tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93167812011-12-14T11:52:31.526+08:00Ive set out on a path to become a professional comic artist. This is my story.Jelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05775951227335382158noreply@blogger.comBlogger681100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9316781.post-1159437539958061682006-09-28T17:58:00.000+08:002006-09-28T17:58:59.993+08:00

Angelbat. For lack of a better caption.Jelo

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The blog has really been neglected of late. And while I really have tons to write if i am to update this on whats happening, I want to post this latest drawing i did for a friend who was begging me for a vampire drawing. While I gave her the printed copy. I kept the original for my wife. This was really made on my wife's birthday, June 12. Happy B-day Nettes! This one's for you.Jelo

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Its been a while since i posted. But for the sake of posterity Im putting up this image. Now, I've drawn for mainly black and white books, so its an extra special thrill to finally see one of my stuff colored. And here it is. Jelo

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To keep this place up to date, here's some character sketches from my other project. Geez, I never thought I'd be doing two projects at a time. But hey, the money is good, and so is the exposure. So what the heck. Hope you guys like him.Jelo

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Hmmm. Haven't posted anything in a while. So I thought I'll just post one of my character sketches that was done for that new project i got. This is still pretty much in the design stage, so rough all in all. As with any project a chunk of pre-production work has to be done before we actually do the pages. And part of this is character designs. And in this stage we basically just try to

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A little something for Christmas. Merry Christmas everyone!!! Jelo

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Heres page 1 of that sample I presented to GHG. And now that I have started redoing this, its really true that I can get some more drama out of this shot. You will see the difference when I post the one thats revamped for action. But you will notice that I took great lengths to adjust the backgrounds here. And I hope it shows. Second page soon.Jelo

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Heres a new piece to lay your eyes on. Its actually a test piece to a new fantasy book that I will pencilling and inking pretty soon. And this piece is the one that got me the job. And to Dwayne who has recently been visiting and leaving comments, - thanks for the kind words. I just havent been able to reply because of my tight schedule. But let me take this opportunity to say THANKS.Jelo

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Here is the style that couldn't make it. Heres the drawing that is a dime a dozen. The style that has no drama, no discernable backgrounds and isn't salable. Thats all according to GHG. I cant argue with them. They're entitled to their own opinion. But I'd like to know what you think.Jelo

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For one reason or another, this blog suddenly works again. Whew.Anyway, to get you guys up to date, I've been trying to hit the mainstream via Glasshouse graphics. GHG as some would put it, is an artists agency. Sort of like the Jerry Mcguire of the comics world. But you dont hire them as agents. You submit your portfolio in the hopes that your kind of work would get considered to be

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Just testing this out again.Jelo

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No blogs is a long while. Why? Because since I do most of my blogging from work, we have a security feature called, SURF CONTROL. And thats the damn thing thats preventing me from doing so. Arghh. Anyway, I have a new blog at yahoo 360. And while this blog has become close to my heart since its my first, I would have to say the new one looks better. I hope to keep this one going but hey,

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Ahh now I can post this. As the publishing date of my first printed work comes out, a one page ad has been granted to us artists as a form of promotion for ourselves as well as current projects. And so, presenting, "Mercenary" from Warpton Comics. This should come out later in the year if Im lucky, and to a different audience. And so with renewed enthusiasm, I poured my heart out to page 1.

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I just want to say thanks to the few people who happen to stumble in here and leave word, good or bad (so far they're mostly good). I take your words to heart and try to learn from any input. I am constantly trying to improve my craft, and the people who drop by here all become part of that growth. And when I finally reach my goal, I can look back and say if it werent for all this, I wouldnt

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Emotions are an important aspect of illustration. Your ability to convey emotions through your drawings has a great impact on how well the reader will accept, or reject, your storytelling. You cant have all your joe's and jane's with blank faces in every panel. They have to have feelings. Or the whole pot goes to hell. "Emotions", easy to understand, hard to achieve. But I'm really working

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Another practice sketch at work. Page 4 done. More to go. Update it when I get it.Jelo

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More character sketches in an otherwise busy day. 2 pages of the new project done. But a quick change in work sched for the day job really knocked me back off schedule again. So, its back to cahracter sketches while Im getting used to this.Jelo

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Character sketches again. This time for the new Warpton Gig. If I ever get it off the ground, this ones gonna be great. Page 1 down, pencilled two, soon to ink. Jelo

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Nothing much going on at work. So did a little doodling and came up with this. Not much. In fact it pretty much indicated what I'm doing right now. Just passing time. Just. . . . passing time.Jelo

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Allright! Fortress Publishing just announced that everything is on sched as far as they are concerned and the book should be out soon. Gosh, Ive been done since Feb and theyre talking about on sched in May! Oh well.Anyway, artists have been offered a one page ad to basically strutt their stuff. Need some ideas. If anyones out there, Im welcome to suggestions.Drop me a line! Oh and nobody

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I cant sit down and really work. Ive been working on one page for a week now. Why? Day job! The schedule is the pits and the work is tiring. Excuses, excuses. True. Discipline should take over. Its a chicken and egg situation. You cant give up your day job till you get a good stable comic job. But you really cant get a good stable comic job unless you devote yourself fulltime to your

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It happens all the time. Just when you accept an assignment, is just when you receive another offer that seems to be better. What do you do? Not much. My rule of thumb, first in is first out. That means no matter how rosy the next assignment seems to be, you gotta finish the first one. But MAN! Sometimes you just want to jump. But you have to learn consitency and commitment. Its hard,

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I just finished up to page 13 of my layouts for the new Warpton gig. But some things happened of late that make me want to take a second look.You see with us artists, there is always that silent competition going on. There is a show of mutual respect for each others work. But in the back of your mind. You are just itching to get back on the drawing board, and blow the hell out of this guy.

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test postJelo

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More character sketches. This one kinda blurry. Used non-photo blue but I still managed to copy it. Wanted somebody elso to ink just so I can see if my work changes a lot if somebody else inks it. But it never got to that. So here it is just for the heck of it. Well, . . . . . . . Ciao!Jelo

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When I started drawing, or dreaming of drawing for comics. It was a lonely one man journey. Not even my wife really understood how much passion I had for it (maybe she has an idea, but it may be a lot more than what she thinks it is). Oh yeah she's very supportive. But hey, what do you expect. Of course when I start talking about the style of the drawing or the way I rendered it or stuff, I

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Character designs. You need this like you need you right hand. Before you start drawing, you have to know what youre drawing. And this is the first step. Try to conceive your character first, then draw him inot your story. And as always, practice, practice, practice. Heres a character design piece I did for that independent gig. Thought it looked ok. Till the next one. Ciao.Jelo

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I havent posted in a while. As usual its the day job that takes up most of your time. I got a new project though! That is to draw a one-shot 22 page comic for Warpton comics. The pay isnt much but what the heck. Growing pains i guess. You gotta start from the trenches. Unfortunate though is that its a sci-fi flic. And sci-fi has always been my weakness. I mean I love sci-fi and all but

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I havent blogged in a loooong while. Not that it really makes much of a difference. But still for those who are curious. This day job is really taking its toll. Well, I still hope to get back to the drawing board once my sched normalizes next week.Since that time Ive had some offers to draw for warpton comics and to draw a sampler again for fortress. Hmmm. Decisions, decisions. But still

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Panel design is very important. You can draw really good. But if you cant tell a story right your toast. Before I commit anything for a page, I layout first. Take a step back and see if it looks not only like you can follow it, but that it looks pleasing first out. I wont say what comic this went into (coz its yet to be published), but I did still have changes for the final one. Flipped a

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Last page of "Ghost". I like this page. Design wise it has a lot of things going for it. I had to redo the shot of Ghost in the last panel. The first wasnt very dynamic. And it almost seemed like she was flying sideways instead of up. But I think this final version hit the button. Well thats it for Ghost. Hope you like it.Jelo

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Well, I havent blogged in a while. Why? Well I just got a new day job. And its a call center to boot. What does that mean. Well, it eats up a lot of time. Well gotta cut it short. Next time.

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Ahh page 4. And this time I get some leeway with the layout. A little overlapping and a little contrast. Nice panel in the end. Get some detail going. I like the mailbox. It played out well. The mail looks really 3D. Nice.Jelo

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Page 4. I got a lotta beef with the script for this page. While I wanted to rotate the camera here, the script wanted me to stick to the same angle for all panels. Although I did deviate still. But overall I think it was still a good page.Jelo

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Page 3 of Ghost, and Im really beginning to get this dark style going. Im trying not to tone to much (but I cant help it in some areas), just to be consistent with the style.Jelo

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Unless you missed the first page, heres the second page of "Ghost". A package I put together for a Dark horse submission. Jelo

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Yup! Its done, its finished, its complete. 22 pages pencilled and inked. And I finished that last half real quick too. The experience was great. Hard to explain in words. Each page is your baby. You nurtured this baby from blank page to finished art. Its amazing. Sometimes its really amusing to flip out a blank bristol board from your stack, and after so and so hours, its a finished page

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And now. . . (drum roll), finally page 5 of Logan. The ending. So while the expectation is more Logan scrapping, we wind up with a surprise involvement from the waitress. Brings a smile to even Logans face doesnt it? Hope you enjoyed it as much as I had drawing and plotting it. Jelo

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Page 4 of Logan. Looking good if I say so myself. Im really beginning to fall inlove with spottingb blacks at this point. I think that Shadow shot of logan on panel 2 really hits the spot. And again the composition sets up nicely for the last page. Panel 3 really leaves you wanting to turn the page. And page 5 gives you a most unexpected ending. Check it out. Till then.Jelo

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This is it! Page 3 of Logan. I really splashed it on here. Big panel on top. Lots of glass, and the three panels below setting up nicely for big page 4. I love this composition if I say so myself. The gauntlets are thrown down and Logan is ready to scrap! Let get it on!Jelo

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Well, well. I guess this jobless thing has its ups as well as downs. Since I have so much free time, I've been able to draw everyday now. And since the jobless incident this Feb. 1, I was able to draw 6 pages in 10 days. And some of those days I didn't draw at all. And one day I penciled and inked one page. Whew, that was fast! Okay so page 16 is done, 17 next, and since I've already finished 18,

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This is the second page of Logan. I was really beginning to hit my stride here, so I decided to go for that big foreshortening shot which sets up the action for page 3. I had some difficulty with the page, and Im still not 100% sure I got it all right. lol. Jelo

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Hmmm. I just lost my day job. Now I'm really in for it. If I don't get a real big comic job soon, I could end up employed in another company that could really push my comic artist dreams even further down. And I'm not getting any younger. God please, give me that job I'm dreaming about, I know my stuff has promise. Just give me a chance and I'm going to wow the world. Oh well, page 13 done, and

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Ive just submitted the first 10 pages of my work to the independent company I'm currently working with. And while I cant really show the artwork yet here for fear of getting swipped, (I will when its published though), I have to say that I really feel great. Their response to me was both inspiring and flattering. Flattering that someone should finally appreciate what Im doing, and inspiring

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This is page one of the piece that got me accepted to draw an issue for an independent publisher that should be out this march. I'll post some pictures of that once the comic is out. Contrary to the look this is not inked but pencilled with a 2B pencil. Jelo

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This is the first page of Ghost. Now Im testing to see whether I can really send pictures now. Leave a comment please. Thanks.Jelo

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Well its been a while since Ive posted on the blog. Just busy I guess. Right now, ive already finished pencilling page 10 of my independent project. Half way through. Im really learning a lot in this project. What works and what doesnt. I still need to work on the inking though. The hatching is a tricky trick. You got learn when to and when not to use it. And I guess you cant learn that

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My brother leaves for Dubai today. Its a big change. Its a happy/sad one. Happy coz hes got a job now that will secure his future. Thats really great. Sad, coz we wont see him for the next 2 years. My 4 year old kid ended up telling him goodbye lastnight in these words, " Bye uncle joy. See you when Im seven." It breaks my heart. My brother and I had a rift couple of years back. I

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My heart goes out to all those who were tragically affected by the recent events of the tsunami. For what its worth, I dedicate my drawings to those whose lives were lost. If for nothing else, I still wish the best for the loved ones they left behind, a Happy New Year! We cant let the last post of the year be sooo sad. While tragedies are tragedies, they are part of life. And if its a

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Yes, i have just finished the first page of my first professional comic job. Its not much. And you might even laugh when you realize what the page rate is. But still, money never was my motivation. All I want at this point is to get published. Just imagining that I will hold in my hands a printed copy of what I have drawn, . . . geez, you can only imagine. It would probably get a special

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Yup, the holidays are upon us. People rushing, traffic swelling, prices rising. Its just that time of year that I want to hole up and just draw. Thats the sad thing when you grow up. You lose all that Christmas magic inside. And try as you might, it just passes you by like another holiday. Some people talk of change. But change never really comes. While this may sound cynical at some

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Ive just changed the blogs title from "Journey to a dream" to "Comic Artist: A Personal Journey". Why? Because Ive just realized that my pursuit is not to become an artist, because I already am, but to become a professional comic artist who draws for the major companies like Marvel and DC. My ultimate goal is to draw Batman for DC. That's my destination. So I am not journeying towards a

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Ive posted page 3 of my Ghost submission on the photoblog. Follow the link below. Link: http://jelopages.buzznet.com/user/ I like the way I rendered the blacks in this page. Spotting blacks is an important aspect in drawing. You see a linear drawing would make a good drawing. But blacks or the play of light on an object is what gives it realism and dimension. Imagine a circle. Now if you

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I just attended the Lastikman comic launch in Greenbelt, Makati yesterday. Primary purpose, not to see the Lastikman comic, but to meet the creators and hopefully other people in the field. Fellow artists, inkers, writers, publishers. They say that to break in comics, its not what you can do, its who you know. Although thats not true all the time, it pays dividends when you rub elbows with

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Story telling. Sound easy, but when you get down to it, it can tax you. Imagine two characters running for their lives. One has a worried look, the other a look of excitement. Its a top shot pulled back a little to see the background. The scene is a park. So there are trees and lots of park stuff. Plus of course other people in the park. This is just a sample. But you can depict this shot in

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Ive just posted the second page of my darkhorse submission "Ghost" on the photoblog. You can check it out and follow the story. As with the first page, you will notice that I have used a very straight forward style in rendering the drawings. Its all black and white. Not much hatching. I saw this style from Bart Sears in LODK years back. And I thought it would be a good style to use for

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I just put up a photoblog at Buzznet. This enables you the viewer to view some of the pages ive made in case your curious. This is about being a comic artist right? Not much sense if you cant see any drawings. So here the first salvo. Click the link below to see the first page of my submission to darkhorse. Link: http://jelopages.buzznet.com/user/ Hope you like it. Feel free to leave a

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I never knew blogging was sooo fun. As we say in Filipino "Aliw". Ive just added an ad bar at the beginning of the blog. And the color and graphics add life to the page. I wish I could post pictures. But some security is preventing me from accessing P2P apps on the web. Oh well. Im constantly trying to improve the blog, in an effort to attract people to view what I have to say here. And

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Just when I thought its such a lonely place out there, and no one visits this site. Someone just stumbles in and leaves a commment. To you, I will never forget your name. You are the first one to leave anything at all, so you will forever be in my archives as such. For anyone that happens to stumble in, I apologize for thinking no one would. But welcome and I hope you like what you read here

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Im just going to write. With nothing really particular in mind. I just watched Jim Lee's Jenny sparks drawing on video. Man is that guy good or what. I mean it comes so natural to him that he draws with such ease. I guess you get that after youve been drawing as long as he has. I know I can be that good someday. Im a fast learner. Since Ive picked up the pencil again just this august, my

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Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ?

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Ive always loved good penwork. Intricate lines intertwining, seemingly unrelated, but when viewed as a whole, its simply marvelous. If youve read the book, "the art of comic book inking" by Gary Martin, you would see that inking is just so much more than tracing. Theres line weight, cross hatching, toning,. . . tons of stuff that you cant learn in a few drawings. I think the art of comics is

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Ive been making some character design sketches to the independent company I just signed up with. And they love it! I'll start on the actual pages soon. I just need the contract they will be sending, and then its go. I want to come up with really good ones. This is my chance to be seen by editors in conventions. Since I live all the way here, a convention portfolio presentation for me is out

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Ive updated my samples. They now include the samples of "ghost" which Im submitting to Dark Horse. And Mr. Jim Lee, if you ever happen to stumble in here. . . THANK YOU. Drop a line and say hello. Heres the link: http://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=jelo%5Fberbano&p=52D2 And ive figured out that the server we log into is the one restricting me from peer to peer connections such as Hello. So I

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Yup Im done. Ive finished 6 pages of "Ghost", for submission to Dark horse. Like my past works, my latest is always my best. And this one has all the essentials in it. Quiet scenes, action scenes, different facial expressions. I think it has what it takes to break in. I'll send it in by snail mail as soon as i get it scanned. After that its cross your fingers and wait. I'll post a link to

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I think I found a way to showcase my artwork. Try the link below: http://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=jelo%5Fberbano&p=52D2 See if it works.

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I want to post images of the sketches I made, or at least the sequential pages I made that got me a small job drawing for some independents. If someone stumbles into this blog, please leave me a how-to. I cant seem to get the "hello" by picassa to log in, hence no bloggerbot. Any suggestions?

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I have a dream. And its a dream thats been with me since I was 5. The dream is to be a comic artist. While some of you may think this is such a trivial dream, to me it isnt. Im in my thirties now, and while I tried to pursue this dream before, I always seem to get sidetracked. During highschool, all I did was draw and practice for that day that I submit my stuff to the big boys like Marvel

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