. It doesn't take as long as drawing shadows and it will print from a laser printer just fine.

Oh, and speaking of, that laser I was talking about is on sale for $69 this week, if I had money I'd buy it.

Diaeresis

2007-07-30T10:55:00.000-05:00

def. a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound.

I assume I used the same method you did oh so many years ago in the first place, Character Map baby!

Holy Crap!

2007-07-30T00:01:00.000-05:00

You put the umlaut (or whatever) over the O in Roy. Excellent!! How do you do that?

Yup, got Illustrator up.

2007-07-29T23:50:00.001-05:00

So Today I scanned some drawings and live traced em up. Meet Sloppy, Weirdhead, Wardo, Ghast, BullitDog, Bumpy, Headwig, and Depressedasshole. These are all working names, nothing final. Now that they have a home on my computer they are all going to get together and have an orgy. Because nothing says orgy like these guys!

Roy's Daily Post

2007-07-29T21:53:00.000-05:00

So I spent some time today collecting a bunch of drawings and scanning them in, I think I'll start keeping a small sketchpad handy for when I'm bored. Did you ever get Illustrator up and running on your PC?

2007-07-24T16:47:00.000-05:00

This is that T-Rex comic I was talking about, check out the site...
http://www.qwantz.com/

first lil' guy

2007-07-24T14:25:00.000-05:00

Here's a new one, just finished... feel free to suggest a caption.

Play with my Settings!

2007-07-23T19:23:00.001-05:00

so yeah, dick around on here for awhile, play with the settings and templates and such.

Daily Comic 1

2007-07-23T19:17:00.000-05:00

So yeah, here's a little comic. It sucks, but you get the idea. I made this a couple days before you came over, so it doesn't show off my new Illustrator prowess. Also, if I remember correctly, the comic is going to be too small to read on this blog. I'll play with it later and figure it out. Maybe the image file is extremely small.

Hi Roy!

2007-07-23T19:13:00.000-05:00

Hello Roy! This is our new blog! Try it out.