Autobio comic! Wooo!
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amused - Music:Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - She's the One
I finally caved and got a MySpace page! Woo! I also made a cute banner to go in my profile on my other websites.
I haven't put anything up yet. It took me a really long time to figure out how to design it, and I still don't know what I'm doing. Ha ha ha.
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lazy - Music:Queen - Queen II
Draw yourself as a teen, started by

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I look pretty much the same, except with shorter hair. I also wore the flannel and camo pants together. I'M SO AWESOME!!!
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embarrassed - Music:Mott the Hoople - Mad Shadows
I've been on a break from work for the past couple weeks (which is probably good for my sanity), so I got to finish up a short story I've been working on forever. So here are a few pages:
No dialogue because I lettered it in InDesign, and I'm too lazy to make a PDF and rasterize it. Ha ha.
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discontent - Music:Tom Petty
I did my taxes online today (so much cheaper than going to H&R Block), and was pleasantly surprised. I mean, I still paid a rediculous amount of money, but it was less than last year. Thank god for deductions. When I finished, I got a message that said "The price for Tango is $70. We hope you had a good time." Who has a good time doing taxes? D=
Becky, Vasilis and I were going to the comic store yesterday, and some crazy guy started talking to us. He was going to the movie theater, which is next to the comic shop, so we were kinda stuck. I know about this guy's family, what he does for a living, how many times he's been shot/stabbed, etc. I wasn't paying that much attention, and I had no idea what he was talking about half the time, but at one point, he says to Vasilis "You're a rocket scientist, I'm a mass murderer, and we're both good at what we do--I mean, I'm not really a mass murderer." Who says that? Seriously. Who in their right mind tells random people on the street that they're a mass murderer? Eek.
Edit: It turns out Tekkonkinkreet: Black and White was nominated for an Eisner. I worked on it, so I feel like I was indirectly nominated. (Okay, not really, but I'll take recognition where I can get it. =P )
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scared - Music:Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
I finished my cover last night. Wooo. Now I just have to put it together and get all my files in order.
And because I have nothing better to do, here's a step-by-step!
On a completely different note, they found a new species of fish in Indonesia (which may or may not be related to my beloved anglerfish). Another (slightly more informative) article here.
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accomplished - Music:The Cross
I'm coloring the new Wasted Minds cover, and my computer decided to give me problems aplenty last night. First, my keyboard was being a bitch. Every now and then, my keyboard will randomly stop working. I'm not sure if it's because of the battery or if it just sucks. My problems last night were only with the left ctrl and space bar, which are the keys I use the most. I tried using the right ctrl key, but it just felt weird. There were several times where I wound up trying to undo something, and I would switch to the scissor tool.
On top of that, Painter doesn't seem to recognize white as a color. I tried selecting a white area with the magic wand that was next to a transparent area, and it selected the white and the transparent. Painter doesn't have a polygonal lasso tool, and when I use the regular lasso tool my hand always winds up slipping and selecting something I didn't want to. After I got the whole area selected, I wound up deselcting it somehow. At that point, I just brought it into Photoshop so I could make another layer of that area in a different color. Fun times.
On the bright side, my keyboard seems to be working now. So yay. And here's a WIP of the cover. Woo!
On a completely different note, my work schedule is light for the first time in months. Thank god for late editors. =D
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working - Music:Queen
I can almost have guests over and not be embarrassed by the state of my bedroom. I just need to get a bunch of postes framed and get rid of a lot of the ones I have up now. A real couch and bed would be nice, too (I have a futon bunk bed), but I don't have room for both.
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satisfied - Music:Placebo
I have to do a reprint of Wasted Minds Vol. 1. Because my former printer went out of business, I have to redo my PDFs to comply with my new printer's specs. So Becky suggested I redo the cover since I have to remake everything anyway. So that's what I've been up to this week (when I'm not drawing speedlines or giving myself blisters with the screwdriver).
Anyway, here's the back and spine. I'm keeping the design the same. Now I just have to get the front to look right... =__=

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drained - Music:David Bowie
Even though I planned on the monster being black the whole time, for some reason, I got nervous about acutally inking it that way, so I threw some black on there in Photoshop, and I like it. So, yeah. The shower is gross.
I actually didn't have any freelance work to do today. (Actually I probably did, but I decided to buy furniture instead and avoid my e-mail. I'm so professional.) I desperately needed to buy a new dresser, so I went out and looked for one. Then I was displeased with everything I found, so I bought one online. I got more of a chance to draw today, too, which is always nice.
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accomplished - Music:The Rolling Stones
My pencils are ridiculously sloppy and the side of my hand is covered in pencil. Woo!
I've been in a drawing slump lately, which I think directly correlates to work. Unfortunately, my workload isn't going to lighten up for probably about a year, so I should just suck it up and draw more.
Wasted MInds is kind of in limbo right now. I would like to update once a week, but I have some side projects that need to get done, too. I'm actually a few pages ahead, but I've been avoiding backgrounds because I'm lazy (and I'm really sick of drawing street scenes). Maybe I'll finish a few pages before I start updating again.
I also bought a new iPod a few weeks ago. I still haven't gotten over how it shows the album cover with the song. God, it's awesome.
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working - Music:Electric Six
Anyway, I'm going to Florida this week for my Grandmother's birthday, so I thought it would be nice to do a painting for her,


This is probably the girliest thing I've drawn in years, but I figured my grandmother wouldn't really appreciate the drug-addicted sluts that I usually draw. (Actually, I think I've been out of my crackhead phase for a while now.) Also, my watercolors always scan like crap. It doesn't help that my monitor is really light, so I probably adjusted to colors to be too dark. Ugh. >_<
I have to leave for my flight in like 4 1/2 hours, and I haven't even started packing yet. God, I'm awesome.
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anxious - Music:Electric Six

For some reason, I though doing a story on a subway would be an awesome idea. I don't even want to talk about how long it took me to draw the first panel. >_< The whole comic is 13 panels, and only 3 of them don't have backgrounds. I'm a masochist, I think.
Speaking of masochism, I'm working on Prince of
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frustrated - Music:Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé
So it's the end of the year, and I finally updated Wasted Minds! I'll be updating Mondays only for the next few weeks, since I still have a ton of other stuff to do, but it's a start.
A couple months ago, I was out buying bristol boards, and they didn't have my regular brand (Strathmore, smooth, 100 lb.), so I figured I would just buy Canson instead. Big mistake (probably a worse mistake than when I bought vellum finish instead of smooth). The paper doesn't hold ink for shit. After erasing, my inks were faded so bad that I had to re-ink some of it. Ugh.
It's kind of hard to tell how bad it was from the scan. :/ At first I thought it was just with my brush pens and Microns, but then it was fading pretty bad with india ink as well. So don't buy Canson paper. That is my sage advice. =D
Have a happy New Year everybody.
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working - Music:Rammstein
I was reading Time's 10 Best Graphic Novels list the other day, and it made me angry. How could an aricle on comics make me angry? Maybe because they included a couple webcomics on the list. They even admit that the first entry isn't a graphic novel. In the very least, a graphic novel is a printed comic with a spine (there's more to it than that, especially since I don't consider collections like Peanuts to be graphic novels either, but I don't feel like splitting hairs). Now I have nothing wrong with webcomics (I have my own, dur hur hur), but they shouldn't be on a list of graphic novels. But of course, I wouldn't have this problem if they just called the article the 10 Best Comics. All graphic novels are comics, but not all comics are graphic novels.
Maybe I'm just over-thinking this. I get worked up over this kind of thing. I read an article on Heroes awhile ago where they referred to manga as a genre and I flipped out. Ha ha ha.
Also, I haven't read any of the books on that list. >_<
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bitchy - Music:Queen
Meryy Christmas everybody! Here's a non-holiday specific wintry type picture!
It's not part of the series I was doing. I just thought I would rip myself off (and it would make a cute design for a really late Christmas card).
Have a good holiday! <3
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tired - Music:The Police

Last one! (I'm actually thinking of doing a few more in green, orange and yellow, but we shall see). I forgot to mention that I have slightly larger versions up on deviant art, if anybody cares.
I decided today that I might want to make a Christmas card. Which will obviously be sent late (if I even actually do it). I'm so on top of things.
I've been cleaning my apartment little by little. I have way to high a tolerance for messes. Until I start cleaning, then I get upset when it gets dirty again. Ha ha ha.
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working - Music:Rhapsody
I've been in a drawing slump ever since I finished my last comic, so I figured I should take a break and do some illustrations. Because if I'm not drawing comics, I might as well be drawing something. Been wasting far too much time on the internet the past couple weeks. >_<

I was looking through my Ragnar art book the other day, and I wanted to try something new. I've got a third one I'm working on, but I'll just post it later. I need another excuse to update my blog. Ha ha.
My work schedule has lightened up a bit (finally), and I might actually get out to see a movie. Hooray. Too bad it won't last.
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accomplished - Music:Jimi Hendrix
One comic down, too much other stuff left to count left. XD
I set it in a park because every other comic I do takes place in a city or in a building, so I'm always drawing perspective. It was a nice break. Now I have to go back to background city. (There were actually going to be buildings in the background in this comic, but I'm lazy.)
Today was one of those days where I couldn't get any work done. I only retouched 11 pages, none of which were exceptionally difficult (time-consuming, but not really hard), and I haven't drawn anything yet. I did buy hangers, though. Real hangers, made out of metal and wood. There's my excitement for the day.
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accomplished - Music:Apoptygma Berserk
