Scrap Sappy

A New Post?! Bear and Bird Exhibition

2011-01-17T11:29:00.000-05:00

So... yeah, I've been meaning to come back and maintain this thing, but I just haven't. Honestly, I'm just lazy as hell. Anyway, it's a new year, and I'm heading into my second week of my final semester at Ringling, and I figured I should actually heed the advice of my sister and look at this thing again (don't start gloating now, sis). And, yes, I will continue to refer to this blog as "this thing".

Well, I'm currently working on my thesis and getting ready for my orals, but I thought I'd post up something completely unrelated. Over the winter break, I decided (possibly against my better judgment) to enter a local artists exhibition at the Bear and Bird Gallery. The gallery is located inside Tate's Comics, a comic book store I frequent when I'm back home. The opening for the show was over the weekend (January 15) and the show runs up through February 26. I really wish I could have been there for the opening, it looked like a good time! Oh well.

So I flipped through the photos on the gallery's Flickr page and managed to find a photo with my piece, but since I couldn't save it I just screen-capped it instead. I'm sort of kicking myself for not scanning/photographing the darn piece before I took it the gallery, but when I get it back in about a month or so, I'll probably post up a proper image of it. Check it out:

So, yeah, it just seems kind of strange that I have a piece up in a professional gallery and not a school-run one. That's just not something I ever thought would happen (I did do a tiny bit of bragging when I got the flyer and saw my name posted in it...). I'm not really aiming for galleries in the future, but it's always cool to be a part of something like that. Looking at this photo, I didn't realize just how light the actual piece was, and makes me wish I had a bit more time to do more with the graphite and pushed the value structure of the piece further. When I get the piece back in a month or so, I actually want to put some work in to it (perhaps drop some other medium on it). All the same, I was pretty happy with the idea AND the image, and that's a rare plus for me.

Anyway, maybe if I remember I'll start scanning and reworking this thing later on in the week.

Door into Summer

2009-05-26T23:12:00.006-04:00

Ballpoint pen study, approx. 30 minutes? I don't know, I wasn't keeping track!

Man, if there's anybody who's got the right idea, it's this cat... This is what I want to do all summer: draw, catch up on my reading, draw, catch up on some games that are still unfinished, draw, do some illustration work for a competition, work on a comic, and some more drawing on top of it. Oh, yeah, and fix my damn sleep schedule; these last two semesters screwed me up major.

Anyway, just talking about the drawing for a bit: I love this ballpoint pen I've been using. What it lacks in variation of thick to thin lines, it makes up for with a great range of value that I can't get with the regular ink pens I use. Now I don't have to just cross-hatch! I'm definitely going to try to get a few packs of these before heading back to school... but that's months off and I really don't want to think about right now. It's freakin' SUMMER. No more classes, books or dirty looks for a few months. A more accurate version would be: No more classes, last minute projects and people staring at me for 10 minutes during critiques.

More drawings, sketchbook stuff, prints, whatever I have to come... when I feel like it. Give me a break, it's FREAKING SUMMER.

The Digital Age

2009-02-07T02:50:00.005-05:00

Been a while, but here's another one-panel cartoon. I tend to do more actual comic stuff (more than one panel), but this was something that popped in my head earlier. It seemed funny at the time, and it's supposed to be my reaction to something that happened to me on Thursday. Now... I'm on *shudder* Facebook... I don't want to talk about what led to it, but let's just say I'm really, really stupid.

And, yeah, I know the "holding onto the panel border for dear life" is nothing new. I just thought it worked. My inking still needs work, but it certainly looks better than my last attempt.

And Now Back to Our Show...

2009-01-01T17:16:00.011-05:00

Where have I been the last couple months?

And, no, I haven't been in therapy. I've just been around. I haven't had much motivation to actually update this thing. I had ideas, plans, the typical overly-ambitious, thought out to the point where I don't care, sort of crap. I think I'm over that now. A new semester is just on the horizon. It's a new year. And so, it's time I started actually DOING things now.

So, with that said, I'm starting a journal comic. Or, more accurately, I'm publishing one now on the web. A bunch of strips/cartoons have been in my sketchbooks for the past year or so, just waiting for me to do something more with them, so I may as well get started now. I don't know what kind of frequency this will be updated with, but hopefully I'll start getting a few up soon. I guess I'll just see where this goes...

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2009: New year. New me. New ways for things to go wrong. Let's see where this goes...

My inking needs work... and I need to be more attentive to WHAT I'm inking. It's cool though; I'm not going to sweat it... much...

Here's to a better semester and to a better year!