C-Tina Vectorized Pt. 2

CTina vectorized drawings again. Here’s the color one:

And the b/w one with spot colors:

New Portrait of JoeMac

New portrait of myself. Since X-Man is back in the Marvel Universe, I thought I’d celebrate the return of my favorite Marvel Mutant…

T-Shirt Idea: First Rate Date

A T-Shirt idea I came up with. I wonder how many chicks would wear these?

The Chibi Chick character art:

C-Tina Vectorized!!

This is a vector illustration I did of my friend Christina Wun. There are two versions. I think I like the black and white one better.

Lady in Red

I was trying out a new drawing and coloring technique. One of my friends, Jillie Park was gracious enough to let me use one of her pictures to try it on. Came out looking really good!

Peeps at the M Street Cafe

These are pictures of some of the people that I see at the Internet Cafe I go to, The M Street Cafe.
This is Jessie. She always threatens to kick me in the face.

This is Andrea. She owns the cafe. And yes, she does threaten to keel me.

Eddie Guerrero Vector Art

I did a vector illustration off of a very small jpg of Eddie Guerrero. It came out aite. I don’t think it did your papi any justice, but I’m putting it up anyways…

Utada Vector Art

I saw a cute picture of Utada Hikaru, that I thought would be fun to try and vectorize to see if my ability had not deteriorated too badly. It came out all right.

Tokyopop Alumni Set 4

In the rare instances of free time, I managed to squeak out a bit more of my former co-worker portraits…

This is Bobo, aka Bowen Park, the former production artist also known as Postino, the world’s first Post-It Mutant. He was able to create artistic masterpieces with post-its. All the while able to sing songs and ask me to ‘take it away’, when I did NOT know what the hell he was singing. And he was somewhat deaf, after asking “Huh? What?” to everything I would say… He went on to work in his parents’ “import/export” biz, which has mafia written all over it. But whatevers. Haven’t heard from Bobo since he left, but sure he’s misquoting songs somewhere or another.

This is Candice Uyloan… She’s at Viz Media now, and she’s Candilicious. Very Candilicious. She’d be up in the gym, just working on her fitness. He’s her witness. That’s all I have to say about that.

Carol Fox, a big fan of Sgt. Frog. She went to Tpop, to Viz… And then she went abroad for vacation. We collaborated to make an awesome “Witch of the Red Pooh” logo. And it was great seeing her again in SF when I went to visit Viz’s offices…

Jessica Chavez is one of the peeps that hung out with my supposed BFF John Lo, aka Mr. Phone, aka JLowah. I think she shared the same opinion of him that I did (I hate him and I want him to die). One of my favorite stories he told me about her was that she whooped him in ping pong, and I believe she actually said what I had in the word balloons to him. She’s good peeps.

Jennifer Asuka Mori Tun, is one of my favorite people that I worked with TPop. She loves Miyavi, so I put him in the background. And she cos-played once as Dark Haruko from FLCL. The pic was interesting so I drew her as that.

Elain Chang is my favorite MISSING cover girl. She and I had many conversations, but I never felt the same way about her as I felt for Esther Kim. I hate Esther Kim. I want her to get hurt, like that time she chokeslammed me. That was uncalled for. But I like Elain. I like her a lot. Maybe the reason we got along so well, was because she wasn’t like Esther Kim. And she never chokeslammed me. One of these days, I’m going to get her back for that…

Eric Pineda was one of my favorite fellow retouchers. As another illustrator, he inspired me to go on to work on things that I never thought I’d be able to. We’ll have different opinions from time to time, but he’s still one of my favorites, and still I’d recommend him in my top 5 of any illustrators that I know. He rocks the casbah. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Gavin Highlight and I used to ride the bus together to get to and from TPop when I wasn’t driving. He wrote a comic called, “Motor City” which he managed to get published and reviewed. It was a good book, and I’d love to be able to work with him somewhere down the line, creating some good stories. I did some artwork for flyers for his brother promoting “Tune In Tokyo”, which I’ve posted before. And most of the girls around him are from the artwork I did for the flyers.

Mike Estacio was also known as Gundam Mike and Toshi. He and I shared many a wrestling joke, and we still wonder why the Macho Man Randy Savage isn’t wrestling anywhere anymores. And why Heero Yuy always told his closer friends that he wanted to kill them all the time. And why the God Gundam in G-Gundam’s main attack was the perverse-sounding “Burning Finger.”

This is Grace Sun. I didn’t actually know Grace all that well when I worked with her at Tpop. But I always heard nice things about her, and when I set out to draw her pix, I just pilfered images from her facebook profile that I thought would be fun to draw. And she came out looking super sexy. Because I picked the super sexy images to draw from… Because I’m evil. I got to her know her afterwards, at the occasional TPop get together, and she’s a great person. So I hope these pix do her justice.

Courtney Geter and I love the cartoon Metalocalypse. Daily Dethklok quotes were the thing with him and I. AND we even attended the Dethklok concert when they hit up LA together. It was METAL! They make everything METAL. Blacker than the blackest black, times infinity. But he’s an excellent photographer. I only wish he took a picture of me being evil so I can also post it up and relish in my evilness.

Tim Beedle was one of my first friends working at Tokyopop. I had the fortune of distracting him in the middle of his work many a time, and working with him on many of his titles when I started out. One of my better friends in the biz. And yes, I had the fortune to letter that issue of Battle Royale where Keith Giffen exchanged the original japanese sound FX for the dialogue, “Shot the kitty.” Which became a running gag in the office with me and some of the peeps for quite a while.

Paul Morrissey was another one of the first friends I made at Tokyopop. His attention to detail and work ethic often inspired me to greater things. And now we work together on projects for BOOM! comics. I guess there’s something to be said for building some sort of reputation… LOL.

This is Yoohae Yang! One of my favorite letterers that I had the fortune to show the ropes. We hung out and had a lot of fun. She went on to get married and onto better things. She’s a great karaoke singer. She can do a brilliant rendition of Hikaru Utada’s song “First Love” that made John Lo bust out in tears, openly weeping.

Tokyopop Alumni Set 3

This is a big one, and probably the last I post for a while unless I do more. Soooooo… Moving along…

This is Abelardo Bigting, AKA Ab (Hope I spelled that right). This was the first one of these I ever did:

The next up is Jennifer Nunn… AKA “The Girl Who Eats A Lot” AKA “Eats”. The names were given to her by the VP of Production who we called “The Eye of Sore Ron.”

This one is of Samantha Y… I forget her last name and I don’t wanna butcher it. She was in layout, and my old co-worker John Lo saw it and said, “Not even close.” Oh well. It was only my 3rd one I did…

This is one of Thea Willis. She was a designer that I didn’t know too well, but we had some laughs:

This is designer turned editor, Aaron Suhr. Big Transformers and Rurouni Kenshin buff. Also good at Street Fighter. I only beat him once, and for one round. And I think it’s because it was one of his characters that he wasn’t good with:

This portrait is of another designer, Raymond Makowski. He left TP and went on to Mattel. He also had a webshow up for a while called, “Life in LA.” You can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/user/RaymondMakowski.
Interestingly enough, in his Triad Code: 25, I make an appearance at 1:03 to the left. And a little after that, I get to meet Crom. Awesome opportunity!

This one is of Christian “CLownds” Lownds, one of the better bosses I’ve had the pleasure of working with.

This is Lindsey… She got married and I forgot her new last name. I’m bad like that. She liked Gundams and Sgt. Frog, and she was production coordinator, I believe:

This one is of Sophia Hong, AKA Sooooooooofeeeeeeeeeeee AKA JiHye Hong AKA Candy Mountain. She was going through a Kingdom Hearts 2 phase, so she got 3 pics, Her Master Form, Her Heartless and her Nobody, Fiexso. Any fan of Kingdom Hearts may get that, and if you don’t, I’m sorry:

This one is of the Great Fawn Lau. One of the hardest working artist/designers I know. I used to call her, “Sephifawn,” referencing the ever-popular FF VII villian:

This one is Erika Terriquez, AKA Skooter! One of my favorite people at TP, and a good example of how hard work pays off. Both of us are fans of the Hardyz:

This one is of Jennifer Miller, AKA Junior. She always was a favorite of mine, because she was the one who hired me in spite of my evilness. This is her with Coach Z, because the two of us liked the songs from the Homestar Runner CD.

This is Kimmie Kim! She actually left TP, to go back to school, but I used to always drop by her desk and post up print-outs of SGT. Frog all over it. And I placed a lot of my pokemon plushies there, too… LOL:

This one if of Jason Milligan, AKA Chinny. He’s still working for the Manga Revolution, so I can’t exactly say he’s an alumni… But I like the SOB so much, he belongs with the rest of us:

This one is of Mona Lisa De Asis. She was one of my first friends at TP, and the one who I was always afraid of to get mad at me. Because she was fiesty. Actually, she still is… LOL:

This one is Esther Kim, named after my zapakuto. She worked in Marketing and she made my life a living hell. I hate her. She’s number 2 on my list of people to put in the Crippler Crossface. I’m half-serious. No, I’m not. I’m totally serious. LOL.

This one is of one of my closest friends, James Dashiell. We were hired around the same time, and he went on to become my boss when I was a production artist at TP. James Dash is one of the best people I know. He’s Production Manager at Go! Comi, now:

And last but not least, it’s ME! JoeMac! If you’re wondering about the halo and the devil wing, it’s because I tell everyone I’m evil, but they say I’m nice. Go figure. And the line is from a Ghost Rider comic, because I’m a follower of Vengeance.

And that’s it for now. I still don’t know what to do with all these pics. I want to make a huge poster for sure. Maybe make a artbook? I’ve been thinking it’d really be neat to have a gallery for a while, and put all these things up! It’d be a great excuse to get everyone together again!