Thursday, September 15, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACK KIRBY...OMAC WAS MY FAVORITE
i might wasn't born during the time this man was creating universes but manged to know who he was once i got in my teen years and did research and brought trades everything he did like the OMAC trade which to me was my favorite Character he created...it was to me a story ahead of its time...he put so much movement and life to the pages and OMAC....i was just amazed and glued reading the trade...if i can recall it i was up one night reading the trade going into the fourth issue knowing dam while i head to be at work in the morning but the book head me hooked hahaha...the other reason what i liked about his work was the dynamic action scenes,and even the soft scenes grab me as a reader you can just fell the movement from those pages...which i put in my panels i love to keep the eyes moving panel to panel which jack played a big influence in the drive i put in my creator owned books...so that's my take on what jack mint to me ...HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACK "THE KING" KIRBY R.I.P. 
Friday, August 26, 2011
AGENT SOLO ISSUE 2 PREVIEW PENCILS
drawing the first panel was a huge challenge for me...i was very nervous ...but was happy that i pulled it off...was sweating bullets haha. 
AGENT SOLO PREVIEW ISSUE 2 PENCILS
PENCILS ME,...IM POSTING A SNEAK PEEK ON PAGES OF AGENT SOLO ISSUE 2...I LIKE TO REALLY THANK MY INK &COLORIST ERNEST FOR ALL THE WORK HE DOES ON MY WORK MAKING IT STAND PUT AND THE WORK LOAD HAHAH.
AGENT SOLO PREVIEW PAGES ISSUE 1
hears another page of my new creator owned comic limited series Agent Solo issue 1 preview page ...pencils me ,ink & colors ernest jocson 
BACK ON SENDING OUT SUBMISSIONS
yeap thats right,im back on sending submissions out of my work...reason why?is because i fell i came a long way since i started out following my dream to draw comics for the big 2...and that road lead down to a lot of disappointments due to i head no education in knowing the business during my teenage years...im older now and thank GOD for the right people like my publisher Michael McClain taught me everything i needed to know about the business and improving my art...which up to this day i still like to practice and be sharp on my art work and story telling.so as i was sitting at my drawing table currently working on another creator owned project,i look down and saw a issue of Deadpool corps did by Rob liefeld...i said to my self "you no what ray,you should give it another shot at submitting some work to Marvel Comics"so i sit a goal to do a 5 page story of Deadpool and even made a deadline for having it done hahaha true story ...i did a page a day between working on my books the deadline was Thursday august, 25. 2011 i finish the pages before the deadline which was on a Wednesday ...people gotta realize that drawing comics for big publishers for Marvel and DC that you have to be at home on that drawing table cranking out those pages so i put my self in thinking i have to have these pages did or im fired ...so now that i have tons of sequential pages under my belt from creating my comics and for other publishers i fell its time to strap on my armor a give it another shot which will be my 30th time haha...have a bless a bless and safe weekend everyone..heading back to the drawing table:)
Sunday, May 1, 2011
AGENT SOLO-Sneak Peak
hello people of the entire world of the internet..been a while since i posted something on my blog lately.been a very very busy day at the drawing table with tons of work..like my current creator owned project im working
on called "Agent Solo:The One Man Army" which is a 4 issue limited mini series..i was pushing for this year..but i said to my self no chance in HELL..just keeping it real..so its coming out next year instead im currently finishing up issue 2..then hoping on issue 3.. note: this is a 31page book..i feel that fans of my work who brought Guytron and new readers deserve to get the best quilty of work from me and that the books come out of TIME..so to share a lil sneak peak of Agent Solo hears a sneak peak of issue 1..enjoy-Ray
on called "Agent Solo:The One Man Army" which is a 4 issue limited mini series..i was pushing for this year..but i said to my self no chance in HELL..just keeping it real..so its coming out next year instead im currently finishing up issue 2..then hoping on issue 3.. note: this is a 31page book..i feel that fans of my work who brought Guytron and new readers deserve to get the best quilty of work from me and that the books come out of TIME..so to share a lil sneak peak of Agent Solo hears a sneak peak of issue 1..enjoy-Ray
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Its Very Important to Put Things In Perspective
growing up and wanting to be a comicbook artist i always wanted my work to look like the DC,Marvel etc
books like in the last status i wrote about doing the work and i was self taught and was trained by my now business partner/editor and art director on becoming a better artist.whats good is that i have a art director.. yes i have a art director, that over see's all my sequential pages..which is a good thing that i have one instead of having people tell me my artwork is great knowing good in dam well it sucks..i think majority of aspiring artist/ indie publishers that's starting up make mistakes because they dont take the time,passion and and understanding how this business really works in putting together great quilty indie books not saying its gotta look like the Bigger companies but you gotta know if you want your books to stand out its gotta be on a professional level and its gotta be competitive instead of amateurish.. i did a lot of home work while learning my craft i saw indie publishers come and go.. why?because they thought they was just going to make all this money and everybody was going to say they better then such and such blah,blah,blah sorry it dont work like that NOPE!its about getting a great team.. from the colorist,letter,artist and writer but if you all four then more power to you but if you like "i cant afford a team" i dont know what to tell you.. in today's economy people are looking for a paying gig its hilarious when i see ads in digital webbing saying "artist get this percentage if the book sales"come on now!pay for the service be up front about what you welling to pay.. moving on ..when i was trained i was told to pick the best dam comic book out and put it side by side my work and ask my self "is my page better then John Byrne"answer hell naw!this is because i was grateful to have someone like Mr.McClain that he was letting me know this page is wrong and honest about it and if i wanted my work to match with the best i gotta know the perspective about drawing pages the right way before just drawing shit just to say im awesome im great nope i head to learn the whole entire process from right to whats not right ..but over all you got some great indie books out but then you got some thats horrible they wonder why nobody's not buying there books because they didn't take the time to do the work and practice and not investing in getting better artist instead they have a huge ego that there the next big thing in comics..come on famo you making yourself look like a fool that is blinded that your work sucks and that the people around you aint making it no better in telling you "don't listing to those haters.. they hating on you"how are fans who buy comics hate on work that looks like a 6year old drew?!come on now its called reality just hit you in the face..if you are a aspiring artist this is what you should do 1.buy sum sketchbooks 2.get a couple of how to anatomy books and perspective books about buildings and vanishing points 3.how to draw hero books note amazon got all these books buy the used ones 4.create your own style 5. in those sketchbooks draw everything from fingers, arms, legs,dogs,buildings etc in that sketchbook and keep doing it and you will see progress..but on another note everybody is not a artist so not everyone is just going to flat-out be a good artist some got it some dont ..but have a great book out that everybody know its dam good is the BEST feeling ever..so if you are a up and coming publisher /artist gotta bring your A game.
books like in the last status i wrote about doing the work and i was self taught and was trained by my now business partner/editor and art director on becoming a better artist.whats good is that i have a art director.. yes i have a art director, that over see's all my sequential pages..which is a good thing that i have one instead of having people tell me my artwork is great knowing good in dam well it sucks..i think majority of aspiring artist/ indie publishers that's starting up make mistakes because they dont take the time,passion and and understanding how this business really works in putting together great quilty indie books not saying its gotta look like the Bigger companies but you gotta know if you want your books to stand out its gotta be on a professional level and its gotta be competitive instead of amateurish.. i did a lot of home work while learning my craft i saw indie publishers come and go.. why?because they thought they was just going to make all this money and everybody was going to say they better then such and such blah,blah,blah sorry it dont work like that NOPE!its about getting a great team.. from the colorist,letter,artist and writer but if you all four then more power to you but if you like "i cant afford a team" i dont know what to tell you.. in today's economy people are looking for a paying gig its hilarious when i see ads in digital webbing saying "artist get this percentage if the book sales"come on now!pay for the service be up front about what you welling to pay.. moving on ..when i was trained i was told to pick the best dam comic book out and put it side by side my work and ask my self "is my page better then John Byrne"answer hell naw!this is because i was grateful to have someone like Mr.McClain that he was letting me know this page is wrong and honest about it and if i wanted my work to match with the best i gotta know the perspective about drawing pages the right way before just drawing shit just to say im awesome im great nope i head to learn the whole entire process from right to whats not right ..but over all you got some great indie books out but then you got some thats horrible they wonder why nobody's not buying there books because they didn't take the time to do the work and practice and not investing in getting better artist instead they have a huge ego that there the next big thing in comics..come on famo you making yourself look like a fool that is blinded that your work sucks and that the people around you aint making it no better in telling you "don't listing to those haters.. they hating on you"how are fans who buy comics hate on work that looks like a 6year old drew?!come on now its called reality just hit you in the face..if you are a aspiring artist this is what you should do 1.buy sum sketchbooks 2.get a couple of how to anatomy books and perspective books about buildings and vanishing points 3.how to draw hero books note amazon got all these books buy the used ones 4.create your own style 5. in those sketchbooks draw everything from fingers, arms, legs,dogs,buildings etc in that sketchbook and keep doing it and you will see progress..but on another note everybody is not a artist so not everyone is just going to flat-out be a good artist some got it some dont ..but have a great book out that everybody know its dam good is the BEST feeling ever..so if you are a up and coming publisher /artist gotta bring your A game.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
WANNA BE IN COMICS HUH -DO THE WORK!
SO YOU WANNA BE IN COMICS..we all grew up on Spiderman,The Hulk,X-Men the list goes on then as teens and adults with the talent to draw we want to become apart of that childhood dream and draw are favorite marvel or dc characters and see your name in the book as the artist which is cool right.i started drawing since dam a kid from the 1st grade through high school as a kid i drew pictures for other kids in the class room like transformer's,ninja turtles,superman and spiderman to the point i would get in a world of trouble not doing my classwork i know not good don't trip i pass haha or my mom would
have lost it.. fast forward to my adult hood as life became real and i head to get a 9 to 5 job drawing when i felt like it.. kicking it with the guys etc didn't really have a huge interest in drawing comics even thou i brought them here and there and i knew i could draw my friends told me i was good my mom told me and that's who really saw my work family members and friends now remind you i didn't have a clue how to show my work or how to present my portfolio didn't no sequential pages what they wanted to see instead of pinups i didn't no u needed business cards haha so my first time at a con i head loose original pages and let me tell u i got rip apart from "u need a portfolio" to "sorry no pin ups" to "need more work on your anatomy" i was Shot Down! and i was like "but my friends told me i was good " so i got the cold hard truth i was not good wanna know what i did? went home practice,practice even brought how to books so basically you can say i self taught myself to become better and stayed in the dam house no kicking it no nothing my mind was on my art...next con season Chicago comic 1996 this time i came better prepared but didn't show the big 2 instead i hit up the small publishers cause i knew i needed publish work that's when i bump into Michael McClain and Donald McKay
they saw i head talent and they head a school that was at Kennedy king collage which is one the best colleges here in Chicago. Mr McClain took me as his student due to Donald head a lot of students that didn't really have the talent but McClain o boi i hated him hahaha really no lie he drove me dam nuts on panel to panel by doing it the right way he was truthful and very strict if it suck he would flat out tell me the more he push me the more i wanted to prove to him... i was going home completing the assignments he gave me ..eventually he saw me improving so he gave me a shot at a 8page story of his character Nyssa with a deadline yes this mean man gave me a dam deadline hahaha but i completed it on time and whats cool i got paid for it..Mr McClain teach me the ins and the outs of the comic business from going in this business knowing everything from networking,stay committed to your craft,watch out for bullshitters,and that drawing comics is very hard work but if you continue to do the work people will see it and take it from there..times have past me and mr mclain are the best of friends and best of business partners all that hard work paid off which lead to my imprint DayDream productions Guytron and my youngest brother book BatlleBlood is under the m-studioscomics banner..and just want those who screaming they wanna be in comics must know it is very very hard work staying home over a drawing table drawing 20 or 31 something pages to met a deadline also know this what is your Sacrifice in becoming that amazing artist?will u give up going out with the guys?partying?being with your woman 24/7?or is your woman supportive of your career?these are things you gotta ask yourself but in order for people in this business to take you seriously DO THE WORK!
have lost it.. fast forward to my adult hood as life became real and i head to get a 9 to 5 job drawing when i felt like it.. kicking it with the guys etc didn't really have a huge interest in drawing comics even thou i brought them here and there and i knew i could draw my friends told me i was good my mom told me and that's who really saw my work family members and friends now remind you i didn't have a clue how to show my work or how to present my portfolio didn't no sequential pages what they wanted to see instead of pinups i didn't no u needed business cards haha so my first time at a con i head loose original pages and let me tell u i got rip apart from "u need a portfolio" to "sorry no pin ups" to "need more work on your anatomy" i was Shot Down! and i was like "but my friends told me i was good " so i got the cold hard truth i was not good wanna know what i did? went home practice,practice even brought how to books so basically you can say i self taught myself to become better and stayed in the dam house no kicking it no nothing my mind was on my art...next con season Chicago comic 1996 this time i came better prepared but didn't show the big 2 instead i hit up the small publishers cause i knew i needed publish work that's when i bump into Michael McClain and Donald McKay
they saw i head talent and they head a school that was at Kennedy king collage which is one the best colleges here in Chicago. Mr McClain took me as his student due to Donald head a lot of students that didn't really have the talent but McClain o boi i hated him hahaha really no lie he drove me dam nuts on panel to panel by doing it the right way he was truthful and very strict if it suck he would flat out tell me the more he push me the more i wanted to prove to him... i was going home completing the assignments he gave me ..eventually he saw me improving so he gave me a shot at a 8page story of his character Nyssa with a deadline yes this mean man gave me a dam deadline hahaha but i completed it on time and whats cool i got paid for it..Mr McClain teach me the ins and the outs of the comic business from going in this business knowing everything from networking,stay committed to your craft,watch out for bullshitters,and that drawing comics is very hard work but if you continue to do the work people will see it and take it from there..times have past me and mr mclain are the best of friends and best of business partners all that hard work paid off which lead to my imprint DayDream productions Guytron and my youngest brother book BatlleBlood is under the m-studioscomics banner..and just want those who screaming they wanna be in comics must know it is very very hard work staying home over a drawing table drawing 20 or 31 something pages to met a deadline also know this what is your Sacrifice in becoming that amazing artist?will u give up going out with the guys?partying?being with your woman 24/7?or is your woman supportive of your career?these are things you gotta ask yourself but in order for people in this business to take you seriously DO THE WORK!
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