216 - 3 page preview of G.E.E.K. or Where I've been spending my nights...

Want to get a good look at what I've been up? Why you never see me at the bar-b-ques? Why I'm just never in the club anymore? Where I've been spending my evenings...

Well click this lovely link and you find a 3 page preview of G.E.E.K.!

Oh, and Marvel announced they are bringing back a new X-Factor series written by Peter David and The New Warriors are coming back! So today is an epic day.

That is all. :-)

213 - I'm Gonna Geek...or how I learned to spread my love on the internet

Things have been hectic and I would just like to send out a huge thank you to anyone still around and reading this thing. After a little talking to from my writer and editor of GEEK it was brought to my attention that I have been slacking and it is time for some serious pages. So I've basically been putting in full time job hours during my hours after work. A 40 hour work week followed by 40+ hours at my home computer over each of the last 2 weeks has been a frenetic blast of fun and nights with little sleep. Not sure how some people go full bore like this for years, but that's what I'll be doing over the next couple months as I lay down the colors over 130 pages of GEEK. So far I can't share pages that I'm working on with you guys but soon you will be seeing some pages that I have to say are turning out spectacular.

In the small bits of in between time when I'm not coloring I have actually stopped drawing as the 80+ hours a week at my computers are taking a toll on the wrist. Instead I have aimed a bit of my thinking power toward writing. Specifically writing about geeky stuff that I enjoy and would like to point people towards. I will be doing this over at a lovely site called GonnaGeek.com.

I have done a few blah blah blah posts on here and if you liked them I believe you will really enjoy what I will be presenting over at Gonna Geek. My first post went up today reviewing that beautiful thing that is Infinite Kung Fu by Kagan McLeod, if you've got a minute go take a look, give it a read, and if you leave me a comment I'll owe you a cookie - http://www.gonnageek.com/2013/06/bachmans-best-infinite-kung-fu/

So for the foreseeable future I'll probably be a bit more vocal over there then over here. And when things really start rolling in the next couple of months, man...you won't believe how much is coming and I'll be so happy to tell you all about it. So stay tuned.

211 - Who dem guys?

More of the standardized male body types from Christopher Hart's spectacular book Simplified Anatomy for the Comic Book Artist. I'm thinking of going back through these and practicing my digital inking right over the top of them for practice and because in the book Hart gives the under anatomy and a finished version.

Working my sketches in between coloring pages of GEEK which is finally starting to speed up as I am finding new faster ways to get the same results I was getting at the beginning so fingers crossed I can start really turning out pages to ease the minds of the GEEK guys.

ECCC is less than 2 weeks away now and I am getting really excited! Got my tattoos prepped and ready to go. Got a nice New Warriors convention sketchbook ready to get it's first sketch in it! I'm SO ready to go!

And if I didn't have enough other things going on I am now prepping to start a new pod cast. If you have listened to Tom vs The Flash by Tom Katers or Tales From the Attic by the always hilarous Donny Salvo on the PKD podcast you have an idea of what I want to do, roughly. If I tell you that I am going to name it the Crash Pad Podcast and you are a fan of a certain book then you now have a really good idea of what I'm going to be doing. I think it's going to be fun. Planning on recording the first test pod in the next couple of days and I have a couple guys ready to review it for me and hit me with some feedback. Fingers crossed.

191 - with 5 days left, you better get him to the GEEK!

So here it is in all of its glory. This is the piece that I sent off to the guys, Shawn DePasquale, Matt Cohen, Axel Ortiz, showing what I would do with Axel's amazing pencils. Going in I had no reference for what any of the color scheme was suppose to be so I was informed that there would be some color notes as certain choices have been made but the important part is that I have gotten nothing but positive feedback from the guys and I'm really hoping that the G.E.E.K. fundraiser does well enough that they can afford to bring a colorist onto the book. 

Speaking of which, go click here ----> G.E.E.K. Kickstarter Page!

The first step is still to get the book funded. There's not much chance of anyone getting to color this bucket of awesome if the kickstarter itself is not first successful. So go take a look, watch the 2 great videos, 1 main page, 1 an update. Give if you can, and if you can't but still think it is a worthwhile project share it with your friends, and family, and pets, and facebook acquaintances, and Twitter followers, and MMO guild mates. You know, that whole big social media thing you have built up, put it to some good use and spread the love of G.E.E.K.! 

190 - what lifts and separates?

The lovely and talented mister Martheus Wade shared his Power Girl line work and asked for color entries as his next tutorial over at his sweet ass blog - http://mawproductions.blogspot.com/ is going to be about coloring. So I done did my best and sent it on its way ti him and thought I might share it with you all. Have a lovely evening.

This as well as some other stuff has been added to my growing color portfolio over at http://bach2099.deviantart.com/ stop by and leave me some stars and comments! Thansk peoples!

189 - Trying to get my G.E.E.K. on in a big bad way.

Don't want to be sharing out of school so all you get is a little snippet of the coloring I have done this week for the G.E.E.K. Kickstarter project. Which can be found HERE! The genius that is behind the podcast Bagged and Boarded Mr. Matt Cohen of SMOD Castle fame got an idea for a comic and put together a great team of Axel @pecks13 and Shawn @shawnwrites to help bring his dream of a comic to life. If you haven't checked out the Kickstarter click on that link above as of right now there is still 11 days to go and the project is about $2500 from funding. Being that close I'm really hoping it funds firstly because I want my copy of the book and the other great rewards I have pledged for, and secondly because it just looks like a great fun book. Seriously check out the pledge levels, Matt Cohen has some crazy cool and fun rewards on this super cool kickstarter.
The other reason that I am super excited to see this project not only fund but go above it's funding goal is the guys talked about getting a colorist to work on the book if the funding gets high enough. So I did the one thing I needed to do and hit the guys up on the twitters and facebooks and offered up my services as a colorist. I was sent a promo image that Axel had penciled and inked, to color, along with the other people that had shown interest in coloring the book. I finished my versions, yes versions, hopefully I didn't go overboard. I sent 3 different versions off to Shawns email this evening. Fingers crossed, at this point it is out of my hands.  Here's hoping they liked what I did and offer me the position. I'll be waiting nervously by the email box.

177 - who you calling a HOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Lion-O vs Mumm-Ra! It's like I'm a kid again, I love it! Still trying to get a handle on digital colors and finding awesome line work like this to work with makes it even more fun. Had a blast coloring this one, sweet sweet line work by Grant Perkins that you can follow over @theGrantPerkins.

Finished this one up in between all the other projects I am working on and finally took the time to update my digital coloring portfolio which is simply my Deviant Art account, if interest it's here: My Digital Color Portfolio.

Everyone one have an explosive but somewhat safe 4th of July!

163 - getting deviant

Finally started using my deviantART profile. Figured it would be a great place to keep all my finished colored art in one place. If you want to go take a look the link is below.

Bach2099 on deviantART

162 - 5 colored pages finally done

Finally got them all done. 5 pages of colored art off to the guy that requested them in the first place. There is a rumor that these might even see print, keep your fingers crossed for me! 

Now that this one is done I can focus on finishing up some other work. Always more to do, but that's a good thing.

Line work by Jose Manuel Marin Moreno.


Colors by Anthony Bachman

152 - Leeloo in color

Took my Leeloo sketch for the PencilJack weekly sketch group and put some color to it. Fun stuff. I keep learning and learning with each thing I color.

150 - Get your GEEK on

Trying to work through the cold medicine and day long headache. Thought putting some colors on a nice image might help my brain to wander so I went into my cool pics from the internet folder and found the above image. Matt Cohen (@cameltoad) from SModcastle/Bagged and Boarded/Camel Toad Productions infamy is writing a comic and has Axel Ortiz (@pecks13) working on the art. The GEEK poster above is the only promo image release so far but I think it looks like it might be a really cool book when it comes out.  The only part I did is the color, all the rest of it was down by Axel. Think it turned out pretty good. Ah time for more aspirin.

125 - Sweet ride Kaneda

A quick little try out of my awesome new toy, Corel Painter 12. Don't let anyone tel you that those "retweet for a chance to win" tweets are a scam. Well some are, but not all. BIG THANKS go out to @corelsoftware. I re-tweeted one of their tweets and was chosen as the big winner, this Saturday a FULL copy of Corel Painter 12 showed up at my door. It's awesome so far and I can't wait to spend some real time with it learning all the changes and advancements.

So we have a Kaneda's bike from Akira, one of my favorite vehicles of all time for the PencilJack weekly sketch group. Enjoy.

107 - Awesome Storm Justice 41 colors

Awesome Storm Justice 41, oh yeah!  We finally have the finished colors for Episode 30 page 5 by yours truly, got it done and sent off. Go to the ASJ41 website to check out the webisodes, some great funny stuff for your reading enjoyment.

This was a really fun project to work on. I have only done a little bit of digitally coloring but it has been a really enjoyable learning curve. Plus if you are going to color something, color something fun and interesting, it makes the whole thing so much more fun.

102 - the colors of Awesome Storm Justice 41

The only thing better than something is something new. Here we have a bit of my work for a great webcomic series called Awesome Storm Justice 41, or ASJ41 that can be found here: ASJ41 link.
Check it out, there is some funny stuff and some great looking work, fun stuff.

 My contribution so far has been to work on some colors for the webcomic. Here we have my finished colors for page 3 of episode 30 and the flats so far for page 5. This is only the 2nd thing I've tried coloring digitally and still find it to be a fun process. Plus I just updated my computer and now I'm seemingly having to learn CS4 all over again as all of my presets were lost and everything went back to default. Oh well, more to learn means more fun to be had.

86 - color me wonderful

The experiments just keep on coming. I have finished my first piece done with digital pencils and inked by hand. I have finished my first page of pencils inked digitally. And now I have finished my first ever coloring job over someone else's work. A post was put up on PencilJack asking for help coloring some pages for a contest and I decided to give it a try.
As this is the first time I have ever tried to color something I think it came out pretty damn good. The line work is a bit choppy as I was coloring right on top of pencils with the inking step. If I were to move forward on this project I would either need to have the pages inked or ink them myself so the end result would be much cleaner. Now to post them up and see what the requester thinks of what I did with his art.
Fingers crossed!