Starting my free week and sleeping a lot.

Our Hospitality!!

I woke up today a bit late and started to check my mails!!
Nik I already saw yours!!! Hahahahah You make me giggle and laugh with the last comment thanks for making my day!! Expect the answers today or tomorrow.
I normally go to Las Luchas with a nice friend of mine... Today She called me to say She can not go so I guess I will go to the Luchas alone!
I do not say ..till next day yet!
Because I have new work to load so expect it!!
June Good luck today!!

Great day to you guys!

This time I am recommending the movie Our Hospitality done and directed by Buster Keaton in 1923 and it is a romantic flick about a feud of two families (The Canfields and the McKay), the story is set in the earliest 1810 so it is big drama and nice angles of camera!

JESUS ANTONIO

Our Hospitality 1923 

Alchemia

Full Metal Alchemist.

Long time not recommending something...If you can see Full Metal Alchemist do so!
I loved the design on it! Costumes and The Robot are really nicely drawn!


Have a great time and see you tomorrow!
JESUS ANTONIO

Figuring out the Secret Code

1942

Yesterday after posting my regular blog a friend of mine (from college) asked me to go out and just chit chat and talk about things to catch up. I haven`t seen him over a year and I said okey, and We spent part of the night downtown just trying to figure out The Secret Code of Understanding Women, it was really fun to see another soul lost in finding his own figure of salt to adore.
I am drawing something that I will post tomorrow night (hopefully).
As I said tomorrow will start my two weeks free so I am determined to finish 3/4 of the Story El Clan done by Victor, continue coloring Luchador!, paint the poem I wrote some time, organize my papers and start sending the proposals to some companies in USA and Spain that have already given me the permit to do so.
Have a great time and see you tomorrow!!:)

JESUS ANTONIO

Love for Dummies. Pissed off .

Love sucks?

Well I promise to get into the third front soon but I really wanted to just take this out of my chest, probably and as usual I am over reacting and for sure making a big fuss about nothing.
Well today it was my last day of the course I was giving, I will start my new courses in about two weeks.
I had some lovely groups this time and in special that one where the second front is(Now I will call her Caramel Eyes...June I am starting to learn from you! :D ).

As a brief summary We agreed to have a coffee last Monday and well She canceled it because it was rainy (do you remember? right? ), She also told me She`d call me over the week to agree to see eachother over that same week...thing that didn`t happened.( Today I learned from what She said that was busy as hell preparing her classes and studying for the exam).
I was done with all the grading and all the group agreed to have lunch in a place near there and eat "Carnitas" (fried meat in oil and salty water, I need to say that I didn`t like the flavor of that meat at all).
It was really a fun time with everybody over there and also another teacher that I am starting to call friend because I am starting to know her a bit more was with us.After the meal some of the guys decided to play pool (thing that I haven`t done in ages, by the way money has`t been deposited on my bank account..well...).
I was taught by the owner of the place on how to hit the ball with the stick, and He was also glad to help the girls and Caramel Eyes was with us too and taught by this horny nice guy.
I have to say that everytime that passes I am really liking her, she likes to enjoy life a lot and well She was wearing a blouse with my favorite soccer team on it. She even has that kind of sense of humor similar to mine.She started telling me about her courses and how busy She was, while We were playing I was staring at her and just thinking and thinking mainly in how to react about asking her why She didn`t call me, I have to also add that she is having some kind of rapport with a nice guy (I am sure this guy also likes her), funny but when I see that kind of things I just blocked myself and the things I was thinking to do I do not normally do it.
Sometimes I am thinking that I am invading teritories that are not mine, I mean me a guy out of the blue trying to have a coffee with Caramel Eyes to tell her how my situation is, when a person says to do something and later on is not done I always get that feeling of "If she were interested She`d have already called or excused at least...".
Returning to the point while She was playing pool (gosh! she is really attractive) I was thinking about asking her again for the time to talk, but I agree to myself that It was not the right place to do so, I just decided not to mention anything about the whole situation and enjoy the time.
The teacher friend gave us a ride and I left first, I just kissed them goodbye (teacher and Caramel eyes) and left. I just didn`t mention anything and I do not know what to expect.
I am terrified in a way and it is getting for me harder and harder to speak myself up,because when as situation like this happens (The cancelation) for me means that maybe I am not even part of her Universe and I do not really want to alter anything, I really like Caramel Eyes but I do not want to deposit any feelings to her yet.
I feel now quite dumb .lost and my second chakra just hurts.I know myself a bit to know that I won`t call her or ask for the time to talk again,not for a long time at least.

What to do Dear Abbies? :)

Great day to you guys!.

JESUS ANTONIO

The soothing hands of Destiny.

David Alfaro Siqueiros

Before getting into the topic...this is one of my favorite pieces done by David Alfaro Siqueiros, with him, Orozco, Dr. ATL, Rivera,Kahlo and some more made the movement of Muralismo nurtured by people like Mario Pani or Vasconcelos and became the roots of what Nationalism was over the 20`s and lasting to the last years of the 70`s with the rupture.

These two days have been really busy I was grading my students (tomorrow will be my last day of the course) and I will be two weeks free (without money because I work in a freelance term) till the initiation of the new Course.
I went to a bar yesterday and I have to say I really enjoyed it I even got a lap dance so it was nice!!!
I drank a beer (thing that is really rare because I do not drink), some hours ago I was about to write the post with the title "Stabbing my heart out..." because yesterday I saw you know who, hahah I am starting to hate that when I see her I have that kind of hard heartbeats and I start blushing but well, I am still thinking in becoming a friend of hers or not, I need to check If it is difficult for me to bear with all the whole situation.Not all the times happens I need to add that! :)
First front:I will have a coffee over next week on Friday night, according to what She said.
Second front:No news from her I will see her tomorrow but I do not know If asking her or not about not calling me.
I still need to write about the third front but I guess I will do it by next week.
Hahahah I am still waiting for the deposit of the company I am working, so well If I get money soon I will buy the tickets for Las Luchas (yes, I am going again!!), and also buy material that I need to paint.
Next week I will continue working in El Clan and Luchador! and I will organize some paperwork to ask for a scholarship that I really need.
Have a great time and Take care!!


JESUS ANTONIO

JLA Cover

JLA

Well this is part of my new set of submission to DC and I was studying for some weeks the work of Alex Ross and I found one way to have a very balanced Cover using some many characters...I think I really nail it!!?

Have a great day!!...JESUS ANTONIO

The Reality in Bright Blue Color

1943

I was yesterday studying part of the work of Alex Ross and I found a formula He uses a lot in his work method, so I am really eager to put it in function so I am starting since now A piece using the JLA, all my whole respect to the work of Alex Ross, I never expected to find out a formula and process of contruction and I am really amazed.
I already finished Superman over the piece and it looks awesome!!
Hopefully tomorrow I will get paid finally but the funny thing is that I will give the money to my Father hahahah We are a bit tight in some payments so well shit happens!! hahahahah.
Thanks Lovely Lisa for being here!!
Cute June thanks for the words!
Jason I am contacting you in some days!
Nik...Nik!!!...T.N already saw the pages I was checking the registered numbers so now it is only a matter of waiting and luck!! wish us luck and pray my amigo Nik!! .
Victor I hope you are getting some incredible vacations..I am this week only devoted to draw more pages of the Clan!
Good day!!...JESUS ANTONIO

Love for Dummies. Second Front.

Love

Before getting into the topic.
As I wrote sometime ago If an invisible friend or friend wants to give a tarot as a gift,I would appreciate it...just remember that it has to be brand new and free.

Second Front
I met this girl in one of my clases She is really smart and sporty, average told,curly black hair, wearing glasses and some incredible light brown eyes. Her voice is quite peculiar because is too nasal and I mean She is really nice and attractive.
She is really bright and smart and works teaching also.When I met her We felt that kind of chemistry (like If you knew the person for ages). A little uptight in some aspects.
I didn`t mentioned her earlier because I didn`t want to do it till knowing If there was something else and also because I had an odd situation with her.
The second or third time I saw her She told me that She wanted to talk to me about something..She asked me If I was seeing her as a friend or as a girl, so well this changed my path a bit I just told her firstable that I was trying to get out from a situation (You know what situation and who...check in the archives).
I just told her that indeed I liked her but at that moment I didn`t know if the things would change or evolve and that I was not trying to make her feel uncomfortable. I just told her also that I would mark a very distinctive line from now on, because I was interested but not at the same time (I wanted to close the circle with you know who), but I would like to ask her again in some months at the end of the course. (Thing that will happen next week).
She told me that She had a commitment with somebody else (that is why I didn`t mention her because I was afraid to be again in a similar position like I was for 10 months with the other girl), but She also wanted to tell me that She had felt the same vibe and that She had some feeling for me or at least something was over there, Well I made a very harsh line and stop treating her more affectively just to avoid confusions and make time make its own decision.
Last week I told her I wanted to talk to her for a long conversation and let her know what my situation is now so she could understand a bit better how I feel.I need to say that this girl is fantastic and I can be to the point to make a very solid relation in case She decides something but as We know girls always decide who they want to be at the end :).
She didn`t called me when She said She would to agree about the coffee so the next time I saw her I told her that was important for me, She said she was busy but We could have the coffee on Monday (This past Monday) and set the time, She called me early morning that day to postpone the coffee because it was raining really hard and also She needed and alibi to explain to her dad, so she prefered to called it off, She said she is going to call me before Friday so On Friday morning we can talk.
I want to see If there is a development in the situation or not I mean at least to know before time If there are feelings or emotions around to be or not to be in a stupid situation again.

Have a great day!!
Tomorrow I will write the third front

JESUS ANTONIO

Love for Dummies. First Front.

Love

Hey guys well I am starting with the Love for Dummies reloaded section :).
As a summary I am trying to forget (You know who...check in the Archives) in fact I am about to change the channel on how to see her, I have to confess sometimes I see her and I am with that stupid feeling "If you should have..or Well your loss not mine".

I am dividing the section in the fronts that I have been considering lately.

First Front.
I met this girl some time ago in a very odd way because She is a girl attending one of those tiny grocery stores near the school were I give classes. She has brown light hair almost gold, INTELLIGENT,has a really nice smile and laughter and an incredible nice rack (funny because I normally do not pay attention to that kind of stuff and gosh! I am sometimes finding myself talking to the rack :) ).She is cute in the overall but that is not what attracts me about her, is her way of being and her way of thinking.
We have many things in common and it is the girl I wanted to invite for a coffee since ages, after the dumb situation with the other girl that I never knew for sure what it was going on on her mind (I need to say in this part that You know who is a nice girl that is also why it really affected me all these 10 months when I was with her trying to figure out If she wanted to be friend or love, The funny and you know is that I never saw her as a friend).
I do not want to repeat my mistakes, I do not know how to see this cutie girl I am starting to like, sometimes I spend half and hour or more talking about music with her and she was trying to convince me that Robert Draco was good, sorry I couldn`t understand the music from him, We have been sharing CDs and sometimes to talk about the things She does, I have kept many things of myself to myself, I haven`t opened up as I did with You know who.
I do not want to become a friend per se, I also need to add that I do not know from this cutie If She has boyfriend of not (I saw her once with a boy but my problem is that I am not jealous so I do not really give a damn!), also I do not know If She sees me only as a friend, I do not want to repeat my mistake.
In a way I still feel insecure after what happened with the other girl because I just couldn`t make her hormones feel something for me, I reall want to be sure I am not confusing that the cutie is being nice to me or something else.At this point I do not know If I can provoke a girl to have wild dreams, so imagine in what way affected me the last situation. As I said I do not want to have a girl with me only because I am nice.
A friend told me to chill out and to have a mental vacation (She meant to stop trying to figure out for a while what the other people can do or say and only let the things go in the normal speed and not to hurry the things).
Well with this girl (I will called her Cutie)..... yesterday I asked her again about going out for a coffee and I just told her that it will be my last time asking her (She laughed at me saying "ooopppssss I am shaking in fear" :), with her reaction I just laugh, I just told her that I felt bad to ask her out again because I didn`t want to bother her)..Smiling told me that She would have told me NO since the first time If she had felt that something was not right but it was not that the problem it was only that She didn`t have free time to go out..well tomorrow We will agree were to go until next week..I am about to ask her to go out but out of the state and just sightsee.."
It now difficult for me to feel like I am interfering in a life or entering out of the blue..I do not know I never expected to feel like that...is it normal?
That is the first front of 3


Have a very good day!!

JESUS ANTONIO

La Febbre di amare.

Gold Rush Anniversary Today!!

Today is the Anniversary of this movie The Gold Rush done by Charlie Chaplin!!

Have a great day and see you around!!
I will update this space is there is something worth.
I want to write a Love for Dummies divided in three areas tomorrow to ask for advice!
Great day to all of you my friends and my invisible friends!!

JESUS ANTONIO

Who`s your Boss?, Who`s your Daddy?, Who`s your Patron?

Jason.

Jason you are served!!
I will contact you in these days to tell you about the shipping and stuff.
I hope you like the piece!!
Please Jason two favors I would love to see this piece inked and colored and handled as as Cover only for the fun of it!!! (I am going to be picky about the inking, You know my inking so I hope the person who inks the piece is three times better than I :) ).

Have a great time!!

JESUS ANTONIO

The High Sign 1921

The high sign 1921

This is what is called the first independent flick done by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline!!
It is a must you might have a great time watching our heron fighting The Blinking Buzzards!!..


Great day!!...JESUS ANTONIO

The High Sign 

The Invaders.

Invade,Divide and Conquer...Drawn by me!!

I took me more time than expected but as you might see the result really worth the wait.
I love to draw Captain and Red Skull so talking about WW2 made me wonder how a piece would look with the Invaders (I have to say that the only liberty I took was to set FAlcon on the piece..but what the Heck the point is to have fun..and I had a blast!).


Have a great time!!

JESUS ANTONIO

Jack Kirby

Inking

I decided to use extra thick lines to make the areas be more simple to understand, I am taking my time to understand how I will attack the background.

Good day!!
JESUS ANTONIO

The Seventh Circle says...

Seven things that scare you
1.There ares some paintings in a museum from my hometown that really scares the shit out of me I even start hyperventilating
2.Sharp knifes
3.The stink of Death (Have you been around a dead person?..that smell that comes from)
4.Getting blind
5.Losing a limb
6.Heights
7.Not having all the information knowing a person is lying to me.

Seven things you like the most
1. Draw
2. Paint
3. Watch a silent movie or a very good movie
4. Write
5. Having an intelligent conversation
6. When a girl is caressing you
7. Kiss
Seven important things in my room.
1. Paper
2. Colors
3. My books and Comics
4. My Art
5. My CD`s
6. My Six million man toy
7. My lightbox machine and desk.
Seven random facts about you
1. I don`t like vain people and people that shows off.
2. I was the nerd and the weirdo at the schools I was, but also one of the smart ones :)
3. I don not like to chat at all using computers
4. I do not like to call people by phone, I am always to the straight point.
5. I would never wear white tennis shoes.
6. I want to study italian again
7. I haven`t found the right gal yet.

Seven things you plan to do before you die
Hahahah I do not have plans I am sure I will do the things!!! That question sometimes says you want to do something before you regret and I am quite happy with my decisions in life.

Seven things you can do
1. Draw
2.Read a book in one day.
3. Draw upside down
4.Speak English and undertand italian
5.Cook
6. I can memorize situations
7. Teach English

Seven things you can't do
1. Drive
2. Dance
3. Play intruments
4. speak French
5. Paint oils
6. Sleep in a steady schedule
7. See a person hit a fat boy or girl, it breaks my heart

Seven things that attract you to the opposite sex
1. her smell
2. Intelligence
3. A sense of humor
4. Weird and dark sense of humor
5. smile
6. The lower part of the abdomen...but I rememvber saying this before..:)
7.Taste of liquids

Seven things you say the most
1. “Es gracioso"
2. “It is funny"
3. "Es chistoso"
4. "Pendejo"
5. My formato de vida
6.Damn!
7.Well
Seven celeb crushes (whether local or foreign)
1.Helen Hunt
2.Jodie Foster
3.Britany Murphy
4.Angelie Jolie
5.Jannette Chao
6.Karen O.
7.P J Harvey

Kino you are served!!

Have a great day!!...JESUS ANTONIO

Jack Kirby

Advance in the inking

I bluelined the drawing and started inking, some people got to the black areas first to see how the final piece ends, I normally start with the faces and from the faces I expand the inking in a circular way I attack the pieces considering what I want to pop out!
In this case Captain has to really shine in the piece.
A disclaimer I am not an inker per-se I am learning to ink and incredible friends inkers give me some pointers. I ink my work for necessity and fun...I do really respect what an ARTIST INKER do in the work. The plan is to be someday as good as some friends are.


JESUS ANTONIO

Jack Kirby

The piece in pencils.

Well this is a copy of a drawing the Master Kirby did over the 8o`s, I am really impressed about his drawing skills, His style marked a new generation of storytellers and also of drawing.
He is the Marvel-ous guy!!
I am going to ink him taking in consideration that I won`t correct anything in the Anatomy, I will only take some liberties in the inking and some cross-hatching I will do on the piece.

JESUS ANTONIO

Invading the secret laces of Emphaty

1944

I continue a bit sick and a bit blue, but really much better for sure!!
To cheer myself up I decided to draw a cover using Captain America So until now I have drawn Namor,Capt, Bucky,Red Skull and Falcon I am still missing some more characters hopefully by Sunday I must have finished the piece.
I am also getting this crazy idea and I will ink a piece done by Jack "The King" Kirby (there is a copy of a drawing He did in the 80's that I love, funny but I am not nervous at all about inking him, because I will use the Kevin Nowlan method (to follow the structure and respect that but having all my personality and way of drawing over there) so It will look really weird but fun, that is my point to have fun this time!.
Tomorrow I will go to the house of an acrylic painter, if he is really good I will ask him for some classes I really want to paint in acrylics and also wide my variaty of techniques. I will let you know guys how everything turns..at least I will have a nice talk about painting. :)
Congrats June!!! :)
Today is the Birthday of Jim Lee! (Congrats in case you read this! :) ).
One friend writer already agreed on the interview so now I have 3 good interviews with incredible pros and still asking more people and friends to help me out!!
Have a great time and see you around!!

JESUS ANTONIO

The Corner..... Chuck Gibson THE WHOLE INTERVIEW

I continue celebrating my One year of blogging so I am including this time the complete interview I did to the Great Chuck Gibson, and it is also helping me to introduce the series of other interviews I will do over the weeks to people I like,respect and admire a lot.

So keep checking regularly to see the new interviews to be honest Are really High Profile Professionals of the medium and I can be only grateful to them big time!!

Presentation.
When I started the process of Robot Love I never expected to be with people I admire and also respect.As you have seen our nice Ron Fortier beign always so polite and gentle with me, and now another person is getting aboard the journey: Chuck Gibson.

This is one of the happiest times about being with a person who has been a great person over all these years,a friend and also a person that with his example of life has taught me about how to become a better person,things I won`t do that He had to pass through , also not to take things for granted and the way to be extremely cautios and become more mature and smarter as a person and artist.He talks the ways He feels and I have to be honest I really like his hyper realistic way of thinking.
This is his Bio so you can know more the insights of the great risk of becoming a Pro in the medium and know him better.

BIO
Chuck Gibson was discovered in the 'second wave' of the Homage Talent Search in 1994 and hired by Jim Lee. Chuck remained with Homage, which became Wildstorm, for three and a half years as an inker working on nearly all of the titles they published at one time or another. Chuck's Wildstorm credits include Wetworks, Grifter, Wildcats, Savant Guarde, Backlash, and many others--along with more trading cards, pinups, and promotional illustrations than even he can`t remember. Chuck went freelance in 1997 and has since worked for a number of companies including Crossgeneration comics where he inked the Silken Ghost Mini series. He lives in Roswell, New Mexico and his hobbies include sleep deprivation and writing about himself in the third person. :)So thank you Chuck for the back up and being with us!!!

JESUS ANTONIO.-I was thinking seriously to what you said last time about inking and the way you see it, and I was also thinking that the first times trying to become a penciler I was just imitating the final look to be like the inked pages and not the penciled ones. Did you set a limit or a line about your career in the medium? (I mean have you set a time limit to see some results of just to continue with the journey).

CHUCK GIBSON-I don't really think there's any sort of limit you can set on any of this if you're being honest about how you're going about it all. You might get tired of the business itself and walk away from that part of it----but if you're being honest with yourself, you're doing this because you love telling stories--that part doesn't go away. Even if all you're doing is sitting and drawing stories for yourself that no one will ever see while you do something else to make money---at heart, you're a storyteller and it's hard to walk away from that part. It's like waking up one day and saying you'll no longer use your left hand for anything or something like that. It's all either part of you or it isn't.

JESUS ANTONIO.-In terms of your work what it has been the Best moment or Best work done till now for you and Why?

CHUCK GIBSON.-I think my best inks were done in the Silken Ghost work because I wasn't being told HOW to ink those pencils at all. I did what I thought was appropriate for them without any input from anyone else. So many times I've been told by a penciler that he likes 'so-and-so's' inking or is going for a particular look---as soon as that happens, I feel obligated to one degree or another to 'steer' what I do towards that look rather than just following my own instincts.

JESUS ANTONIO.-I already know the answer but tell the guys specially the newbies.Do you recommend them to get into the medium? Yes, No and Why?

CHUCK GIBSON.-The medium itself----sure, go ahead---but don't count on making a living at it is all. I guess that's my best answer. The medium itself is a great one. The business that's commercially 'supporting' that medium is in sad shape and has been for a very long time. Don't come into it if you're coming into it for the money, because there just isn't any here anymore---but if you're coming in because you love to draw and tell stories, I think now is as good of a time as ever.

JESUS ANTONIO.-About Robot Love, Can you give the guys an idea on how will you approach the work?

CHUCK GIBSON.-Now why in the world would I do that? The folks here have seen how great the pencils are and have an idea of the story based upon what's there visually---I don't think we should give it ALL away. If they want to see what I've done with it and they want to read the words that go with the pictures, I think it's only fair that they pay the cost to buy the book. :)

JESUS ANTONIO.-How do you attack the page in terms of the skill and the mental visualization, is there a ritual you have or do you set a limit time in every page?

CHUCK GIBSON.-I have to look at the page and visualize it as finished work. I have to see the pencil as finished ink---every time, no matter what. Sometimes I'm only visualizing the part I'm working on that particular moment as finished---but I always have to have that mental image of what those pencils should look like when inked to have any idea of what to do with it.

JESUS ANTONIO:Hey Chuck! All the time that has passed since the last questions made to you.I have read about you deciding to become a penciler more formally.As I told you previously it is I guess the best smart move to do and I just imagine how your work will develop from now on.Why the change?

CHUCK GIBSON:I've spent over 10 years as an inker and I think I've gone as far with it as I'm going to, really. This was always the plan from the beginning---the final goal is to write, pencil, ink, and color---doing the whole job or whatever parts interest me at that time. That's always been the goal when I aspired to get into this business. I want to be able to do it all if I want to.

JESUS ANTONIO:Plans for the future as an inker? as an artist? as a person?

CHUCK GIBSON:I have a no plans as an inker for the near future. If a project is something I want to do, then I'll ink---but no plans in the immediate future to continue inking as my sole career. As an artist, I'm going back and trying to do the things I skipped over in my development before. I'm planning on going back to school either to get a degree or going to the Gnomon school in LA to train to do 3D animation. I'm not sure which one I'll do at the moment. The main goal is to go back and do the things that are good for an artist to do that I've skipped over. A real 'back to basics' sort of goal going on.

JESUS ANTONIO:People still believe that it is easy to find a job in this medium You and I know the reality on that but What do you say to yourself everytime just not to let yourself down? I am always impressed in a very good way in the way you are realizing and understanding what is around you.

CHUCK GIBSON:I've actually spent YEARS in denial about the conclusions I've reached recently. These are things that people told me over and over that I simply didn't want to hear. I've spent a good portion of my career waiting for the business to rebound out of the slump it's been in and finally got tired of waiting for things to get better. Comics are all I've ever really wanted to do and I hate thinking of it this way, but I have a family to support and if I can't make a living here, I owe it to them to explore other things to try to do better financially. I don't think I'll ever stop doing comics entirely---I'll always do them for myself if nothing else---but I can't count on it for my living any more and I need to move along professionally because of that.

JESUS ANTONIO:What is the new work We are going to see from you or has been recently printed?

CHUCK GIBSON:Right now I'm ducking out of sight. I'm spending time on commission work and on personal work only. I want the industry to forget about me a little bit so that when I come back as a penciler there isn't a pre-conceived notion about what I can or can't do.

JESUS ANTONIO:Well this is the final question from the interview and I am just grateful to you and the person I know you are.Do you want to say something else You think I forgot to ask or say?

CHUCK GIBSON:I think we pretty much covered it all. It's been a pleasure and I thank you for having me over to your forum here. It's been great.


Have a great time Chuck and everybody!

JESUS ANTONIO

The four elements of Fate!

The four elements!

I have been a bit sick lately and well not feeling very well but hopefully by the end of the week I will start loading some new work of El Clan and some plans that I have in mind.
Please keep me in your prayers.
Our work Luchador! is still in review and I really have a great vibe on it.
I am convincing a very good friend writer for an interview.Keep posted because He rocks!!
I am doing Jason`s comission over the weekend!
This is an old cover I did for fun...I love this characters and some day I will be drawing them but used them in an alchemical story plot line!!....
Great day!!...JESUS ANTONIO

Japanese Poster 

We are really close my Amigo!

Well as I normally do I was browsing over My Amigo`s place.

www.picklepress.net (new update is up!!)

And I really found interesting his rant and I am taking the liberty to write part of it (sorry in advance Amigo :)) and make some comments about it!!

Nik wrote
"Yet, I found the lack of people willing to stop and look at independent comics annoying at this show. I'm not sure why it affected me so much, as I've been working conventions for almost five years now. I'm used to rejection. I'm used to the "semi-polite nod and walk away," the "That's okay, thanks," the "Too bad it's not in color," and even the "Oh, you didn't draw it? You're just the writer?"
I think what did it was one guy who walked by as I asked him to stop and check out my books ("Check it out! Good stuff here! Cheap deals! All on sale! All good!"). He quickly turned his head, glanced at my table, and said, "No, I don't like it." as he quickly walked by.
Mandy wisely suggested that perhaps he was a manga fan, and saw that I didn't have any manga for him. I got to wondering if he would've stopped if I was the writer for Ultimate X-Men or Transformers, and I adopted my new catchphrase.
I started saying it to anyone who looked over at me during my sales pitch, but started walking away. Many people laughed as I said it, but I hope it stuck in their heads. I wanted them to stop at not only my table, but any small press table. I wanted them to give us a chance. I wanted them to break out of their "Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse" frame of mind and look at comics like Doll Parts, S.O.S., Sire, You've Got Tail, The Lifeline, and Myriad.
The people you may be passing in the small press section of your favorite convention could be the next big stars in the comic book industry. Don't wait until they are famous. You will regret it. That $1.00 ash can you thought looked stupid could be worth hundreds of dollars in less than a year. "

Funny but I thought that this situation didn`t happen at all in USA, Hey guys support The Indy Comic movements in every place in the world because They are the school We need to keep so big top notch contractors see our faces.
My Amigo Nik Havert will be so FAMOUS, incredible famous and rich I am so sure about it!! And I will be aside him I am sure....It is just a matter to stick to your principles and not to be let down by people who doesn`t care to what We do.My Amigo is just a trooper and his incredible wife Mandy is helping him get where he wants to be.
I am sure We will be really famous and I am sure We will laugh our asses off some time in the near future remembering how hard it took us to be in the place We are going to be and deserve totally!!!

Amigo is just a matter of Time!! :)

Great day Nik and everybody!!!...JESUS ANTONIO

Wizard World Chicago August 05-07, 2005

Lucky guy!

Well it seems that my Amigo Nik Havert had a great time over the Convention!!
Man!, I really want to go soon and see the friends over there!
Well Next year If everything goes well.

This guy won an original I did using Death, It is pencil work and pastel.(The guy looks happy!) :)

Great day guys!!
And thanks Nik!!
Made my day indeed!!...

JESUS ANTONIO

Dare yourself and look at me!

mein film

Today I went really early to my daily job (one of the ones I have), finally the guy send the bill and vocher so in a week or two I will have money again.
Things are good in a normal way I contacted a nice guy from my country (In fact two, thanks Raul for the help!) and told me the other guy to keep in touch (They made a very nice comics mag but in a more cultural level so well I am really interested in participating, He said He would send me the rulings to see If I can apply,bercause there are tons of guys in line for that project :)).
As Nik said in his page We already sent the proposal of Luchador! I am pretty confident of the quality so let`s wait and see I have a very good vibe and the editor has been nice to me.Wish us luck!!
Also the editor of the small gig I did last month told me He was pleased with the work so He would call me in case there is more work. These guys at this company really behave incredibly I am only waiting for credited work to name the company but I am sure since now I will get a good swamp of work with them.
I haven`t reveal the photos but as soon as I get them I will start posting.
I am again starting to draw so well let`s see what I will post in some days!

I am sending some mails to look for some work!
Great day to you!!

JESUS ANTONIO

Chingatela!!!

Today

Well I was feeling like crap in the afternoon, a girl made a stupid comment today, well crap happens,and I was again over thinking so I decided just to have a good time and I was collecting money from my pockets to pay for the tickets to go (Thanks again Mariana for going with me!! and follow this crazy plans).
I went and I loved it!!
I will give a very good insight on the two times of me going to Las Luchas, because They really deserve a big comment about the inner meanings and it is really helping me for our (Nik and I) comic of Luchador!!.
Oh My God!! I saw really good movements!.

Chingatela means Fuck her, One of the wrestlers girls at the same time She was pulling the hair of one of the rivals was screaming out loud..."Chingatela..chingate a esa puta..." Fuck her, fuck that ho...! :)

I am planning to start drawing tomorrow again and I will load some new material at the end of the week!!
Great day to you guys!!...JESUS ANTONIO

All these killing things I have done in a Year.

One Year!

I am celebrating my first year the very day of to-day :)!
Well sort of I am broke the company where I work won`t send me a deposit till next week or 12 days so I am broke now...hahah one guy forgot to pass the paper bill on time.
Yesterday I send a proposal to a nice editor sending our Luchador!! and ending the month I will send the submission to a Spanish company.
Also I am sending mails to some people this day to open some ways to get money.
About the girl I wanted to invite well, last time She hesitated a bit when I ask her out, so I do not know If ask her again or not I mean in a way it was a turn off to see her reaction (probably I am just overthinking).
I saw again yesterday you know whom, same situation I do not miss her as I thought I would and it is not really affecting me at all to see her,damn I have to be honest sometimes I see her tiny body and gosh!!! She is really cute..damn!! (but as We know She wouldn`t have to think over going out with me If She liked me, sad to face but pure reality!!) :).
As soon as I get the deposit I will send some packages and applications to some people and buy the material I need to start painting.
I still do not know If I will go to Las Luchas today because I am broke. Well I also need to blog about a girl I met some time ago, but it will be in a "Love for Dummies" session because I will ask for advices.

And the last part to celebrate,some people asked me about why the title of my blog so I decided to set what I put a year ago

A year Ago I wrote

"why the price,cost and value of being a comic author?

Everything started some days ago watching an interview, there was a wise artist talking about how difficult is to stablish a price in a new play or piece of art and He described that for him it was difficult to stablish the prices because the question is always....In what terms?.What is the value you give to something you have created?What is the cost of the piece in terms of what you are using to create it?(your time,your social life,your own life or sight or strength)what is the price you consider your work is valued by yourself and others?"

Great days to you guys!!

JESUS ANTONIO