Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaw! I got me a Deadline!

Seeing as how I'm not a famous stay at home professional artist packed to the gills with deadlines, I am thrilled to say that I have provided myself with an honest to goodness deadline (it only cost $70)! I have registered with the Stumptown Comics Fest (www.stumptowncomics.com) and have secured myself half a table. This means that I have to have the first chapter of my comic done and printed by the time April rolls around, or I shall look foolish and my wife will yell at me to no end. So, anybody who considers themselves my friend (or fan...I think I have one that isn't related to me) should stop by my booth and buy a comic, or a poster, or a print, or give me a hi five, or a thumbs up, etc. etc.

Big ol' drawing

My good friend Josh and I made a pact to apply (ie: get rejected) by galleries this year. That said, I have started a series of large (3 feet by 4 feet) drawings...because big art is better art, right? Here are a couple close ups of the first one, which hopefully will be done by monday. Disaster has alread struck though, I set up a large mirror on a seperate easel to use myself as a model...and it fell and smashed across the studio floor. Josh claims that I am due for 7 years bad art luck.

back to the drawing board

UPDATE: My friend Josh just posted his drawing from the same session I attended. I think its interesting to see drawings of the same subject from different artists, different angles, different mediums, so I thought I'd post it here with out asking him first.

I recently attended a life drawing session at a local studio with some friends, it had been 5 years since I last drew from a model. It is amazing how much you can learn from one 3 hour session. I still have another session to go on this drawing to put in more background details, but I'm trying to post once a week.

Cabin fever sketches

I got snowed in for the holidays, so I had a solo Christmas season, for the most part. It wasn't so bad the first few days....and then the cabin fever set in. Looking back at my sketchbook though, I think a little bit of 'art madness' is a good thing. I definitely started drawing in ways I don't normally draw.

BTSB's!!

Contrary to blogger evidence, I haven't been artistically loafing. In addition to plugging away at the ol' graphic novel, I have been working on some submissions/applications to the likes of Dark Horse and Marvel to be a penciler. This entailed crossing into the darker, sexier, infinitely more popular land of drawing beautiful women with impossible bodies kickin' some butt. They are great fun to draw, and I thoroughly enjoy checking my "cough" proportions with my wife. She approves every engorged bossom or firm bottom that I draw. The script was downloaded from the Dark Horse website...so don't blame me if you are a little confused about what's going on (and I didn't do any lettering...since that is the letterer's job).

More Comic Progress

Here is another peak at the ol' neverending story. I have finally found a method for lettering and word balloon making that I like, so I have been busy giving my character's their voices. I am actually having more fun than I thought doing this step because it really makes me feel like the page is DONE. I can't wait to get paid for this stuff, and then I could buy a computer comic font that I like and type this stuff up instead of doing it all by hand.

Happy Anneversary (to me)

I can't believe its already been a year since I got married. This being the "paper anniversary" and all, I had it pretty easy and drew this for my lovely wife. She doesn't like snakes when they touch each other/overlap, so that's why they are in the clouds. Thankfully next year is the "comic book anniversary" followed by my personal favorite, the ever popular "Nintendo anniversary".


Obviously I had the most fun drawing the snakes. When I make custom art for people I find its important to make it for them, but to also make it interesting for me to draw.