Twitter is up.

Okay, so now I've also created a Twitter for myself. This will keep people informed of stuff perhaps a bit faster than other things. I'm not sure how often I'll use it, because I'm terrible with this sort of thing, and I kinda find it a bit invasive, but, hey won't know if I don't like it, unless I try it.

My twitter is on the site of here for those who want to check it out.

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Tumblr is up

On a new note: I've created a Tumblr for myself. I'm not entirely sure how often I'll use it or what for yet, but a lot of people have recommended it, so I thought, why not?

To visit it go to: http://amdiazart.tumblr.com/

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Checking-In

Hey gang,

So I know it's been a while since I posted something on the old blog. Things have been kinda crazy lately. I've been working at my internship job at KSDG of course, which has been going fantastic! Best job ever, really. I've been doing a lot of graphic design work for them, but alas, I can't post any of it yet, so, sorry, but you can't see any of it yet. Eventually, but not yet.

Meanwhile I've also started working at Cheesecake Factory to help pay the bills. It's not the most ideal job for a young artist, but hey, I'll take whatever I can get to make sure that I can't surviving in SF.

And as I hope most people are aware, LOST IN CONFUSION continues. We had a small hiatus when I started my job at CF because of training and pulling double shifts between there and KSDG, but both seem to be back on track and back to normal.

I'll hopefully be able to post more of my work when I can. In the meanwhile, here are a few comics that have already gone up over at LiC.

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KSDG Photo-Shoot Day

So as mentioned in my previous post, I've been working as an intern for a new company KEVIN STEPHENS DESIGN GROUP, which is an urban design group here in San Francisco. The job has been fantastic, with me doing a lot of graphic design work. Its a start up company, which is allowing me a lot of great opportunities.

Well, this last week or so, I've also been working as a photographer for the company, taking photos for the website. While this aspect still isn't up, there some more fun shots currently on the company's blog: KSDG Blog.

Take a look!
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New Job & Lost in Confusion hits 20 Comics

Great news my readers,

I’ve recently gotten hired as a Graphic Design Intern for a new Design Company in San Francisco. With that in mind, I’ve moved back out to the West Coast! I’m super excited to have this new job, and I’m looking forward to seeing where it might lead me.

In the meanwhile I'd also like to let everyone know that my webcomic "LOST IN CONFUSION" hit twenty comics! I know this isn't a huge deal, but I'm still rather proud of myself and what I've got so far.

Now with the new job, it's probably going to be requiring a lot of time and work on my part, but at least for the time being, the comic is going to retain the same number of updates per week. If it gets too busy, I might have to scale back to twice a week, but for now that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Enjoy,
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Whole Foods Mailers Mock-ups

Below are a couple of mock-up mailers that I did for a Signmaker job that I applied for at Whole Foods.

Enjoy,
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Lost in Confusion 2.0 is Go!

Well good new everyone! After weeks of work and development, my web comic LOST IN CONFUSION is up and running. As previously mentioned this is a reboot of my old Webcomic from a few years back and I never got a chance to take as far as I initially wanted due to the pressure of going to Graduate School.

But now that I've finished school, this seems like the best time to start it up again.

The basic premise of the story is a quasi-autobiographical story, about a twenty-something named Luc and his group of friends (and a gun carrying penguin) and their various misadventures of work, school, dating, and commenting on the world itself.

To visit the site go to http://www.lostinconfusioncomic.net/

Enjoy,
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Lost in Confusion Reboot Sneak-Peak

So, as mentioned in a previous post, I've been working on rebooting my old web-comic "Lost in Confusion". I've been playing around with the art-style the character designs and of course whether or not to do color or black and white. The big thing I've been working on is simplifying the style. I want the comic to look more "Toon" than "Comic Book" in style. So that means less realistic anatomy, exaggerated features, and so on. My plan to be able to knock out these comics at least three times a week.

The first strip of the comic is complete, and now I'm doing the next few pages. I'd post the comic up, but I'd like to get a few more ready ahead of time. Also, I'm working on a website to set up as well.

But since I'm super-nice, I'm give you folks a sneak-peak of the comics.

Enjoy,
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New Graphic Design Works

So I've got some new Graphic Design pieces for all of you folks to enjoy.

One of these were initially intended to be posted a lot sooner, but as per my jinxed lot in life, technology turned against me. Can you believe that my computers RAM decided it would be fun to crap out right in the middle of things. If you know me, then of course you'll believe that!

Thankfully I managed to not only replace it, but double it, which means my computer is now faster, stronger and whatever else they said in the Six Million Dollar Man commercials...

These are all made up projects that I created for myself.

Enjoy,

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"You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" Stage Poster

"Random Graphic Design Stuff" Book Cover

"Sinclair Coffee" Ad

Lost in Confusion Reboot?

So a few years ago I did my own webcomic called "Lost in Confusion". It was a semi-auto biographical comic, which ran for a couple of years. Unfortunately as a result of the stress and work of grad school, I retired the comic far earlier than I wanted.

Now that I'm out of school, I thought I'd maybe try my hand at rebooting the series. Since so much time has passed, I don't think picking up where the original story would work. I'd rather re-introduce the characters for new fans... also I'm rather embarrassed by my old art work from 4 years ago. :P

I'm still working on overall character designs, but I thought I'd post up some concept sketches I've done for the primary cast. Changes are expected to happen.

Enjoy,
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P.S.: And because I expect you'd like to laugh at me: He is a couple of those old comics.

Pages from Sketch Book

Okay so today I've been doing a lot of sketching lately, and I thought I'd post a few of said sketches.

Enjoy,
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Flaming C to the rescue!

Random Cartoon Character Designs

Nude Female Posing

The Cry of Coyote (New Alternate Cover) - Final Work

Behold the final work! The new Alternative Cover for my graphic Novel: Cry of Coyote. I'm rather pleased with how this came out, and I'm hoping it will look good when printed up. With any luck I'll be able to do a proper printing of books for sale sometime this year.

Enjoy,
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The Cry of Coyote (New Alternate Cover) - In Progress

Okay, so I finally got to go to Kinkos to scan in the new cover. With some tweeking, this is a better idea about what its going to look like later on. The background characters are lightened to allow the main character to stand out, and I worked on the rock a bit more. I'm already working on the color work, but I thought I'd put this up as an inidcator. I'm also working on some other comic pages for some other projects and the script for chapter 2.

Busy, busy, busy...
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CRY OF COYOTE (New Alternate Cover)

So one of the many projects that I'm working on is an updated cover for my graphic novel "CRY OF COYOTE". As many of you remember, the original cover was a bit...adult. And also not as dynamic. So I've been working on this alternate version for when I can afford to do an offical printing of the comic for conventions.

Sorry the quality of the picture isn't at its best. I'll try and get a good scan up soon.

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Penguins are Awesome.

So this is an idea for a possible T-shirt design, and this is what I came up with. Why? Because penguins are awesome.

The penguin is named Alfred. He was a supporting cast member of my old webcomic "Lost in Confusion."

Enjoy,
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Equality Poster

So I was reading an unfortunate article about how the Tennessee Senate wants to pass a bill forbidding teachers from discussing any topic regarding homosexuality, to grades K to 6. In short, as far as the Tennessee Senate is concerned, the idea of anything remotely non-heterosexual doesn't exist until 7th grade.

This just makes me really sad.

Despite what some people think, homosexuals do exist in Tennessee. Furthermore, many of them are raising children and having families and doing a damn good job at it too. So how fair is it to basically tell a child that talking about the two most important adults in their lives is an inappropriate subject in school just because they're the same gender?

Equality and love are things we all want our children to have, isn't it? So why do people keep trying take those rights away from other people, who may include their own children?

Believe in Love.
Believe in Equality.

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Animal Drawings

So after all the storyboards I decided to do something a bit more relaxing. And what's more relaxing than puppies?! Especially beagle puppies! And Zebras... well, they're not as cute, but their stripes are oddly relaxing. :P And anyways, I need more practice on drawing animals.

Enjoy,
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T.U.F.F. Puppy Storyboards Submissions

So the following project is something that I actually finished about a week or so ago. I held off on posting them online however due to the fact that I wanted to first send them out for a job that I'm applying for. They as such are just submissions for a job. They are NOT official storyboards for the show.

I'm not sure how many people are familiar with the show "T.U.F.F. Puppy". Its a Nickelodeon show from the same people responsible for "The Fairly Odd Parents" and "Danny Phantom". I didn't now anything about the show until recently myself, but it's actually rather fun.

Anyway, the following storyboards are for that show.

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I do not own the property of T.U.F.F. Puppy. Dudley Puppy and Kitty Katswell both belong to the Nickelodeon Animation Studios.

Seek then Destroyed Storyboards

So the past couple few days I've been wo
rking hard on expanding the storyboard part of my portfolio. This resulted in two straight days of no sleep, so you KNOW I was motivated and inspired. Or insane. I haven't decided yet. :P

Either way though, this is one set of storyboards that I've completed. It was an small idea slightly based off the cat of my former roommate back in California. While the cats never did something exactly like this... I'm pretty sure they wanted to.

Expect to see another set of storyboards tomorrow.

Enjoy,
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Berserker Bunny Character Concept

So we got some new stuff. Here we have a character that I came up with for the storyboards that I've been working on. As you can tell, he has a somewhat distinctive theme about him. Well, that's because this is the Berserker Bunny. An Easter Bunny who got pushed just a bit too far by his yearly duties at the Mall. Now with his holiday themed explosives, he gets revenge on the kids who scrambled his eggs one too many times.

Now normally, a character like this is would be a bit more disturbing coming from me. But since the storyboards I was working on was aimed more at children... well, he's a bit less psycho.

Enjoy,
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Portrait and News

So I've been a busy guy the last couple of weeks. I've been working frantically on a series of storyboards that I hope to submit for a few new jobs, and they're just about done. I'm currently doing a couple of retouches with them and will then send them out. Once they're in the mail, I'll be sure to post them up here for all to see. :)

Meanwhile, I also decided to take a bit of time to do a self-portait for myself. And no, I'm not being vain. I just kinda decided to do something different that I haven't done in a long time. Also, it allows for me to have a new image for my Facebook. :P

Enjoy,
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