Original Wonders by Gus Higuera

Original Wonders by Gus Higuera » Uncategorized http://www.originalwonders.com Behold the world with eyes of wonder... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:16:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Timony Twin Events, Signings, and Appearances 2010 http://www.originalwonders.com/uncategorized/timony-twin-events-signings-and-appearances-2010/ http://www.originalwonders.com/uncategorized/timony-twin-events-signings-and-appearances-2010/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:37:00 +0000 zudafan tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13914104.post-5229931756772479696 UPCOMING EVENTS - PLACES YOU'LL FIND A TIMONY TWIN

Check back often for updates.

March 22, 2010 - Comic Book Club Live - New York, NY

http://www.popcultureshock.com/comicbookclub/

March 26, 2010 - Barnes & Noble - Springfield, NJ

http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/event/3028117

March 27, 2010 - Rocketship Comic Book Store - Brooklyn, NY

http://rocketshipstore.blogspot.com/

April 10-11, 2010 - MoCCA Festival - New York, NY

http://www.moccany.com/mocca_festival.html

April 16-18, 2010 - C2E2 - Chicago, IL

http://www.c2e2.com:80/en/Guests/#featured

May 15-16, 2010 - Wild Pigs II Con - Springfield, NJ

http://www.wildpigcomics.com/

June 4-6, 2010 - Heroes Con - Charlotte, NC

http://www.heroesonline.com/heroescon/

July 21-25, 2010 - San Diego Comic Con - San Diego, CA

http://www.comic-con.org/cci/

October 8-10, 2010 - New York Comic Con - New York, NY

http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/

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Wally gets all four pages of original art by me. It'll be out in the post this week, Wally! You've been so very very patient. :o)

Enjoy!

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Now, for my new comic idea I've been developing, I'm working out six 22 page 'issues' before I even hit the art boards. Good thing too, 'cos halfway through issue 5, I had to scrap everything and start again. Is this normal? Argh! Oh well. Better than releasing stuff with giant gaps in logic, right? Sigh.

So it's back to the drawing board, and I haven't even made it to the drawing board yet.

Except for this one piece with the main characters, which at least hasn't changed.

Gus, Kim & Heather, technically still on Earth

]]> http://www.originalwonders.com/uncategorized/scriptwriting-is-new-to-me/feed/ 0 Not a bad way to start the New Year http://www.originalwonders.com/uncategorized/not-a-bad-way-to-start-the-new-year/ http://www.originalwonders.com/uncategorized/not-a-bad-way-to-start-the-new-year/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:02:00 +0000 zudafan tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7889410005280617200.post-6806413135557629292

Thanks to everyone who voted for us.]]> http://www.originalwonders.com/uncategorized/not-a-bad-way-to-start-the-new-year/feed/ 0 NIGHT OWLS Series Finale http://www.originalwonders.com/uncategorized/night-owls-series-finale/ http://www.originalwonders.com/uncategorized/night-owls-series-finale/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:49:00 +0000 zudafan tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13914104.post-509324095332963528 The NIGHT OWLS, now is the time. If you've never read the comic, now you can read it from start to finish!

Also, comments are always appreciated!

Peter]]> http://www.originalwonders.com/uncategorized/night-owls-series-finale/feed/ 0 Another Sneak Peek http://www.originalwonders.com/uncategorized/another-sneak-peek/ http://www.originalwonders.com/uncategorized/another-sneak-peek/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:36:00 +0000 zudafan tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36830856.post-2195457104463104951
It's called Max Overacts. It's a daily strip following a little boy who dreams of being an actor, much to the annoyance of his sister, parents, friends, next door neighbour, and everyone else inbetween.

Here's a few finished panels I pulled out of some of the strips.

Max wears his heart on his sleeve for his unwilling leading lady, Janet.

One of Max's favourite pastimes is impressions.

Max's sometimes best friend is his ventriloquist doll, Curio.

Impressions of an angry grandfather.

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That's what my script pages look like. (Click on it for a closer look.) I thumbnail directly onto the script wherever there's space, and when I'm faced with the space I have to work with, that's when I hack my script into shape. There are hardly any Celadore pages that read exactly like the script (sorry, Kwanza) because as I go through and draw the thing, new situations, plot holes (or rather, vague plot details) always become apparent to me.

I decided to show the process for screen 165 because it's vastly different from script to final. Just look at the two thumbnails against the final page. The Altoids panel is in the top right corner in the thumb, and in the bottom left on the final. And everything else in between is completely different.

Most of that comes from the old cliché of characters writing themselves. Sam, Evelyn and Cel, and all the rest, occupy a massive part of my head where they're constantly jockeying for space and telling me how to do my job. With Sam disappearing into 1950, Evelyn was suddenly faced with her true feelings for Sam, and of course, he's got to be punched for doing so. None of that was in the script, but it was so natural, I had to do it.

Anyway, once I get a vague direction, and before it's been too long that I forget what all the crazy instructions to myself mean, the pencils get done...

Then the inks... (I always ink the dialogue before anything else)

And then, I got that awesome filter plug-in for photoshop that fills in all your shapes for you. It works for me because my art has a lot of closed 'fields' that makes it easier for the plug-in to figure out where the edges are. Once I got the plug in (which I got when I started doing chapter 2), my process went a little like this...

1. Double click the background to turn it into a layer.

2. Duplicate the layer, then select 'multiply' for the new layer from the drop down menu.

3. Go back to the original layer, and run the filters. First the multifill. Then the flatten. And you end up with something that looks like this. I know. Crazy, huh?

The benefit of this filter is that you can change everything without worrying about the ink layer that just sits on top. No more accidentally colouring your linework, which means less cmd-Z! ;o)

Then I go through with the paint bucket to fill in all the fields with their actual colours. Sometimes I have to use the pencil tool, mainly to fill in eyes, etc, where my black lines didn't close their 'field', but mostly it's bucket tool time.

This page was easy, because I just sampled colours from the previous pages set at night. I sampled all the dark colours, so I only had to go through and colour in the highlights. I just select each colour field with the wand, and do each area one at a time.

You'll notice for the snow I used a bright blue. The reason being if I had've filled it in as white, when I went through and selected all the white, I would have got the borders and speech bubbles too, so it's better to isolate them with weird colours, and change them later.

Anyway, to see the final screen, after the pencil work, and the gradients, etc. it's at Zuda, of course!]]> http://www.originalwonders.com/uncategorized/processing/feed/ 0 Sneak Peek http://www.originalwonders.com/uncategorized/sneak-peek/ http://www.originalwonders.com/uncategorized/sneak-peek/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:30:00 +0000 zudafan tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36830856.post-2266533985876760412

I will most likely be submitting it to Zuda, (anyone know any quicker ways to get paid to draw your own ideas?) and hopefully make it the first gag-a-day strip to win! Woo!

Here's my character sheet. Lots of strips written, 6 pencilled so far, stay tuned.

Left to right - Sir Allan, Andi, Janet, Max, Klaus, Ma & Pa Fogherty, and Curio

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Mad Mac and Cheese

When you have multiple personality disorder, paranoid delusions, OCD, a hyperactive adrenal gland, and addictive personality, there's not many options for work than to be self-employed, so that's what Mac did. With his medications, foil-lined akubra (those damn aliens), a direct line to the spirit of Charles Darwin (he says), and his scouting rat, Cheese, Mac travels the world, doing whatever it takes to get the next big meal ticket.

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We've followed the Night Owls on many adventures since they debuted on Zuda Comics in December of '07.

As season three draws to a close, lets take a look back at all the crazy stuff that happened since then.

Since their memorable introduction in screen one, we've witnessed a gargoyle wedding, the Pied Piper playing in a Harlem Jazz Band, a blank-headed villain rip the faces off his victims, a jealous lover sick a werewolf on Mindy Markus, and seen a vampire cabal kidnap Professor Baxter and accidentally unleash the terror of Big Owl on the unsuspecting citizens of New York City! And that was just in the first 60 screens!

Season Two raised the stakes while revealing even more about our main characters. We saw a young Ernie defeat Big Owl for the first time, and we travelled to Mindy's fairy-tale home world of Funari. In between they matched wits with a magic gaspipe wielding gangster, a reanimated Egyptian mummy and Mindy's own step-father Rumplestilskin!

Season three is almost over and so far we've witnessed a new relationship for Mindy, Ernie getting payback on Louie the Gaspipe, The headless horseman making a grab for Ernie's head at the policeman's ball and Roscoe getting kidnapped and forced to join a traveling freak show.

Now, after 162 screens of Night Owls zaniness, the exciting conclusion to season three (and Night Owls Volume 1) began on Screen 163 with the re-imagining of a fan favorite villain and will carry on in high octane craziness to screen 180.

How will it end?

Will they or won't they?

What about Big Owl?!?

Come on over to Zuda to find out! Or I guess you could also wait till March and buy the book. OR you could do BOTH, which is what I recommend. Thanks!

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