Day two was favorite animal. Normally that would be a monkey but I decided to do a rabbit becuase my current favorite animal is my rabbit.
I actaully like her more than I like most people. Yeah I mean you. What? You think you were special or something? Anyway, I drew a couple of other
bunnies trying to get my damn rabbit to hold still long enough to draw. So Three for the price of one, so to speak, because i’m not actually charging.
Here is my first drawing for the thirty day challenge: Draw yourself.
or in this case: “draw your self with weird legs”. Tommorow its “Draw your favorite animal”. I wonder what rabbit I will be drawing?
I have the second page of “The Hunter” done. I’m going to make it a six page story and leave it at that. It’s written and I will post it when I figure out this comic press shit.
I have no idea when that will be.
In the mean time I am going to do the thirty day drawing challenge.
Day 1 yourself
Day 2 fav animal
Day 3 fav food
Day 4 fav place
Day 5 best friend
Day 6 fav book
Day 7 fav movie
Day 8 fav animated char
Day 9 fav TV show
Day 10 fav candy
Day 11 turning point in your life
Day 12 most recent accomplishment
Day 13 comic
Day 14 fav fairytale
Day 15 family picture
Day 16 inspiration
Day 17 fav plant
Day 18 just a scribble
Day 19 something old
Day 20 something new
Day 21 something orange
Day 22 something you want
Day 23 something you miss
Day 24 something you need
Day 25 a couple
Day 26 scenery
Day 27 something you don’t like
Day 28 someone you love <3
Day 29 a place you want to go
Day 30 a congrats banner for finishing the challenge
And hopefully that will fill this site with content until I can figure out the rest of the stuff.
Ideally I will have:
yeah, right. we will see.
UGH. learning curves: hate um. time management: suck at it. i am figuring out how comic press functions, and its sorta conflicting with the cruft of the old layout.
I am going to rip this thing apart redesign it and put it back together with a portfolio section proper blog and pages for various webcomics.
New page of The Hunter tomorrow. Did some math in my head today. if it take me about two days to do a kind of sloppy page that equals about 150 pages a year or five issues at the comic length that I like for floppys. And that is an ideal number that doesn’t figure in other projects or well life. and certainly not my life.
Continuing the math: The Hunter has already started to grow in my head, Witch House is three separate books, Amnesiac is easily that long, and I can count five other stories that i have extensive notes and drawings on. If i did this full time, for the rest of my life, i’m not sure i could get this all down on paper. Just remembered another i have. shit.
This doesnt take into account new ideas which I am beset with daily. And I don’t want to let them go, these are people, some of them are in trouble, and they want their stories told or at least resolved in my head. Who am I to say no. It feels a lot like when I was 19 and I fell in love with any pretty girl who smiled at me. She’s pretty! She likes me! I have to love her!
…that got me in alot of trouble.
I made this yesterday. Im pretty pysched as its almost a full page of comics and i knocked it out pretty quick. The story is kind of direivative of Supernatural which I was watching when i drew it. The older guy is the town hunter and takes care of killing the werewolves that infest the places where towns arent. the younger guy is his second becuase if the hunter gets bit he needs someone to shoot him right away before he changes. Being the baddest mofo’s in town, they would be even badder wolves. the girl is his daughter, who should have been his second and apprentice. Story’s in my head, i’ll try and get it on paper.
I finished my process book finally and im going to throw myself into personal work until a time comes when I have to go back to school. I’ve done a lot of writing and I want to get some comics and paintings and tattoos done in the next couple of months. possibly longer if i cant figure out how to pay for school.
It’s a new year and my last post was in october. lazy.busy. some mutant combination of the two: lazenbee. to get a solid idea of how lazenbee i really am: I am looking at my unfinished first post of 2011 in my drafts.
But i was in school, got cripplingly ill, changed jobs, climbed kilamanjaro.
ok, I also played alot of video games and was the demise of more than one bottles of bourbon.
I have a bunch of artwork I need to scan. I have a bunch to finish. I am done with my first year in the graphic design certificate program at risd.
I should see if I can find a way to update from my phone…
its stupid. its small. its a flame. It’s bad that i probably had to tell you that for you to know what it is. but it is a start.
Its October. I was trying to post once a month but I am easily distracted and busy with work and school. This one is a roundup of cool stuff I have been reading, etc. Nothing new from me, I really need to get around to scanning some more artwork. I have been working on the outline/script for Strange Weather because I have pretty much had to redraw the whole thing so far due to rewrites. That is time consuming. I’ve come up with a name for one of the others (The Substance) which I was inking the prelude to last week. The witch house/ fairy story is still nameless as is the 70s scifi pastiche. I am lame.
I watched the Avengers cartoon that came out last year and its wonderful. Its similar to the Bruce Timm Batman series in that it modifies the source material stylistically while retaining the things essential to it. Keeping the heart and soul if you will. One of the ways this was achieved was by keeping the stories straight up kirby. A healthy dose of the theatrical releases and ultimates are thrown in to make things a bit more contmeporary. It’s what I remember Marvel being. It also has an incredibly shitty theme song, something so ubiquitous I would describe it as a trend. Its on netflix streaming or whatever that service is called these days.
I got a bunch of cool indy comics shit in the mail.
Wolves by Becky Cloonan
Wolves mini comic, buttons, bc, bookmark, and postcards
quasi horror comic originally written for a japanese compilation. The story is pretty awesome but i cant really say anything about it without spoiling it really. The comic it self is beautifully printed. There is a lot of really cool design going on here as well. her business card says “comics rules everything around me”. somewhere in that pile it says “life aint nothing but comics and money”. fuck, yeah.
I also got:
Dead Winter Vol. 1, Death Day prologue & book 1, Capacity, and Jan's Atomic Heart.
Dave Shabet’s Dead Winter Vol 1 and buttons, Sam Hiti’s Death day and the prologue, Capacity by theo Ellsworth, and jan’s atomic heart by Simon Roy.
These are comics that are interesting, well written and nice to look at. They are also doing on their own, so despite my empty wallet, I feel it is my duty to support them. Read and buy their books.
More internet comic book awesome ness:
she died in terrebone is a noirish detective story. It’s written byKevin Church and drawn by TJ Kirsch. sex drugs booze more sex murder some more booze. fucking read it already.
Rice Boy by Evan Dahm. all of it is good. and its all interconnected. Tolkein by way of Bodie. Read it: Order of tales, Rice boy and Vattu ( current).
Freakangels has ended and left a freakangel sized hole in my Fridays.
Studio is coherent but still a fucking mess. I started a painting, started being the key word here. no idea where to go with it. I have a stack of drawings i need to scan, my computer sit is still a disaster. I think I am switching to mint. we will see.
I wish I could write reviews for all this shit but frankly I am pressed for time. always. and I think my girlfriend wants to go out. so, good night and go fuck yourself san diego.
Great web comic by Cameron Stewart.
Creepy story. Overtones of David Lynch, old noir, Hammer Films. Really nice two color art.
check this shit out.
Sin Titulo
Holy shit I’ve been busy. I took two classes this summer and started a new job simultaneously. This corresponded nicely with: my birthday, my dad’s birthday (6oth), the fourth of july, and about nine other birthdays. I get to bed around 3ish. i get up around 7ish. my studio is still uninhabitable. I am tired.
On the upside I will be done with classes next week. I will then post my drawings from that once i have reclaimed my attic kingdom. cus i dont have a scanner down here. Lame.
I have discovered that the RISD library has a ton of comics, and probably a bunch of other undiscovered gems. That and I got a couple of really cool comics in the mail. All these things and more will be the subjects of future posts.
till then:
So this guy Dave Shabet does this web-comic called Dead Winter which is something special. It’s a story about a zombie apocalypse which in itself is kind of played but like most stories revolving around that premise, it’s emotional core is the survivors. It’s pretty gruesome at parts and actually kind of cute at others and very charming. I think he draws it all on the computer, something I’m normally a little wary of, but it is done to great effect here. Like a lot of webcomics you get to see his progression as an artist but the thing that makes it special is his exploration of the unique possibilities of webcomics versus print comics. The result is this wonderful mix of print and animation that is specific and very purposeful as opposed to those shitty “motion comics” where something static is made into a half assed cartoon. It’s primarily a black and white comic with red color cues that dissolves into a color book every 20 pages or so (when dealing with a dreamscape) There were flirtations with adding animated elements early on which were startling and well awesome and well why hadn’t someone else done it before? They are small and interesting like an animated gif, but add a wonderful dimension to the comic. Every 100 pages or so, he does a full animated page that plays out in a sequence and then shows a static version of the page. It’s up to page 400 and is updated fairly regularly.
Anyway. Its awesome. Its innovative. It’s creator owned. Support it.
I’ve been doing a lot of drawing lately. Which is awesome. I can do it guilt free for the next week as well having finished my class with an A until next Tuesday when I start the next class. On top of that I have a fair amount of pro bono design work to complete by the end of the month. Busy busy, but better than not busy and you cant wait to do things or you will never do them. A friend told me “You will never have your ducks in a row” which got me thinking about the actual logistical nightmare of trying to get live ducks to line up in a row.
