Hi fellow browsers of the interweb...
Fed up with the lack of time I have to be creative, including the drawing of the comic book series Jar I'm working on, and my own graphic novel series The Void, I have taken to Patreon!
For those who don't know what Patreon is it's an excellent crowd funding website in the same vein as Kickstarter and GoFundMe but aimed strictly at creative people who are looking for help to get their projects underway, or wanting aid in the task of getting away from the day job they may be stuck in, and free up some time to be able to pursue their dreams of being creative full time, basically to try to avoid that age old stereotype of the struggling artist from coming true.
People become sponsors and donate amounts of money to the creators in return for one of several reward tiers, therefor helping said person get a little closer to their goals.
These reward tiers include various goodies you can receive such as having your name in an issue of a comic on the contributors thank you page, having pictures drawn for you of your favorite characters from film, tv or comics etc, or getting copies of the books for free once they reach print, and at the highest reward tier even helping to create a character within the story itself!
The main aim of my page is to try to get my Science Fiction/Fantasy graphic novel series underway and eventually completed, if I can achieve that before I die I'll have reached my creative lifetime goal and will die a happy man!
I'm wanting to undertake a writing course to make sure the writing is as good as i can get it, possibly some life drawing courses to fine tune my anatomy skills. The long term aim will be to rent a studio to work in and get the funding to get the book written, drawn and published!
Please feel free to check out my page here - https://www.patreon.com/GJJaryas
It's been a while since I've had any reasonable amount of time to get any YouTube videos made, but hopefully there'll be one up soonish, I have been being creative as much as i can but it's mostly working on Jar getting the design of it all done, and lots of writing for The Void, which is shaping up into an excellent story, if I do say so myself! lol
Anyway, hope you all have a great week, here's to being even more creative in the future!
Catch you all soon!
The Art and Sketchings of G.J Jary
Monday, 25 April 2016
Wednesday, 20 April 2016
Jar - Character Design Sketching - Bill
Hi, long time no post!
Well, you say you're going to start doing two YouTube videos a week... and then you do none for a month.
I hadn't planned on my day job work being quite as tiring as it was over the past few weeks, many days of full on hard labour with minimal time to recover, the kind of days you get home at 6 or 7pm and don't even have the energy to half concentrate on a mindless TV program!
I have managed to get some writing done on my own graphic novel series and am very happy with the progress of that, but it's not at a stage to share so that will have to remain where it is for the moment.
And we're completed the layouts for the first issue of jar and are underway on the second issue, so progress is being made in multiple ways really!
But anyhow, I got through it all and am now in a slightly less physically demanding schedule so am making the most of it and getting some work done on the Jar comic book project when i have the time to.
Today I worked on one of the character designs, below is the final rough sketch which both myself and the writer of the series are quite happy with, so now it's onward to the next character, whilst I still have the time and energy to do so!
Take it easy people, if you can....
Well, you say you're going to start doing two YouTube videos a week... and then you do none for a month.
I hadn't planned on my day job work being quite as tiring as it was over the past few weeks, many days of full on hard labour with minimal time to recover, the kind of days you get home at 6 or 7pm and don't even have the energy to half concentrate on a mindless TV program!
I have managed to get some writing done on my own graphic novel series and am very happy with the progress of that, but it's not at a stage to share so that will have to remain where it is for the moment.
And we're completed the layouts for the first issue of jar and are underway on the second issue, so progress is being made in multiple ways really!
But anyhow, I got through it all and am now in a slightly less physically demanding schedule so am making the most of it and getting some work done on the Jar comic book project when i have the time to.
Today I worked on one of the character designs, below is the final rough sketch which both myself and the writer of the series are quite happy with, so now it's onward to the next character, whilst I still have the time and energy to do so!
Take it easy people, if you can....
Friday, 18 March 2016
JAR - Vehicles, and Distractions from Drawing...
Hiya!
So no YouTube video this week, there was a huge distraction from drawing for the majority of the spare time I had, and it's name is The Division!
I've been waiting for it to come out for quite some time, and am very much enjoying it, so I'm not going to apologise... Haha!
But I did manage to drag myself away from the controller long enough to do this drawing, which is of a 1940's Ford which features in the first story arc of the JAR comic book series.
There's a really cool scene it's in nearer the end of the arc and I'm really looking forward to getting onto that part of the drawing!
*Update*
So no drawing done this week at all, there's been some seriously hard work going on at the day job and I've been too tired to focus on anything once I get back home in the evenings.
I'm going to try and get something done over the weekend but I've got a new PC coming on Saturday so what with setting that up, transferring files and getting it all updated I probably won't get a whole lot done art wise until the end of next week.
I'll try to get a little something done on Sunday, but Friday next week is looking most likely for some drawing to go down!
Until next time, hope you all have a great weekend!
So no YouTube video this week, there was a huge distraction from drawing for the majority of the spare time I had, and it's name is The Division!
I've been waiting for it to come out for quite some time, and am very much enjoying it, so I'm not going to apologise... Haha!
But I did manage to drag myself away from the controller long enough to do this drawing, which is of a 1940's Ford which features in the first story arc of the JAR comic book series.
There's a really cool scene it's in nearer the end of the arc and I'm really looking forward to getting onto that part of the drawing!
*Update*
So no drawing done this week at all, there's been some seriously hard work going on at the day job and I've been too tired to focus on anything once I get back home in the evenings.
I'm going to try and get something done over the weekend but I've got a new PC coming on Saturday so what with setting that up, transferring files and getting it all updated I probably won't get a whole lot done art wise until the end of next week.
I'll try to get a little something done on Sunday, but Friday next week is looking most likely for some drawing to go down!
Until next time, hope you all have a great weekend!
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
Drawing Siblings
Hi Guys and Gals!
Continuing from the last posts character designing, I'm getting some practice in drawing siblings, there will be more than two of theses Sisters so expect another update with more added at some point!
Its a lot of fun trying to get the similarities in there whilst also keeping them looking like individuals.
There'll also be a time-lapse of the second Sister uploaded on the YouTube channel at some point, with narration on how I approached the task at hand.
Catch ya later!
Continuing from the last posts character designing, I'm getting some practice in drawing siblings, there will be more than two of theses Sisters so expect another update with more added at some point!
Its a lot of fun trying to get the similarities in there whilst also keeping them looking like individuals.
There'll also be a time-lapse of the second Sister uploaded on the YouTube channel at some point, with narration on how I approached the task at hand.
Catch ya later!
Sunday, 6 March 2016
JAR - Comic Book Project Character Designing Session
Yo!
Hope everyone's having a good weekend, just a brief update, been doing a character design for the ongoing JAR comic book project.
She is one of the antagonists of the series, not one of the main ones but all the characters play their parts.
Also, the YouTube videos will now have narration, starting from the most recently uploaded one which is a brief introduction to the channel, and can be found here -
Link to - Introduction to the Channel Video
Hopefully I'll get use to talking away to nobody but a mic whilst drawing, it is a little weird but surprisingly not that bad, and I plan to spend a little more time on the editing of the videos too, so they won't be just time-lapses' or real-time, but a combination of both with some narration and maybe a little music here and there.
Catch you all later!
Hope everyone's having a good weekend, just a brief update, been doing a character design for the ongoing JAR comic book project.
She is one of the antagonists of the series, not one of the main ones but all the characters play their parts.
Also, the YouTube videos will now have narration, starting from the most recently uploaded one which is a brief introduction to the channel, and can be found here -
Link to - Introduction to the Channel Video
Hopefully I'll get use to talking away to nobody but a mic whilst drawing, it is a little weird but surprisingly not that bad, and I plan to spend a little more time on the editing of the videos too, so they won't be just time-lapses' or real-time, but a combination of both with some narration and maybe a little music here and there.
Catch you all later!
Tuesday, 1 March 2016
JAR - Comic book project sketching session
Hi!
Just a quick update, been doing a concept piece for the comic book project, this is the Jar from which the comic gets its name.
Not fully taken with the shading, but as its just a concept image I won't worry too much at this point!
Below are the final image and the original line art, if anyone feels like using it to colour please feel free, just post a comment with a link to what you've done so I can see, and give me a mention wherever you post it!
Three part time lapse can be found on the YouTube channel via the link below.
The Jar - Concept Sketching
Just a quick update, been doing a concept piece for the comic book project, this is the Jar from which the comic gets its name.
Not fully taken with the shading, but as its just a concept image I won't worry too much at this point!
Below are the final image and the original line art, if anyone feels like using it to colour please feel free, just post a comment with a link to what you've done so I can see, and give me a mention wherever you post it!
Three part time lapse can be found on the YouTube channel via the link below.
The Jar - Concept Sketching
Sunday, 21 February 2016
Comic Book Project - Character Designing
Hiya!
Another update on the comic book project, today I did a character design for one of the secondary characters in the series, he's in issue two only briefly (although his presence and the actions surrounding his scene are important to the plot and do reveal important information, so not just a background character) but it should be fine to show here.
He may well end up changing by the time his pages come around to be drawn, and the comic is actually in black and white, but here's one version of him anyhow.
Time-lapse making of video can be found on the YouTube channel link below -
Jar - Secondary Character Design Video
Catch you all later!
Another update on the comic book project, today I did a character design for one of the secondary characters in the series, he's in issue two only briefly (although his presence and the actions surrounding his scene are important to the plot and do reveal important information, so not just a background character) but it should be fine to show here.
He may well end up changing by the time his pages come around to be drawn, and the comic is actually in black and white, but here's one version of him anyhow.
Time-lapse making of video can be found on the YouTube channel link below -
Jar - Secondary Character Design Video
Catch you all later!
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