I made this for a thread on SA

People were drawing how they think they appear in the eyes of their family, their friends, and themselves. It's mediocre and only slightly true, but I suppose it belongs in here anyway. I kind of like some of the colors.

a chat log.

Pete: I stopped updating my journal, I haven't figured out why yet.
Clifton: I've been waiting for an update
Pete: I think it had to do with too many people from different parts of my life reading it, and also my mom strongly disapproving of certain entries.
Clifton: haha
Clifton: Which ones?
Pete: Well the one with me driving drunk springs to mind.
Clifton: I don't include my family in any part of my cyberlife
Clifton: ah yes
Clifton: My parents know of my offchild site only
Pete: Well I usually am completely open with my parents but in this case I think I made a mistake.
Clifton: yeah . . . that happens
Pete: But it wasn't just that either, because it had been getting crappier for a good long time. It wasn't nearly as useful after I stopped doing the Flash comics.
Pete: Bah, anyway, I am still thinking of starting it back up in some way. It was really awesome while it lasted.

And there things stand. I register for classes tomorrow and maybe when I feel a bit better about my lifestyle I will be more able to write about it.

gnuh

Lovecraft Love

I just finished reading The Shadow Over Innsmouth and it was pretty damn good.


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trip sketchbook

Here's all the doodles I made in Jersey that were worth holding on to. Looks like I'm getting back some of that psychotic energy from high school.

visiting family in New Jersey, woo!

Bye Internet, see you Tuesday evening.

oh no not again!

TOO MUCH COFFEE DAY!!



I swear, there is definitely something wrong with me. I only had about four tablespoons' worth of grounds, and the rest is going to waste.

somebody please change the sign to say "chances sports bar and groundbreaking art salon"

you could put "dance club" in there somewhere too, if you want. here are the results of tonight's meeting of some of the greatest creative minds in Portland.

I will begin with the work of my esteemed colleage Morgan, who has brought a fresh perspective to the field of zoological illustration:







Tom also stopped by to make these thought-provoking contributions:


(I should mention for posterity that the above image contained a slightly different caption up until I beat that pool shark guy by sinking seven balls in two rounds and then me and Pat veritably trounced him and his buddy.)



And now here are my own humble submissions:


(this is the first drawing of the night; I left it as it was in order to demonstrate the rigorousness of the testing to which all of this art has been submitted in order to guarantee its quality.)


(me and Pat both won free beers for beating those guys at pool)

story courtesy of Charlie.

brushpens and photo references

back on the brushpen again

Looking through my old art again, I realized that all of high school was a progression toward increasingly smaller pictures, and I never fully taught myself to work big. Then I realized I have a big huge chalkboard hanging over my bed, and I never even use it. Here's my results:

Warm-up:


Warm-up:


Life-size self-portrait:


What I learned is that I'm not so bad off if my whole arm is involved, or just my fingers -- it's the midrange, when I have to work with my wrist and hold my elbow steady, that trips me up. Look at the hands in this picture, for example -- and to a lesser degree, the face. Very interesting stuff.

foolin' 'round with the ol' brushpen

Chronological order; you can kind of see me getting back into my niche.





Middle one looks like JJ Jameson.

I look funky this evening.

I'm always amazed at how goofy I can appear when tired and/or poorly groomed.

Pete: a retrospective

I just got done redrawing some old pictures that I dug up for posting in a thread about embarrassing art. I'm not all that embarrassed by them really, but they're good examples of why I never fit in very well in high school. In case you can't get to the original thread, here's just my post.

And here are the updated versions of some of this weird shit that I used to draw in my notebooks.

H.P. Lovecraft fanart

I've been reading The Call of Cthulhu lately, in eBook form on my PDA. Today I made a quick illustration, also on my PDA. It's an interesting medium, a bit like MSPaint only tiny and with a stylus. Anyway, I kind of like how it came out and I don't quite feel up to a full-on journal entry, so there you have it.

hallowwen party

Black lights? Boris Karloff? Everclear Jell-o shots? Yes, please!



(Hallowwen = the last Saturday night preceding Halloween. Journal entries to resume tomorrow.)

if I were a super-hero...

My super-hero name would be "Internet Tough Guy"

lord almighty

...yep.

happy birthday Jake!

Jake Rosenblum is a friend of mine who decided recently to start a weblog. Since he turned 22 today, I decided to do the setup work for him, including a custom template, and host it on my domain. This is the banner I whipped up for it, in Adobe Illustrator.



Click the banner to check out Jake's writings, although it won't work for at least a few hours from the time of this posting, since the subname hasn't propagated yet.

cat with one eye fighting space pirates.

I traded subject ideas with Internet art genius Dikdik, who drew a bat playing the banjo for me (with bonus "goose eating my meatball sandwich" at the bottom.)

so Boxes blows into town, makes me hang out at Rock Bottom Brewery for an hour.

He got what he deserved.

more tribute art.

I guess I'm just feeling appreciative these days. I made this one after reading the original Weapon X comics and deciding that a Cyclops origin story told in an underground-comics style would be a fun thing to read.



I mean, the character has always, as far as I know, been written as a total whitebread loser, or at best as a loverboy. But if you think about it, he really has a lot of visual and literary potential.

Colbert Report tribute GIF

I blew off drawing hour in favor of some compositing practice in Adobe ImageReady. Never know when that might come in handy.



Anyway, I'm enjoying this show immensely, and you should too. It's on Comedy Central Mondays through Thursdays at 11:30, after the Daily show, and it's now the third show that I actually watch every single time it airs. I like to think of it as a remake of Pee-Wee's Playhouse, where Pee-Wee is replaced by Bill O'Reilly.

whispered apology draft 2

Added colors, but the backgrounds look like crap. I suppose I will have to draw in the actual scene, which is good practice anyway. Anyone with ideas to make it look better, speak up.

another ongoing entry

Nothing interesting is happening to me so I am spending my blogging hour on a comic strip for Whispered Apologies. Colors tomorrow, plus maybe I'll do some more background practice depending on how my morning sketches go.

pervert santa, complete

Did kind of a rush job on the colors, since the money offered really really isn't worth much effort. I like it well enough, though, and it gets the point across. Hopefully there will be some kind of text toward the top, to balance out the composition.

pervert santa vector wireframe

Traced the outlines and added .5" bleed. Color-coded by layer.

pervert santa draft 2

Latest draft of this little evening project of mine... inked for clarification although obviously it's still pretty sloppy. I modified the chimney, added the other stocking and the ornaments, and decided to redo some of the bricks digitally. Now to trace in Flash and plunk in some colors for a sweet twenty bucks which I plan to blow on library fines and grain alcohol.

pervert santa

Using a quick spec job as a way of practicing my perspective and as a chance to loosen up on my interior spaces. As a bonus, I will hopefully be able to say that I am a professional in the field of "Drawing Santa Claus Engaged in Intimate Relations with a Christmas Stocking."



It will, of course, be cleaned up and colored before it becomes a cheery greeting card -- and I will, of course, post the final draft here when it's done. For now, though, I'm calling it a night.

fast ink drawing

it doesn't look like Clifton but it's kind of cute anyway.

there goes my good sleep schedule...

My excuse was to study the game's fantastic, energetic, hand-painted environments for inspiration. It actually worked pretty well, I have some good concepts going now... but was it worth losing track of time and staying up until 4 again? Oh, well... alarm clock set for 10.

dinner with Darth Phunk and Darth Phunk, Jr.

everybody loves a sequel

bad mojo this evening

I feel empty, like the sock boy.