PANATA book pages 22 to 24

Wow, akalain mu 3 pages nlng and Chapter One will be finished. I've been doing this for over a month now and seeing the pages just brings me inner joy...hehehe. I'm starting to think of printing. Options are to finish the PANATA book or to print chapter one as a single comic, maybe as the teaser for the whole thing....hmmm....think, think. Kanina nga pala me and my pal Jeff Apelo went to a printing press company sa Edsa for a quotation, so I'm expecting an email later today and I just hope and pray for a reasonable price. Another dilemma would be coloring. Personally I want the pages to be colored for it to have a real collectors value...naks naman. Dream nalang eh why not dream big ika nga. I just hope my budget would fit pero I'm considering all possible options...including the classic indie look (you know what that means). We'll see.
Kala ko tapos nko sa barangay scenes...hehehe. Not that I love doing people scenes pero the eksena calls for realism. I feel the need to show the aura of a certain scene, how it would be portrayed in real life or how people would react. I just hope I'm doing an OK job with the lotsa-crowd thing. 

This scene was not included in the original draft. It was added recently to create a gap between certain scenes. It also will show some minor details about Artemio's present life, where he's been and hints of why he's...well at the bar drinking coffee.

A Slight Change of Name

Yep a slight addition to the Name.

Salamat kina Sir Gio Paredes ( Kalayaan ) and Sir Randy Albert for their concern at sa pag-notify sakin na may kaparehong pangalan si Sinag

...Si Heneral Sinag pala...hehehe

The first SINAG character was made by Julius Villanueva at girl siya.

Nagulantang talaga ako. My fault was I never searched for any similar idea or the same name tagged to a Pinoy Super Hero. I was so obsessed with my idea that googling for any character similar or kapangalan nung character ko never did enter my mind. Guess I was careless. I'm always careless. Well, at least I made friends hehehe.

Immediately after I read sir Gio and sir Randy's comment sa blog ko paguwi ko I searched for Julius and emailed him the matter. He was so mabait and I explained my side naman and vowed to use Heneral SINAG as the new name for my Character. Syempre the Sinag word would still come out siguro on the dialogues occasionally pero for now on I will be putting "Heneral" for the purpose of having a distinction between the two Sinags, as respect narin to the first Sinag creator.

Why Heneral?...Not Captain or Kapitan like the other heroes, or maybe Sarhento or Commander kaya?

It was part of the plan eversince the initial pages of PANATA that Sinag is an officer, a General that is, on his home planet. He is part of the Big Four that calls themselves War-Yor which are the leaders of a massive space hukbo sa planeta nila. So a small backgrounder there...sinu kaya yung tatlo pa? All I can say is that me isa pang Heneral and you will definately see him in future time.

Thats all for now...Thanks!!!

PANATA book pages 19 to 21

I really hate my clouds here and some other things.

Like I said on my earlier blogs shortcut method ang gamit ko and really prone to errors. Pero pwede na yan, bawi nlng sa next page.

I'm trying to search sa net for an Air Traffic Agency here in the Pinas  pero wala akong makita.Just settled for this image na nasababa which I doubt its accuracy to the real Pinoy Air Traffic Center .
Artemio Bar-Bel...naidrawing din kita ulit. If Nescafe would only allow me to endorse them the cup he's holding would be red already, hehehe. Actual time dyan sa scene na yan would be 12 noon. Kape sa tanghali!!! I guess he's a coffee lover like me. Not Starbucks ha, pangmayaman yun, 3 in 1 lng naman. Yun na!!!

Page 17 - Thats the Shang if your wondering. The building though looks disoriented...must be the view or my reference picture. Oh well.

Some of the details here just killed my time, but I love doing detail.
It makes the comic seem real and the environment really helps set the tone for a certain scene. I try to put in background to every box necessary or when it is relevant and at the same time disregard it when ever its too much already.

I just try to imagine the scene like what would it look like if it was in a movie. It really helps me visualize. Real photos as pose reference helps alot too. I'm just glad the internet supplies unending reference to various needs.

Trouble with doing immediate spontaneous inks for the SINAG pages makes it almost impossible not to have errors. Like on this page, admittedly I have some. Pls notice the glasses of Mr. Z (the bald guy)...adjustments have to be made inorder to correct its proper shape.
The problem is you can't erase ink. I see to it that I avoid using liquid paper or even the computer for correcting the mis-inked parts, just to keep my works honest. I just rely on black shadows and the anything goes attitude. I guess it works with me.

Long last the much awaited scene 5...the missing page scene. This was not really planned, but after seeing the comics sequence
I guess this page helps very much in story telling and adding more details to the Robbery scene.

I am currently in the quick sketch process of the next few pages, which is very exciting. We'll have a first peek of Artemio Bar-Bel !!!, one of the main players of the story. I wish I could tell you guys more pero yun lng muna... Till the next SINAG pages.

The Flash back scene. I have to use a different drawing style for the 2 pages (see pages below!!!). Notice finer lines and the limited black shading. I really enjoyed using this style, it makes work faster and alot easier for me. I'm thinking of using this style for another comic title in the future...hmmm...Really, I can do say 10 pages a day with this style rather than the one I'm using now...hehehe.

But I would prefer my usual style rather than this speedy version for the regular SINAG pages. I want blacks to be prominent to strongly represent the images, as one described it as crisp and detailed.  I want to make this book special even if it takes alot of my time in doing so. Takes tons of patience and time management on my part as I have many other art obligations other than this book, and theres a new company I am connected with which will make me more busier. I just thank God for all the blessings and I just pray for good health coz more work means less sleep for me.

I'll be on Palawan tomorrow for a well deserved rest. Till the next blog.