February 2012
4 posts
Hold on Hope
Over the past few years, I’ve been pretty aggressive with the social media as a tool of promotion. Being one of the early adopters, I’ve seen it change from landing opportunities to landing a lot of freaking spam. A lot of it. The shift seemed to occur around the 3rd or 4th-ish year of myspace’s existence. Now I’m not so sure what the hell you do with social media. Debating...
I wanna dance with somebody...
(in progress. photoshop & manga studio)
I’m in the homestretch on this piece. Toughest part was figuring out the color scheme for different scenes. Last part is the text.
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Another part of my childhood soundtrack faded away this weekend. I didn’t have access to the internet or the zine scene. All I had was top 40 and the classic rock station. A steady diet...
that's the difference between us...
Scanning, and tweaking this weekend. Just when I got some sort of balance going on- I got hit with a surprise bit of OT today that yet again set me back on the art time. So three finished colored pages turned out being one page a 1/4 of the way done. I hate disappointing people. It’s getting really old but I have little choice in this crap economy. It is what it is. I wish I could dedicate...
Who watches...
I was an impressionable kid, too young to read Watchmen but later picked up the trade. I loved Moore but had to wait well until college, actually, to read Watchmen in full. It’s Watchmen, Heavy Metal and the Sandman that fully informed me what comics could be. (Later I’d pick up on the indie stuff) Strong fully realized worlds with a beginning, middle and end. An ending never really...