Tell me what you find!

A world without people is a world without crime.

A world without people is a world without hope.

the artist of Akira

and for some reason, i had to get up and draw this. I don’t ever draw anything manga-y, but here ya go. this is what happens when i feel like crying like a little girl.

I started reading Blackest Night from DC in the past week, and so far, its been the only big giant crisis crossover event that hasn’t completely irritated me. Actually, i like it. So i decided to draw this. Hope you like it.

This is an old comic idea, that i decided to draw a poster for. Gamma is basically "What would the world be like if giant Kaiju destroyed the world, the Power Rangers couldn’t stop them, and pocket monsters were used in brutal back alley cock-fights?" This is the answer.

This is a commission i did recently, with the Cartoon Commune. The client was really picky, but eventually we found a sketch that she liked, so here is the final version, then sketches after the cut:

SKETCHES

Hey everyone, i just finished a commission for a friend’s story, Jonaliza.com . I normally don’t show the process, from idea to pencils to inks to colors, so i thought i would. I’ll start with the finished piece, then you can see how i got there:

the PROCESS

Hey, i’m a pirate. I got this new program, called Corel Painter, and i’ve been messing with it! This is what i made!

Painting is still hard, even on a computer.

Hey everyone, i was picked to make a shirt for Threadless! Check it out!! Its called CATS AND DRAGONS:

This is the link to the page:

http://select.threadless.com/product/2018/Cats_and_Dragons/Ulises_Farinas

What do you think???

go read the latest update of motro! Its historical!

Newest PAGE!

or read from the beginning!

The FIRST Page!

 
go read the latest update of motro! Its historical!

www.activatecomix.com/45-3-30.comic

Hey, i got another commission, it was fun to draw this.

Find these things;

Lego Man
A Sandwich
A Teddy Bear
Bart Simpson
Harry Potter
Corn Pops Cereal
A Robot
Me, Ulises Farinas
A Mustached Cat reading a book and smoking
A Magnet
Raphael, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

there might be more, not sure. Hope you like it!

Wendell America is the pilot of this suit:

Hey everyone, sorry MOTRO was gone for a bit, but it’s back! Here’s 2 ACTION PACKED PAGES:

READ THEM HERE: www.activatecomix.com/45-3-25.comic
Or from the beginning here: www.activatecomix.com/45-1.comic

The first chapter of MOTRO is going to be published in SPAIN this fall, relettering all the pages has been taking up most of my time, along with a few other things. So here is what has taken my time this week, the cover for the SPAIN version. I might switch the two text boxes, to their opposite sides, those are the inside flaps of the cover, btw (if you’re wondering why its so long), it’s gonna be printed at mini-comic size i think, by this group called Polaqia. Check it out:

I sent out the first chapter of MOTRO to Comixpress, for it to be printed on demand. I wanna see how it works out. Here’s the cover i made for it. Check it out!

Better pictures!

MORE Legos!

This is like from 3 years ago or more. It’s like the first drawing of a new elegant universe, in the back there, you can see the Giant Green Algae Bear.

This is a propaganda piece, i made for a new character. She sorta looks like Girl Mercury.

this is the non-propaganda piece!

This is the standard suit, with basic colors, but i tried out a few different color schemes, really quick in photoshop, let me know what you think!

All the pretty colors!

These are the Gigantas, they are sorta the mascot for the New Elegant Universe. Their life cycle is clump of dirt, that rolls up into a larger clump, into a baby-hill, into a mountain man, which then molts into a Gigantape, which may grow until it stops moving, and begins to gather more and more sediment, (maybe in space, like GALACTAPE) until it turns into an asteroid, a moon, a planet, or even a star. Then the cycle begins again. Gigantapes are the most common of the Gigantas, but there’s also the Gigantopus (very near, foreground), the Gigantaslug (standing on the Gigantopus’ head), the Gigantabehr (with flying bunny friend), and the Kiwahirsuta (The Gigantalobster). All gigantas have the need to constantly be moving, and also are guardians of the natural order. Galactape is a guardian of the galaxy. Galactaverse…that might be a drawing for the future.

This was a freelance illustration i did for INC. Magazine. I did one version, but they wanted more “complexity” and ‘details”, like my heavy detail work, so here are both versions:

It’s a pretty good magazine, and i like to call this the “Mail Planet”. The article it was for, was how to make Microsoft Outlook more efficient with a few tools and other thingies.

This is the first page, to a second issue of a comic, that i never finished. It’s about animals that roll into balls, and race! Its called Super Speed Ball Run.

This is my first completed mecha! I’m a big lego fan, but i rarely get a chance to play, and improve my technique. This is the “Bleu Rumbler” piloted by Iroquois Star!

and here is portfolio dump #3

This is a commission i did, for a friend’s first Father’s Day. I’m really happy with how it came out, i’ve never been asked to do a drawing for someone, and i really wanted to give them something i’d be really happy with. So i tried my bestest!

Anywho, i liked doing it, so i thought, maybe i should try to do more. So yeah, if anyone is interested in me drawing them something, i’d be interested in doing it! Okay, i think that’s all.

This was a present i made for a really good friend.

I DO.

I’m dumping my portfolio, from like years! One post a day! Fun, huh?! This is basically the cover image, of my ENTIRE FICTIONAL UNIVERSE! See that little Mushroom Monster, remember him from MOTRO? Well, look for him!

My pet turtle, he is named Susan. I’ve had her for about 7 years or more. But i’m gonna let her free in central park, very soon. She is getting too big for my tank. These are some last blurry pictures of her. I’m a bit sad:

She is a snapping turtle. People think she’s ugly, but i think he’s so cute. He’s very mean though.
I haven’t been able to clean the tank recently, so that’s why her water is so icky. Its okay, Snapping turtles are notoriously dirty. I can’t ever get it cleaner than a pale yellow. hehe. Bye bye Susan.

GUESS WHAT!

(what?)

I GOT PRINTS MADE! OF THESE:

THEY’LL BE AT MOCCA! With the BEAR PARTY COLLECTIVE table. And a SECOND Issue of MOTRO is coming out. I Hope you are impressed with my productivity. Show how impressed you are by BUYING STUFF.

Prints are 25 bucks. MOTRO comic is 6 bucks. PEace!

Btw, new art:

Girl Mercury’s enemy!

I have six pages of artsy comics in there! GO buy it! This is a sample of what i did, although the colors are different.

NEW MOTRO UPDATE!
READ IT HERE! www.activatecomix.com/45-3-10.comic
or from the very beginning: www.activatecomix.com/45-1.comic

I took a piece of wire, a hot glue gun, and made some funny spectacles out of googly eyes.

 

 I spent ALL NIGHT coloring this damn drawing, and i could not get it to work. SO its 6 am now and i’m just putting it up. Guh, this was such a pain. I must’ve tried a million different things. Oh well. Hope you enjoy it.

I stayed up all night to finish this! The previous drawing was my finished pencils! These are the finished inks! Hope you guys like it!

You know what i want to see, with all the cross overs constantly, i want to see THIS:
 

CRISIS OF INFINITE CRISISES. Boba Fett vs. Xena vs. Terminator vs. Robocop vs. Predator vs. Alien vs. Punisher!!! The ULTIMATE BATTLE OF LICENSED CHARACTERS! haha. It’ll never happen though…so i decided to draw the above. 

NEW MOTRO UPDATE!
READ IT HERE! www.activatecomix.com/45-3-10.comic
or from the very beginning: www.activatecomix.com/45-1.comic

Here’s a preview for a Kitty Pryde drawing i did, for the "Full of Pryde" charity thingy going on at Floating World comics in portland, OR, i think in may or something. More news with that later. But anyway, i’m gonna color this first, but here is the b/w version. Hope you like it.

NEW MOTRO UPDATE!
READ IT HERE! www.activatecomix.com/45-3-10.comic
or from the very beginning: www.activatecomix.com/45-1.comic

And new comic, GIRL MERCURY!

A short post this week, but a goodie! on www.activatecomix.com/ 

Hope you enjoy! 

I thought i’d make an alternate girl version of Iron Man, but i decided she was too far out for iron man.
Her name is Girl Mercury, and her suit uses "hard-light" armor plating and a nanofiber cybersuit. When she’s not perfecting laser technologies, as a super genius girl; she makes money as a part-time, hero-for-hire! She also likes to travel.

OH, and btw, CHAPTER 3 of MOTRO has begun! 
Read it here: www.activatecomix.com/45-3-1.comic

I’ve made some shirts on this MySoti site. Not sure if it’s anything, buy some shirts and let me know!

Well, i hope someone likes these.

 And CHAPTER 2 is FINISHED!

See another sad ending, where another character…sorta dies. 
on www.act-i-vate.com/45-2-56.comic

  READ THE REST ON ACTIVATE!!!!

 
I used a specific famous face for the face of this Medieval Superman. I wonder if anyone can guess who! 

Little back story i made up, year 1000, star of bethlehem appears in the skies again, but it’s really young superman’s kryptonite spaceship crash landing! In this image, he’s over 200 years old, but looks twenty. Rather than aging up til his mid-thirties and virtually stopping, this Superman grows extremely slowly! Raised by the catholic church as their savior and secret weapon in the crusades, Superman has a crisis of conscience in his ongoing role in the crusades, doubting his own supposed messiah-status.

ISo I haven’t used a brush in like 5 years, but i bought a pack and decided to try them out. Below is a KING BATMAN Drawing, that i penciled first, then inked. Below that was a fast sketch of Batman, that i did after the King Batman drawing, cause i wasn’t finished feeling out the brush. So i abused the brush the second time around, was less careful. I sorta like the second one more. 


 

The BEAR PARTY COLLECTIVE website is up and mostly-running! CHECK IT OUT:

www.bearpartycollective.com

Oh, and that’s Jubilee, i drew her at my friend’s house. She’s chubby and uncomfortable. You can’t help but love her!

 JUST UPDATE MOTRO on ACT-I-VATE Site, you should def check it out!
This here is part of a five page spread, 2 pages are done so far, i hope you like it:

And besides that, this is a sketch i did for a new idea for BATMAN, called KING BATMAN! 

The Basic Idea, i’ll probably try to work on this in MARCH, is BATMAN in the DARK AGES.

OH, that spiderman comic, that’ll have to be april or something.

Oh, and project rooftop submission for Batman Dick Grayson. It’s my first time trying, not sure if i nailed the idea though. Oh well, check it out:

I don’t read that many webcomics, but from my understanding, there’s a lot of copy and paste bad comics with idealized versions of their authors as the main character. And there’s plenty of woe-is-me autobiography out there too! So i thought i’d make one too, since it’s easy enough, and write fan fiction of my own life, where everyone loves THE MAIN CHARACTER but he’s still miserable. This might end up being pretty boring actually, so if it sucks, i’ll stop. Here’s the first episode.

Oh, and any character or likeness that looks like anyone or acts like anyone is like really coincidental and all that hub bub. 

To Boxy Bear Puppy Head. He is a friend of mine.

Check, check it! I thought i’d try to make sense of the Thing. I read up on insect exoskeletons, octupus arms, and internal organ functions. Whatcha think!? 

Read MOTRO! I posted this on activate this weekend, but i thought i’d start posting it here on my LJ too, for people who haven’t yet heard the good news (of activate).
Keep reading at www.activatecomix.com

Oh, and i can’t figure out how to do LJ cuts anymore, anyone got any advice?

Read MOTRO! www.activatecomix.com/45-2-45.comic

Yes, that is batman beyond.

I started this thinking i’d just do it as a warm up, three hours later, i finished. And no motro yet, that’ll go up tonight though.

Enjoy:

 So i made a tshirt of ice lions, on MySoti.com. You should check it out…and BUY IT. I hope you like it!

Oh, and there’s some new MOTRO pages up too, check those out as well; www.activatecomix.com/45-2-36.comic

Here’s the link for tshirt:

www.mysoti.com/mysoti/product/123205

So hey, i should’ve put this up here many many weeks ago, but i’m lazy!!!!!!! Anywho, backstory:

I was told about 24 hour comics day about a week in advance, and i was so ready for it. I had a new plan, to do 48 pages in 24 hours. Well, a pretty girl will keep you awake and comics don’t. So i didn’t sleep enough to do the whole 24 hours, plus i had work the next day. I know, i know: EXCUSES!!! So i halved it. 24 pages were done in 12 hours, and we have ptimony and his brother and others who witnessed! My ultimate goal is to do a 72 hour comic, but i need at least a witness to verify it occurred. Anyone want to try it out?

Well, here’s the comic, plus some xtras:

PINKLIN, the mysterious planet

 I’ve been working on MOTRO like crazy, to get to 100 pages by year’s end. Here’s the most recent page, somewhere around 80 pages so far. you can read the most recent update here: www.activatecomix.com/45-2-22.comic
or from the beginning here!:
www.activatecomix.com/45.comic

So i’m drawing a full length spiderman comic book. Noone’s hired me to do this. I’m just gonna do it, and post it online. And TO HELL WITH COPYRIGHT LAWS. If marvel gets upset, i’ll call it parody or satire or “Hire me?”…check out the preview!

Its cut out of a larger page, so its a bit pixelly. But i’ll try to do this comic at the same time i do MOTRO (which you should read!)

  CHAPTER 2 begins!

 
www.activatecomix.com/45-2-1.comic

 

http://www.activatecomix.com/45-1-46.comic 

Sorry that the image is a bit blurry, but i’m no photographer. But there it is, in all its glory! The first 20 pages of MOTRO!
It’s a pretty little package.

Right now, some are being sold with MK Reed (malaisia ) at SPX, i think i only  havelike 20 left after that. Dang. Perhaps i’ll make more. 

Officially, they’re being sold with the_bear_party . I should probably explain what that is btw. 

First, what it isn’t: Gay Porn…or related to Paul Maybury’s (paulmay ) party bear. I think it was more of a subconcious influence when i came up with the name and all. Anywho, Bear Party is sort of an experiment pet-project of mine for an alternative form of distribution for new and exciting artists. 

This is the basic setup. Small group of artists band together to sell their books, crafts, etc, anywhere they can, dividing the costs of organization, transportation, etc.! Be it at conventions, festivals, street fairs, or just on the street as a local vendor. Slowly, it begins to make enough money to sustain itself indefinitely. Large profits aren’t the goal. This is more of an organization than a corporation in that respect. 

After one group gets large enough, and can sustain itself, it takes a percentage of the small profits it makes to help set up another group elsewhere. Ideally, in an isolated separated region from the first group. This group does the same thing as the first, beginning with a singular mind reaching out to local artists, to create a small network community that fosters and encourages new artists to make beautiful comics and things.  Now there are two groups that develop in different directions, creating little individualistic bear parties, that resists the sameness of the current scene, and also encourages friendly competition for awesome innovative items.

These separate bear parties can now come to realize on the larger network of other bear parties to trade inventories and help other artists and meet and chemically react to work that you might never see. So you get the benefits of a large distribution company without all the crap that goes along with it (high costs, low exposure, close to zero profits, disconnection from your community, disconnection with local artists, snootty pretentiousness, and working with a network that care about your work, doesn’t just put in on shelves to rot away). 

I really don’t like how industry affects what should be seen as a purely artistic pursuit. Yes, we would all love to make money off of our work, but we shouldn’t sacrifice quality for that goal, we should strive for a new model that benefits artists the most. This isn’t an end-all model, more like a first stage. I also don’t like that i can go to a comic store in LA and a store in NYC, and buy the same things, at the same prices. Comics are not fast food, and they should reflect the individuals that make them, and also, the environments and places they come from. There’s nothing better than tasting the genuine flavors of a genuine restaurant in a genuine neighborhood.  So, i think, there’s nothing we can do about making bad art if we simply accept it and buy it for lack of better choices. So better choices have to be made, and presented, and accessible. Relying on a small shelf, in a non-descript corner at a comic store isn’t presenting choice, when the rest of the store is dominated by men in spandex (or in more hip neighborhoods, self-absorbed surface level biographies)

Ok, enough ranting. That’s sort of my basic plan. Welcome tothe_bear_party .

 The legend revealed! Read the amaaaazing story of MOTRO!! <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3149/2807171121_bbc230d75e.jpg" /> http://www.activatecomix.com/45-1-44.comic

MOTRO HAS RETURNED. Go read it!!!

http://www.activatecomix.com/45-1-40.comic

And i’ve finally finished making the MOTRO comic and some buttons for it too! I’m gonna be selling them at the Howl Festival, with the_bear_party . I think i’ll be selling them for like 4 bucks, and the buttons for like 2 bucks. I’ll try to post pics soon. 

BYE!

Wonder no longer!

This is for the cover of the MOTRO mini comic i’m making this weekend. I hope you like it. I’m gonna be at the howl festival, selling stuff for BEAR PARTY!!!, a small little distribution thingy i’m involved with. CHECK IT OUT!

http://www.howlfestival.com/

Also, MOTRO RETURNS THIS FRIDAY! (sorry i left you guys at all)

I’m in the new Popgun 2 book that’s coming out, like this week. All the dudes and dudettes from ACT-I-VATE, that did one, have posted our comics for free on the ACT-I-VATE site!

READ THE WHOLE THING!

http://www.act-i-vate.com/59-1-1.comic

THEN BUY IT!!!!

Superheroes are awesome. I watched the Hulk yesterday, and it blew me away! Iron man blew me away too! Something about seeing these characters, moving and living and breathing, makes me feel like they really ARE real. I’ve always sort of thought that they were anyway. Maybe i’m crazy, but i’ve always sort of thought, that at the end of comic book stories, everything always returns to normal, and if this world is pretty normal, then maybe we just aren’t paying attention to whats happening in between? And they’re really are these crazy creatures and humans running around.

Anyway, i love superheroes. Whenever i’ve been in a situation that is tough and scary, and i know i have to do the right thing, i always feel like “THIS IS IT! This is what it feels like!” And it gives me confidence to know that my whole life, i’ve pretended to be super strong, or be able to fly, and that i should stand up to bullies! Whenever someone is hurt, i know that most people can walk on by, but only one person can stop and help! So it makes me want to be that person.

Recently, i’ve been really upset with the state of the marvel universe, because in a vain attempt to bring “realism” to superhero comics, they’ve forgotten their characters. But the movies at least, their true characters shine through! I don’t like to see an “illuminati” secretly voting to throw their friend Hulk into space, that’s mean. Mr. Fantastic has tried to help the Thing for his whole life, but now in the comics, he’s helping Iron Man throw characters into a gulag in another dimension! I don’t think that’s like him. But whatever, at the end of the day, they’re all trying to save someone, and people will always get hurt. Its disheartening, and life is tragic, but there’s a bit of safety in knowing that these people will always try. And by extension, that ALL people will always try.

Thats why i love superheroes, because in the end, they’re just human (most of them) and they want whats best for other humans. Even callous heroes like the Punisher, is really just an illustration of a man so torn apart by pain and seeing his family killed, that he is unable to allow any other’s to feel that too. So he takes up a burden that no man should. But thats what makes him heroic, no matter how “anti-hero” you draw him, even this character is doing what he shouldn’t and doesn’t have to do, he’s saving someone else instead of himself.

Then you have characters, that because of the unending love and acceptance he recieved from his adoptive parents, has bestowed a superhuman love and acceptance on his adoptive race, even when he’s literally and figuratively alienated from them.

Often times, i hear comic book artists say they aren’t interested in super hero comics because they’re too formulaic, because they’re out of touch with reality, etc. etc. I’ve read lots of slice of life comics, that wallow in misery and cynicism. It makes me sad that my generation is so sad and tired. Like a little kid who doesn’t like toys. I think everyone can love superheroes, and i think everyone wants to be a superhero. If people think superhero comics suck (they do right now) then i think we should learn to write better superhero comics! Mostly everyone who’s drawing comics now, began reading comics that were superhero comics, but now act like they’re just “kid stuff”. I feel sad that people forget these fantastic worlds. It’s okay though. I have not, even though i don’t draw superhero comics myself. But here is something i drew.

It is a company i made up, for my in-universe stories. To further explain, all the characters i make up (merbotman, motro, the water cat, etc. if you remember) all exist in the same universe; possibly at different times or in different sub-universes. Anywho, i’m trying to make a fully formed universe, with different cities, cultures, planets (with vastly different cities, cultures too!) and even different media! So i came up with “Zuger Comics”, a comics company that is the dominant publisher of comics, and publishes mostly superhero comics. The other comics company, that is its only major competition, is unnamed, but publishes mostly war comics.

I began by making up at least 26 characters, so i drew their covers. After that, i just began to make up characters on the fly. I haven’t counted how many characters i have, but i feel like there’s at least a hundred. Each of these characters, i plan on doing a one page excerpt for; they all have a vague idea for what the story is. Such as “Failure to Act”, in the above detail pic, is about SUPREMON. Supremon is the most powerful character in the Zugerverse, but he grew to be so powerful, that he can’t hang out with humans. He can’t even fight crime. All he can do, is worry about super giant cosmic threats. Since those are relatively rare, he mostly watches tv, writes books, or revolutionizes sectors of the private market (by purifying water by looking at it, by creating diamonds by crushing coal, etc.), but overall, most superheroes aren’t even aware of the most super powered human there is. His lower limit of power is being able to handle 1 ton without causing damage. A human, simply collapses from touching him (like a black hole actually). So “Failure to Act” is his story of engineering a cosmic disaster, partly out of boredom partly out of loneliness, that he doesn’t stop and then tries to reverse from happening.

Extinctomorph: can turn into any extinct beast
The Metal Monolith: builds steel suits of famous monuments
Amoeboy: A boy turned into a massive amoeba, has the power to control microscopic single cell life!

One of my favorites is “ZZZZZZZZZZ”, he’s a man that is constantly sleeping, but very effective at problem solving. He is mysterious, noone has seen him awake, but if you place a rubiks cube near him and walk away, it’ll be finished when you return. He even writes letters to others to communicate.

Leopard League; crime fighting duo that met online, and only had a limited fabric selection to make their outfits! They chose leopard leotards!

The Catalyst: can increase the chemical reactivity of any substance, as a by product, he sucks at cooking because he burns everything.

Clay Superheroes: A boy that discovers a magic clay, can make superheroes of his favorite comic book characters. These are actually of ANOTHER comic book company, within the pages of that comic. So i guess that’s really meta-, its like three layers of comic book fiction.

Laser Cabbage: It is what it is.

The Infinite Man: He exists in all places, and at all times; nevertheless, this has not done anything for his home life, he finds that he can’t concentrate now. The slow realization that he’s God, also doesn’t help.

Beastly Brain: Studies and creates hundreds of masks, to THINK like a beast and solve crimes! This is effective, he works at a large zoo.

Melon Girl: She has Melon-themed vehicles and gadgets.

Leftovers: a man who must constantly obtain new limbs, this makes him a regrettably brutal fighter. He is a gentle soul, that must follow wars and terrorists everywhere! Stopping them (and stealing their arms)

Moon Master: created a helmet out of moon rock, that imbued him with fantastic cosmic powers.

How to: FLY: is an instruction comic that teaches you to fly

Destiny Dino: a dinosaur that escaped extinction by time traveling into the future! Evil Cavemen time travelers try to erase him from existence!

Death of a Salesman 2 (the resurrection): You know that story about the depressed salesman? Well he got hit by a radioactive car, and brought back to life! This time around he’s a radioactive self help guru, reaffirming your life and his, BY KICKING CRIME BUTT TOO!

Teen School, Adult Job; is a really crappy romance comic about teens in school and adults at jobs.

Well, there’s a lot more, but this post is super long already! So i hope you like these!!! BYYYE!

I am Ulises, i decided to start using Live Journal, since there’s a lot of cool artists on this website, and i like cool art. Today i went to see Prince Caspian, it was very enjoyable. I love talking animals. Do you love talking animals? If you do, let me know which ones you love and what they’d say.

I should probably go to sleep, i have 1 minute til bedtime. Here are some favorite things of mine:

Rap Music. I’ve been listening to Lil’ Wayne and Rick Ross a lot lately. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Robots. I don’t have one..yet!!!

Pretty girls with far set eyes, so they look sort of like aliens.

Rooms filled with kitties!!!

Legos.

I’m bored, i normally don’t post anything but drawings, but i figured, what’s the harm? Eh? Here we are. Goodnight.

I COLOR!

I didn’t get to color this yet, but i’ll probably do it sometime this week. I should really be working on comics, instead of futzing around drawing random things. I just really got the urge to draw a girl that rides a caterpillar. I rarely ever draw girl protagonists, so i figured i should! So i did! Here ya go!!

SKY MAN!!!

i drew this awhile ago, but just decided to color it and post it for the first time today.

ORIGIN STORY!

This happened to me on the way home today.

In the far off lands of Ash’ruhh..

I usually post on blogger, on http://a-new-elegant-universe.blogspot.com. I’ll continue to post there. This is for something different.