Ant Guy #77
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Ant Guy #77

by on March 14, 2017 at 10:28 pm
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I want to take a moment to thank everyone who’s ever came here and checked out my comics, art, and stuff. This comic is special for me because I’ve decided that it marks the end of volume #1 of Ant Guy. Kind of funny that I’ve made it this far and my main character still doesn’t have an actual name. 

So moving forward I’m going to start putting this all together and making a print edition. I’m planning on having some extra short stories in there as well so that’s going to be fun. Don’t worry I’ve already got most of volume #2 floating around in my head I just need to start pulling the chunks out and play with them.

I started making this comic when I was younger after a crazy beach trip where I got way too drunk and broke my hand. I managed to heal but the thought went through my head.. “What if I didn’t?”. What if I lost the ability to draw at all? That’s when I decided to start putting myself out there and made a website and started posting things. I know I could’ve done more and I know I need to do more but at least I’ve told an original story. I’m no longer that crazy 20 something year old.. now I’m a single dad and it seems like every time I cross something off my to do list I have to add two more things. I welcome the challenge because I’ve still got a lot of ideas I need to get out of my head and onto the paper/screen. 

Wishing everyone the best!

-LaTeRz

Adam

 

 

 

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Ant Guy – Hulk Homage

by on April 10, 2017 at 8:33 pm
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My Father was the one who suggested this image to me awhile back. He’s one of the reasons why I’m into comics. He’d take me and my brothers to the comic shop regularly when we were young and we all have pretty good comic collections. One of his favorite artists is Jim Steranko, and I gotta say I’m a fan as well. If you didn’t know, this image is an homage to The Incredible Hulk King-Size Special #1 (pictured below). Which was penciled by Mr. Steranko and because I’m a nerd and did far too much research I know that Marie Severin redrew the head. 

 

 

 

 

 

Might as well show the original original version. Not sure why they needed to change the head but I like this version as well.

 

So there ya go. Hope I did the homage justice and I managed to get a mini history lesson in there as well. Wishing everyone the best and..

LaTeRz

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Sharpie Time!

by on March 21, 2017 at 9:52 pm
Posted In: Art blog

I was cleaning up my house and found an old painting I started (pictured below) but I guess I gave up on it. I actually threw it in the trash for a minute but then all of a sudden I thought that I could make this thing work somewhat if I blasted it with a sharpie. Okay, I also used some copics and a tiny little bit of white out but the point is that now it’s happily living(?) on my wall as a finished piece. 

I know that sometimes as artists we have to use our erasers as much as we use our drawing utensils. Also, sometimes we have to scrap what we are working on and start from scratch, but every once in awhile I guess you can just set a troublesome piece aside give it some time and then view it from a different perspective. 

I’m well aware it’s not a masterpiece but I’m happy that it exists instead of me giving up on it and throwing it away.

 

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Another custom Star Wars card

by on February 8, 2017 at 9:14 pm
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I got another commissioned request to make a custom card for Star Wars X-wing miniatures. This time they wanted “Backdraft”. This one was interesting because they wanted me to shrink the stats section so that there would be more room for the Art. This made things slightly more complicated but I think I managed to pull it off. So, for anyone else out there who might be making their own custom cards I’ll share some of the process in hopes that it may be of use to some..

On the other two cards I was able to use “Strange Eons” to simply swap out the art and change all the stats. In order to change the size of the cards stats and keep things in proportion I was either going to have to do a lot of photo shopping or get lucky and find a template of some sort. Lucky me I stumbled across said template over at “afewmaneuvers.com” thanks to a user who goes by the user name “GeckoTH”. Way to go man! That’s some nice work your doing. This helped move things along quite a bit. Then, I had to find and install the matching fonts, shrink each layer, and do some creative cutting and pasting. 

Unfortunantely, there where still a few missing icons that I needed to finish the job. I grabbed them from either Strange Eons or from other scans on the web. 

So with the template all set then I had to create the graphic. My instructions where to draw her in booty shot pose and give her short punk rockish hair. Since there is no art for this character I could do whatever. But, then I decided to give her a blaster..  I know some of you are going to say “Why is she holding a Power 5 Heavy Pistol? She should be holding a SE-44c Blaster Pistol!”, and to that I say.. I just thought it looked cooler for this image. I’m not even sure if I colored the pistol right. It seems to be different on every site I looked at and after a few hours of diving through Star Wars forums my head started to hurt.

Anyways, it’s finished now and I’m going to go get started on the next Ant Guy page.

-LaTeRz

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Custom card commissions

by on October 17, 2016 at 11:46 pm
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These were fun to do. I was asked to create some custom pilot cards for the Star Wars card game X-Wing miniatures. Thankfully it was super easy to do, all I had to do was draw the pilots and then I used Strange Eons to put together the rest of the cards. It’s a fantastic program that let’s you create custom cards for many popular card games out there. I don’t play a lot of card games but I’m fascinated by the attention to detail that’s put into the mechanics of these games. If this is the sort of thing that your into then go to the following link -> Strange Eons

I’m also guessing that if that’s the kind of thing your into then you already know about it 😉

Thanks for checking out my post. Have a good day and if you can help someone else have a good day tomorrow, please do it.

LaTeRz

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