Daily (yeah right) Sketch: The Whizzer

The Whizzer by Samax Amen.

Please buy YOURSELF something for my Birthday

Hey there! Today I turned 37 years old. I won't be partying hard though. I'll be working hard drawing comics for my client, blogging, doing Daddy Day Care with my daughter and generally making the ends get acquainted. All I really want for my Birthday (or any other day) is to be productive and successful. The best present YOU can give me today is to buy one or more of the products I have available.

A Dope Sketch...

Untitled (Smoke) by Samax Amen

daily sketch challenge: Mockingbird

Untitled Sketch (Mockingbird) by Samax Amen

I drew this while you were sleeping

Herman Heed pg 6 by Samax Amen

Ms Marvel Sketch

Untitled sketch (Ms. Marvel) by Samax Amen.
ballpoint pen, watercolor brush pen on scratch paper. gray tones added in photoshop.

Another page completed!

Herman Heed pg 5 by Samax Amen

STRICTLY for my #DeviantArt peoples...

I was feeling DEVIOUS today after finishing that Herman Heed page this morning, so I redecorated my DeviantArt Gallery... made a bunch of Icons for my folders (been wanting to do it for a while, but now it actually WORKS!)  I had lots of more important things i should have been doing, but you know how it is...
anyways, if you haven't been through the gallery lately, I pimped it out just for you

^____^
-samax

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Drawing comics is HARD and stuff

Herman Heed pg 4 art by Samax Amen

Page 3 is Finally done!

Herman Heed page 3 by Samax Amen.
this page took forever to complete! I will probably do some more tinkering on this before lettering, but it's pretty much finished! It's too soon to say for sure, but I'm pretty happy with how this page turned out! I'm learning so much with each page... I may actually be GOOD at this someday ;)
Like the previous pages, this was roughed out on scratch paper, then drawn in photoshop
Hope you like it, and thanks for stopping by!
peace,
-samax

Nightcrawler drawing by Samax Amen

Bamf  by Samax Amen. 100% photoshop... 

Here's a drawing I did of Nightcrawler of the X-men. I was getting jammed up on a piece I was doing, and did this to loosen up. cranked this out in 90 minutes. My first exposure to the this character was in a reprint of Giant Size X-men #1 that was in a box of comics I was given by a neighbor who was moving away. Besides having the first black superhero I ever saw on the team (Storm, for the record), the comic also featured this German teleporting mutant  ninja elf! The magnificent Kurt Wagner instantly became my favorite X-man, and X-men became my second favorite comic (Spidey was still the king...). Nightcrawler (a devout religious man who looked like a demon) exemplified the "don't judge a book by its cover" message of the X-men books that helped shape my childhood.
so I hope you enjoy the piece, and I welcome your comments...
-samax.

Weekly Character Design #4 -Whatchu Talm'bout?!

Here's my latest piece for the Weekly Character Design Challenge.

Raymond Jenkins was not a particularly talented child actor, but because he had a condition that caused him to look like a small child into his teens, he eventually landed a starring role on the hit sitcom "Havin' Thangs" at 14 years old. Unfortunately, once the show's 10 year run was over, there was no work for this little man with the famous child's face. -->

I can't stop Talking about comics...

^ Here's a youTube video of me chopping it up with Scott Hinze of FanboyRadio.com at Dallas Comicon. This is around 3 minutes, but we actually talked about a half hour or so about creating comics in Dallas, and the industry in general. I can only speak from my limited perspective, of course... but that's more than enough to wind me up and get going! In this clip I briefly touch on the alternate route my comics career has taken and Scott shamelessly implores you to buy my magazine GhettoManga Quarterly (for the record, he bought one). Since there's a good chance you don't have it, preview/purchase both existing issues by clicking here.

thanks for reading,

-samax

Weekly Character Design ---- Pick Your Favorite!

Good Morning! This week's been pretty hectic (Marley's getting a head start on those 'terrible twos'), so I just got to the WCD challenge this morning. Here's this week's shapes and resultant character profiles. Pick the one you like best, and the one with the most support will get developed further!
for past designs, click here.
have a great day!
-samax

first couple pages of Herman Heed

okay, here's the first couple pages of artwork for Herman Heed. I forgot to post page one to this blog, so you get two pages at once, you lucky dog, you! I learned a lot about drawing comics with Photoshop since my last assignment for this client ended, so I'm excited to apply what I learned! enjoy!

Herman Heed, pages 1-2. drawn with photoshop.
-samax
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