Fashion.

Here's two fashion illustrations for Tools of the Trade!

these pieces completely changed my entire aesthetic and i'm very happy with them.







I'm so happy with how these look, it's great to finish something for once and feel good about it! I would also love any input or ideas about anything!

Hermione Granger in progress

Jason's version of harry potter series 1

The wait is Over.

The Wait is over, Here's "Time Traveling Tina" Written by local cartoonist Leo Padron and illustrated by me, Jason Belden. enjoy!!

COMING SOON!!!!

A NEW WEB COMIC!

Written by Local Writer Leo Padron

and Illustrated by JUL's own Jason Belden!!





Coming Very Very Soon.

I'm Not Dead!

HEY LOYAL VIEWERS!!

Just so you know I AM NOT DEAD!!

I am taking some much needed time off for the summer but I have so BIG BIG summer projects coming your way.

A new take on Death, and full colors on the buffy print as well as some TV Merch (prints bookmarks ect...) for Angel, Buffy, Glee and more!!


I'm also working on a PAINTING!! It's gonna be 8ft long by 4 tall and it's gonna be LEEEGendary.

see you soon! here's some gorillas to tide you over.

INKED BUFFY COVER!!!

oh I'm so glad to finally have this thing inked.

It's very cool, but still not done!

Final Digital Colors coming soon!!

Me and my Show

SO, a minor milestone for any artist's career is their first gallery show. For me, this happened over the weekend, at a gallery called "Fallout" in Whittier. The theme of the show was "Archiving" so I submitted Sampson and Delilah, the four page bible comic to the show! See for yourself!



Ok folks, I was literally the ONLY person there, it was hilarious. I was the sole witness to my first gallery show. The title of this post is real, it truly was JUST ME and my show. SO fun.

I love my dorky pride.

I am the awesomest person I know.

But I'm bias because I live with me :/




(proof)

Ode to body art

SO for experimental Comics the assignment was to take a story, and present it in a new way.

I've always had the famous concave chest cavity, so i based the story around that.

I have to give props to my roommate max for helping me apply the tattoos! He also recently got a (permanent) tattoo. I'd never get a real one, but this is my way of showing my appreciation to the art of tattoo.








For the record, these were really hared to remove.

my nipples say "Ouch. what did we ever do to you?."

Buffy

SO, anyone who knows me knows that I have an undying, unhealty, eternal obsession with Buffy. It's literally a part of my core being.

That said, I've never taken a legitimate attempt at doing a Buffy project.

Until Now.

here's the very in progress sketch, and I reallllly want it to be perfect, because it's Buffy after all...so for the first time in Jason's Unpublished Life history, i'm asking for your thoughts!




it's going to be a "cover" so there's room at the top for the title, but as you can see there's going to be a grouping of former buffy villains surrounding her, with spike off near by being sexy...

So do you like it? again, this is BUFFY. This is where my heart lives. SO it has to be perfect.

What's YOUR problem?

Ever wonder why i'm such a twitchy mess most of the time? WELL this might give you an Idea.

Collaboration with Jean Yang

I have never been amazing at coloring my work. I'm getting the hang of it, but I am knowhere near the flowy, elegant color style that I want.

Jean Yang is a fantastic artist with the digital coloring style that I dream about. I'm so excited that we were able to join forces and put her paints to my lines and make a new style for both of us.


See?

This was a quick one, but already the elegance of color is emerging. She took a sketch of just a bust with hair and created a full page of paints. We were both excited about it!

The dorky logo signature at the bottom signifies the joining of forces in future works ahead :) I personally can't wait. she takes my work to another level.

AnthroDoucheism

So...Anthromorphism is when something gets made to look like or be something else and the first thing isn't human but it looks human and the second thing has aspects of the real humans things too and the you put them together and its ironic.
yeah...I was confused too. That's why this assignment is a week late.

But I do think I got the concept down.

look at this garbage.So, the four figures each comment on An Object (1) Freebie (2) People (3) and an Idea (4) Respectively...

vampire blood pack!! get it?

I Had A Dream.

So, this week's Experimental Comics project has me in a pretty weird state of mind. We spent the lesson studying Emenata and Symbology. The assignment...Create a new symbol for an obscure, unusual action and put it in a strip!

Ok...So, I turned to this weird ass dream I had about the retainer I wore in 7th grade. See if you can pick up the "action" that I'm describing in dream logic.

Oh, and fair warning, my teacher Zak said "the more conceptual the better"

And...you're looking at unfinished linework. I think i'll color it, and leave the background white.

ttfn. J

New Line Work!

Here's some Linework for a peice i'm working on. "Minnesota"
The Project was to summarize what minnesota means to us!

It's me on a mountain of my past challenges and times, but sometimes it was fun, so I made it a playground too!

Happy Screw Years.

So I've been sitting here on break...actually, I've been all over the frickin' country on break trying to relax and re group...and I've been doing some thinking. It's hard to describe what i've been thinking about, because mostly it comes in waves of fear and anxiety. success, failure, progress etc...

Time keeps going and going and yet I feel stuck.

I'm on the verge of going back for second semester and I'm suffering severe sketchist block. My beautiful new spiral bound sketchbook that I got from Celeste during a rousing secret santa exchange sits empty in my messenger bag. I fear that when I pick up a pencil, nothing will happen.

It's 2010 and there is no documented Jason Belden work from this year. Nothing.

I want to make new beautiful work as always. but for the moment, all I can do is look at stuff from my past sketch files. I miss the carefree hand of unbridled sketching wonderment.

2007 - 2008


This kind of stuff used to just come out of me all the time. (No gross imagery intended) And I miss it! It has a comfortable freedom...probably due to the Comfortable Freedom of the time in my life from which it was done. High School. ( I miss it so.)
bits of that are just sick.

2008 - 2009 i think i don't really know for sure. Screw knowing the years things were done.

I like my work but I don't know whats going to become of it. I don't know where i'm gonna end up creatively, but something tells me I'm gonna need to take some of "this" with me.
So screw years!
who needs them?
No one.