http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:cocijo5000&section=today deviantART RSS for by:cocijo5000 en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:54:14 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/27872251/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/27872251/ Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:43:38 PDT
So in the interim of me finding a job, I decided to make a Facebook group called The Artists' Salon with the intention for artists of all mediums to come together and talk about the Arts, as well as to promote your own work.

That means visual, communicative, comics, film, dance, music, and theater are always on the table. So feel free to join and post your work. It just opened up a few hours ago, and I'm hoping to create a postive, growing atmosphere for artists!

Again, the facebook group is called The Artists' Salon.

~C

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/25813674/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/25813674/ Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:14:59 PDT

How do you manage your time, fellow artists? Do you bring your work with you where ever you go? Force yourself to make time? Work through the exhaustion? Hook yourself up to a caffeine I.V.? Make a to-do list? Or accept that you may not have the time to work on everything you want, and instead, should work on what needs to be done?

All the above is leading to a sort of creative-artistic block where I shudder when I see a blank page and I can't get what's in my head down on the page.

Oh the woes of a cartoonist!

~C

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/23290333/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/23290333/ Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:31:43 PST [link]. It's pretty lame. Prove me wrong, you won't be able to.

So I'm redesigning it once and for all, but I can't think of what to do. It'll be in HTML and CSS so that everyone can view it, so no Flash at all.

Should I have it be themed a la the deity, Cocijo, whose name I use wantonly? (He's the Aztec god of Rain and Thunder, by the by.)

Or, should I do something all together different?

CHOICES!

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/23084623/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/23084623/ Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:30:55 PST
~C

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/22611137/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/22611137/ Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:18:57 PST
That aside, I've been working on BoMB. I have 14 pages written (all trash), but at least it's something. I hung out with a friend last night at a bar and then we got some food. I found it exceptionally stimulating on an intellectual and creative level, so I rushed home and tried to capture that energy on paper. We'll see if the Muses were at all by my side when I get home today after work and re-read what I wrote.

This weekend is going to be BoMB central with a flood of character designers and posters. I'll upload all of them when I get a chance, but right now I need to draw Ege, Sabin, and Dinn. And maybe eve Bellerophon, but I'm not sure.

For those of you who don't know what the fuck BoMB is, it stands for "Ballad of Mushroom Boy" and details the adventures of Sabin, who is an adoptive prince, and Ege, who is a washed-up-on-shore thief as they go through a desolate land known as Laccaria discovering who they are, the history of the land, and why there are deep scars in the Earth. It's a story about the power of words and coming to terms with who you are. It also has wicked humor and lots of half-naked guys.

I'm looking forward to completing this story. I've been writing the world of it for the past two or three years without ever knowing what I was going to call it.

I'm also sketching out some postcard designs centered around Greek Mythology, specifically Edith Hamilton's "Mythology". I really want to have each of the heroes have their own unique image, and maybe do a set of five for the Trojan War. I'm not sure yet, since it's all in the works right now. Lastly, I'm working on even more images for Shakespeare plays.

So I have a lot on my plate, but BoMB is first and foremost!

~C

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/22162946/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/22162946/ Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:21:34 PST
I've condensed Ege the Seven Stories into one giant story that will be the rebirth of "Ballad of Mushroom Boy", I have "Zed" and I have "Podunk." Aside from my big three stories, I have a comic story collection of ten comics in which Zed's orgins, The Witch Oiseau, and so forth will be in. (the first four stories of the comic collection will be available online, but to get the whole book you'll have to buy it.)

That's pretty much it. In 2009, I want to finish BoMB, and finally tell that story and be done with it!

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/20780373/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/20780373/ Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:31:39 PDT
It's really cool. Come out and support everyone involved, and your local underground theater scene! E-mail endymion82@aol.com for more information!

If you want to come on the 9th, it's a special price of 5$! Email endymion82@aol.com
There's only THREE tickets left for the opening night! Email endymion82@aol.com
And on Saturday, since it's a special night, admission is only $10! Email endymion82@aol.com to reserve tickets!

If you can't make it to the opening weekend, it's running every Friday and Saturday night until November 22nd.

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/20644563/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/20644563/ Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:03:31 PDT
But this is what looms before me:

[]Housebroken
[]Ege
[]Xander
[]Greeting Cards
[]Posters
[]Web Design

AHHH!

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/20167353/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/20167353/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:24:35 PDT
So I've picked up Ege again, or, "A Hot Mermaid Epic." I hadn't worked on it for awhile, and ever since I stopped, I've been feeling this sort of... whole or void. I think it's somehow linked?

Regardless, I put Siege on the back burner once again (Sorry Hero, your story will be told in time, I swear.) I really want to finish Ege. I think the story is great. But I'm pretty biased.

Aside from Ege, I've been working on the Monk stuff and I've been working on some stuff for Housebroken. So. TONS of comics!

TONS!

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/19497755/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/19497755/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:18:48 PDT
The sticker set is almost done, and it should be finished by the end of tomorrow night. And I'm re-designing my website. It'll take some research with action script to have the website fully functional the way I want it to be, though.

After the Sticker set I'm taking a week off of anything Monk related, and then getting down an dirty with the graphic novel and illustrations.

With all of this, I'm almost ready to debut (finally) my secret project I've been working on for three and a half years. The next time I update, I'll post the three character posters, but anything story-related will start in September.

>>

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/19019795/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/19019795/ Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:17:07 PDT
also (and this is really exciting) I'm working as a graphic-illustrator for "The Monk" (www.myspace.com/ambrosioandmatilda) I'm doing the t-shirt, poster, stickers, and three selected scenes from the show! Look for them in 2 weeks time (uh, not the selected scenes, look for those in September ><

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/18800699/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/18800699/ Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:16:53 PDT
I can't wait to get started on it!

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/18767426/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/18767426/ Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:36:31 PDT
So I know have several projects in my queue:

Gamboge (the next strip is coming, I swear! And I wrote some more of it.)
ZCP (I'm technically not going to be starting this until I have a lot of writing material)
Housebroken (Which will be f-ing awesome)
Bison (I'm really only writing this)

So, yeah. Gamboge will, technically, be out slowly as I really want to get started on Housebroken and Bison as soon as I possibly can.

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/18543911/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/18543911/ Wed, 28 May 2008 13:16:45 PDT
Anyhoo that's about it ^__^

Also, I'm working on a collaboration with a friend called, "Zombie Contingency Plan" about survivors of the Zombie apocalypse. Shout be fun ^^.

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/18217570/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/18217570/ Wed, 07 May 2008 19:17:35 PDT
Alas, Roxanne, beloved Overlord of thy Abode. Ye shall be fixed soon, in three weeks time methinks. Rest well, for now!

/sigh

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/18016333/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/18016333/ Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:16:50 PDT
A new strip is coming, I swear! Its on my desk, waiting to be scanned in!

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/17764194/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/17764194/ Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:27:32 PDT
So I went to see Marjane Satrapi speak last night, it was a birthday present from my boyfriend. And, well, she was awesome. I was so star struck! When I met her to sign my book all I could manage to get out was, "uh, der... yeah... um. My name is Cody, your cool!"

It was great! She has so much to say about culture and the nature of comics, it was soooo cool!

Thats all ^^

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/17571482/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/17571482/ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:34:01 PDT
I've realized that I have an obsession with mermaids and that I've always kind of had one. I really like drawing them because you can be so creative with them in terms of color and design. Anyhoo, I've been researching mermaids for a little bit and only recently have I decided to really dive into it and look at mermaids as Sirens and other nymph figures of Greek myth. It's really fun to explore all of the different nymphs and entertain the idea that they do exist, which really makes working on Gamboge that much more fun since I've pretty much decided to treat it like a Nymph Encyclopedia.

That said, let's talk about Baskets and the Ballad of Mushroom Boy. I really like stripping with comics, not actually creating the traditional comic book page, per se, but using comic strips as a serious story telling medium. I know thousands of other people have done it, but the concept is fairly new to me. Currently, I just as a 14"x14" image area not the standard 11"x17" image area. I enjoy the larger surface and the creative freedom is warrants me. So, with that in mind, I'm adjusting Baskets as well as The Ballad of Mushroom Boy to a Graphic Novel told in strips. The first part, Baskets, is pretty dramatic (evidently.) I didn't intend for it to be so... serious, but, well, I only did what the characters wanted me to do, really. The new Baskets will come out in mid-April. It won't be complete, but it will be half way through the story. I've actually only finished penciling the first strip the other day, but it should be quick moving once I've past the first hurdle that is the first strip.

Also, I've been asked to apply for something called "Fellowship" with is an organization that teaches artists how to teach a youth group and prepare communal art projects. Which I think is pretty awesome. If I make it, and join up with them, that can lead to fulfilling one of my dreams and actually educating kids on art and helping them creative something fun and productive. I'll keep this journal active with more information on that. How awesome would it be if you were walking down the street in a certain neighborhood and saw the story of that neighborhood told sequentially with giant comic panels?!

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/17493452/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/17493452/ Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:56:35 PDT
I just thought I would update people who like reading my strips. The second strip of Gamboge will be out soon, sometime this week, and so will the third part of Baskets. So, yeah. Look for them soon.

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/17382138/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/17382138/ Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:45:09 PDT
So I think I've finally cracked my whole not adding eyes onto my diva's problem! I'm so happy. I was afraid in adding eyes, they would distract people from the overall pose, etc. but it turns out, making the eyes wicked small, I got over that hurdle. You can see them in my scraps:

[link]

Now that I've gotten this far, I think I'll try a small little comic (when I have the time.) I'm currently doing a mass-over haul of White Trash Revolution, so I'm thinking of starting this new jaunt of art with that.

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/17224683/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/17224683/ Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:11:19 PST
I got the internship at zipidee.com, and as of right now, I'm designing web banners and such. It's pretty fun, and in sixty days, I'll be considered for a hiring position. Which is cool. I think at around 60 days, it'll be around the 27th (which so happens to be my birthday.) Good times.

Think positive thoughts! Send them my way

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/17195915/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/17195915/ Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:57:16 PST
I want to illustrate Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, but not in a normal form, meaning, not in a way that is coherent to the story. In the musical, Marius has a song after the revolution called "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" which is a requiem to his dead friends. They spoke of revolution, but never held a gun, and died with conviction in their hearts.

Before the second attack on the barricade, there is also a lyric in the song, "Drink With Me:"

"At the shrine of Friendship
Never say die.
Let the wine of Friendship,
Never run dry."

When I listen to the first song mentioned and then listen to the second song, I get a strange sensation that Marius, while singer after they are all dead and gone, heres phantom voices of Enjolras, Couferyac, and Bahorel responding to his anguish with words of Friendship.

So that's the sort of illustrations I want to try and create for Les Miserables. A series of vignettes featuring the major portions of Les Miserables and telling the story of the Novel as well as the story I perceive from the musical.

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/17177160/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/17177160/ Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:09:01 PST
So I've been thinking of purchasing Corel Painter X. I think I'll have enough money by the time I'm out of school to do so, since I'm trying to pay off my credit card.

Hmm...

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/17152142/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/17152142/ Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:00:40 PST
Sup?

I went art supply shopping and bought some illustration board, an entire packet of construction paper, as well as a new cutting mat and razor blade. I'm doing some images for a fund raiser for a local play that's going up in August, and the originals will be auctioned off to help support it, so I'm going to experiment with pen and ink with collage elements.

Other then that, nothing else has been happening. I've been producing sketches of some artwork here and there, but nothing to write home about. I have been exploring both White Trash Revolution and the Lamentation stories I created again.

I wish I had the patience to make them a comic But maybe a bad ass looking picture will suffice for the time being!

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/17119331/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/17119331/ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:11:18 PST
Well it finally happened, I finally bought a website over at godaddy.com. That's right, a whole website just for me. There's absolutely nothing on it as of now, but I plan on having, you know, my artwork up there, various cartoons, and my storybooks.

Baskets page three will be up soon, by the way. The whole Baskets storyline is undergoing an overhaul in language as well as visual style. Because that's what I do I'm going to plan on coloring it in photoshop and not in illustrator, which is kind of new turf for me.

Oh right, and I've been looking for Art Deco prints for references for my ninja poster, and I can't seem to find any. Can any of you linkypoo?

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/16969508/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/16969508/ Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:15:30 PST
I've decided to take on the task of making my Baskets and BoMB into a Flash Storybook.

Perks?
I can have music, sound effects, and voices. As well as small animations to help strengthen my story.

Cons?
Its Flash -_-

]]> ~cocijo5000 http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/16958658/ http://cocijo5000.deviantart.com/journal/16958658/ Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:48:28 PST
My dad called me on Sunday and asked me to draw him three pictures; one larger one, and two smaller ones. He told me he wanted them to be about a character I made when I was about seven or eight years old--Rickimatsu (a ninja I created for my Bushido Warrior Ege universe.) He wants them before I graduate...

So here's what I'm thinking: pen and ink with mix media elements... or try and get really digital with it and pay for it printed out on canvas.

Does anyone have any ideas on what the composition could be like? I'm thinking something Art Deco, since Art Deco ninja's could be really, really cool...

]]> ~cocijo5000