CREATIVE ASS KICKING....

im just multi tasking with projects and emplyoment right now. Im inbetweeen of summittin storyboards and desiging characters designing. i have my table and floor scribble of skeetchs. (ITS A MESSS!)
Right now i just did some various poses of the diffrent characters. just to keep my feet knee deep in my creative mess.
here are the designs.

BTW i made 1000 hits on my DEVAINT ART SITE http://digital-alero.deviantart.com/ !! WOOO im sooooo excited. i know its not a couple of thousand its still pretty sweet!

i feel important! =)
-a

HALLOWEEEEN TREATS!

Im gettin in the spirit of Halloween. Im workin on a three part skit of Sofa kINGDOM for this coming holiday (halloweeen)
i had the idea when i was illustrating the summers DOG DAYS SUMMER. The story is broken up in three parts. I was in the trend of Zombies. I put together the concept of having the kids ... ( DAVID, REEF, ALI.) turn into zombies. I the story is 2 out of three finish inked! but they are goin to be in grey scaled! In the mean time i made some SOFA KINGDOM PROMOS FOR Myspace. One regular and the other zombie! i had fun with the prospective. im coloring these pieces too!
ihope you guys dig! Most of the dialogue is played out and i plan to have the rest done with third. I hope after the HALLOWEEN SPECIAL Is illustrated. im goin to get back on track with the monthy stripps.!

STORY BOARDZ!

im working on storyboards this week. here are a few samples what ive been working on.

bye shadow

So I heard this past week that my nephews dog shadow past away. i was bummed out from the lost of his dog. (17 years old) i mean i know alot of people will say that he's just a dog. But he was a family dog and not any family dog. Shadow had character. Actually i believe he thought he thought he was people. ( i know it sounds crazy! but true) there where alot of fond memorys of Shadow that i can think of. But the ones that i can say stick out the most are the ones with my nephew. I can recall when i was pre teen and lookin at comicbooks as my directions for my career and my nephew (Jonathan) and i playin ideas of a comic strip of "Shadow the wonder dog". His weapon of course was his elastic tongue. Caused by an freak accident working as a guard dog for the acme rubber factory made his tongue all rubbery. I can assure you it was hirlarious. but the storys wrote themselfs. i sometimes thought we got out of hand. As years went by. I would show people the character as well as the story. Some people like it some ex girls hated the designs (bite me) and the teachers at my college loved the idea. I actually used shadow in some of my design classes. So Shadow was a character and he meant alot to me. Im sorry that he gone. But im glad that he was there for cheering up and keepin us company. i think Bill WATTERSON creator of CALVIN AND HOBBES said it best. He mention this about the lost of his real life cat "that even tho they are gone . we can always meet up in are dreams." For that i plan to have shadow in future projects. so he wouldnt be forgotten. Some of my concept work you can see that i still use my shadow refrences from my earily pictures.


Im workin on a tiny comic strip (one shot ) of shadow. I hope you enjoy as well i hope jonathan does as well. WIth respect and love.

-a

a recent picture of shadow



my cartoon style of shadow from my college

falls a coming..

FUUUUUUUUUCK! YIKES! Ive havent been keepin up with my bloggin! i know i ssuck! Well the good thing that ive been promising myself was that ive been makin an effort to work on and illustration at least every other day. Lately ive been goin back to character designing for if not for a couple of agencys its for kids t-shirts. In between of workin on my illustrations ive been workin on my new room studio! its abitch painting and slave laboring! but it has to be done before winter right! hey thats kinda like the grasshopper and the ant! im the ants and an i know alot of grasshoppers that are just sittin around!;P
Well I have alot of stuff for the coming fall. I did some samples for an education book.
i also have some advertistment work i did this past week!
more to come!
-alero!

MARIO VS MARIO FINISH COLOR

Okay i finished the mario verus wario piece! i did the ol speed panting and wanted to to see what i can bang out!
i think it was well over an hour or so to do. all and all i had fun! Still workin on abunch of sketchin and my portfolio.
-a

FIGHT CLUB!!

I was goin threw some game magazines and saw that the new smash brothers is coming out soon! and the character line up is pretty cool! i just dont see what the deal with SOLID SNAKE from METAL GEAR? He seems outta place! well i like the game and i wanted to sketch out my vs mode picture of mario and wario! a really quick sketch! color coming soon!
-a