Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

The 12 Days of Christmas are here!

I gotta say, Christmas is my favorite time of year.

Food, Family and Fun!

There's something to be said for the crisp, chilled air of a wintery night, or being all snuggled up at home with a loved one sippin' on a hot coffee (that's right, I'm lookin' right atcha babe!).

Here's my card for all you who frequent this Blog.

And for those who I see on a regular basis, well, now ya know what my card looks like this year.

I rushed to get it out tonite because I'm not sure if I'll get a chance to post again before Christmas.

Thanks again to everyone for all the kind words, support, and endless inspiration.

Since getting this thing started in September I have been soooo much more productive, and I owe it all to you guys! Especially you Steve-O! Thanks for spreading the love!

Best Wishes to you and yours and God Bless!

Not quite Rockin' to my oldies...

Wow! Its been a while.....
Ive been working on a personal project recently, and boy has it been taking up all my time!
Dont want to post anything for that right now, but hopefully I will soon (if all goes right).
Here's an oldie I dug up just to post something for now. I shoulda done it sooner I suppose. I'd hate to lose the 4 people that regularly visit this place!
I guess I'll be posting older works for the next few weeks or so. So I apologize in advance for what you may see on this blog in the near future.
Well, Im off to no sleep. Deadlines looming...
and boy am I struggling...
Adios,
Jav

Rough Models

These are by no means final. I'm still playing with his shapes ... Hes a variation of the Sept. 19th post...

I'm awful at environmental sketches and compositions... Here's a shot at a pretty simple uhh..ummm, well, shot.

Not thrilled about the pofile...
Hopefully it'll work itself out.

I might of gotten a little outta control on the neck

of some of these. Just wanted to keep them loose.

Character development/ Color concepts

A look into just how indecisive I am. A rough sketch and some color to play with technique and mood... The differences are very subtle. Some differences in intesity of color mostly. I just like some things from each one...
I need to stop screwing around and just draw...

Do a lil diddy if ya...

Wow, it's been a while since my last post! I'm off to a horrible December! Sorry to disapoint my mom and my girlfriend.... uhhh... I mean all my fans, yeah, my fans. In my defense I have been sketching though, even though I'm not getting any better. Heres a lil sketch I sorta dug and wanted to hit with some color...
Flash and Photoshop yall...

Halloween Spirit....

brush pen and the magic of photoshop...
In honor of Halloween, heres one inspired by my dawgs at Chewbone... heh, that worked out well.
Figured I'd theme one for once...
Just a quick lunchtime thang... Deffinately gotta get the hang of crankin these out... nice loose excercise. I tend to think too much during these.

I'm looking forward to looking and acting stupid with my girlfriend and her son Isaiah!

Big shout out to 'saiah by the way for recieving Student of the Week honors!

Way to go Bud!!

Happy Halloween yall!

The Mafiosos...

Its been a while since Ive posted anything,
so here's an oldie...
Did these about a year or so ago.

oodles 'o doodles

Heres a few doodles I made while consuming a lot of coffee... hunched over a tiny table in the childrens section of a local Barnes and Nobles this weekend.
I'm 6' 4" and can contribute this to my back problems ;)
Pencil, brush pen, and marker...

Sick of these yet?

Jeez, I just realized I hadnt posted anything in over a week!
I've kinda been struggling to tell the truth. But at least Ive knocked out a bit of the actual story. Story is important.
This is another version of the same character from the last few posts. I'm trying to find an approach that i like but at the same time it's got to be practicle. Otherwise I dont see myself finishing this short story...
This approach seems a little more practicle to me and involves really lose color and minimal textures. I'd probably need to iron out a few things still, but at least the self color lines werent as big a pain as i thought they would be. Big ups to my peeps at work for trying to find a practicle way to color rough linework quickly. Thats you Kevin Baraber! Yes THE Kevin Barber of Disney fame!( You tried Bruno!).
No channels in photoshop, just quickmask goodness.
Oh yeah, I guess I should try to knock out some multiple angles at some point for these characters...
Once I figure out which design and approach I hate the least. He, he...

Rawhide Redux...

Artwork © 2005-2006 Javier Guzman

Heres one more version of the previous character....
This one resembles more of a witch than a wildwest bounty hunter i think, but i had fun nonetheless...
I did this one in flash to try and achieve a different style (no lineart) and textured it in photoshop ( ala Steve Lambe. Take that loser!)
But his brushes kick much more ass... he's got it on lock!
Go Canada!

Rawhide Final Concepts...

Artwork © 2005-2006 Javier Guzman

Here they are...
Two variations to finalize the whole process...
the one on the left is pretty straight forward where as the lighting on the right, i think, seems to be a bit more situational... I always run into problems during this process, because usually its tough for me to make up my mind (or I get a bit carried away).
Thanks to Bruno Werneck for giving me the idea to post both of these!
Luckily I was able to only waste 1 day during this process. Thats a step up for me ;)

P.S. Sorry, Quality is a bit low.

Rawhide Tres...

Heres a loose first pass at flat color...
before any shading, tones, hilites or textures....
Color usually changes for me drastically from here as the process continues...
With this approach I guess I just usually try to keep things loose...

Rawhide part Deux...

Heres a clean up of the previously posted rough....
as you can see my guns suck.... gotta work on that....
it's a bad habit but I also do small revisions and touchups as I color...

Rawhide...

Anotha' rough western character concept.... Not crazy about the quality and the wrinkled paper, but I like some things here, so I think i might realize this one to color....
I might just post the steps I take for the hell of it....
Stay tuned kiddies...
Artwork © 2005-2006 Javier Guzman

Rough Color Skeeeeaaaaaatch!

I just realized, my last 3 posts have been all 5 days apart...
thats wierd. I Gotta post more often....Anyhoo, heres one to make up for being so slooooowwww....
Lates!

Pages 'O Crap

In my spare time I like to waste trees...

Color Tests...

One of my biggest downfalls concerning my personal work is that I could never see a project completely through to the end.... I always find myself inspired by so much thats around me that I usually end up jumping from idea to idea... With that in mind here are some character concepts and rough color experiments for a character in a childerens book that I plan on Illustrating. I wont say too much about it since its still in its early stages, and its author may want me to keep it under wraps for now.

Style Concepts

Here are a few character and style concepts.
I dont think I'm thinking outside the box too much here, but i had fun nonetheless.
As an approach for the finalized look of the story I have a feeling I'm gonna have to go much more simple and straight forward though.
Perhaps something a bit looser like the group 'o girlies...

All artwork © 2005-2006 Javier Guzman

Girls, Girls, Girls

Dontcha' just love 'em?
Hear are a couple of sketches of a few damsels....
I'm trying to get comfortable and searching for a style or look for a short story thats in the works. Just havin fun with some shapes and situations...
Setting is the wild west...

Come on in! Don't bother takin' off your shoes the place is a mess...

Sup people, or uh.... person (if I'm lucky enough to get even one person to look at this stuff.)
So this is my very first post in all its glory... uh, yeah...
It's been a long time comin' and I'm happy to say that my site still does'nt exist! Wait, did I say happy? Well, anyway, I'm fortunate enough to have a few friends to motivate me and introduce me to the blog universe!
I'm Jav by the way, and hopefully this will be a way to get off my arse and get crackin' on some personal projects. Or at least post some doodles...
So come along as I waste both of our time that neither of us will be able to get back...

Really had no idea what to post, so....

This was a lil design i did a month or so ago...