Marcus Montgomery aka The Bolt

Some sketches of my character Marcus from "The Bolt Strikes"

"The Bolt Strikes" Preview

So this is way easier than trying to be all secretive and junk.  I'm currently working on the first issue of "The Bolt Strikes" featuring the title character the Lightning Bolt (aka The Bolt).  These pages are no where near full completion but I figured I'd still share some.  They're all in order but have a few missing gaps in between them, I dont wanna give it all away now.

all characters copyright samir barrett 2011

ART SLAM somethin or rather

Lost count of the Art Slam days, since I was putting together the very book art slam was helping me draw for I consider myself off the hook for all those unaccounted days. This entire month even several hours of drawing and staying up late and scanning. but what the heck, I'll still throw in a few sketches for this month. August is when I get back on the regular track again though. So no matter what happens THIS month, dont worry about it, its all square.

TECHNO INSECTO PAGES

Here's the comic i did for Zuda, TECHNO INSECTO, all pages including word bubbles. At first it started out pretty hot being in the top 3 for the first week, but then it quickly dropped to 7th place and stayed there. Apparently not enough happened, the dialog was too cheezy (but i did that on purpose), and it was too much like Guyver (but believe it or not, being the nerd that I am I had never seen Guyver before in my life so... yeah). Anyway, just because Zuda wasn't a fan doesn't mean I'll stop the story, I got plans for Techno Insecto so be on the lookout for him in the future.

TECHNO INSECTO

Hey Everyone, It's finally here. TECHNO INSECTO! My original 8 page comic got picked up by Zudacomics to be in their monthly competition, if it wins then I get to continue the series! So do me a favor and go vote!!! Read the comic, and if ya want more, the only way to get it is if I win so get on over to http://zudacomics.com/ , you got all February to vote. (PS, in order to vote you have to create a login name, it litterally takes seconds and it allows you to look at cool comics for free! sounds like a cool deal to me!)

Wonder Thunder Power Hour

the Wonder Thunder Power Hour! Heres a quick thing I did, almost a double cover for my character the Bolt and my friend Wheeler's character Wonder Boy. Bolt is copyright Netwave Comics, Wonderboy copyright Mindblow Studios. For more Wonderboy stuff head to Wonderboycomic.com. Merry Xmas n Kwanza ya'll

Water Color Project for Mat Tech

For my Materials and Techniques class we had to do a watercolor page on top of inks on top of pencils. I really hate watercolors but you gotta do what you gotta do. Here's my step by step process:

First off I did blue pencil, and some red pencils. I got ahead of myself and started on graphite before I was done with the blue line.

Then I do everything in Graphite, some people won't recommend this but I used mostly a mechanical pencil, I used some other sizes or artists pencils as well.

Next was Inking, the blue is where I taped off the edges of the picture. I used different sizes of micron, white ink, brush pen, and higgins black ink.

Last was dreadful watercolors. I know the coloring isn't great, I learned this in the critique but I've never had a nack for water colors and no matter how much I work with them I don't really progress. it's not fun or enjoyable for me so I stay away from them. People can do amazing things in water color, don't get me wrong, I'm just not one of them.

In the end I think I got an A on this project, but probably more of an A for Effort type deal. Just a hint to everyone, NEVER buy me watercolors. I hope to god this is the last watercolor project i have to do but I doubt it, there is never a last one.

BOLT VS WONDERBOY

Project for my Materials and Techniques for Sequential Arts Class, I got to sneak in some familiar characters. The one spouting lightning is my character Bolt, and the dude with the W is my friend Dave Wheeler's original character Wonderboy who we are in the process of making a book for: http://themisadventuresofwonderboy.blogspot.com/. does this mean crossover???? Who knows!?! you'll have to find out. I always forget to take pictures of all the steps I take when i draw, but this time I at least took two;
this was after a day I believe, even tho I started with pencils I was still doing a lot in blue pencil.


second day I devoted the entire day to this because it was due the next morning, I got a lot more black pencils in there but there was still much more to be done. this might've been around 10 or 11pm.
Finished at 4:30 am, went to bed for 4 hours got back up, scanned this then went to class. Next time I do a big project I'll try to remember to take more photos.

TECHNO INSECTO preview

Zudacomics.com holds a competition every month that allows ten 8paged comics to be voted on by the website members (anyone can join btw), if you win you get commissioned to turn your submission into a full out book. but even if you just get selected to be a finalists (one of the ten) then u still get 500 bucks. i thought this would be a great opportunity to put money in my empty pockets and work on a atory i had in mind for a while now. Unfortunately, i figured this all out way too late.


I started working on this last week tuesday and had to get all 8 pages done (penciled, inked, colored, worded) by moneyday(yesterday). i thought i had enough time, but as it turned out, i was also going out of town on saturday taking me away from my computer, scanner, and wacom tablet and leaving me with only 4 days to get it all done. I thought i could do that too but on top of cleaning up the house getting ready to leave and taking care of my brothers that just did NOT happen.


But i'm kinda glad i couldnt. I mean i wanted to get it all done but its better i have a whole month to get it done in great quality for next time and possibly make it in as supposed to having 4 days to rush it and throw whatever crap i can together and probably not make it in. so i have time to turn it in for next month, but now i'll show you what i got so far. I managed to fully color 4 pages, no text has been added yet, but hopefully the imagery will get ya excited for whats to come:

All images ©sketchmasterskillz 2009

All images ©sketchmasterskillz 2009

All images ©sketchmasterskillz 2009

All images ©sketchmasterskillz 2009

All images ©sketchmasterskillz 2009

That's all i can show you for now, get your fill because i dont think i'm gonna keep these up forever. hope you all are lookin forward to this as much as i am.

Peace

Make History

First off, I know its the end of Black History Month but its also the first little amount of free time i've had all month to do this.

I don't know about you but in my eyes it seems like Black History Month was completely over looked this year. No reminder of it in any for of media came my way and i think its ridiculous. But then i read something online which explains it. People have taken Barrack Obama's election as black history for this month. Yes, his being elected as the first African American President of America is indeed a historical event, but that doesn't mean Black History Month is over. Some people think that since we do have an African American President that we accomplished our goal and therefor don't need Black History Month anymore. That's bull, Black History Month is about not forgetting who brought us here and made a difference for people today. I would be a different story if Black history became equally talked about through out the entire year but thats NOT the case. Not in any of my art history classes do we talk about ANY black people, no lie. Last year we got done reading about renaissance and literally skipped 100 pages all containing art history about Africa and Asia. All i'm saying is don't forget and don't let Black History Month disappear. Its too important. And this goes to EVERYBODY not just black people.

And I'm also reminding you all that you can make history, that's why today i put together a picture of all my black superheroes not just in comics but in real life. Thank you for reading and stay strong.

Peace.
-Samir

UnderTaker

New pic I threw together, a guy called the Under-Taker and i did some practicing with backgrounds. Hope ya'll dig it.

REAPER Pages: Revisited

Because my first comic pages for my character Reaper was rushed for i project, i decided to revisit them and fix them up a bit, that includes spell and grammar checking.

The Red Thirst

A pic i drew for a comic art exhibit in my town, this pic got in along with my Warriorz pics and my reaper pages.

Remaining Reaper Pages

This was rushed so there are a few mistakes.

REAPER

page 1 out of 3 i did for my color theory final project, and extremely stressful.

S-Class Once More!

The S-Class crew again, this time in their threads.

S-Class Baby!

Yo, check out my Super sonic saber squad comic online. This weekend I updated and re-engineered their designs into S-Class, 3 years later.





for more info go here: http://www.freewebs.com/supersonicsabersquad/sclass.htm

Super Sonic Preview!

This is a preview video I made for my comic the Super Sonic Saber Squad (http://www.freewebs.com/supersonicsabersquad/):