Jason Shasteen Design

Above

I did remember to take my pens home today.  However, I actually inked this blue line sketch while I was at lunch with my friends from work.  This is the 3rd panel of an 8 panel comic strip that I am doing at work.  I am using a digital approach for the actual comic that will be published online, but I decided to still use the blue line sketches as reference.  I also decided to use my zebra pen to practice some more inking over the sketches.  I think in the future I will probably go straight to creating my blue line sketches digitally, but I’m glad I tried this approach too.  The shot for this panel is suppose to be a bird in a nest in a tree above the two characters who are looking up at the bird.  I Especially enjoyed putting the line pattern on the branch of the tree.

Front and Center

I managed to leave my set of pencils at the office today.  So this piece was done using a random mechanical pencil and my finger to add some smudging.  After taking a picture of the sketch, still working on my scanner, I decided it needed something more.  I played around with it in photoshop, but decided to keep it in somewhat of a grayscale for now.  I was intending for this piece to be a “background” excercise, but I believe it became a “front and center” example.  It actually reminded me of a much darker piece I did back in college.  Glad to see that now I am drawn to drawing things of hope and wonderment, not that I won’t experiment with darker themes as well at some point.  Anyways, I had a blast with this and I hope you guys enjoy!

This week I took the time to do a storyboard before I just jumped right into doing my strip.  The week before, I came up with a template for planning out the flow and type of the script.  I started with sketching out the panels, but then tried redrawing the sketches with my wacom tablet over the originals.   I have to admit I liked the new approach…especially trying to establish the color tones and contrast of each shot.  In the end, I had a very cool black and white version of my soon to be full color strip for the week!  Hope you enjoyed a little behind the scenes of my process thus far!

Whew!  I made the Friday “deadline” at work for our next Lone Star Learners WebComic.  This one is based off of the concept of Part + Part = Whole from our Addition/Subtraction Posters.  I came up with this idea while sitting in on one of Debbie’s Amazing workshops at the office.  Thanks again to my buddies at work for helpin me add the finishing touches too.  Look for a new comic next week! (crossing fingers)

I just created this comic strip today at work with the help of my design team buddies with some of the dialogue.  It’s a play off of two cards from the Get The Picture – Antonym Word Pictures.  The words highlighted in red are actual cards I illustrated for Lone Star Learning

Well, I decided to go ahead and share with the world the first official webcomic I created for the company I work for.  I think it’s going to be awesome and can’t wait to see how the artwork, writing, style and ideas develop!  Hoping it’s the first of many to come.  Let me know what you think.  Get The Picture – Word of the Day.  The cards shown in the comic  are actual cards I illustrated for Lone Star Learning

Jaiden: Rrrrrrrrrrriiibit!!!

Papa’: Rrrrrrrrrrriiibit!!!

Jaiden: What were we talking about?