What Aren't I Up To, and Other Assorted Facts

I realized the wasted potential of my own blog here, so now prepare yourself...

So my good friend Ramon Villalobos and I have been working on a book together called the Vitruvian Underground. I love it, he loves it, it's a labor of love. We hope others at least like it. We've been doing casual updates on our tumblr page for it here: http://vitruvianunderground.tumblr.com The book itself will be available in August, at my second convention of the year at Wizard World Chicago. More on that as it gets closer, but right now I'm very excited I'll have this book there for people to purchase. Like us on Facebook to follow updates too! http://www.facebook.com/vitruvianunderground

Vitruvian Underground, August 2011





While we worked on VU though, we worked on various paid work and commissions. And we started up our own "daily" sketchblog: http://clubchevon.tumblr.com

We're currently taking a week long break from it as it proved incredibly tiring with all the other work we had. But it was fun, so we'll jump back into it shortly.

Now, my main focus currently is a creator-owned comic book called Pilot. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post anything on it so I'll hold off until the writer gives me the go ahead.

The first issue of a comic book I penciled and inked now a few years ago is currently available for purchasing. It's called Veritas, written by a really, really nice guy, Joshua Pantalleresco. I know he's beyond happy that it's finally out, and so you can support both him and I by picking a copy up here: http://indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=5523 if you do, please let me know, I'm always interested in knowing who picks up my work and hearing your thoughts!



So... now I'm very busy, working on Pilot, lots of Vitruvian Underground (we have issues planned out very far ahead, and even have pages done for issue 2 and 3 - Yes, we really want people to like this!), another project I'll have to keep quiet about for now, as well as commissions, sketchblogs, and other things I'm sure. I really needed to play catch-up in informing everyone what's going on so I plan on making this easier on the mind by being more consistent with updates.

Thanks again for checking out my work, and I hope you stick around to see what comes next!

-Craig Cermak

Jesus E. Lee

Pin-up done for my friend Nick Justus's book, Jesus E. Lee. I contributed a pin-up along with a whole round-up of talented folk including Evan Peter, Ramon Villalobos, Gavin Smith, Christian Ruiz, Kevin Castaniero, and others. Check out Nick's site for more info on picking up a copy of his new comic: Jesuselee.com

Flash/Fiddler Inks and Colors

I recently colored a Flash/Fiddler piece I penciled and inked earlier this year for school. Really enjoyed working on it overall. I'll be at the NY Big Apple Con this Saturday and Sunday May 21st-22nd and will have this as a print, so please stop by and say hello! 

Batman Sample Pages

Quick post showing three Batman sample pages I did for my portfolio while at school. Still tightening up and fixing things here and there, so I'll probably post up some updates. The pages were from an R.I.P. script by Grant Morrison. Very cool story (though I know there's haters out there - please, don't come in here and shit on my parade) so it was really fun reading through one of the scripts, with all the additional info Grant puts in. Anyway, the pages...

Bola #1 Cover Process

Here's a gimmick comic book cover I made for one of my assignments at the Kubert School. I was pretty happy with the end result. The idea for the cover was simple: Have the duo of Bola and Kid Sling prepare to bust into the doors of nightclub Club Chevon to take down the Great He-Goat. And I wanted the doors on the cover to open up, and have He-Goat frantically running out.

First, the sketches:



Here's the inks for both images:





Next I colored them both:




Then I spent a headache inducing amount of time cutting and pasting each thing in photoshop to create the pieces as I had to print them in order to have the doors open, and have the He-Goat underneath. Eventually it all worked out to be like this:



Overall, a fun project!

Bola - The Beginning!

Here! The very first appearance of the original Bola and his trusty sidekick, Kid Sling, as they face one of their illustrative villains, The Great He-Goat! There's a ton more planned for this guy, whether it's wanted or not. Anyway, these are my Bola Pages 1-5 for Joe Kubert's class - Pencils and Inks by me. Bola is my original character that I'm using for any assignment i possibly can and also the book I'm working on with a friend called Vitruvian Underground.

And here's some of the character sheets we had to come up with, using three different styles for hypothetical animated, realistic, and comic book versions.














Thanks for looking, and I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
-Craig

Robot hands... sorry.

OOooooOOOooO.

So here's my blog, established about 4 years ago, and never updated! Huzzah!

Alright, down to business. I illustrate. I go to the Joe Kubert School, the most bad-ass school ever. I will do whatever possible to ensure I work in comics because I love comic books.

I'll probably use this blog to talk about the different projects I'm working on and to talk about the artists I love. I've never really been open online about my goings on, but I was always interested in starting, so we'll see if this takes flight.

So school work....





I love Batman. He's a cool dude.



For humor class!

AND.... my creator-owned character for Joe Kubert's class...

BOLA!



You will see a lot more of this guy, not only for school but a project near and dear to me that I've been cooking up with my good buddy Ramon Villalobos. I love the stuff, and I really hope everyone else digs it to some degree.

Alright, that's just a few things for now. Thanks for stopping by!

-Craig