Here’s where all the MAGIC happens. This is my personal home studio where I sit, draw and constantly check my Facebook and watch cartoons online.

Here’s my concept for the First Round of the Come Wit It 5 Artist tournament that I’m holding on Facebook. It’s Andy from The classic Playstation game ‘The Heart of Darkness.’ The theme for the first round is KID VS DARKNESS/SHADOWS. In the game ‘tHoD’, Andy used his makeshift electric gun to blast shadow monsters into oblivion! Hopefully I come through this round and beat my opponent!

Check out all of the action going down at the official facebook of the Come Wit It Artist Tournament!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=108852545823803&ref=search&sid=HZFS1HGYly8l_25ABXjO3A.3313881917..1

This is a video of myself drawing up a strip for Team Notion. It’s also somewhat of an announcement that Team Notion won’t just be a book but a strip as well similar to those Sunday comics. Enjoy

-Drew

Royce of 'Middle School'

Middle School is coming back in the form of comic strips. Matthew and I are hard at work producing them as I speak! We also need characters and thats where you come in. If YOU would like to be a character in the strips let us know by dropping a comment and why you would make an interesting character!

-Drew

A tribute to my long time art brothas… wouldn’t this be great if it were the new Cartoon Network line up? one day fellas, one day… keep grindin.
from bottom up – Sandy of Team Notion (DatBoiDrew), Meka (Rich Lillie), Indigo Blue (Howard Russell aka Sketch), For Greater Justice (Aaron Killborn aka RyusKrew), Reset of The Reset Button (George Gant aka Geo)

By Dat Boi Drew - To see the creation video click the image

I went to see KICK-ASS in theaters yesterday and I LOVED it! The action, the comedy, characters, the style, EVERYTHING! Of course one of my favorite characters is Hit Girl. I also like Big Goon with the bazooka.

Be sure to watch the movie…support great titles like this!

I will be reading the comic as well

-Drew

When Drew asked me to write Team Notion #2, I jumped right on board. He told me the basis for the story he wanted, the character’s powers and personalities, and how the book is supposed to look. I spent a couple of days thinking of storyline and how to best script the thing. I did some research about what kind of language to use for children, what kind of English can be understood, length, yadda yadda yadda… (That’s for a later post).

Finally, I sat down with a spiral notebook, (I always start on paper), wrote the numbers 1-16 in the margin, and began to fill in the blanks. Whenever I write any story that has to fit within a certain amount of space, I always work from the outside in. What that means is I write the first scene and the last scene, the second and the second to last, maybe an idea pops into my head, and I write it off to the side, the third scene and the third to last scene, and so on. It did not take long before I had something that looked sort of story shaped. It was a little long, but I was not worried. Everything always seems to condense in the writing process. Then I sat down at the computer and wrote. I had 17 scenes by the end. Pretty good, I thought.

When you write comics or anything that requires a partnership with an artist, you learn very quickly that precision is the best policy. I thought I had created this ingenious way to flawlessly convey what was in my head to Drew’s head, through his hands, and onto the page. It was not as flawless as I thought. See, a few days later, he sent me a picture of one of the scenes. It was hysterical and made me laugh, but it was not what I had written… Or perhaps it was EXACTLY what I had written. I reread my script for that page, and yep, that was what I wrote. You see, Drew had divided the entire scene into two separate pages with panels, when really what I wanted was a series of panels overlapping two separate pages. (Confusing. I know). We fixed the problem, and I adopted a new strategy for writing Team Notion #3. The format for #3 whould work much better, but invariably, a problem will come up, I’ll be sent back to the writing desk to revise a new format, and the process will continue.

That is what makes collaboration so awesome. Two separate people (or more) are working on the same project, interpreting the whole thing in different ways, and playing off of each other. It makes the process exciting. You never know how your script or your pencils are going to look at the end!

–Matthew

Rinto From Ni Hao Kai Lan - Drawn for SpringRollll7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYciKhyKee8 – Click to watch how i drew it

I did this illustration completely digital. I like it considering I didn’t use any pencils at all. I may just eventually become mostly digital. I’m not truly sure I can give up the pencil and pad though…

It was fun experimenting and trying to actually make something out of nothing in photoshop.

Phobia from Gastrophobia

I’ve never actually heard of this character before but it was requested by Jimmy. Looks like it could be a pretty cool strip. I really liked her exagerrated cheeks. I may do another one of her for fun.

There’s something else that I’ve noticed… I really enjoy drawing female characters. I guess I feel as though they can be more interesting than men/boy characters in design.