Aerial Show-Off Comic - Senior Project

Finally, here after stalling for a couple of months, that and it's just been busy in my life. Anyway, without further ado, here's my Senior Project comic, Aerial Show-Off, staring Sasha and Riley.

Taking Flight - A Mini Comic

One of my two major projects I've been working on for the past ten weeks, both are 8 page comics. Needless to say it was a challenge for me and taking I managed to pull through.

These pages are part of a minicomic project for Getting Published and Self Publishing, staring my long time character Rayne (renamed "Rain" in the comic) and her friends, also long time characters of mine. It's been fun drawing them again since I decided to change their species. I'm also enjoyed making this project and plan on doing more minis in the near future.

Here's the front cover of my minicomic as well as its eight pages.

Senior Project - Character Designs

You may have recognized these two already, but if you haven't, they are Sasha and Riley from my project called "Aerial Aces." They will be featured in my eight page comic for Senior Project. And as of this post, their costume designs and a bit of Sasha's character design has been changed. I will post their new outfits sometime after this quarter, but until then enjoy.

Senior Project Environment Designs

What I've been up to for the past three weeks or so. Some environment designs for my eight page comic for Senior Project which was part of Phase one along with the script and thumbnails. However a few of these designs I've decided to redo, mostly the airplanes which I will post later when I get through polishing them.

Visual Storytelling II - "Winter Hunt"

Spring Break is here and my next classes won't begin for a couple of weeks, time to post some of the work I've done. For my major assignment for Visual Storytelling II, it's an eight comic with a complete story. I'm pleased with the end result, though as usual, I can always do better. Here's the colored version of my eight pager. Hope to post more soon.

Monster Sibling Inks

Thought I should post this as it's been a while since my last update. It was part of my final project for Visual Storytelling I class, and as far as I'm concerned may be one of my best works. The comic itself features my characters Voku and Vexa in their humanoid (and under different names for the purposes of the assignment). Here are my original cleaned-up inks. I will be posting the colored version during Spring Break as I'm fixing it up for my portfolio.

Advanced Inking - "Conquering the Dragon"

Since Fall Quarter is over, time to show some of my better work from Advanced Inking. First up is my four-page comic entitled "Conquering the Dragon." I feel I've come a long way since I've decided to heed my teacher's advice and step back to not overrender. And safe to say, I like the results and hope to get better, especially when inking my own stuff and potentially other works.

Digital Coloring - "Wrenched Prank"

I know Digital coloring class seems ages ago, but since I had yet to post my final project for that class, I thought I might as well post it finally. So without further ado, here's my three page comic featuring two of my characters, Riley and Bryce, from a personal project called "Aerial Aces." Riley was originally from my Character Design and Storyboarding for Animation class. In time, I hope to have a fully realized story for her and of course her friends and boss.

Digital Coloring - Nextwave

Just a little sample of my work from Fall 2010 Digital Coloring and Lettering. For one of our assignments, we were to "professionally" color two comic pages provided to us. These two pages are from Nextwave. Of course, the artwork isn't done by me, so I claim no ownership. This is a redo color I have done for extra credit and looks much improved from my original. Will I post them? Maybe for comparison's sake, but for now, here's the good version.

Sample script - Finding Her

The first two pages of my mini-comic, Finding Her, which is going to be a non-canon short story involving Voku and Nyura (and no she is not his sister, but someone just as important to him). Keep in mind that some things may change in editing, at least before I sit down and start drawing the comic. Without further ado, here's the sample:


Finding Her, One-shot – Melanee Wood

PAGE ONE

Panel 1. Establishing shot of a forest that is alongside a mountain. The forest has a mix of primarily deciduous trees with a few coniferous trees sprinkled in. It is near the start of dawn as a small light has appeared in the horizon.

Panel 2. Cut to of a long shot of the inside of the forest where there is the sight of predominately tree trunks, although the tree branches are hanging from above. Along the forest floor, there are dead leaves, ferns, stick, dirt, rock, and small shoots of grass coating it.

Panel 3. Close-up on the forest floor, angled downward.

Panel 4. Same close-up on the forest floor, except a nose and a single paw appears into the panel. The nose is black while part of the animal’s muzzle is black and blue. The paw is also black.

Panel 5. Same close-up as before, but now, more of the animal’s muzzle appears in the frame along with both of its feet, which are all black save for two sky blue rectangular bands close to his paws.


PAGE TWO

Panel 1. In medium-long shot, it is revealed that the creature is a Vaarg, but not just any Vaarg. It is Voku, one of two main protagonists from The Guardians. His head is craned upward and is looking towards his right. He is obviously looking for something, or rather someone.

Panel 2. Voku takes off running in that direction.

Panel 3. Voku then grinds to a halt just short of the opening within a group of trees.

Panel 4. He then takes a step closer to the clearing. He’s being very cautious as though not sure what to expect.

Panel 5. Medium close-up on Voku as his eyes widen with mild surprise.