Finished a New Painting

So I finshed a real painting haha. It's been awhile since i"ve done one and it was more just to get back into the swing of it. But I'm gonna put it up on the Etsy Store tonight and hopefully someone will buy it :) I didn't base this off anything that belonged to me, it's based off the picture below it. A girl in Romania posts up pics of herself and this is one that is slightly more wholesome for the kids and whatnot, she's over on the deviantArt site, you can find her by looking up myBlueLight on dA or myBlueLight-Stock on dA

Zombie pic FINISHED!

I'm sure everybody knows this, but you can click the picture and it'll goto a full view page (should be 800 pixels wide by 1000-ish tall)



Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

So I stayed up for a bit last night and finished doing a few thngs like adding buildings, fire, clouds, a moon, drawing in a few gestural details, and removing the blue tape. I really like how this thing came out and the vignette is actually a lot lighter than you would normally see, but it's kinda cool, has a sort of foggy effect to it.

I'm really happy with this and can't wait to get it up all over the interwebs and see what kind of a response it gets, and the new owners of this little piece I think will be super happy with it, they're all into this sorta thing. So cross your fingers!

Don't Squeeze the Baby Sister's Head

i think i have been lazy the past few weeks not posting up as much new artwork as i did in the past few months. i dunno why, i figure that i've actually been kinda busy and trying to do some artwork for real and make some money off of it. so this past week i talk to the Draft Cycle guys about logos and artsy stuff to do for t-shirts and business cards, awesome... i sold a painting a week or so ago, bitchin'... and i'm finishing the zombie killer illustration for a little bit of dough this week, tubular... monday before work i'm going to a local coffee house and hopefully will be dropping off several paintings to be hung up for sale, potential righteousness :)

the zombie chick, black and white ink, has been gradually getting some color over the past few days and by sunday she'll be done and off to the new home with some friends. i don't wanna jump the gun and add pics just yet, so once it's done i'll post them up. i need to color the left-most arm completely and vignette the background in watercolor (pray... i don't normally do watercolor, especially not over top of, around, or even in the same room as the expensive colored pencils i had to buy).

the other thing i'm realizing is that the pricing that i have set up for these art projects is ridiculously low. i mean, everybody has got to start somewhere, so i figure i trade profit for making a reputation, and keep a few bucks here and there but it all goes back to buying materials anyhow... this is quite the conundrum. once i set a price for something i don't raise it or lower it, but i feel like somebody is gonna come across my etsy store and see something they want and not know why it costs more than the big fancy oil painting that they saw listed for half. ugh, art is silly at times, especially once money gets involved, BAH!

anyways, i'm tired and thinking way too much about things that i shouldn't worry about until they come up in real life. good news though is that i went to a comic book thing and two girls were walking around with their butts hanging out, high five :) haha



ps. bethany hates this picture, mwahahahaha :)

Zombies!

so this is what i did today, woot! it's a zombie pinup slayer girl person fighter for a friend, it took long enough to do but i wanted to make sure i got it right since they need it for this sunday... apparently going slow and doing things right the first time helps a lot lol

that is all... as you were :)

SOLD!!!

...selfless plug... Visit my ETSY STORE!

I have currently 4 paintings up for sale, which used to be 5 until Tuesday. Thats's right! One of them was bought! I thought something was wrong with my computer at first or maybe I owed money to Etsy for unpaid listings or something, I honestly didn't think anything was going to be sold so soon, so it was a nice surprise :)

Say goodbye to the "Four Guitars" painting, it's on it's way to Texas! HOLLA!

Dude, this guy is awesome

I watch the art channel, it's called Ovation TV, and on this channel they have very interesting documentaries and old movies, and lots of other cool things that are very educational in the artistic persuasions. A show I caught the other day called "Driven by Vision", a half hour documentary about the ongoing artwork of one person or group, featured a guy named Jim Bishop. Bishop is a castle builder by hobby, ornamental welder by trade, and what really caught my attention was the first sentence the narrator said after introducing Bishop. "When he was 15, he had saved up enough money from odd jobs to buy a 2.5 acre plot of land in Colorado Springs and started building a one room stone cottage." I looked up and saw this castle, the project is freakin' incredible. This is one guy's project over the past 40 or 50 years and he has taken no help except for donations and visitors, everything here was built by, hand by him... right on!


www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2047 <---one of the few articles I could find on this, not a bad read

Comics... the other other dork thing

I like comics and that style of artwork. I always have since I was little and it just appealed to me. Probably because the idea of being able to do super things sounded cool, or that being such a badass that no one in their right mind would call you a sissy for wearing spandex... personally, I'd do without the spandex, but to each his own.

About a year ago I though of an idea for a story, and since I draw everything anyways, I figured why not make it a comic book. So I started drawing pictures last December and then dropped it... fast forward to last week when I couldn't sleep. I thought about the comic book again and started writing a script, and an outline, character information, storyboarding, the works. I'm going to get this done dammit, even if it never sells, no one ever reads it, has any interest, or cares about it except me. So HA! Take that brain! You thought of something and now I'm going to do it so you'll be quiet! MWAHAHA!

*Ahem* I did manage (somewhere throughout my inner dialogue) to get done with an ink drawing of the bad guy in the comic... don't laugh, it's cliche to the max power all right, but it's mine and I like it. This guy is also up on my dA site too. I know it looks lame right now but once I add color it should be just groovy...