Gamer Girl & Vixen Artist Spotlight: Andrea Rosales
We’ve hit the home stretch of the Gamer Girl & Vixen: Tyrant Lizard Queen and we’re on a role to do really well by the end! Can’t wait to to get to work finishing up this comic and putting it out this year! And I’ve saved the best artist profile for last!
Read on and learn more about series artist Andrea Rosales, the penciler and main colorist behind the whole Tyrant Lizard Queen graphic novel!
Q. What led to you becoming an artist?
A. Drawing has always been a part of my life. I have fond memories of drawing as a kid and while I was good at academics and played different instruments, drawing was always the one consistent thing that I just kept at. Drawing has been a constant in my life and over the years I’ve loved learning about the various ways it can lead to such amazing, fantastical works of art in varying mediums from graphic design, book illustration, storyboards for film, concept design in animation, product design, etc. There are countless applications of art and realizing that it was an essential part of so many creative forms I was passionate about helped energize me and refocus my efforts into becoming a storytelling artist. I’ve learned much from many different disciplines I’ve studied and I read a lot so I try to apply what I learn into what I am creating.
Q. What do you see as your strengths as an artist?
A. I think my strengths lie in character acting, expressions and most recently I’ve been working a lot to improve my backgrounds. Backgrounds are another character in the stories you tell visually so I’ve been doing my best to put the work in to more fully show the worlds that the characters live in.
Q. What are your future goals as an artist?
A. My future goals include working in the YA book market. I want to create stories that inspire young readers to have pride in their roots, identity, to be brave and do what’s right even when it isn’t easy and to take chances on themselves.
And now check out the first two pages of Tyrant Lizard Queen, drawn and colored by Andrea!
Now wait until you see the rest of the 90, full color pages in Tyrant Lizard Queen! There’s still plenty of time to order your copy and see Andrea’s first full graphic novel!
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6 Animated Movie Sequels I Actually Want to See
I’m a big fan of animated movies, from new films like Nimona to the classics like the Kung Fu Panda trilogy. Some are better than others, obviously. And some are clearly just being pumped out to keep the brand alive. We’re right in the middle of several such instances, from Kung Fu Panda 4 coming out this week, to an unwanted, unadvertised Megamind sequel coming out last week, to the likes of Despicable Me 4, Inside Out 2 and Moana 2 coming out later this year.
As much as I herald the Kung Fu Panda movies are being truly amazing, I have zero interest in actually seeing the new, fourth film in theaters. I had no interest in seeing the new Trolls movie at all, even though I rather enjoyed the first two. And obviously we’ll never see the end of the Minions on the big screen. They’re unstoppable. But I’m not opposed to all animated sequels or even trilogies. There are some franchises that I’d love to see come back for another entry.
There’s no way to know if these proposed movies would be as good as I could hope…but sometimes hoping is all we need. Join me after the jump for six animated, franchise films that I’d love to see get a sequel!
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We’ve entered the final week of the Gamer Girl & Vixen: Tyrant Lizard Queen Kickstarter campaign. We’ve had some solid success with this one and will definitely be making a comic this year! I can’t wait to show it off to all of my readers who have ordered a copy.
I’ve been doing some artist spotlights for the past week, and next up is Jo Christian.
Q. What led you to becoming an artist?
A. I grew up watching Disney Renaissance movies (1989-1999) and wished I could draw like that. I think it was the movie Mulan where I first realized that art could be used to further the storytelling medium (because the movie art was heavily inspired by Chinese watercolour and ink work, and I was going through a Chinese dynastical phase at the time).
Fast-forward to the end of college, and I started reading Hellblazer comics and realized that the comic medium was full of characters and stories I could really dig into, and again, art was part of the storytelling medium. From there I obtained a very pink and sparkly “How to Draw Disney Princesses” book and used it to learn the first foundations of drawing people in the Disney style.
Q. What do you see as your strengths as an artist?
A. I’ve been told that my use of colors are very bold while still following colour theory. I also have a deep love of character facial expressions.
Q. What are your future goals as an artist?
A. I would like to provide the art for my own comic scripts and maybe even delve into animation where my love of visual storytelling began.
Jo drew the shorts Mission Unpossible and Nothing At All. Which, now that I write them back-to-back, those titles are both Simpsons references. Wild.
I had so much fun making these little mini-comics and I can’t wait to make some more going forward! We hit our first stretch goal in the campaign this past weekend, so all the mini-comics I’ve been sharing will be included in the Tyrant Lizard Queen graphic novel!
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Danny DeVito is Always a Gem, Especially as Wolverine
There is a really, really fun meme making its way around YouTube over the past few months, and that’s inserting Danny DeVito footage into other pop culture. Especially footage of DeVito as Frank Reynolds in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Most recently, the Corridor Crew has inserted him into the X-Men films as Wolverine.
That’s funny stuff! That’s quality internet weirdness. And I’m very happy to share it!
I’m also really happy to share these videos from the YouTube channel eli_handle_b.wav. It looks to me like this channel came up with the Danny DeVito meme, with their videos inserting Frank Reynolds into Baldur’s Gate 3 and The Last of Us.
It’s just endlessly funny to me! Frank Reynolds is an amazing character, and there is so much Danny DeVito footage available. I hope the internet continues to deliver on this stuff, because it’s a hoot!
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 3/2/24
What a week, what a week! I got slammed at work this week, which is never fun. But I did manage to squeeze in some comic book reading, with titles like Avengers: Twilight and Duke.
Comic Book of the Week goes to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #117 because I liked what I saw in this issue.
Meanwhile, I watched the live action Avatar: The Last Airbender this past week and it’s…fine to not good. I don’t know if I’ll do a full review or not. Nothing that happened in the live action first season is better than the animated version, so it calls into question why even have a live action version. Honestly, it’s made me question why we have live action adaptations at all, especially if you’re just going to recreate the cartoon over again.
Comic Reviews: Avengers: Twilight: Book 3, Duke #3 and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #117.
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