Work in Progress...Yo

Here's what I have so far for my little brush test I posted on the 30th.  I'm going to try to finish it as quickly as possible for you kids to enjoy.

AWAY!!!!!

Subscriptions and Twitter

Hey guys this is going to be a quick one. 

I just added the ability to subscribe via email to this blog.  I'm not very good at this kind of thing so if you subscribe and your having issues just let me know and I'll take care of it the best that I can.

I also got a twitter account which I have a little widget for it on the side bar.  So if you're interested in following just head over the twitter and get to it.

Also an update on the deer who lives in the cow pasture from the last post...he's dead.  Turns out he thought he was actually a cow and became territorial.  He started attacking the calves so the farmer shot him.  North Carolina! 

So I just have comics to do. 

Fanart Friday Challenge: Kim Pine

Sorry guys for the unprofessional photo.  Out here in the woods of North Carolina there are no scanners, so I had to use my phone.

Me and my friend Sheila have this weekly challenge to draw some random fan art on Fridays (hint's Fanart Friday).  This week is Kim Pine from Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series from Oni Press.  Speaking of giving credit where credit is due, I kinda "borrowed" the background as practice intending to tweak it to my own thing but it ended up being way to close to his, so I should give credit to the artist known as Shonuff44 on DeviantArt.

So it's been a while since I updated so I'll let you know what's going on here in the woods.  I'm still waiting on confirmation from Out of Our Minds Studios here in Winston Salem on a potential internship position.  In the meantime I've been writing and thumbnailing the webcomic and I'm on schedule for the month...so far.  I'm also inking some pages I've drawn for an anthology and getting ready for other projects that are making their way down the pipe. 

I keep myself busy because there isn't much to do otherwise.  Have you ever been to North Carolina?  There's not much here.  There's a deer who lives in a cow pasture near Gumtree road...That's about it.  So it's making comics...or staring at a freak deer who doesn't understand the concept of freedom. 

He may just have security issues, who knows?

Birthday

I'm 23. w00t!

So here's some interesting things going on in my life.  Classes end on Thursday, HeroesCon is Friday...buh.  So I'm going to be driving up to North Carolina right after my classes on Thursday so I'll be getting home kinda late, but it'll be fun.  I also have an interview for a local animation house in Winston Salem on Friday so depending on how that goes will depend on if I'm going to the first day of HeroesCon or not.  Buh...

Been practicing with a brush, not really liking it quite yet but I'm definitely getting there.  I'm gonna color this piece when I have the time, I'll post it on my DeviantArt site.

Any way...

 

Bored in Class: SketchDump

Cintiqs are fun.  More stuff at my DevianArt.

See you guys latah!! 

Webcomics Talk

I like you guys so I'll show you some character stuff.

This most likely won't be the final for the story.  I've got the first chapter done and I've started on the second.  I'm really glad I'm getting on this.  I'm going to start drawing it in the summer, first I've got to take care of school stuff and a couple other projects.  I'm really excited though, it'll be a lot of fun and a great learning experience.

I'm not going to show too much art either, I want some of this to be a surprise.  I'll still keep the few of you who read posted though.  I was dared by a friend that I wouldn't get the comic on the web by the end of the summer and I'm here to say that I will definitely have the site up and at full force before the start of the fall quarter here at SCAD, so around early September.

Time to work!

Refocusing

Well it's the end of editor's day weekend here at SCAD.  I'm very glad it's over just from a perspective of taking a break.  I learned quite a bit from the editors I visited.  I'm very appreciative of Dave Johnson and Bob Shreck. They inspired me to push myself harder and force myself to work as hard as I can to become the best artist I can be, whether it is being a comic book artist, cartoonist, illustrator, etc.

From now on my focus is just on my work.  It's all I want to give my attention to.  I always have a bad habit of distracting myself from my art, either as an excuse to protect myself from my own shortcomings or just being lazy.  I'm going to have to force myself to draw things I can't draw well, using tools I've never used before and learning things that are not in my repertoire.  It's very exciting.

Speaking of which, this little banner is something I've been working on for a while and haven't completed due to the excuses I mentioned earlier.  This is coming to an end!  I'm going to make myself work on this as hard as I can.  I can't tell you when it's going to be online, but I am definitely going to write and draw my heart all summer until I know I can get it out there and it's good enough for people to enjoy. 

I'm excited, I'm driven, and I'm scared out of my mind.  I wouldn't have it any other way.