That's Not How You Make Friends

Good morning boils and ghouls!

Today starts the beginning of the "31 Days of Horror Art" project! Today we begin with an ink and watercolor illustration called "Making Friends."

I really love working with the Pentel Pocket Brush-Pen and the ink is very waterproof (unlike the regular Pentel Brush-Pen) so it allows me to work with watercolor and not smear the ink everywhere. For this image I wanted to show a more sinister side to Lolitas and play on the comments I've seen over the years from girls who are the 'only Lolita in the village' who long to have a friend who likes the fashion. I thought it would be funny if one of these girls 'made' a friend who was a fellow Lolita.

For anyone who doesn't know what Lolita Fashion is here is the handbook where you can read all about it. Here is also the original article that got me hooked on the fashion almost 10 years ago.

El Goro of Talk Without Rhythm Pocast has started his "31 Days of Horror" reviews with the movie "The Ghoul." Check it out!

I'm off to a grueling day of truck shift now, see you tomorrow!

Grey Snow

I just posted some old digital comic pages over at my art tumblr so I thought I'd share them here too:






These are pages of a comic I started working on last year; the first page is still in the rough stage and is incomplete. They are based on an introduction for a character that my good friend Ian Davison (El Goro of the podcast ‘Talk Without Rhythm’) wrote for a story idea we were working on together. I’m still hoping to see this project out the end, even if it will most likely take quite a few years to do.

This was my first time working on a comic completely digitally. I learned a lot doing it and I think I will continue to do it this way for this project. I’m hoping to finish the introduction comic for this character, do an introductory comic for another character in the story, then start the whole story from the point that they first meet.

Needless to say this will be on the back burner for a while...

2011 is off to a rough start...

Hello all! I hope a safe and fun new year was has by all. I spent mine watching Jason X and Red Dwarf with my love. Fun times indeed. But now I am stricken with the plague (read: Strep Throat) and I haven't had the energy to draw lately. I haven't been this sick for a long time so it's hit me pretty hard. I have some obligations coming up and personal projects that I will be jumping back on once I gain the strength to lift a pencil once again.

In the mean time I have done a few tweaks to the blog. I have added a set of links to the right featuring the blogs of some of my close friends and their artistic projects which include fine art, comics, illustration, sculpture, podcasts, poetry and more. I have some pretty interesting friends so feel free to check them out! I've also added copyright info on the bottom of the blog. I'd like to make a new header soon but that'll have to wait. Once I get well again I'll be chugging away at things and then I'll have more artwork to share. Until then, take care and keep making art! (And don't get sick!)

Talk Without T-shirt

For those of you that may have been watching for a while, you'll know that I really enjoy listening to the podcast, "Talk Without Rhythm," hosted by my good friend El Goro and his partner in crime, The Cancer Man. In one of their recent episodes they mentioned wanting to do T-shirts some time soon. At the time I was looking for a fourth project for my Senior Portfolio class so I volunteered my services to make a T-shirt design for the podcast. They've provided me with hours of entertainment, so I was glad to be able to do this.



I did a few designs for the guys to choose from but our overall favorite was the Dune worm. I especially like it because it goes with their slogan for the show. Shirts should be printed some time next year. As soon as they are I'll let you all know! :D NOW GO LISTEN TO THE PODCAST!

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