Well I got some good news for your and some bad News. First the bad news: Last week I was laid off from my steady graphic design gig. This was my consistent income that was used to pay the bills and build up my savings. So now my mission is to find ways to make [...]
Okay so i wanted to do a pin up image of War Angel. Something sexy, but classy like what you’d see in some kind of fashion magazine. Now I’m not classy, nor sexy so I had a great deal of difficulty thinking up a pose for War Angel. So thats when my best friend Google [...]
Over the years I’ve been an artist. And even before I would officially call myself an artist, I’ve always been drawing. Sometimes when I’m drawing I have great ideas, however i lack the skill to give it the impact i wanted. So something i love doing is going back to these old ideas and making [...]
Okay, time for some shameless self promotion: STEEL YOURSELF FOR MARKETING PITCH! Have you ever been looking at my artwork and thought: “DAMN that would love to wear that on my t-shirt?” Well i want to introduce to you, SHONO WEAR. You can now wear shirts with my legendary Wolf Symbol, Or the Symbol of the [...]
Generally I really hate color. Well, more accurately I coloring. Which would explain to why I’m a line artist and not a colorist when i do my comic gigs. But being the well rounded artist that I am, I do know how to color my work, and at the risk of sounding cocky I think [...]
People seem to really enjoy seeing my drawing process. So who am I to argue?! This is a hybrid process. The initial sketch/loose pencils was done traditionally. But the inks and colors were done digitally. I’ll explain as we go: You can watch me do some of the coloring in real time here: Well there [...]
I am REALLY getting into this drawing digitally thing. I’ve been using Manga Studio EX4 more and more and more…AND I LOVE IT!! 1. it saves me time. (i don’t need to wast time drawing perspective lines) 2. it saves me money. (now i don’t have to spend money on ink and paper) 3. it [...]
So yesterday i posted about how I am using a new digital process to draw my comics. I figured I’d share with you that process here. I start the drawing using Manga Studio EX4. I draw on my Intuos 3 tablet. I REALLY want a Cintiq, but they have been out of stock for months! [...]
Well those in the Shono Blogosphere…. The 1 living person, thats probably my mom, and the 3,001,238,491 imaginary readers in my head (yes I imagine half the population of the world reads my blog, thats healthy right?)…. Okay way to start of a blog post with a random rant. ANYWAYS I’m going to the legendary [...]
Sorry guys, I did well for like a week, posting every single day, and then it was a month since my last post. Between the day job, comic book work, re-designing my website, updating on twitter, keeping up on facebook, and preparing for San Diego Comic Con, the poor blog fell by the wayside. I’m [...]
Hey everyone! Well today is Wednesday so that means it is NEW COMIC BOOK DAY! This week Grimm Fairy Tales #47 published by the fantastic people at Zenescope is among the new releases. Why should you pick it up? Why do you think? ‘Cause i drew well over half the issue! Duh, come on, do [...]
So do any of you out there have a Playstation 3 or a PSP? GREAT! Then you should all go to the Playstation store and buy my comic “Ritual” off of the digital comics section. What? you’ve never heard of my comic book, “Ritual?” GEEZ okay, well i’m not gonna make you go back and [...]
Hey guys! I don’t know how many of you read, or even know about my creator owned comic book “Shadows of Oblivion.” Well, I’ve been posting pages online for issue #0 as i drew them. It got sort of backed up do to some paying gigs, but I have FINALLY finished issue # 0. [...]
Well I haven’t posted any sketches in a while. But i probably will a bit more now that i got a new toy! I just got myself Sketchbook Pro 2010. And i’ve only had it for a day or so, but so far i LOVE IT. It makes me really mad that Wacom is out [...]