oh, and this.

Can you spot my cat and I? (hint: I'm not wearing glasses.)

I've been thinking a lot about a film-noir crime drama involving bugs...

Reinventing the wheel.

Look what change in medium did! (above)

Bought a sketchbook and am practicing. Because that's what I need, practice, not just technically but practice being able to pick out what I like about how I work, what imagery I'm comfortable with and just getting over the fear of making something ugly. Basically am practicing BEING PRODUCTIVE. Also it's important that I just get more focused and precise for work. 

It's very wierd, actually, what you can discover and feel when you're drawing. For me I've noticed that there's different gears I fall into, theres slow and layered, there's the sort of practiced cartoony and then theres the richocheting around where the drawings are about to shake apart. The goal is to eventually be able to start utilizing how I draw in finished pieces, especially the shaky bit and let go of the idea that my work, illustration or otherwise is ever going to fit in anywhere.

Thanks for listening guys, fun stuff coming up, I'm making a Spring mixtape!

Rockstars instead of Homework

Ohh yeeaahh

Alright, now it's time to get back to work! But first I'd like to say Hello to the couple of new folks who have started following the blog :) I know it's no chore to push the follow button but I really appreciate your cyber-support and am going to work extra hard not to dissapoint. So Welcome!

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And here are the rest of the no pressure comics as promised.

Polka-nots

The plan was that since I was taking no studio classes this semester, I would use my fridays off to work on personal projects. Yeaaah, all I ended up doing was drawing some more No Pressure comics and watching True Blood lol. So expect some more of these whiny morsels of goodness and hopefully soon more interesting projects will arise.

Let the schooling begin.

We're not sure what kind of love this is.

Originally this piece was meant to be part of a series at least three pieces long about dominance, both sexual and social. After sketching out the images that were to follow I realized they were just cute pornagraphy haha which of course I really like but didn't fit in with this first image which loosely dealt with obediance and waiting. Maybe later I'll post some more naughty bits since as seedlings they looked pretty compellingly dirty and exploitative.

Special thanks to Morgan Conley, who last time we hung out showed me how to make it so you can color BEHIND your inked work. Have been asking around for literally ages on how to do this but nobody was ever able to give a straight answer! Was so excited, because it's really very important to be able to preserve the original drawing in all it's texture and minute mistakes and not just throw it all away in exchange for a clean yet fingerprintless line art thats only meant to hold robotically filled color.

Also, another friend Andrew Werner, reminded me that one of the perks of digital art work is how easily textures and colors can be spliced in. Collage used to seem very dishonest to me and I was closed to it's possibilities because egotistically I wanted to be able to take credit for every single aspect of what I created. As my computer slowly becomes a holding bank for stolen images it has become undeniable how important of a relationship my generation has with photography and video. That even if I wasn't directly using imagery in my pictures I was just as much of an image burgler as anyone else.

Quick fact: the background is blown up pixelated parts of colors found in photographs of the red light district in Amsterdam.

Nervous Greetings

Ok, so grey tones and simplicity are a good thing heh.

Thought that I'd just spend the day making a bunch of silly no pressure mini-comics. Here's the first two. I by no means consider myself a comic artist because I completely disregard any common sense that would normally be applied to a decent comic lol. Which, you guys, is really fun! And a pretty good excercise in just spewing ideas when you think the well is totally dry.

Goodbye good drawing and hello plotless self indulgence!

I Swear we're not lost.

This was a sequential project for my storytelling class where we were asked to adapt La Boheme to six different illustrations to bind into a book. Got permission to do more of a comic oriented idea, and like always i veered a bit off course when it came to sticking to the original, oh well! The entire process of making something that has to tell a story really opened my eyes to my own shortcomings as well as pointing out how much work something like this takes, KUDOS TO MY COMIC MAJOR BRETHREN! holla. Anyway Hope you all enjoy this!

lols lols lols HARK!

Alas, fall is swiftly approaching, if not sitting unobtrusively upon our heads here in the city. Each day I wake up and the air is a little bit chillier making my bed a little bit cozier which leads to the ever pushing of the snooze button on my alarm clock. It's time to pull out all our lovely knitted hats, wooly tights (the boys call them long johns) and secretly retrace our steps back to that very first crunchy leaf we accidentally tread on a block behind us.

because yes, that first leaf is a doozy, a lone crunch that is sweeter than a million friend request on facebook. So go out, put them layers on and don't feel embarrassed for ordering a hot chocolate instead of your double shot-nonfat-foamless-soy monstrosity. Guys, I just don't want you to miss this!

Whoot whoot!