Whitmore's Viking Holdings

Started a Business

2010-10-15T16:32:00.000-07:00

Starting a business is a fantastic yet energy intensive endeavor . Hasn't yet been 2 months and we are close to being in the black. We started discussing the business over a year ago and got the name in May. My cousin Tyler is an amazing driving force and we been able to do some amazing things. Check out our website (still in the workshop but it is up) at www.dotconx.com and let me know what you think. We been doing a lot of stuff and I'll tell more when I've got some time to breathe.
Word of advice, use your own genius and hard work to make what you love happen. Serve people and provide a solution to need and you'll be amazed at what can be accomplished.

Until next time
Jacob

new work

2010-02-10T21:33:00.001-08:00

Blogs are definitely not on my normal to do list. However it seems a shame to let it lie fallow.
Here are a few examples of recent work I have done. Concept work a few short films. And a technical illustration. Work done in photoshop and illustrator.

Page 3

2009-04-24T05:05:00.000-07:00

Just a continuation page. It seems to be more difficult to draw the back of the heads than a 3/4 view. Just wanted to do a simple action page. I wasn't sure how to get the whumph to stand out better without a block of white behind it. I don't want the pacing to be to fast, even though it will get through the story faster, in the beginning I don't want to start off with to much. I find it annoying when to much just happens in the beginning of a story it feels forced, which is why i am try the narrative explanation from the character himself.

Page 2

2009-04-16T01:52:00.000-07:00

Coloring the lines takes a whole lot longer than just black and white. I am now certain time is the main issue for the fact manga chapters are mostly in gray tones. Although you can get a rhythm if you cell shade that allows for some time to be shaved off. But when you need to decide on a color scheme it takes longer once again. Anyways, this page introduces Tyler O'connels oldest younger sister. (i finally decided on a first name.) At the present time in the story Tyler is a junior in high school and Gabriella is a sophmore. There are 3 more children in the O'connel household, next are twins, boy and girl, and the littlest sister (not only youngest but very dimunitive). Soon after the start of the story, the older siblings discover they each have a unique variation on the power that tyler has. Their mother is a physisit and their dad was an ambassidor for a time before his children were born, when they moved to a small town in northern Arizona. Now he does a mix of ranch work and high end consulting. Any ways enough of the backround info. I need to figure out some way to have better sceneries without haveing to spend an extra 2 hours or something or another. I think i'll add my rough sketch of the page, to show that there was some changes. And perhaps someone has suggestions for a better concept process?

Graphc novel/Web comic?

2009-04-11T23:15:00.000-07:00

I am intrigued by the many web published comics. Graphic novels seem to be a neat way to tell a story, due to the mixing of words and picture to create a feel, movement,
and a particular world. After reading a number of books on the style of comics, of visual representation of stories, I realized that I am woefully unprepared to tackle something
i that vein. Regardless of my short fall in the skill level, here is my stab at a first page for my O'Connel story. (still grasping for a first name).

O'conner character development

2009-04-11T23:09:00.000-07:00

I am still working on the story for my brothers, here is an attempt to show O'conner just
prior to a angry change. A buddy of mine comment that the creature is a stereotype, and
that i should do more studies on real animals before I try to make some up. Good plan, that's
what I'll do.

updated cow

2008-10-17T18:18:00.000-07:00

couple of fixes, also smaller so i can post it on the COW challenge site.

COW 127 effort

2008-10-17T17:50:00.000-07:00

Here is an attempt at the Creature of the week challenge.
Called strange walker. For this one consider a genetic
animal somewhere between a gorilla and a bat.
Think of the big shaggy arms of a bull gorilla and the
connective points of a Bat. A bats wings connect along
its entire body, so does the skin and fir of this creature.
Very stretchy skin, think of a cat. Very Flexible, can walk
on its front 2, back 2, or all 4 legs, can run on all 4 or the
top 2 legs. Tried coloring each creature with a different
tool in painter, water color, impasto, inks.

Pen Sketch Book

2008-10-16T20:05:00.000-07:00

I finally figured out how to get my scanner to work, darn MP to Vista transfer.
So i scanned in a bunch of my sketch book. Here is some of them. I use a normal
ball point pen, then started practicing values using some brush pens.
Using a pen does not allow for erasing so in forces you to be a little more careful and
view the image in your head better.

Finished (for now) painting

2008-10-09T15:57:00.000-07:00

Phew. That sure took a long time to finish. (took a week and a half break though). Learned a lot of new techniques during this time. Very satisfying to actually apply something new. (In this piece i used a bump map textureing on the shoe. learned from www.michaeldashow.com/tips_bumpmaps.html)

Also learned how to make realistic looking water.

Used photoshop CS2 and painter ix.5 (The watercolor brush for the deamon werewulf on the left side.)
The demon in relief behind O'connell just awoke from a mental slumber, and the kid is about to turn into the demon, (All because he is giving on to his anger) His shirt says "never give in" He has a spiritman/shaman/druidic ability that allows him to became certain creatures he has defeated. Some condition must be met. Some of the souls attach to him, and whisper incessantly for him to get angry of pissed off. (Note, he is a good guy, almost all the souls lached to him are not, this leads to some difficulties.) More of the story is in development by me, for my little brothers. it sure is fun

Painter

2008-09-04T21:16:00.000-07:00

Painter 9.5 is quite the spiffy program. Once you get your head around it i'm sure it will be a tremendous asset. Here are a couple of things i have tried in painter. I am a fan of the pencil tool, it imitates are real one well enough that you can rough out an idea directly into your computer.
This is a scene from a story i am telling my little brothers. O'connel is about to give into the blood burning in him and the souls whispering to him in his anger. (he is a good guy, but connected to him are a lot of evil souls of creatures he has defeated.)

Random fighter.

2007-10-23T16:33:00.000-07:00

wow, now I know why I see some blogs with huge gaps between posts, life happens and a person gets busy. Here are some older pictures, still haven't scaned in my recent pen sketchs, I guess because i like to "conserve" my energy, aka lazy. These were done in pencil and then inked. first time inking.

Collosus

2007-09-24T21:00:00.000-07:00

The game Colosus for the PS2 is an amazing game. Beautiful landscapes, wonderful music, enjoyable to play, amazing to just watch. This is an attempt of mine to make a colosus. Older, learning to use photoshop. (still have not mastered).

First try

2007-09-23T20:17:00.000-07:00

Here goes nothing. I have a couple of friends who have blogspot sites, and my buddy keele talked me into starting up a blog. So here it is. Not much, but Keele and i are going to have atleast a weekly posting of new sketches at such to make sure we are practicing our drawing skills. I would like to illustrate, but i have along way to go. (I am a physics major first).

This is a land shark, an idea i first heard from a friend of mine named morgan.
Here is the line art and an attempted coloring of my version of a Land shark.
Front heavy, it charges forward at incredible speed.
His only armour is the bracers on his arms, enemies have at best only one chance
of strikeing the Land shark, so he blocks the feeble attacks, and Bites of the faces
of his foes.