It's a BOY!

The Adventures of Pregnant Kristy © Corey Breen
By Corey Breen
Photoshop

UPDATED!

My wife and I are expecting a beautiful baby boy come October 15th!
So EXCITED!

Gotta go, gotta work on finishing my son-to-be's mobile using my old Star Wars vehicles, as my wife's cries in the corner! HAH HA!

Have a GREAT Holiday everyone, spend it with family if you can!

Corey

Some Freelance Logo Work

DJ Bodega Brad Logo Design © Brad Hoelscher
By Corey Breen
Illustrator

DJ Bodega Brad Logo Design © Brad Hoelscher
By Corey Breen
Illustrator

Drunken Monkey Logo Design © Brad Hoelscher
By Corey Breen
Photoshop

Drunken Monkey Logo Design © Brad Hoelscher
By Corey Breen
Pen & Ink & Photoshop

These are two logos I completed for a client who is a DJ. If you love yourself some great spins, check out his Fan Page on Facebook here:

https://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/pages/Bodega-Brad/253845208558

My process for logos is to work out some ideas through thumbnails. Then I choose the best one out of like 10 ideas, and sketch that out. Once I do that, I redraw it over a lightbox and make it as good and clean as possible. Then I ink that. I scan in the inks then clean that up in Photoshop. Finally I bring that into Illustrator and change it into a vector drawing. That gives it all the points I need. I zoom in and really clean it up. That takes a long time, making all the lines perfectly straight, and all the curves flawless.

I like doing logos, but they are NOT as easy as they look. Even though a logo's final image may look very simple, the process to get it that way is usually pretty tedious in Illustrator.

For the Drunken Monkey logo, that was a little more fun to do. I was given this reference:

Drunken Monkey Logo © Brad Hoelscher

Then I just sketched some ideas, and went with a classic super-hero type pose, drinking his beer and ready to pounce. That one was a lot of fun to do. I really LOVE the beer bubbles in the DMC letters, whhich was Brad's idea. REALLY happy with how that came out, and very cool looking.

Client was really happy with both of them, so that's what matters, and that freelance gig was a wrap! Thanks for the work, Brad!

Talk soon everyone, next post should be a popular one, and one I'm REALLY proud of and happy about!

Til Then,

CjB

This One Goes Out to the One I Love!

The Adventures of Pregnant Kristy © Corey Breen
By Corey Breen
Photoshop

My wife Kristy is now 20 weeks pregnant, so to celebrate that and the learning of what the sex is on her next appointment on Friday, I drew her this cover. It features my beautiful wife, of course, along with our three wonderful cats, Calla, Sebastian, and Jasmine! Jasmine LOVES to play fetch for hours, and JUMP! She jumps like 5 feet in the air to catch her ball, I kid you not. That's why she is flying in the air in the piece, lol. We have to film it and post it, and like send it to Animal Planet for their Cats 101 show or something!

Well, anyway, just wanted to share, and tell my wife that I love her, and she is beautiful and I really appreciate all the hard work of carrying our child in her. Half way through, baby! I hope the rest of this trimester and the final one bring you no more nausea, or sickness!

I'll be sure to let everyone know if it's a boy or girl this weekend!

Corey B

Here's the process of the cover:

The Adventures of Pregnant Kristy © Corey Breen
By Corey Breen
Text Done in Illustrator

The Adventures of Pregnant Kristy © Corey Breen
By Corey Breen
Inks

The Adventures of Pregnant Kristy © Corey Breen
By Corey Breen
Pencils

The Hunger Games

Katniss from The Hunger Games © Suzanne Collins
By Corey Breen
Pencil

Katniss from The Hunger Games © Suzanne Collins
By Corey Breen
Pencil

Katniss from The Hunger Games © Suzanne Collins
Entertainment Weekly

Katniss from The Hunger Games © Suzanne Collins
Entertainment Weekly

Katniss from The Hunger Games © Suzanne Collins
Entertainment Weekly

Here is a drawing of one of my FAVORITE new characters, Katniss from the Hunger Games books by Suzanne Collins. Been meaning to draw her ever since I read the AMAZING books. Finally got around to it after Entertainment Weekly posted the first pics from the upcoming movie. So psyched for this movie, it seems they are doing everything RIGHT, including the casting of Jennifer Lawrence! Wow, does she look the part or WHAT?

I recommend these three novels more then you can possibly imagine. Great writing, great characterization, and a fascinating page turner, and one of the best series I've ever read! Hope you like, I tried two different facial expressions on this one.

Corey

Supergirl Revised

Supergirl © DC Comics

Revised Color
By Corey Breen
Photoshop

Wish I Could Fly Like Supergirl!

Supergirl © DC Comics
By Corey Breen
Photoshop

Supergirl © DC Comics
By Corey Breen
Digital Inks in Photoshop

Supergirl © DC Comics
By Corey Breen

Pencil

Was just killing time, and decided to redesign Supergirl. I wanted something more retro, so I went with a VERY simple yet padded body suit. Much like my Superman redesign, I picture the Superman Family to have outfits that are sleek like The Flash and like swimmers in real life. The cape is the only thing that should be flowing from Superman or Supergirl. As cute as her mini-skirt is, and as much as I love drawing heart a hint of panties (heh he), it just doesn't make sense. Neither does the bike shorts under the mini-skirt. That is just dumb. She's not playing field hockey. lol

I always think too, that the more clothes on a female character, the sexier they are; I dunno, I just do sometimes.

So, hope you like it. Couple last notes on this though. One, as you can see, I did the inks digitally on my Cintique. Two, while coloring it, I played around with different hairstyles and then completely flopped the head horizontally. I think that works better. Let me know what you think!

Corey

Here is the other version, with her head the other way, just in case you want to compare:

Supergirl © DC Comics
By Corey Breen
Photoshop

Robin & Batman

Robin & Batman © DC Comics

By Corey Breen
Pencil

Robin has always been a character that has been near and dear to me my whole life. I grew up loving Robin, ever since I started following Tim Drake in the 90's when he found out that Bruce was Batman. I always wanted to BE Robin, and like a lot of kids, found it very plausible. So I always get weary of how they handle him in the funny books, even though I realize now that I can never be him (anymore at least).

That's why I thought I would HATE this NEW Robin, Bruce's son, Damien. BUT, much to my surprise, I think he is AWESOME! Love the character, love his attitude, and love that he still needs to redeem himself, and also make up for ALL his parents' faults, including Ra's Al Ghul.

So he is just a quick sketch of the new Robin... LOVE the hood too, nice touch!

Enjoy

CjB

THOR!

Thor © Marvel Comics
By Corey Breen
Photoshop

This is a piece I did a long time ago, but just decided to color it in honor of the Thor movie coming out in theaters today! I hope to hit up Free Comic Book Day tomorrow and then the movie but it all depends on how the wifey is feeling, being pregnant and all.

Hope you enjoy the movie if you see it, and definitely hit up the comic store, and support Free Comic Day!

Corey

A Big THANK YOU to Our TROOPS for This Day & Everyday!

5-1-2011
USA Navy Seals
By Corey Breen

Nuff SAID!

Thank you, troops!

Corey Breen