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My mother once told me if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. So yeah. I love this little twink.

Click the fuckin’ square for the fuckin’ comic page for fucks fuckin’ sake. 

Ladies and gentlemen, I am delirious. Not because Drive starring the dreamy Ryan Gosling has come out on Blu-Ray, no my friends. I have taken ill. It was aching joints, pounding headaches and raging boners for the past few days. The fever sweats have sub-sided and now I’ve been left with these terrible swollen throat. Two good things have come out of this affliction of mine ( 3 if you ask Janice, since I can’t talk.)

1. Since I’ve been sick and it hurt to make any rapid, repetitive motions thus ruling out spending all of my time watching Youporn and masturbating, I’ve been drawing like a fucking maniac. I’m finding this book is a bit harder for me to burn through even though I’ve drawn most of it before. It’s strange that working with any sort of foundation to a story sort of stalls me out. Whereas, I’ve cranked out 10 pages for another book in the same time it’s taken me to draw 4 for this book 01.

2. Something else that is very awesome is going on right now. But I don’t want to jinx myself, so I’ll wait until after a week or so and hopefully it sticks.

The original panel this page circa 2005.

Tomorrow is hopefully a new kids book page, but for today…Gosling. <3

Book 01, Page 04

Finally got offa my ass and drew something new. If you haven’t seen the other pages you can check them out here….

I was working something like 13 hours a day since November until yesterday when I went from having to jobs to just having 1. So with that said I can finally get back to work at being a shitty, broke artist. Hooray for my shitty life!

Here are the original pages to this comic page.

Tomorrow will be new Yitties. I’ve decided to move Yitties to Tuesdays from now on.

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Everyone can draw. Everyone can see shapes and process them into one cohesive, recognizable image. But at some point self awareness kills 99% of peoples confidence in their artistic endeavors. Maybe you loved to draw as a child, but some other little shit comes along an tells you that your drawing of Godzilla eating a town full of people “Is stupid.” Most people are afraid of failing in front of people and tend to give up on anything they think that they’re not good at. I don’t believe that I was born with a natural talent at drawing, but I do know that I’ve worked everyday at getting better. Do I think I’m the best I could be at my craft? Not by a long shot. But everyday I work on little things in my art, things that most people won’t notice but it all adds up to constantly improving upon my foundation. I’ve spent weeks working on how a pair of Jordan III’s should look when seen from a 3/4 angle. I’ve been spending the last few months on trying to get my characters to have weight with the background and objects they interact with. It’s insane but for some reason most good artists have the same drive to not fail.

However, as a computer colorist I’ve been an absolute failure. I couldn’t figure out the whole process, how to make it look nice, or why I suck so much at using my Wacom tablet. I was so insecure with my lack of coloring skills that I just didn’t even attempt it. I’m pretty awful at coloring, but I decided to just start grinding on things to get better. With the help of my friend (and part time lover) Corey Bernhardt I’ve seen a gradual improvement in my skills.

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This strip is the point where I finally feel I’ve turned the corner on being able to color my shit. Is it up to other peoples coloring talents? No, but it works for the asthetic that I desire within my own style. I really put off coloring this strip because it was the one I knew I wanted to do well. So looking at it now all shiny and complete I’m proud of how it turned out.

Not only that it’s pretty rad to have an entire comic strip about drinking Promethazine, tripping balls and seeing Pete’s Dragon. My mother is so proud.

So pour another cup of drank and get ready for an entire month of me really trying a lot harder on making this blog more engaging.

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So like I said earlier in the week I’ve been going through some old stuff and found some things that I kinda liked and decided to share em. This first picture was done in 2005 and I quite like the coloring, but more importantly I think this was about the point where I kind of started figuring out what my artistic voice was going to be. Before that I just copied people like Jim Mahfood, Shannon Wheeler & Rob Schrab. I still hadn’t figured out who I was and the type of things I wanted to do, but I was furiously drawing everyday trying to throw shit against the wall to see what stuck. It’s still a work in progress but I feel that’s there’s been a separation between my past influences and my own personal style. Or at least I hope.

Drama Queens. Click it.

Here’s another strip I draw for a book that I was putting together with the homie Mai and her Short Hate List. Unfortunately I lost the list of things she had wrote and it kind of stalled since there. Maybe I’ll get an updated one from her and I can draw a newer version for one of the 10 Books project. I decided to throw some color on it just for practice and to try and help myself become not only better at coloring, but faster and more efficient at it.