Thing From July

I have no idea what this is all about:

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Pretty cool though, huh? I've been doodling more of those line things that appear above the robots hand in the "fresh fish sticks" panel. I like them. Maybe they're my new thing? I'll have to do some more elaborate ones and see what happens.

I gotta draw more. . .

Two Months?

Two months? Really? It's been that long. . . dammit. I really wanted to keep up with this. It helps me to keep drawing. But I lost my computer. It went to the crapper. So while I have a computer, it won't run Photoshop so I have no real editing software. I may have to resort to using The Gimp until I can upgrade. . .

But more importantly, something distracted me. Distracted me from a lot of things. I'm still distracted, but I'm getting used to it. Here, maybe this will explain it in a way:


Yes. I'm in love. And I couldn't be happier about it. She's wonderful and amazing and special and she gets me. Really gets me. I get to be myself with her. Which may explain a bit about why I haven't been drawing so much recently, too. Part of why I draw is to understand myself better, to sort of explain me. But she gets me without all the explanations. . . My art is suffering. Well, a lot of things 'round here are suffering. But I'm getting better. Part of the problem: she's in Iraq now. That really sucks. I'm not depressed but I have some of the symptoms. Especially the lethargy. But I'm getting better! And all this is still way better than the Three Years of Hell I just got out of, so I'm still up!

I'll post more soon, I promise.

C'est ne pas une cigarette

I've been slowly getting back to the swing of things. I'm doodling a bit more and I'm Colors!ing it a bit more. Witness this following example:


I had been thinking about my cigarette holder and thinking about how it had been a little while since I drew it. I also wanted to play around in Colors! some so this seemed like a nice union. I wound up liking the text a lot. The settings on Colors! let you control the width of the brush by the amount of pressure you use with the stylus so I fired that up and played with the lettering. I think it's a lot more interesting to look at than the more uniform text I usually do (see this?). I've done a couple other things using that lettering technique, but I didn't like the results as much. But I think that I'll try using this same technique to draw the outlines of characters or what-have-you. C'est la arte!

Am I Green?

Hola, Gang! I haven't been doodling much lately. Or drawing. Or sketching for that matter. But I have been playing with Colors! some more. Here's one from the other day:

It's a self portrait again. The eyes are upside down and everything is green for some reason. I can't explain either of those things. Well, alright, I just wanted to see what the eyes would look like upside down. But I couldn't tell you why. And I like the color green. But I couldn't tell you why. The eyes don't really seem upside down, though. They're just there, seeming normal. I suppose sometimes our perspectives shift to something completely unexpected, but nothing really changes. Whether we don't learn anything from it, or we learn that "the other viewpoint" isn't really that different than our own. . . Something to think about I suppose.

From the Archives

I've been distracted of late. I haven't been drawing -or even doodling- much so there's not really anything new to post. So here is an old one; I did this in October of last year:



I wanted to play around with weird perspectives and some distortions, as I recall. I really like the tall guy in this, I think that the weirdness works quite well. I don't know how well the "thought-bubble-as-cloud" works, however. (Could you tell that was supposed to be an empty thought bubble that was actually a cloud in the scene?) The little "me" in lower right seems fairly confused. And who wouldn't be, to walk over a hill and see this weird segmented pillar thing as well as an even weirder giant mutant smoking and imagining clouds into existence? I really like this drawing.

The thing about going back to the archives is that I realize my drawing has been suffering for some time. I've lost sight of my goal to make something new every day. Going through the old sketch book I see a lot of stuff that I remember just scribbling out very quickly, but it looks way better than the stuff I'm scribbling out now. . . when I bother. Plus it has been nearly a month since I posted here. That makes me feel guilty because I noticed that I'm getting more hits, presumably, due to my interview in Infolepsy #2, given that I don't really promote this page otherwise. So to those of you who have been checking back, hoping for some new stuff from me, I apologize and I will do better, I promise! I'm re-instating my goal of a new creation daily and starting a new goal of at least 2 posts a month. I'll do more posts as my drawings get better and more frequent, so for now there'll probably be quite a bit of older stuff.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!!

Fuck Off

No, not you. Please don't go. This is a recent doodle from my sketch book.


I haven't the foggiest what this is all about. I just like it. I don't think it's a self-portrait since it has none of the usual trappings (bald head, cigarette, goat-tee). I think that I like this one because of the weird perspective. I've been toying with that a bit lately, trying to find a way to draw stuff with perspectives that make the viewer (read: me) a bit uncomfortable. Here the guy is looking down on the viewer, literally. Perhaps figuratively as well. Here's a guy looking down on [me] with a shirt that says "fuck off". I get to feeling like this sometimes, like everyone is looking down on me, telling me to fuck off. And his bubbles are relatively ordered, compared to what I normally do, especially in self-portraits.

I also like the unfinished look, especially around the feet. I tried putting this into Photoshop to add color to the background, but it just doesn't work too well with the way the lines don't really close. I tried a couple things to make it work, but it always looked so much better without the backgrounds I was attempting to manufacture.

I Have Returned.

Sorry for the long lapse 'twixt posts. I was preparing to go to Alaska, then I went to Alaska, then I got back and was kept occupied until last night, when I needed some time to rest. But now I have more time to myself again. I haven't drawn much lately, though. I had a very difficult time drawing while I was in Alaska. It was just so beautiful and incredible that anything I could even think of to draw made me realize just how limited my abilities are. But here's a couple of doodles from my all-too-short trip anyway.


So that first one says "My smile is too big for my face, it's so cool here!" The 2nd says "If I could make love to and marry something that isn't a woman, it would be Alaska." And the third says "It's so beautiful here. . . I have to cry. . . I can feel myself disappearing into Alaska!" I highly recommend Alaska to anyone who, for example, breathes. I took over 1100 pictures. I'll be tweaking some of those in the ol' Photoshop so expect to see some here soon. I got some motivation while there to get busy and do some bigger, better works, so hopefully there'll be more of those soon, too. Stay tuned!