Something that started out as my usual red pen on smooth newsprint sketch turned out to be a good figure to practice some color design. So, after an hour or two here it is. Enjoy.
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Yeah, I’m back at work on “Hockey, Love, & GUTS!” and it feels great once again! I can’t believe it’s been 6 months since the last installment, and unfortunately, it might be a few more until the next (I’m hoping to have chapter 5 done by early December… crossing my fingers here.) Thumbnails and script are done, and I’m a few pages into the roughs now. It’s 35 pages, and it seems that chapters are getting longer and longer! I really gotta find a good page length so I can put them out faster (15-20 pages is just fine, but I really needed all of these 35 pages to be chapter 5, so sorry.) Anyway, here’s a teaser.
I thought the scrapbook concept matches the high school girl drama… maybe. Well, I was also scrambling to do something quick and in color, and this is what came out. I geek about manga and a trip to Japan after the jump
So, no new storyboard this week, but a post nonetheless. My new goal is to start updating weekly, even if all I have is one image or illustration. But, as the title of the post says I’m back on track, and that is at least for my comic, which I’m really glad to come back to after so long. The fact is I had all of chapter 5 pretty much roughed and ready for cleanup and tone for months, but I got some gigs that took a lot of my time (which were great!), and I also had to do some portfolio work on the storyboard side of things (gotta keep things fresh with that too.) So what you see on this post are a couple of frames from chapter 5 (no spoilers, as far as I can tell.)
One of these days I’ll finish chapter 5 of my comic “Hockey, Love, & GUTS!” and post it here. “These days” will come very soon. But, until then, please enjoy this little character illustration.
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After nearly a year since the release of the last chapter, here it is, Chapter 5! I keep saying this at every chapter release, but I’m gonna say it again: I really wish I could just work on this all the time and release chapters more frequently. But, as an animation artist (and a freelancer at that) I guess doing a chapter a year is as much as I can muster with the very little free time I have each day. But, who knows, maybe one day I’ll still be able to make this comic be my full time job (or maybe take the story and characters to different media…)
Click below to see the Chapter 5 gallery and start reading!
Either way, for now, enjoy it here for free while it’s available. I’m already at work on chapter 6, and I’m hoping it won’t be another year until that one comes out, so maybe I’ll go back to making shorter chapters or I’ll just get better and faster at doing this (at least the Cintiq really makes a difference so far.)
Let me know what you think by dropping a comment or two! 
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Each year around this time I gather all of my work together once again for my yearly pilgrimage to CTN EXPO. This will be my third time going to it, and I’m glad it’s still going strong because with each new convention, I seem to make new friends and I have more fun than the previous year. So hot off the renders, here is my new animation reel, concept art, and storyboard portfolios. Enjoy!
Studio CATCH! Animation Reel 2011 on Vimeo
Studio CATCH! Animation Reel 2011 on Youtube
I’ve been really missing drawing the characters for my comic, and just missing working on my comic in general. Hopefully this year I’ll get back to work on it… even if I just put out one chapter, that will be a huge accomplishment with the way things are going with my career and personal life… more on that later. Enjoy!
A little over 2 months since my last blog post. What the…? Yes, I became a father two months ago, and it’s been some intense two months. I don’t know how much I want to talk about that here though; this is after all a “professional” blog that’s supposed to be just about my art, right? So, maybe once I get back to being able to sleep okay, I’ll make a post about parenthood and what that means to me as an artist. Until then, this is what I’ve been able to conjure for my own lately, especially after reading this great article on Comics Alliance, featuring Brandon Graham, creator of King City.
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PS: Maybe one day my daughter will understand all of this… or maybe not.
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Studio CATCH! by Régis Camargo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Hockey, Love, & GUTS! by Régis Camargo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
