About
I'm Maximo, comic artist with a couple of books under my belt. Currently working on a shonen-esque comic series called One-Hit-Knock-Out!!
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Doodle of Lune I did for fun, Lune is from my webcomic OHKO
I’m lucky I got two friends (REM and SOULKARL) that can hammer on me a bit and help me work out the bugs in OHKO. Thanks to them I’ve got a number of fixes I’ll be applying to OHKO.
A. First problem was I wasn’t considering the overall ratio of B/W, Which was causing washed out white pages. Now I amped the blacks to a 35%-40% range then adding about 15-20% grey. My old ratios are something like 10-20% black then 30-40% grey.
B. THIS IS SHONEN! So I’m going to be way less shy with SFX and start drawing ( opposed to writing ) all the ones I can. SFX will be bigger bolder, overlap more things and have more effects to them.
C. Another problem with my washed out looking pages was too much linework and not enough black fills. Additionally I wasn’t utilizing the time of day to help me do black fills. So now more black fills, less linework and more referencing / using photos.
D. SIMPLIFICATION. I was hatching and adding way too much details and making things uglier, for some reason switching to tablet has made a lot of problems crop up including me killing pages with lazy hatching or not being choosier with my lines. A little side note was my inks were about 60% density which made them grey, I pumped it to 90% recently but it wasnt enough! so now it’s 100% density to get my nice black back.
E. Simplifying tones and having less tones. A lot of toning just flattens my work, so I’m going to do my best to let the linework do most of the talking. Less gradients, less smudgy ness and more crisp bold choices when possible.
It helped me out to discuss my failings and flaws with my bros. Maybe it’ll help you too?
Doodle of myself in Araki’s style, ( which is helping me focus on showing the planes of the face in a simple way )
Actually I wanted to take this time to talk about my appearance, which I’ve always gotten mixed reviews on lol. Now I can’t play innocent, even though I’ve grown up with my fair share of bullies, I turned around and did it to others, and although I think I’ve made amends thats a topic for another time. Anyways I remember growing up people trying to bag on me for my thick lips, my grill, or my anime wannabe hair ( I would have dyed that blue, and styled it like strider hiryu if I could back then if I could have ). I went through most of my life feeling ugly until I figured out that people who have to try to knock you down a peg based on the way you look are frustrated with their own appearance. They don’t know how to deal with their own securities so they take it out on you, if you seem confident they HATE that, they want you to as miserable as they are. ( Like the anonymous guy who came out of nowhere trying to make me feel bad about my neck/weight? on tumblr a few months back, dude must have had issues to spend his time critiquing me. ) What I figured is I like the way I look, maybe I’m not good lucking to some people, but some people aren’t good looking to me, they don’t need to please me and I don’t need to please them. I like my thick neck, my fat lips and my fucked up teeth, along with my rad eyebrows and sleepy/mean eyes…I look unique and badass and I wouldn’t have it any other way. <3
Happy Birthday Emilee(Ghostgreen)!! I drew you as a character in the style of my OHKO comic. I wonder if she minds If I throw her in the BG as a character in the story *3*
Crazybee drawn over the years!
New design for Crazybee in OHKO !
spoilin you with an OHKO panel I just did <3
Is my site not loading for other people? I think somethings up with the server im on…
Serge’s powersuit “O.H.K.O”
Read the comic over at “OneHitKnockOut”
Drawing 28 things during February over at Satellite Soda, check out my thread, my theme will be CASUAL MEGAMAN.
Self portrait - I went a little old school Araki style, fat lips, sharp canines, sleepy dark eyes, thick neck, tan skin, and long eyelashes are my defining features. And I’m wearing Cody’s Escape from Metro City alt costume.
