I just went to a summer art program out of town which was one of the best experiences of my life. As such, I have lots of new, much better work to post.

First off, my final project for my comic art class is available online here [link]

I'm not terribly proud of it...I scrambled to do all the art in the last week, amidst final projects for other classes and while I was sick. Plus it was my first time using photoshop so I'm not pleased with the digital lettering...I may go back and letter by hand if I ever make it a mini-comic. But anyhoo, take from it what you will.

I've gotten into doing lots of gouaches this summer, so expect to see some paintings put online (if I can ever get my camera to work...)

Also, I'm beginning planning for what will (hopefully) become my first "full-length" comic "novel" (meaning over about 20 pages at least, for me). I plan to release it simultaneously in installments on the web and in mini-comics with special painted covers. It will be a silent "space epic" about a young chimp looking for a place he can call home. Currently, it's tentativley entitled "George Come Home".

Enjoy!

My animated short film is finally here!

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Hand-animated, took about six months. I did it for a school project.

Just for fun I thought I'd also throw in a video of a performance by a "freak folk" band with which I am affiliated.

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Anyway, haven't drawn or written anything in weeks because of various examinations. But hopefully will continue my new comic story soon, and finally make my old stuff from this year into mini-comics.

Also, if I can get my digital camera to work, I'll put up some of my studio work from art classes this year.

Enjoy.

Brief little break for some video links.

For my amateurish animation "career", I've started a Youtube account simply because it's the only way I can find to share my animation digitally with my friends on the internet. No, I do not hope to be "discovered" by viral video addicts and made famous. I just want that fleeting pleasure of being able to type my name into an internet search and actually find my own work.

Anyway, the trailer for a short hand-drawn animation I did as a school film study is online. The whole film (which is about two-minutes and some 1,200+ frames) should be up by next week, as that is when my final "cut" is due.

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In comics: I just finished "Dreamscience Comics," a short story about my childhood dreams, and will hopefully make it into a copyshop mini comic soon, along with my 5-page autobiographical short from this winter, "Pregnant and Homeless". They should be on consignment in shop(s) in my hometown soon and I can mail out copies to those who I know in person.

So I finally actually have stuff I'm working on.

I've currently storyboarded a 12-page story for issue one of a new "series" called "Dreamscience Comics". It's basically an absurd recollection of various dreams loosely woven into a plot. I've drawn like five pages or so and thus far it's been barrels of fun.

I have plans to turn it into a little xerox mini-comic as I used to do for almost everything I drew....I haven't done one of these since I wrapped up (or rather, stopped in the middle of a story without concluding) Armageddon Boy last summer.

After that I have plans for a REALLY long comic story that I may or may not finish. I may have mentioned it in an earlier note...it's called "Byron Blake: Son of a Man" and is about a boy and his relationships to his father and grandfather as he uncovers his family history. The "twist" is that his father and grandfather were both superheroes. Basically it examines how his grandfather's decision to donn the mask of a modern day "hero" messed up their entire family.

It sounds cliche and is hard to describe here but hopefully, if I can ever draw it all, it will turn out well. Thus far I'm in the "plotting stage"

I plan to upload more comic art.

Also, one minute into my hand-drawn animated short film. Hopefully it'll turn out well.

That is all. Sleep well, everybody.

Well, I had writer's block for about two weeks solid. The only comic art I produced was one page of a story that I will probably never finish. But....I think I've got stuff to work on now. So here's the "Update", more for myself than anyone else.

After a very long time I finished my first autobiographical comic ever, a five page peice called "Pregnant and Homeless". I'm actually very proud of how it turned out. For once, the final product looks very much like the original idea and more. I submitted it to my school lit mag and it was apparently quite well recieved and got a six-page spot (first comic story ever...yeah!)

I've pretty much dropped Armageddon boy (my old, ongoing comic) after eight issues...I have a lot of story ideas but ultimately I'm just losing interest. While I really liked doing the art on the last few issues, the story seemed forced and cliche.

I had plans for two new stories, one called "Life Without Lucy" and the other called "Byron Blake:Son of a Man". "Life Without Lucy" never made it passed a story outline...it was supposed to be seven interconnected stories throughout history with common themes. But I don't think I'm good enough to pull that off. "Byron Blake" I drew one page of and storyboarded a few more...it was supposed to be about father-son relationships with an aging, mid-life crisis-ridden superhero in a kind of serious-parody. It was really deppressing. Like, WAY deppressing. And I'm too stressed right now to do that.

So, without anywhere else to go, I think I'm going to start illustrating my dreams.

In other news I'm working on a hand-drawn animated short film that I'll enter in my school's film festival. Currently about 12 seconds in.

And I may be going to some art program this summer.