Advice from the Manticore 2.5

After my photoshop CS4 finally finished downloading, i decided to give it a test drive with this illustration from the eight page story i'm working on.

just wanted to post it here.

-DAX!

Advice from the Manticore.

One of the illustrations from the short story i've been working on. when its completed, i plan to post it here. so...

stay tuned!

-DAX!

Nevermind the backstory...

WOW it has been some time since i've updated this thing.

for that i appologize. its not that i've been purposefully ignoring this blog, i've just been EXTREMELY busy. i decided to go back to school and have been pretty occupied with that, BUT on the plus side, its given me new things to show the world...case in point:



yeah, the above image is the first draft of a hypothetical cd package design for a possible soundtrack/companion mix cd to go along with the fluph graphic novel. I've been toying around with the idea of having an album to go along with fluph. you know, something that sets the mood and gives the reader something else fluph related to enjoy. Fluph is completely inspired by music. whenever i write or draw, i listen to music that captures the mood of the scene and each of the characters are inspired by different songs by different artists.

but as i said, the image above is only my first draft. i plan to add individual song pages with images of cooresponding characters.

i just wanted to post that to let everyone know that i nor Fluph have died...nor will we ever.

-DAX!

X-Fluph!

When all of the world's superheroes are mysteriously MIA...you can always call these guys...Though, i wouldnt necessarily recommend them.

SO it seems as though i start every post with "I know its been a while blahblahblah" AND THIS will be no different.

I've been busy, 'nuff said.

for the past week i've been watching X-men..The movies, the old cartoon from the 90's..all that. And decided that FLUPH needed to have x-men uniforms. Just in case, on the off chance that no other mutants were available and Xavier reeeally needed somebody to do something.

i mean, they're not superheroes, hell, they're not really much of anything..But if they had to be super-heroes, here's what they'd look like.

enough about words, Have some more pictures:

Tempest, Zaus, Pumonika Close-up

Joseph Hyde and Mister Pants as THE X-TINCTIONATOR

Yeah.

It was fun to play imaginary dress up again.

-DAX!

P.s. I Bite

WOW...so..okay, its been A WHILE since my last post.

for that, i am sorry.

you may be wondering..."well, whats Dax been up to since his last post?"

The answer is simple, a lot of random things coupled with alot of random nothing. the past couple of months have been filled with me working, and modeling, and learning about film-making, and applying for a reality show, and traveling and getting sick and slowly getting better. But aside from that, from a more "creative" aspect, i've been thinking..re-thinking...and over thinking pretty much everything.

I'm definitely NOT saying that i'm over my own characters and storyline. I love my Fluph boys and i love drawing them, writing about them, and developing them and all of my plans and dreams for the novel are still being developed into a coheisive story.

However, i have been working with these characters for a number of years and compressing what i already have into a coheisive story for the masses has proven to be difficult.

I'm currently taking a small "break" and taking the time to do something that i dont do very often. I've been offering my services to other artists through comissions/art requests via Deviant Art.

and even though i promised that this blog would be all Fluph all the time, Here are a few examples of what i've been doodling on:
The Story, "P.S. I Bite" is written by a girl i met on Deviant Art (...her DA site can be found at:
http://loligoth13.deviantart.com/ ) She's a sixteen year old girl from the philippeans who's writing an ongoing story about a Vampire rock band. She reminded me alot of myself at that age, when, i myself wrote stories about my own characters as well. Also, i agreed to doing character designs for her because i needed something fresh to work on for a second, to HOPEFULLY re-charge my own brain.

Granted, i could have just made up my own new characters and gone that route...but i dunno, whenever i do that, i intend to use them, so i get way WAY too caught up in details and never get to the fucking point and cant just take it as any kind of exercise....i have a bad habit of getting way too involved.

So, i went this route.

ANYWAY i promise that i'll get back to fluph soon. i've got a few pages of the actual comic half-sketched. i'm gonna try to finish those up soon and get them up here.

also, i've got a few more of these character designs to whip out...so Stay Tuned!

-DAX!

Boys Night Out.

So, for the first time in a long time, i spent the night at home drawing.

ALL NIGHT LONG.

i was actually working on location/background sketches and just kinda started doodling this. before i knew it...it was 4 am and i was deeply entranced by hatching.

the above image is a result.

essentially the idea behind it was going to be a bar fight. A bar fight involving Zaus and an unseen combatant with the rest of the group holding him back...all the while knowing that if zaus' ape-like strength ever got the better of him, they'd all be screwed.

i'm actually pretty proud of this one and DEFINITELY plan on cleaning it up and coloring it...maybe even expanding on the idea and ACTUALLY drawing a full scene.

but, lets not count our crosses before they're hatched.

HAH!

-DAX!

Sound and Fury Signifying Bunny...

So, let me begin by saying that i'm VERY sorry for not updating in sooo very long.

I'd say that i've been busy, but in truth...i havent been thaaat busy.

i've just been in one of my moods where i just dont draw.

things have been emotionally shakey for me here. its a very long story that i wont get into because to sum things up: "nothing really happened".

Just the same ol' same ol' bullshit that sends me into a mental tail-spin and leaves me trying to find a new way to deal with the world around me.

i didnt actually feel better until i drew this.

...just one more thing reminding me that i should draw more often.

while drawing tempest looking as angry as i felt, i sat stewing in my own brainular bullshit when i realized how stupid i was being. granted, the realization didnt make me feel any less angry...so...i added the bunny ears.

it made sense at the time, and theres some symbolism involved that i'm not really going into.

BUT MOSTLY...its for easter.

so happy easter kids!

may zombie jeebus feast upon your brains!

-DAX!