Look What I Drew Today! 10/02/2014

Naruto is finally colored! It must have been the lack of sleep earlier because my art game jumped a level with this drawing, I swear. 

To be honest, this piece has given me a confidence boost in regards to selling my artwork at conventions. I'm very happy with how it came out! Coloring is usually the least favorite part of the art process for me since I never considered myself particularly good at it. I feel much more optimistic about it now, and I can't wait to work on more pieces and see how they turn out. Now all I need is for a convention to come around so I can try to get into an artist's alley.

Look What I Drew! 09/19/2014

My Naruto project!

I wasn't even in the mood to work yesterday; I was dead tired from having to wake up early. Nevertheless, I'm very happy with the results of my exhaustion! Inks for both pieces will be coming shortly, then there's the task of merging the two and coloring it all in. That's gonna be fun.

 I also started working on SOMA again! I checked the last time it was updated: Over a year! I couldn't believe it has been that long...it took me a minute to get into the groove but with a bit of planning I'll be kicking ass in no time.

Now, I really want some coffee.

Look What I Drew! 07/16/2014

The new Thor! I'm excited for the change: I've already read the gripes of fanboys and honestly, I'm so tired of them. We've already Beta Ray Bill and Throg, a friggin' frog, but a woman being the God of Thunder is suddenly, what, a mockery? Unacceptable?

I'm just so done with it.

It's one more step to equality, and regardless of whether male fans like it or not, it's gonna happen, and I for one am happy about that. On a side note: I love that she's not oversexualized. She looks badass, like Thor would and should be.

October can't come soon enough!

Look What I Drew! 07/01/2014

The first page of Queen's Quartz is up!

Okay, this was actually done a couple of days ago but I was having issues uploading on my phone so it took me a bit to get it on here. I have 3 pages set up and the second one is almost finished (tones are a pain in the ass), but it's all coming together very nicely! I need to get some more thumbnails done and I can definitely do 2 rough pages a day if I keep this pace going.

In other news, I saw Transformers: Age of Extinction. It was...craziness. I knew going into it that the story would be terrible - it is a Michael Bay film, after all - but damned if it didn't keep me entertained. Mark Wahlberg was actually pretty decent in this: funny, held his own in the action scenes but they didn't make him to be this super badass or anything. The only area that took me out of the movie was that he was way too jacked for an inventor, otherwise I was all in.

If you loved the first 3, you'll love this one. If not...it's a movie about giant robots: quit taking it seriously.

I'm going to end this post with a rant: The other day a fellow artist complained that getting comments/feedback such as "Your art looks like (insert another artist here)!" wasn't good because it made them feel that their art wasn't original.

I'm sorry, but here's where I take slight offense: nobody's art is original. Unique, sure, but every artist borrows from another so you'll never be truly original. To think that you are seems arrogant, personally. I understand that an artist has to feel that they're doing something no one's ever seen, and that can happen in how you approach the subject. You can tell the same story from a different perspective, you know?

In any case. it irked me to read this, then have people agree with the notion. I know that I've borrowed from others and made something that makes my style unique, and I feel that should be encouraged more than telling others they're special snowflakes.

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