Transpose Operator Guest Art - Laur Uy

It's that time again! To celebrate the end of Chapter 3, we will be having guest art. It's absolutely awesome stuff and I'm so happy about all the stunning artwork you get to look at! So enjoy! All the artists will have links to their various places online, be it blogs, twitters, webcomics, portfolio sites and such, I highly recommend checking them all out.
Below is a preview of each artist and the date they'll be appearing.

Tina Kim - Oct 29th
Matthew J. Rainwater - Nov 5th
Asiazia - Nov 12
Alicia Muhm - Nov 19th
Laur Uy - Nov 26th
Tara Abbamondi - Dec 3rd
Zach B. - Dec 10th
Ron Randall - Dec 17th
Katy Farina - Dec 24th
Francesca Buchko - Dec 31st

Extra special thanks to all of these talented people who contributed! You rock! Transpose Operator will be also be able to resume the 2 updates a week schedule once more after the guest art gallery!

Grimoire sketch page!

Oh man look at all these guys... haha... The two kids at the top are pretty scrappy and always manage to get into trouble... sometimes too much of it, although in their defense it's rarely their fault. I think drawing Cali and Alexis are always so fun because I get to draw cute outfits. I love Mia and she's the main character, but she has very little fashion sense... haha, not to mention that she looks even worse standing next to Gestalt who always is in formal attire, she never catches a break.

Have some more Grimoire sketches

Another round of older sketches! A bunch of different characters here, mostly all school folks, but the faces at the bottom are concepts for law enforcement dudes. Actually almost all of the law enforcement characters in Grimoire were absorbed from a supernatural crime drama I did awhile ago. It ended up being something I liked but didn't feel motivated to do, and they all fit perfectly into this story, so it was win win. It's great being able to give characters another life instead of just tossing them aside when they no longer work.

Transpose Operator Guest art - Alicia Muhm

It's that time again! To celebrate the end of Chapter 3, we will be having guest art. It's absolutely awesome stuff and I'm so happy about all the stunning artwork you get to look at! So enjoy! All the artists will have links to their various places online, be it blogs, twitters, webcomics, portfolio sites and such, I highly recommend checking them all out. Below is a preview of each artist and the date they'll be appearing, this will be updated with links as the weeks go by, so be on the look-out for this part of the post to be updated!
 

Tina Kim - Oct 29th
Matthew J. Rainwater - Nov 5th
Asiazia - Nov 12
Alicia Muhm - Nov 19th
Laur Uy - Nov 26th
Tara Abbamondi - Dec 3rd
Zach B. - Dec 10th
Ron Randall - Dec 17th
Katy Farina - Dec 24th
Francesca Buchko - Dec 31st

Extra special thanks to all of these talented people who contributed! You rock! Transpose Operator will be also be able to resume the 2 updates a week schedule once more after the guest art gallery!

School Clothes

So this isn't everyone, but here's the first 4 summer school uniform mock-ups. I kinda wish I could have gone all out and done some crazy cool anime uniforms... but they go to an American private school, and while lots of crazy stuff happens in this story I wanted to keep a sense of reality to it so the simpler the better. I could have gone with plaid skits and pants, but I felt that for the tone of the story, and for the ease of design, black was better. But what do you think?

I went through a lot of other ideas when I was first formulating the uniforms. Here's some of the concepts along with some other sketches.

It's a funny thing to come up with so many complicated designs and then settle on the most plain of them all, but I think it's important to run through all your ideas first instead of just going with your first choice.

More Grimoire Sketches

I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I still don't have a title for this story... 'Grimoire' is just the working title I've been using because Grimoires are in the story(so smart I know). I am REALLY BAD at coming up with titles, it's actually a huge road block because it's keeping me from doing logo stuff... ah well, I will figure it out with time. I'm going to set aside some time soon to just sit down and write EVERYTHING out... I've been doing it slowly here and there, but I need to organize everything and fix things that need to be fixed. I'm actually really looking forward to getting down to it!

Transpose Operator Guest Art - Asiazia

Up today is Asiazia! The 'readers pick' artist! Click on her preview image(3rd one), or her name below!

It's that time again! To celebrate the end of Chapter 3, we will be having guest art. It's absolutely awesome stuff and I'm so happy about all the stunning artwork you get to look at! So enjoy! All the artists will have links to their various places online, be it blogs, twitters, webcomics, portfolio sites and such, I highly recommend checking them all out.

Tina Kim - Oct 29th
Matthew J. Rainwater - Nov 5th
Asiazia - Nov 12
Alicia Muhm - Nov 19th
Laur Uy - Nov 26th
Tara Abbamondi - Dec 3rd
Zach B. - Dec 10th
Ron Randall - Dec 17th
Katy Farina - Dec 24th

Extra special thanks to all of these talented people who contributed! You rock! Transpose Operator will be also be able to resume the 2 updates a week schedule once more after the guest art gallery!

Grimoire Sketch Page

I have a bunch of old sketches from when I first started working on this story, I'm going to be posting them for you all. A lot of the characters have changed and some stayed the same.

Man, at the time that I did these the story was really different... I look at the old Mia and Cali for instance and they've really come a long way, haha.

Transpose Operator Guest Art - Matt J Rainwater!

The original post at the site has been updated, take a look:


It's that time again! To celebrate the end of Chapter 3, we will be having guest art. It's absolutely awesome stuff and I'm so happy about all the stunning artwork you get to look at! So enjoy! All the artists will have links to their various places online, be it blogs, twitters, webcomics, portfolio sites and such, I highly recommend checking them all out. Below is a preview of each artist and the date they'll be appearing, this will be updated with links as the weeks go by, so be on the look-out for this part of the post to be updated!

Tina Kim - Oct 29th
Matthew J. Rainwater - Nov 5th
Asiazia - Nov 12
Alicia Muhm - Nov 19th
Laur Uy - Nov 26th
Tara Abbamondi - Dec 3rd
Zach B. - Dec 10th
Ron Randall - Dec 17th
Katy Farina - Dec 24th

Extra special thanks to all of these talented people who contributed! You rock! Transpose Operator will be also be able to resume the 2 updates a week schedule once more after the guest art gallery!

Grimoire Promotional Image

I've been working on a pitch project/second webcomic for some time. I started working on this story about a year and a half ago, creating characters and story-lines  and have slowly been putting it together in the background while working on all of my other projects.

One of the major parts of presenting this thing is a 'promotional image' that I started earlier this year, since then I've had to touch up and re-draw a bunch of stuff on it, but it's finally nearing completion so take a look as the early progress!

The older cropped image is here: http://roxyssketches.blogspot.com/2012/07/line-art.html


Here's the updated full lineart!

I completely re-drew a few characters and moved around everyone to make a more balanced and full composition, as well as touching up things here and there.

Next I separated each element with a different color. There's kind of an enormous title wave of characters, haha. If anyone remembers that chapter of "Looking Glass" that I made years ago you may notice that the cast from that story has been integrated into this new one. they're side characters in this story, but I think there's an open possibility for a spin-off or side adventures for them that could be really cool.

Next I did all the flats for each character, about 90% of these colors are going to stay the base colors but it's still a work in progress after all.

Since I started this particular image some time ago I'm really excited to see it coming together. I'm working up character images, thumbnails, and sample pages right now. The hardest part is solidifying/simplifying the outline, I've got a lot of things I need to organize and a lot of re-writes to do, but it will be worth it. The plan for now is to make a pitch to send to publishers, but depending on the reception I get/ how long it takes I will probably just end up going ahead with my plan to turn this into my second webcomic project. The original plan was to do this anyway- I've always talked about it as my '2nd webcomic project', but I think it will be great to get it out there as a possible serialized book series too. So it's win win no matter what the end result!

Still not sure if I'll be doing black and white with tones or full color, we'll see after the sample pages are completed.