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More Justitia….
A drastically different version of the latest promo is now available on the Justitia site.
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More Justitia…
Spent the weekend out of town.
Instead of a fun sketch, you get a fun sketch in the form of a promo…..
too bad, most of the image isn’t in the promo….you’ll see what I mean, when you see.
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JUSTITIA
The short version: I’m doing a webcomic. It’s called JUSTITIA. It’s about the choices we make every moment of everyday, and how they continue to affect the world long after we are gone. It’s also a 1940s gangster/superhero/cop story that ends in the current day with two old guys battling to the death atop a building. Also, I am doing all the art for it using only Adobe Photoshop and a mouse (see! all that “mouse only” art WAS leading up to something!).
The shorter version: Me. Webcomic. You. Read. Pitch? It’s about history (real history). And it’s about justice.
PS. Clicking on either poster will take you to the comic’s site. Which, will be rather inactive until the comic launches ON CHRISTMAS DAY.
The long version:
Everything has to begin somewhere. MANY MOONS AGO!….when I was young, and naive, before I had grown nervous that someone else would come up with similar ideas (or worse yet, HAD) as my own, before I had a name for my hero, before I knew this would be a comic book…. before any of this, there was a question.
“what does the world look like to the Flash?”
Not having read a single Flash comic at the time, I had not been graced with the work of Carmine Infantino (who if I recall, addresses this very quandary in the first issue of the silver-age Flash series). And yet, my mind came up with practically the same answer as those before me had.
The world must look very slow to him.
“But then, if the world is slow,” I thought, “wouldn’t light be moving slower….and what would happen if he could extend his speed to others….what would that sensation be like for someone, whose body could not adapt to changing it’s speed?….and….and-”
Whoops, there I go, potentially spoiling things to come.
Regardless, as the days passed these questions and answers began to take shape in a nameless character (whose name I have struggled with up until I decided to finally make this), a man wearing a black fedora and cloak, whose skin seemed to be a thin transparent film, holding in nothing but black smoke. And with those images came more and more questions…..”why does his skin look this way?” “Why does he dress like this?”…and on and on and on…….
If ever my tendency to overthink things has played out in my favor, it was with this.
Because I’ve finally reached a point, where I don’t have any questions left, I’ve reached a point where all that stood in my way, was myself. I figured, I could hold onto this idea forever with the hopes of one day having the world read it, or I could do it now, because I wanted to. Maybe one person will read it, maybe no one will read it, but at least I’ll have done it. And that for the time, is enough for me.
-Amedeo Turturro
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Tags: Justitia, Promo, Webcomic
tic…toc…tic…toc…….
tictoctictoctic
check back on december 1st.
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Reformatting….
Have been playing around with a new look (which I think I mentioned previously….) for the site, as I intend to finally expand it into a fully functioning site for myself, rather than just a blog.
Below is a quick sketch that I did while I was on the phone a few days ago……… It’s of a character I’ve been toying around with a lot, as of late.
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Tags: Fedoras, On the phone, sketch
Behold….
Ahhh, Halloween….. I have a certain fondness for Universal Monster/Horror films, and thought, what better a way to sketch Halloweeny sketches than sketching sketches of of said Universal monster movie monsters, using a color palette in line with the black and white of the films said monsters hail from?
I’ll start with my favorite, and no doubt, lose interest by the time I make it (if I do) to the last one! Ladies and Gentlefolk, The Invisible Man.
(this is done with just my mouse and photoshop…a process that I am enjoying experimenting with)
I know the head is a little wonky, placement-wise, but if I finish all three heads, I’ll snazz ‘em up a bit and place them in one large image…..ummm…if that didn’t make sense, just hold tight.
(it occurs to me, that perhaps this idea formed after doing the Creature from the Black Lagoon a few days ago)
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Tags: Black & White, Claude Rains, The Invisible Man, Universal Horror Films, Universal Monster Movies
ahhh…weekly drawing challenges…. how I have missed thee.
(http://www.606studios.com/bendisboard/showthread.php?t=164305)
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Tags: Bendis Board, Creature from the Black Lagoon
Humans Are So……Interesting…..
I’ve grown so used to using my WACOM tablet, I wanted to see what I could do using only my mouse and Photoshop.
Here’s Ryuk, from the cartoon and comic book series DEATH NOTE. I’ve been watching/listening to the cartoon whilst working….thus far it’s so-so, but a few episodes have been really astounding 30-minute thrillers.
Colors came out a little darker than I wanted….
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Tags: Death Note, L do you know Gods of Death love Apples?, Ryuk
Finally!
All my computer issues have been solved. Thanks for sticking around.
In other news, I’m currently setting up galleries and other fun pages, in an attempt of turning this into something slightly more than a just a sketch blog.
-A
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Tags: computer done me wrong, loved a computer who wasn't clean!, purpose is what drives us
Apologies
Sorry for not updating the blog recently, I’ve been having a some major computer problems. Hopefully, they’ll be sorted out by the end of the week.
(quick sketch I did a while ago, whilst I was playing around with the pencil tools in Painter)
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Tags: Black & White, Computer is broken, Rorschach
WEEK 22: urhhhhhhhh……mmmmrrrrr
ZOMBIES! Don’t do it!
(http://www.606studios.com/bendisboard/showthread.php?t=159506)
This week’s drawing comes in two flavors, graffiti and graffiti-free.
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Tags: Bendis Board, Black & White, Graffiti, Zombies!
Today’s warm-up sketch…..
His name is Paul, and he might be a Greco-Roman-Viking Monster Man. Then again, he might not be.
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Tags: Greco-Roman, Monster Men, Vikings
Sketch Zombie
While I may indeed be a sketch zombie (whatever that might be) this post does not contain one, rather it contains a sketch of a zombie.
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Tags: hruuuuuuuuh, the living dead, the undead, zombie
WEEK 20: Meeow
This week’s theme is CATS! And being the person that I am, I thought to myself, why not utterly abuse this theme and do yet another Gotham City Denizen. And so, I give you, Catwoman.
Things I have learned: Just because I can recognize a cheese cakey pose, does not mean I can completely create it on the page. In this case: big fingers, a seductive nail bite does not make.
Closing thought: It occured to me while I began this (last night, before my WACOM tablet went to high hell) how much I’ll be missing the Catwoman comic series (which ends with it’s next issue…#81, I believe). It wasn’t the most mind-shatteringly brilliant comic book to ever be created, but it made consistant good use of her and her role in the DC Comics world, which is one that’s rather unique and wonderful (and was criminally underexposed prior to the series). But I looked forward to it’s fun crime stories and it’s wonderfully sexy, simple (yet very detailed) art every month.
I’ll shut up now.
-Amedeo
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Tags: Batman, Bendis Board, Black & White, Catwoman, Gotham City, Selina Kyle
Like Clay
I’ve been playing around with a 3d program called Z Brush, which replicates (or tries to) molding/sculpting something in the real world (by giving you a base figure which you can add or remove matter to). Thought I’d share a few things I wound up with.
I’m not sure exactly what I’ll do with these, but I expect I’ll use them for something down the line.
Big Bad Harv (who I’ve been doodling quite a lot lately…)
And then these… Originally I wanted to see if I could create a Bruce Timm-esque Clayface in 3d. So I went about slapping clay onto a base head that the program provides. However as I went along, he started to look like a boxer with 12 too many rounds of plastic surgery, rather than Clayface. So I stopped messing around and took some pictures of it at that stage.
(Excuse the drippy thing on the left side of his face…it’s a left over from the drippy clayface stuff that I was doing at the beginning).
Anyway, not that impressive, but regardless I thought it might be cool to show something a little different.
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Tags: Boxer, Bruce Timm, Clayface, Two-Face, Z Brush, Zbrush
This week, is Two-Face week at the Bendis Board (http://www.606studios.com/bendisboard/showthread.php?t=157822). In the true spirit of our wonderful friend, Mr. Dent, this’ll be split into two posts. First up is a small sketch I did a while back of good ol’ Face .
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Tags: Bendis Board, Black & White, Harvey Dent, Two-Face
It occurs to me…
It occurs to me that I never post actual work here to juxtapose all the sketches. This must be rectified…..
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WEEK 18: Why So Serious?
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Tags: Batman, Bendis Board, Black & White, Joker, Smile, Why So Serious
Week 17: Hahahaha
This week: The Joker. At a certain point I stopped touching it up, and in fact, decided it looked cool in this more messy than usual, incomplete, state.
(The Link: http://www.606studios.com/bendisboard/showthread.php?t=156561)
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While I’m Away…
Why not entertain yourself with my pal Johnny C’s fantastic request-a-sketch thread on the Bendis Board (http://www.606studios.com/bendisboard/showthread.php?t=147217). It promises page after page of excitement and intrigue!!!
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Tags: Bendis Board, Johnny C's Requestasketch
