Here is a doodle I just did for a SKYRIM TUMBLR

Hagravens, the cool witch hippies of Skyrim land!

And here is a sneak peak to something I just worked on but I`m not clear if I can show it yet:

Adventure Time, the show with characters that look like they are having FUN!

Being busy is not an excuse anymore and there will be SOMESORT of update every week.
Even when its not a fun fresh blog-comic, some movie or a book can always be reviewed and I hope its going to be a entertaining read.

OK!
Now that this is out of the way, what has been going on lately?
Lets get into the meat of things!

> Animation by day, comic by night is still the main course for most days

> And speaking of comic, that is going strong but its always a weird dance of 2 steps forward, 7,4 steps back.
- Characters change who they are and require new story arcs,
- Drawings need touchups on earlier pages and dialog gets written and re-written.

> TCAF seems to be a good deadline to get the first issue ready for

> Getting married is pretty great and should experienced at least a couple of times a year

> I`m now actually trying to GAIN weight instead of cutting it for Jiu Jitsu.
I felt small in the last competition and gaining weight is more fun then actually working on technique and skill.
All hail to organic almond butter, second fillings and handstand push-ups.

> I`m reading a lot of books and I`m watching a ton of movies thanks to the Metro in Toronto and thanks to inking sketched out comic pages

> I wish I had owned a Xbox360 when I was out of work at the age of 5. That would have been some fun carefree playtime.

Hello 2012, you are going to be super good and I like your name even though the Mayans thought that you would be the last one of your kind.
But they also had no idea what a blog would be, so screw them!

OK!

Now back to FLASH and animating stuff!

It’s that slippery slope between feeling happy that you are busy and the feeling that you are spreading yourself too thin OR that you are not working on the things that make you really happy/rich.

Conversations that lead to getting infected might start like:

Good day!! We are company XYZ, we L O V E your style and we would like to work with you!

We need XYZ done yesterday, there is no budget available (seeing that this is a pitch)
and we need the XYZ to be technical and 100% correct.

We basically want your style… but with someone else’s way of drawing.
It’s important for us that you have fun, but do it quickly, don’t focus on making it look good and do it just like the scribbles our CEO has drawn on a dirty napkin.

SO YOU START DIGGING:

“So I need to get that stuff ready, as well as scribble for the other pitch they had mentioned…
But I can’t forget to work out some story kinks on my own project. That needs to get
printed soon and I have no ending yet…”

“I also need to update my blog”
“Blog story X and story Y have been sketched already and just need inking…
Z still needs a better panel layout…”

And I can’t forget to go out and do some sketching… Life drawing is scheduled as well…
This friend of a friend also wanted a drawing of Superman and SuchandSuch was asking if I could make a small quirky Icon for his/her tumblr.

“?”
What’s this rusty old thing down here?
OH… my online portfolio.
I really need to spend some time on that!

And because this is not enough stuff that is going on… one more thing!

“XBOX DATING TIME!”

Oh the troubled life of a cartoonist.

Until then, two peaks into the comic I`m currently drawing:

A comic in the same vein is in the background and is hopefully done after the weekend.
cheerio!

THAT ALSO REMINDED ME
that I forgot to plug some great Comics that I got at TCAF.
 
Koyama Press ruling the world:

CAT RACKHAM

-> More here

LOOSE #3

-> more here

MONSTERPARTY

-> more here

HILDAFOLK

-> more here

PAYING FOR IT

amazon link

And this super fun sketch by Adventure Time folks Phil Rynda and Andy Ristaino

1) Had a excellent weekend with tasty Indian food, UFC 129
(55.000 people went to see it here at the Rogers Center) and my lady.

2) Did some more work on the story I`m working on,
trying to push the contrast to make it read better.

Mostly mimicking what worked for Chuck Jones crew in
“Rabbit Seasoning”

3) Doodled in a cafe while eating mushy vegan chocolate stuff:

4) Bought some cheap books at the used book store here, including an early hard cover version of one of my favorite novels

And this, so far, looks well put together:

5) And if you want to see a funny, interesting movie with a VERY DIFFICULT setup,

FOUR LIONS

6) Oh and please remember that the most amazing thing is going on
THIS WEEKEND!

They just added the floor plans (here and here) and its crazy to read all those names that constantly produce cool stuff.

They also have events like “A Conversation with the Artists of Adventure Time” or “The New German Comics Culture” Amazing!
I`ll try to make pictures of people looking annoyed, dancing comic artists at the party OR the lines in front of the Pendelton Ward signing.
And again, free watercolor drawings for people that spent money on the Anthology Project! WHAT A DEAL!