My second book, Stop the Rain is available for purchase online and in stores!
Yes, you heard right. Finally… After a long struggle Stop The Rain is finally out. Get your hands on this ink opera today! The book available on Paperback for $12.99 and eBook for just $6.99. Hurry and get this exclusive offer before issue two comes out! And this is only the beginning. The issue two will come out sometimes next month!
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Here we have Spine battling a flying coffin as she pulls a pipe from the head of it. I don’t really know how any of these things work. But I do feel the comic is getting a bit sidetracked from it’s original course. Which was the “weird machines and gears that Spine battles”.
I think it’s time to bring this back. That’s what I’m gonna do in the next few weeks. Spine will be fighting flying machines, propellers, pipes, coffins, gears, organs…. Her new goggles will help. We’ll see where this whole thing goes.
Just watched “The social network” tonight. Being older than the guy who invented facebook made me depressed. It was an excellent movie otherwise. I’ll probably get buried in my own pipes and things one day. Hey, maybe that’s me in that coffin.
I drew this last night in Trevor H’s room. We had a grand old time with bubblicious and many other things. It was a gourmet night for sure.
…that I play WoW. I recently left my old bad ass guild just to make another bad ass guild with (hopefully) the same crew. The guild is called The Bakery. Now, why is this important and why is it here? Just like many things I do, or like many things happen to me, this guild business turned into another excuse to create art. So, here it is then: The Banner of The Bakery
Also, for those who are interested in the actual guild, We’re on maelstrom and we’re recruiting.
I think it’s gonna be fun.
Some people were asking about what other comics I draw. Here’s a weekly comic that’s published in Idyllwild Town Crier. Steve Hudson writes it and I draw it. We’ve been working together on this Idyllwild related comic for the last few years. This will be published this thursday, so you get to see it before it hits the newspaper boxes all over Idyllwild.
However, people have a strange habit in Idyllwild. Even though it’s California there’s snow in this mountain town. The popular and economic way of heating up your house is making a fire. People use newspapers and magazines for the quickburner and wood for the long lasting heat. Anyway, the residents like to put a quarter into the newspaper boxes and steal the contents of the entire box just to burn it. Isn’t it great?
Sometimes, I really like what I draw for On The Fringe. This is one of those:
I guess, I can’t say “I don’t usually do this”, since this is the third one. I thought I’d celebrate and share this one as well. I’ve been making this On The Fringe comic with Steve Hudson for one-hundred and forty weeks. That’s a lot of weeks of doing something, okay? So, here it is people with a cool angle and some IDY shops - Enjoy and bless a kitten.
I had a lot, i mean A LOT of fun doing this. I got to talk about the history of comics for the first day. The second day, I drew the assignment on the board as I was explaining what to do. First, there was faint blue ink on the board – they kept complaining about how it was invisible. I kept smiling and assuring the crowd that it would all make sense soon. As, I explained the principles and importance of doing a preliminary rough sketch, penciling and inking, I picked up the strong red marker and “inked” my own “pencils”.
Their eyes lit up – all of a sudden it made perfect sense why people make comics the way they do. Doing two different passes of your drawings will let you focus on different things at different stages so that you don’t have to worry about everything at the same time. First, we do the rough sketch and only and ONLY think about composition. Then, we pencil and think about proportions, shapes and areas. At the end, we ink. During this, we think about line variation, weight, surface, patterns and of course – making it look bad ass. Here’s the assignment board:
Here’s some feedback after the class:
“Cihan was an amazing drawer, and he inpired me to really try on my drawing and I thought it turned out well. He also helped me and everyone else figure out what we wanted to do with our drawings to take them further. I really enjoyed doing it and I hope I can do something similiar again.” – Hannah P.
“The comic class was fun! Even though I’m not a great drawer I enjoyed drawing & learning about comics. It was also fun to watch other people draw.”
The comic class/workshop was awesome. It inspired me to draw to draw a different style of art than I usually do. I learned a lot though, and had fun. So THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME! – M. Turk
I liked making comics!!! ; )
“Good times. Would’ve loved to be mentored. But, sadly, I couldn’t due to my schedule.” – Eric H.
The comic workshop was… TOTALLY RAD
SPLAT! SWOOSH! BAM!!
POW!
I had a dream once where I was told I’d die on a May 19th. In case that happens tonight, I wanted to leave you with a wallpaper. I decided to crop this exciting illustration and give it to you in the largest wallpaper format that i know of: my own.
Here it is then, in its full 2560×1440 glory. Enjoy.
