ALTBRAND 2.0

Captain America Cornered!

xerexes — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:10:47 +0000

I have a post up at Calamity Jon’s CORNERED blog today. The Cornered blog challenges you to redraw the classic corner art from comic books (mostly of yore but I imagine there must be some of that still going on). I picked a Captain America comic from the mid-nineties and tried to give it a goofier, brighter spin than the original.

Repaneled Blog

xerexes — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 05:10:28 +0000

I have a “cover” of a panel from Spiderman Vs. Wolverine up today (Friday) at Repaneled. There’s some really good stuff up there and I find it interesting what kinds of panels people pick for the project. The Covered blog is awesome but there’s a little less material to choose from — there’s a whole book of panels to every one cover to choose from.

Anyhow still haven’t found time to craft a theme for this site but did slap up a new logo (had Adam Ant on the brain I guess).

Practice Practice Practice

xerexes — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:33:52 +0000

Same sketch – dropped into Manga Studio and inked. I bought Manga Studio in 2009 and although it’s a heck of lot easier to ink in it with the WACOM than Photoshop I still don’t really know how to use all the commands in the program.

Also – still not sure what I’m doing!

Insecure

xerexes — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:53:58 +0000

Making a comic as opposed to just doodling? It’s a different set of muscles or maybe it’s just using the muscles in a more complicated way? I am really trying hard to write short stories so as to make and finish comics. Working on this one which I like the idea of more than this actual little comic…

Altbrand Version 2.0

xerexes — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:43:47 +0000

What goes around, comes around. I really want to draw on a regular basis this year — and posting to the web has been a motivating push in the past so here I am again. I thought long and hard about new domain names for a new site this year but ultimately came back to wanting to hang on to altbrand.com. Altbrand 2.0. isn’t Alternative Brand Studios (although if I get time I may post a few pages about those days) — those days were great fun and it was a bunch of great cartoonists in the “band”. I guess you’d call this version a solo act — I’m only hoping I’ve learned a little bit from the self-directed education in comics I’ve given myself writing for ComixTalk this decade.

I’ll need to come up with a site design for this that’s unique but I’m not sure when I’ll get to it. (I’m using Webcomic CMS on altbrand.com and ComicPress on another site I’ve got a comic in the works for). If I wanted to go with something that “evokes” the original Alternative Brand Studios I could go with this variation on the original logo (different color scheme & letter arrangement but same basic font). I’ll probably keep brainstorming for awhile…