*Arnold Swartzenegger voice from Terminator* I'm Bock. LOL!

No that's not a typo on the title. He actually sounds like that lol I do a pretty mean Governor Swartzenegger impression lol :D

Well, I'm back from surgery. not one week into my recovery, and I was scratching away into my sketchbook, seeing if I suffered any memory loss and lost my ability to draw. Thankfully, there was no loss in any of that department. I even rememebred the last bit of Front torso anatomy I was trying to memorize before my surgery :) Deltoids, obliques, abdominal from sternum to pelvic region, all that good stuff! LOL! Yatta yatta yatta so on and so forth I remembered it :) So it's full steam ahead baby! :D

Well,, not FULL steam unfortunatly. I can't ink right now. My body is still shakey from my Dystonia ( left drawing hand still shakes from involuntary muscle movements) Shakdey hands is a major nono for inkers. In the past, Ive tried to compensate with quick ink strokes, but that doesn't work. One of my mentors told me my ink strokes were too short. He caught me. lol He found the flaw I've been trying to cover up for the past 2 and a half years. I'm totally incabable of drawing a long straight line without my hand shaking and going all over the place.

Good news is, I get activated tomorrow morning at 8 oclock! :D Well I have to be at Emory hospital by 8. I'm sure I have to sit in a waiting room. Hopefully it won't take too long. I have a follow up appointment on the 28th of this month too, to see if there's any progress. So I have my both my fingers and even my toes crossed! LOL!

One thing Steven did tell me, was I can take this time to sketch new pages. He also explained to me better about drawing to the bleed section. He gave me a cool comic page he did for Udon with C. Viper on it. Too bad I lost it before I left from his table! LOL! Damn it was so cool too. Well, I still got what he explained, so I've kept the bleed in mind as I sketch the remaining 5 pages for Session 5. WHICH IS ALSO THE END OF VOLUME ONE BABYYYY!!! :D *High fives all around*

I'm going to call it Chamber One. What can I say, I'm a Wu Tang Clan fan :) Maybe I can join their crew! LOL! jk man :) I used to MC actually, but priorities change man. I more passionate about my art than I am aobut MCing. I shouldn't let the world that dwelling inside my brain goto waste. I need to draw it all out for the world to see. Some of the things in my head are sad, some of the things are energetic and I feel can inspire feelings inside the viewers. I want my work to do that.

Here's what I have so far on Eternal:


I feel this piece:

reflects the mental termoil in all of us. And what hope lies in those that want to love us no matter what. I felt sadness, and as i finished it, I felt hope. I want to be able to move people and stir emotion. Even in my manga, I want to excite the reader. To make them laugh. To connect with my characters and feel bad for them. To cheer when they triumph.
http://www.drunkduck.com/Eternal_Session_3/index.php
There are people that judge if they will read a manga based on if it looks like manga. The question they are asking is wrong. I'm not out to look like anyone else. And if they believe that a nationality should dictate what you can and cannot work on, then obviously they aren't true Otaku. An Otaku a Japanese word meaning fanatic. Steven told me of this word. It isn't just limited to Asian Culture. There are many types of Otaku. So for the sake of being specific and correct, they are not true Japanese culture Otaku. If they were, then they would konw, that the Japanese are actually EMBRACING different looks in manga. Case in point, Felipe Smith! He's a Latin american. He craated MBQ for Tokyopop. He went through 3 Volumes of MBQ, then left Tokyopop. Guess why. He was offered work at Kodansha. A Japanese manga company. Felipe's manga style was different and outragious. It made a statement and seperated him froom other American Manga artists. This is why he stood out, and was noticed by a Japanese manga company.

Another question I get from people about Eternal. Why don't you submit to companies already? Well, two reasons.

1. I'd have to remake the entire Chapters 1 and 2, which I have to say, suck compared to now. Well, not outright suck, I can do better now. Let's just say that lol
2. Due dates.

Their going to be looking over my shoulder day in and day out lol Asking me over and over and over, Is it done, when will you be done,, your not drawing fasgt enough, DRAW FASTER! DANCE PUPPET DANCE! LOL! ( ok that last part I was just having some fun. No offense companies. I looovee yooou lol ;))

Oh and let's not forget, they will make me change things. And I don't mean artwise to bring up my quality ( I wouldn't mind that at all) It's my storyline. I have alot of shocking moments and alot of things that give Eternal it's own special flavor. It's my baby. Don't fuck with my baby man LOL! Seriously. not coool man.

Well, that's all for now. Just letting people know I'm ok. what's up with Eternal, what's up with my CG's all that good stuff :)

I'm outtie 5 thousand man. Peace! :D-GIO

Personal update:

I'm going to be getting a surgery for my neuro-muscular disease Dystonia. It's called Deep Brain Stimulation.
This video shows someone with Dystonia


This video shows the Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery:


Looking forward to being able to sit at my table in my nice comfy chair and draw stuff. I got 2 more pages finished for Eternal before my surgery. I'll be able to draw alot straighter and ink better after my surgery. Anywho, that's all for now. One. :)-GIO

Finally finished my Bring The Pain CG!-GIO

Yesssss! Finally finished this thing today! I'm uploading a 1200 pixel version of this piece on here, so you all can see the details I took the time this past week an a half to do. Click on the smaller version above to see the larger version. More to come! One!-GIO

Hello BLOGGER WOORRLLLDDD!!!

Hey how's everybody doing here in Blogger world. I've been to Myspace world:
[url]http://www.myspace.com/RingKingKaimirah[/url]
Deviant Art world:
[url]http://neogio.deviantart.com/[/url]
Comicspace World:
[url]http://www.comicspace.com/gio/[/url]
Well, I've been joining a whole love of places trying to get my work out. Updating my stuff everywhere is taking alot of my time lol Sometimes I don't get to them all. I've tried bookmarking them alot more lately. I've recently discovered a really time efficient and more detailed way to CG illustrate my work. I saw someone doing it on their video. They just recorded their CG process and didn't really explain anything. I was able to fill in the blanks. My sketches are was sloppier than his, but their good enuogh to do a CG. On this blog I'm putting something new I'm working on. As you can see I've got it basically finished. There's just a few details I'm going to add. I need to draw each of the fighter's tatoos and also design a swirly pattern that will appear on each of their trunks. This CG is the most time consuming mentally and physically draining thing I've ever worked on lol I spent all day one day drawing the background and all 50 people (estimated) in the background. I've spent the last few days adding differences to each person. Different skin tone, different hair styles, different tshirt designs ( the tshirt designs were actually sort of fun for me. It was fun getting creative with it.) If you look closely at the audience you can see some pretty funny things ( if you don't have fun doing what you do, then why are you doing it, that's what I say lol) One guy has a Kid an' Play haircut, another guy has a Charlie Brown style tshirt. Another guy has his fingers pointing up and eyes clenched shut grinning his head off with his feet in the chair. Another guy has his hand over his mouth like, " Oh sh*t did you see that!" lol I'm sure there's a few anatomy errors. I was going more for excitement with everyone not so much anatomically correct. And plus, I figured they're too far away to notice and the two in the foreground's detailed anatomy more than makes up for the audience's lack in perfect anatomy. Our little secret, dont' tell nobody lol. ;) I easily could have used a few photoshop tricks and only drew abuot 3 or four different people in different poses and copied and pasted them all over the place, but that means I would have had to sacrifice personality in my piece, and I'm not having that sorry lol. :) If anyone here wants to see my other recent CG's check out my Myspace. And if you'd like to check out my graphic novel I'm working on, I have it up on Comicspace and update new pages as I finish them :) I've been sort of on haitus with Eternal ( that's my graphic novel I'm working on, one word, easy to remember, and best of all, copyright protected :) Yep, the Eternal "E" logo belongs to me baby! lol) I'll keep everyone here updated on new pages of Eternal as I do them. I have a few pages coming up that sort of have a Sin City feel to them. I wanted to do the black and white silhouette look because I love Sin City's art style. I think manga could benefit from it's visual genious :) Did you know Yasuhiro Nightow actually admires Frank Miller's work? More specifically his comic Big Guy and Rusty, which was a cartoon I used to watch and absolutly love man :) Never knew it was originally done by Frank Miller though! Apparently he came up with Robocop too. He also drew for Batman in the 80's. Yeah, I like to read up on my favorite artists lol Don't ask me what his favorite color is, I'm not a stalker man lol :) Well, that's all for now. I'll keep everyone updated on newer stuff. I've got something really off the wall for my next CG. Always good to think with the right side of my brain when drawing :) Stay up everybody. One!-GIO

Ps.- Shouts to Juan Aravelo! That's my HERMANO right there! What tha dilly Juan! lol :D