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Brigade

Jose Vega — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 05:16:16 +0000

As you may or may not know, for reasons I can’t even explain, I’m a fan of Rob Liefeld’s Brigade. I just think it felt into the so-bad-it’s-good category. I have tons of sketches and doodles in my sketchbooks of the various characters in the team. I thought I would share with you an old one that I just came across the other day.
I’ve pulled it into Photoshop and have started playing with the sketch. If I like the way it comes out I’ll upload that file as well.

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Jose Vega — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:57:19 +0000

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NYCC Day 2

Jose Vega — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 04:32:16 +0000

Sorry for the delay, here are pictures from the second day of the New York Comic Con Enjoy, and as always feel free to leave comments.

NYCC Update

Jose Vega — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:45:24 +0000

Sorry for those who have come back hoping for more pictures of this past weekend’s NYCC but I haven’t been at my computer in a few days. I hope to have them up by the end of this week. I also have some video from the Anime Masquerade ball.

New York Comic Con Day One

Jose Vega — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 04:28:25 +0000

So despite not having any samples to show I decided to go anyways. I got together with my friend Andre and we walked around the Javits, checking stuff out, meeing up with old friends, buying stuff and picking up swag. A good time was had, and

Click to view slideshow.

Portfolio preparation part II

Jose Vega — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 05:21:36 +0000

So it doesn’t look like I’ll have anything to show at the con. I’m annoyed but what can you do? I don’t have a time machine so I cant go back and work harder or whatever. What I can do is keep on chugging along on these pages. I’m having fun with them and hope to have them done by the end of the month. I need to, as I’ve got a bunch of other things I want to jump on. That’s part of the problem I guess, I want to be able to do everything at once and that’s just impossible.

Anyways, I’ll still be attending the con, so if you see me, as always, please stop me and say hi.

Okay, let me keep chugging along on this.

Portfolio Preparation

Jose Vega — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:56:42 +0000

It’s almost four in the morning and I’m pretty beat. However with NYCC in two days, I can’t go to bed as I’m working on samples to show the various publishers that are going to be there. Things are crazy for me as you can imagine. I hope to upload my pages sometime next week for you to look at.

If you’re going to be at the con and see me, please feel free to come over and say hello.

No I didn’t die.

Jose Vega — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:26:11 +0000

Wow! I’ve kinda let this blog fall by the wayside, huh? I apologize for that. I started class in July and the weeks have gone flying by. Here I am now a few days before the final session as the summer draws to a close.
The good news is that I’ve gotten my moneys worth with this class so I hope to upload some of my work within the next couple of days.
Thanks for your patience and I hope you come back soon.

Photoshop/ Illustrator

Jose Vega — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:42:29 +0000

I’ve been taking nightschool classes off and on for years and I just wrapped up another semester. That was one of the reasons why my nondigital art production really dropped off. In the class we mostly did exercises of the unexciting variety but we got to do whatever we wanted for our final project.

I chose to do a bookcover for an old sci-fi short story called “The Machine Stops” by E.M. Forster. I actually haven’t finished reading the story yet and am about half way through. I think I’ve got the gist of it though.

So here’s my final project. I am refraining from going into how I made it and what I was trying to convey as to not influence your perception of it. Basically I want to see if I was successful in my execution. As always comments, questions and criticisms are welcome.

Post Convention High

Jose Vega — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:53:11 +0000

So I’m back from C2E2 (the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo) and while I didn’t return with any job offers I did learn some stuff (never too old, eh?).
Basically the way most companies handle portfolio reviews has changed. Gone are the days where a long line of kids with portfolio in hand would get seen one by one by editors who ranged from helpful to “over it”. Now what they do is have you sign a waiver which you staple to photocopies of your work and then submit to them. If they like your stuff your name will be on a list that they’ll post. If it’s not, “thank you come again”. While this is great for them and actually allows them to review your work with more time and by committee (which will helpfully allow for a better fairer selection process) it’s tough for those of us who are submitting portfolios. Basically it means that we aren’t there when our work is getting critiqued so we’re not getting any feedback. For all intents and purposes you’re throwing your work into this vacuum with your fingers crossed.

Unfortunately my name wasn’t on the list for either of the big two, and to date I haven’t been contacted by any of the other companies I dropped my work off with (Boom, Dark Horse, etc.). I was, however able to speak to Mark Chiarello, the Art Director for DC. We had a frank, positive and greatly appreciated conversation about my work. I hope to follow-up with him and show him that I have taken his advice to heart. He pointed out some things to me that I had been wrestling with in my work that I’m hoping will help me resolve those issues. We’ll see how it goes. At the end of the day though, all the advice in the world is no substitute for getting back to your art table and just drawing.

One last note about the con, I hope to upload some pictures over the next couple of days, so keep a look out for them.

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