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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Coloring For Comic Conventions - James Bui

Here are some illustrations I colored for fellow Art Samurai student, James Bui.

James and I both attend Art Samurai workshops taught by comic book pro Tom Nguyen.

James attends various comic book conventions in Texas and commissioned me to color his pencils for prints he sells at the various conventions!

For more information on James and his work visit his Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/ArtofJDB

For more information on Tom Nguyen visit his website.
http://tomnguyenstudio.com

If you are interested in commissioning me as a colorist, contact me at:
robb@robbmiller.com

Thursday, March 6, 2014

ArtSamurai Assignment for March 5th, 2014

Revised version

Head turns

Tom Nguyen's critique notes

Here's what I turned in to Art Samurai for last night's workshop. I learned a lot and had some laughs.
Tom Nguyen gave a lot of explanation to how and why things look the way they do and how to think about things when drawing. It was good to see other attendee's work too. If I were to draw this again it would not be the same.

I found that I need to look at women's butts more. I need to study them. It's for art sake so my wife shouldn't get upset. I made my panties all wrong! More butt, more butt! I did put more 'junk in her trunk.'

It was a great learning experience and a good reason to have an assignment and practice!

For more info on Art Samurai visit the website: http://artsamurai.net

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Art Samurai Homework part 2

Here are some assignments from doing Art Samurai. I feel I have a lot to learn

and I always learn something new from each workshop.

Character Reinterpretation - Gossamer from Looney Tunes

The theme - character reinterpretation. Take a cute character and draw the bad-ass comic book version or take a bad-ass comic book character and draw the cute cartoon version. I like some aspects of what I did. I never totally understood Gossamer as a kid. He was a good monster because he freaked me out. I love how he is smart enough to wear good running shoes to chase after people!

Three guys running

Perspective is the theme here. There's a lot I learned from this assignment. If I were to redo it, I am sure it would be much better. Tom explained perspective better than "How To" books ever have. I fixed my horizon line. You can see my old line on there a little. This was a lesson that went "click". When I do people in perspective in the future I will take what I got from this week.

Demon Baby!

For this one the theme was Layout and Storytelling. Draw a sequential page depicting a monster cornering a helpless victim against the wall. Finish the page dramatically with a hero killing the monster! I tried to have fun with it by not picking traditional characters in the roles needed. The layout could be improved to read it better. I learned quite a bit and had FUN!

I will continue to do the homework assignments as much as I can.

Please check out Art Samurai for more info on workshops and assignments!

Art Samurai Homework part 1

Here are some assignments from doing Art Samurai. I feel I have a lot to learn

and I always learn something new from each workshop.

Original Wicked Witch and 2013 Wicked Witch

The theme for this week's assignment was compare and contrast.

Have the classic Wicked Witch interact with the current movie.

I focused on getting good likenesses in the faces and costumes but should've added more to their positioning and poses. It could be much more dynamic and dramatic!

Gesture drawings of boxers, a gymnast and a cat.

Character sketch from a gesture drawing.

The theme for this one was to do gesture sketches off of reference provided.

I think I did okay. I think they could have more flow and movement to them. I think I could take my character sketch a bit farther too.

Please check out Art Samurai for more info on workshops and assignments!

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Art Samurai

I just want to let everyone know about a new website that I have been lucky enough to help work on, ArtSamurai.net. It's a live workshop that is affordable to artists who would like to learn from comic book pro—Tom Nguyen. I know he is a good teacher. Why is that? Because, he taught me quite a bit! I may not be a pro comic book artist or a big name in art but I have been fortunate enough to make a living the past 13 years as an artist! In Spring of '98 Tom started teaching me how to do caricatures. I was hired in May '99 by Tom Richmond and I worked at ValleyFair and at the Mall of America.

Tom is a great teacher. I appreciate his patience with me and how he wants to help aspiring artists!

I wish something like this was around when I was in junior high so I didn't have to be a server at Embers, a warehouse worker at Burlington Coat Factory and Media Tech. Services, a pizza delivery driver at Domino's Pizza, a cookie maker at Ms. Field's, a busboy - cook- and "Bumper the Clown" at Circus Pizza, Hardee's employee, McDonald's employee, telemarketer at Stanley Steemer, and...that is not even half the list of jobs I had! Doing art is the only thing I have been able to be consistent with.

Whether you want to be a comic book artist or enjoy doing some other kinds of art, I am sure that you will benefit from Art Samurai. I thank Tom Nguyen for teaching me and Tom Richmond for teaching me and taking a chance with me!

In the future, ArtSamurai.net will have more art instructors and video-on-demand. For now it is a week-to-week workshop that will generally be $20 for two hours. I think it's a good deal considering it could be a live changing move to becoming a professional artist.