My first foray into monsters climbing on things

He's a cutie, right?!

I never do monsters, but he just kinda showed up after I did the mountains. I have a canvas colored in red and gray acrylics and was thinking about adding a monster, so maybe he'll be part of a pair soon. My life is so terribly exciting.

Here he is a little more detailed and shaded in.

I wasn't sure which I liked better. Conceptually, I like the plain white one better but I know that the shaded in one looks more finished. Meh.

Edit:
Did another little dude. He reminds me a little of a mix between Heather's work, the Grinch, and a Blue Meanie. Despite taking forever for me to actually draw because of all the mistakes I make with lighting and line weight and stuff...I like him a lot!

Inspiration

Alex Pardee is a BAMF to the (n)th degree. His shit is SICK and I want to emulate the hell out of it some day.

Good Day Bird

Drew this up between classes for a little practice. I like the saying and I've been playing around with that bird figure for a bit, so this was a fun piece to do in about 30 min. For next time, I'd wanna fix the line weight on the body and the eyebrow a little bit, and maybe a few other things, but I thought it would be best to limit my time and see what I could get done within a certain time frame.

Edit: I wasn't allowing myself to not fix it. So I spent 5 more minutes and played around with it. I like this version better.

Test 2: Panel ?a

Woah, I know I was just complaining about how steep the learning curve with a tablet is, but somehow I sat down tonight and just went for it...and this came out of it. There will probably be some joke and punchline or maybe plot forwarding with this eventually, but it's almost 4 in the morning, I didn't do any homework because I got so involved with this (whoops), and this took forever to actually draw because I was figuring so many things out. So it's just gonna stay the way it is for now.

Next adventure is figuring out how to color the comics so they don't look stupidly amateurish. I also need to scan in and fix up all the other physical panels I have floating around my room. 5 page paper due Thursday. A few other things to do along the way. I can't believe I'm not even doing this for a class and I'm putting such stupid amounts of effort and thought into it. ajskdfaj

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Rough first comic. Finally found my tablet stylus but it still doesn't allow me to alter the pen pressure, so the comics I do only from Photoshop look quite a bit different than the ones I've been drawing and inking in person. It's a little frustrating and super time consuming because I feel like I just learned how to draw with pens and now I have to re-learn everything with the tablet. It's not like drawing on paper at all!

Either way, I'm pretty stoked to finally have decided to just go for it. I'm not proud of it yet, but I feel like I will be soon.

recreation

Happy Friday everyone! Today marks the last day of the first week of my last semester as an undergrad. Confusing enough? I sure hope so. I've gotten my classes more-or-less sorted out and am hopefully headed out for some rabble rousing on bikes in the near future.

I was going to put up a very very quick comic that I drew while I was at work, but unfortunately my camera died. I took a photo with my webcam as a last ditch effort, and attempted to use photoshop to clean it up a little, but so much of the quality was lost that it pretty much wasn't worth it.

perspiration

In the past, whenever I've tried to stick to an "updating" schedule for my blogs, it's pretty nearly always ended maybe a week (tops) after my resolution to try it. I do, however, make an effort to stay as productive throughout the week. I don't totally suck at that and it's a damn shame They don't pay for productivity alone.

It's been Winter Break. I've been crazy. Well, I suppose I haven't really been regular crazy so much as stalling. Stir crazy. There's one semester of college for me to complete, I have no opportunities open for me right now after graduation because I haven't been filling out grad school applications or actively looking for a career. Not that I want one of those anyway. But I have been trying to keep my mind preoccupied in this down time. Travel, drugs, art...it comes with the territory. Being broke does too but it's almost gotten easy for me not to care about that as long as it doesn't inhibit the previously established Big Three.

I've been creating for days on end and have been tossing around the idea of starting a webcomic or a running zine. I'm only taking 4 courses as of right now this semester and was thinking about an independent study where I did that. Only I'm pretty sure Jeph Jacques already stalks my life and makes a better webcomic about it. I'm not really funny and clever enough or indie artsy enough (please judge me based on my choices of examples). So here I sit. Doing the limbo thing.

A friend of mine recently, and to no one in the room in particular, asked if crossing bridges physically helped you cross them emotionally. I'll tell you when I find one.

Have a finger painting!

anticipation

Third time's a charm, right?

I've switched journaling methods twice in the past, but was hesitant about this new switch. I've had my old livejournal for quite a few years prior to this and for a pack-rat sentimentalist like myself, the choice to forsake a familiar domain name in favor of a new shiny one comes with mixed emotions. There's an excitement linked to the reinvention of myself that comes with a new blog slash year slash decade. The decision was practically made for me as the clock counted down to midnight, and I realized that everything was always going to be exactly the same in its change.

Already things have been eventful.
Here's to hoping they remain so, in the best way possible.