Kid Colt

I'm working on my third Kid Colt Chapter for Marvel right now. It's a digital release series available here: KID COLT

Newsarama has a nice write up

...and my dad being a competitive long distance horse racer (aka Cowboy) likes that I'm working on a western.

I'm coloring JSA next

After Trinity I'll be moving onto JSA starting with issue #29. I'm really excited to work on this book. Bill Willingham is one of my favorite writers thanks to Fables. I've read a lot of Matthew Sturgis too and am looking forward to both of them. Jesus Merino did a few of the Trinity Covers that I colored and his stuff really renders up nicely.

This is going to be fun and a bit insane with such a huge team to render up on every page!

Written by Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges; Art and Cover by Jesus Merino and COLORS BY Allen Passalaqua

Full Solicit

More Vector Zen

I have to thanks the amazing model I've been working with Camila Guerreiro of Brazil. You can see more of her here: ((FLICKR))

I wish I had time to do more but I'm coloring like a mad man and have some great news on new books.. will announce that very soon!

Trinity Covers Galore

So I got to do 6 more covers for Trinity Recently and brings the total up to 21 covers that I've colored on the series.

#1-6, 19-21, 28-30, 40-48

It's been a great run and I've really enjoyed working on a book from start to finish. I'm also pretty happy considering how a grueling a weekly can be with deadlines but the 10 pages a week wasn't too bad.

Here's the last two triptychs.

saw Watchman and want MORE (not just Alan Moore)

DC Comics has what you need in the form of a website:

AFTER THE WATCHMAN

Vector

For some reason I've found time here and there for some vector sketches of late...





now I just need to actually use my new studio space and get some painting done... but Wondercon this weekend and another secret project that involves my illustrations, so no rest for the wicked

-a

DC Classic Library collection covers

Ferro @ DC


SWAMPTHING @ DC



BATMAN ANNUALS @ DC


Superman @ DC



I've been coloring the DC Classic Library collection covers. Here's what I've done so far and hint of what I'm doing now.

and now I'm working on... well the hint is it's some pretty fast dudes and a tale when their universes cross over.

off to NYC-CON

Going to NYC- Comic Con... see you in New York if your there!

Best of Boottie 2008

I found this via boingboing

People have mix reactions to Mash-ups... they tend to love or hate with little middle ground.

I like the novelness of them but keep a few classics on my ipod.

Here's a link to the 2008 edition and if you ever have a chance to see some of the Bootie DJs I would.

Fewer Bars in More Places, AT&T

As first gen iPhone user who is still under contract I'm a bit pissed to hear this and hope it's not true.

http://www.ofb.biz/safari/article/512.html

I guess it's a good reason to buy one an use it on another network if they want to screw you like this.

It's not the first time. When I was a AT&T user the first time and Cingular bought them I was gradually forced to move to a TERRIBLE Cingular plan over my pretty awesome AT&T one.

I remember that call complaining my phone wasn't connecting and dropping calls like.. well I guess like an AT&T phone at the time. They said I could upgrade to the Cingular plan and my response was: "is it an upgrade when it cost more for less?"

can't wait to see how much this upgrade will cost me.

So it looks like they are doing it again.

Vector Sketches

So I got to get a half day of downtime between Comic Pages today... so two vectors




now on to some WOW comic and the next Trinity book

Another 3 covers I got to color for Trinity

DC’s third consecutive weekly series has hit the halfway mark and I've got to be a part of it.

Here's a cover by Carlos Pacheco and Jesus Merino and myself

DC has a cool mini site about the book DC Comics Trinity



To get a glimps behind the scene a bit with one of the Writers check out www.comicbookresources.com

enjoy... I have

Bonia Smoothie

I found out there is a limit to the amount of raw egg I can drink in a smoothie

TWIP

This Week in Photography rocks... check it out:

twipphoto.com

Eric Wareheim

Eric Wareheim... I bow to you,

here's why:


found the Bird and Bee thanks to him as well, great stuff

and then

although I found this via boingboing.net...

ok got pages to color so this weekend should be productive (Trinity#23 here I come)

Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away, sung by Miss Piggy perezhilton

Frank Quitely Birds of Prey #125 Cover

I got to color a Frank Quitely Birds of Prey #125 Cover.. sweet for me.

I think it turned out pretty cool... very mad mad mad world.

DC Comics Birds of Prey preview

Off The Air 09/11/08

click it to see the pics I too of Off the Air @ Deva Cafe 09/11/08




or

ALL OTA PICS EVER

Trinity #15 Double Page Spread explanation

So I'm going to break down this crazy double page spread and how I tackled it.

It was drawn by Scott McDanial http://www.scottmcdaniel.net/ and inked by Andy Owens (couldn't find a website).

1. The Black and White:

Needless to say when I first saw this I could have been overwhelmed. Lucky Scott is a really cool guy and asked me back at the penciling stage if he could do anything to help me on my end. Surprisingly I didn't ask for much except for a background issue (which i'll get to late).



2. Flat the black and white... I use flatters. I love them and they are well worth it for me. My guys and girls do a great job but I usually still need to go in a tweak it for my own break ups after all I'm the one coloring so they don't always know what my end result is going to be. Once the break ups are done I do something called "re-flatting." This is where I assign the flat colors I'm going to start with.

I have to have a few goals when I do this:

1. asign the correct colors to each character/building/sky/etc... The Characters are VERY improtant. The Background is usally down with regarde to the overall mode and plot/story goals.

2. I will sometime fill a mood color at this point to either the entire scene or parts. I do this to either help break-up parts of the scene or effect a mood. Now this image was so large I decided to render it as a whole and then use color to effect depth after wards (see #3). ....but that being said I did do a fill of about 20% blue over the whole image before I started to render to push it towards a more night oriented scene.

here's the flats right before I rendered:



3. ok Render... errr wait, I mean if I just render away without thinking about it first the image is going to look flat. So I did that and thought about how I could break this up into levels. I went so far to make each level it's own selection area.


each color represents a different depth.

4. NOW render...

now I didn't save the rendered version before I implemented the depth because I don't work that way. I pushed and pulled as I worked to make thing recede or move forward. I did this in a non destructive way to the renders by using lots of layers using different color modes but usually "COLOR" or "NORMAL."



The thing that Scott did for me was to make the casttle it's own piece of art so that I could plug it in on my own. This made it way easier to implement in the end.

so there you go... questions?

Next Week

one crazy double page spread... thanks to the art of Scott MacDaniel, inks by Andy Owen... color by me.

I'll break down what I did on this one when the book comes out next week.