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.

Sad Clown Has Been Waylaid

I don't know how soon I am going to be able to make an SC strip worthy of posting.

okay, cold's pretty much gone now.

Got out of the house, put some air in my lungs, felt much better. Of course, that doesn't mean I have any ideas for comics, so I just made a bit of fanart dedicated to Ross, who has recently lost a dear friend. KEEP ON LIVING, BUDDY!

cold to end all colds: day 4

viral holocaust: day 3

reptilian megaevent rocks blogosphere!

Charlie and Ross have been engaged in a race to see who can waste my time the fastest.

diabolical hell-cold: day 2.

oy what a day

drew some faces

made 'em say stuff.

home sweet home

This one was more like 15 minutes. I really ought to budget more time for this journal.

quick self-portrait

About half an hour. Came out better than usual.