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ZOE #2 out now!

My comic ZOE #2 is NOW available on comiXology Submit! Be sure to check it out!
http://cmxl.gy/1vOYwVX

I posted preview pages on my tumblr, I mostly stopped updating this blog so please follow my work there:
http://vargatomi.tumblr.com/

Temple Run 2

I forgot about this piece for the last month or so as it was one of those last jobs around the end of school. Anyway, this one was just a do-a-one-pager-for-something kind of project, so I picked one of my favourite Android games, Temple Run 2. I will probably do another page or maybe a spread to follow this one up.
Ink on Bristol, 11" x 17"

Nights in Varanasi // Colors

I penciled this little two-pager a couple months back and I had the opportunity to color it now. I had a lot of fun with it (I mean, come on, vampires in India!), so hopefully the creator, Teresa Edeen will keep writing the story.
This is the earlier post with Josh Zingerman's inks over my pencils.
http://vargatomi.blogspot.com/2014/02/nights-in-varanasi.html

Spider-Man & The Human Torch

Fun assignment for Humor class: draw yourself with a celebrity! So this is me as Spider-Man hanging out with Chris Evans as The Human Torch.
I had a lot of fun painting this, and I put special effort into the city in the background. I started painting it with gouache, which is the nastiest kind of paint ever invented, I used it for the figures, and then forgot about it and used watercolor on the background.
Original size: 10x15"

Fashion Illustration

The title says it all, assignment was to do an illustration for a fashion ad.
I went out of my way to make it look realistic, I used reference shots of models Will Chalker and Nate Gill and frankensteined them with a looot more shots to get the picture I need because I didn't want to just copy a photo.
I had a lot of fun with the watercolors, I hope to do more painting whenever I can.
Watercolor on Illustration Board, 11" by 17"
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Akvarel illusztráció divathirdetéshez.

CRUSH Beer Label

My first graphic design effort in a while.
Packaging design for a beer. I chose the Crush brand and went with the crushed beer can effect.
Drawn in Adobe Illustrator.

The PatWoman

Aw, I am almost sad I am done with this painting because it brought me so much joy...

So this is one of my classmates, dressed as Catwoman last Halloween, and I cannot think of a single funnier thing right now, so please enjoy with me.

Acrylics on Canvasbord, 9x12"

A+B // The Wedding Comic

In December I got a commission from a couple to do their wedding invitation. They wanted it to be a 2 page comic about how they met, with lots of injokes. The poem and the script was written by Chris Antzoulis.

The Book of AARON // Minicomic

This project is a minicomic, its actual size is 5"x4", and the scene is from a novel I started writing waaaaay back. It is one of my favourite scenes from the book, though it is out of context here. But I always imagined I would make it into a very indie-looking comic one day and it was a nice opportunity to experiment with a radically different look and approach.

Guardians // COPIC Pin-Up

I have been wanting to draw Nova and Angela for a while, and since they are both in Guardians of the Galaxy now I added Rocket Raccoon just for fun.

Here I was experimenting with doing pinups the Adam Hughes way.

I post 3 main phases of the process:

1. Lineart drawn with brush and ink on Bristol board.

2. Tones done with warm and cool gray Copic markers over the inks.

3. Colors applied digitally over tones on Photoshop.

Angela es Nova A Galaxis Orzoi kepregenybol.
A tussal-ecsettel kihuzott rajzot szurke tonusokkal arnyaltam filctollakkal, a szinek pedig digitalisan adtam hozza.

ARTIFACTS Redux

We had a project where we had to pick 2 pages of an existing comic with horrid storytelling, so I picked a fight scene from the first volume of Artifacts by Top Cow, where this massive fight scene was for some reason told in closeups of people yelling… So I decided to show the demons, the fight and the amusement park it took place in.

Inks on two 11 by 17” Bristol boards.

Agent Venom vs Jack O'Lantern

watercolor on illustration bord, 11 by 11"

Kill Bill

A little fun for Humor class. We had to draw 3 famous women, so I went with the cast of (one of my) my all-time favorite films Kill Bill.

Video GAME Cover // Prince of Persia WARRIOR Within

Video game cover for one of my all-time favourites, Prince of Persia Warrior Within. Also my first attempt at painting something entirely digitally.

Boritoterv videojatekhoz. Elso probalkozasom a digitalis festessel.

Background #03 :: NAMOR's Throne Room

This is the last one, it also includes the most redesigns on my part. So Atlantis seems to be a place that is hard to find reference for in comics, no one seems to want to draw it. So my idea was that it would be a place built of concrete, because that's what's used for underwater construction  (I didn't want to go with the ancient stone look). I figured it would be pretty simple, because honestly, what kind of technology would you have underwater.

Background #02 :: BATCAVE

These backgrounds have been brewing for a while, hopefully the work put into them shows.
This one is about Batman in his Batcave with his Batcomputer and Batmobile and Batalfred and Batnightwing and Batrobin. I was happy to include the T-Rex robot and my favorite, now retconned DC character, Oracle, I think she was the biggest loss of the New 52 reboot.
Once again, inks on Bristol, colors in Photoshop.

Background #01 :: ARKHAM Hallway

The first of three background projects. I picked the moment from Arkham Asylum the game, when Poison Ivy takes over the mansion.
Ink on Bristol, colored in Photoshop.

Az Arkham Elmegyogyintezet folyosoja, miutan Meregcsok atvette az uralmat.

Daredevil // Inks

I inked a page about Daredevil, as pencilled by Allen Watson "Shrptooth" - visit his Instagram for more awesomeness.
This 2-pager was written by Patrick Thompson, you can find his deviantArt here.
It is centered around an idea that Daredevil has this leathermask covering his eyes so he can pull off oll kinds of special effects to scare goons.
Ink on Bristol, 11 by 17"

Nights in Varanasi

This was an exciting project where we had to team up and have someone else do every stage of the process. The script for these two pages was written by Teresa Edeen, it is called "Nights in Varanasi" and is about vampires in India. I did pencils for both pages. I tried to do a design for the girl where her traditional clothing would resemble the vampire wings and ears. Then I asked Josh Zingerman to do inks for it - check out his deviantArt profile for his art!

http://jzingerman.deviantart.com/

I might do colors and lettering for it if I have time.

Csapatmunka egy ketoldalas torteneten.

Irta: Teresa Edeen.

Ceruzarajz: Varga Tamas (en)

Tus: Josh Zingerman