Now that I’m active again as a drawer, I found that I was inactive long enough to require me to rebuild my network. Ugh. So I’ve been throwing e-mails around, submitting work, posting portfolios, and all that good stuff. But the hardest part so far, has been finding my niche. Am I a painter or a cartoonist? Do I draw behind the scenes concept work or hang it in galleries? New Yorker or Juxtapoz?

Usually, I’d troll for jobs and let them decide my direction. A pencilling job would start a string of comic book related gigs, while doing concept art gave me something to throw on the wall at an art show I signed up for a few days prior. I liked playing the bases, and I hope that the bases enjoyed being played.

I must say that the hardest part is the frustration of having to work a full-time job and mustering the energy and free time to work back up to being freelance again. Luckily, amphetamines are my friends and I have the unique ability to guiltlessly neglect other priorities in order to boil them down to:

• Job
• Art
• Food
• Sleep

Probably in that order too. Combining Job and Art into one thing and having a feeding tube put in so I can eat while I sleep, would miraculously simplify my life. My doctor already said no to the latter, but the former is within reach. Better yet, if I cut out Food and Sleep, I not only save time, but money too! This is my dream. I want to become a robot. A robot that poops art and plays video games.

Anyway, its late and I just said ‘poop’ in a post, which means I’ve long since run out of constructive things to say. I leave you with some sketches and a painting in progress.

• Move
• Close

Dickbutt

• Move
• Close

Don’t get put there, Kid.

Anyway, as time goes by and I don’t ‘finish’ these sketches, I grow tired of them. That, or the stupidity of the idea dawns on me. You decide. At any rate, the sketches are now in the ‘friend zone‘ and are shuffled away with the rest of their ilk. A sad fate indeed. Every now and then, in moments of desperate loneliness, I’ll dig out one of these drawings and begin flirting with the idea of a finished work with them. Then I dash their hearts to pieces and move onto the next flavor of the month. Oh, I’m such a man slut.

One of the reasons for this site was to keep drawings out of the pile next to the radiator and onto my desk where I can see and work from them. My hope is that by throwing them onto here I might get some feedback from the 4 of you who care or at least be able to muse at them electronically. So without further ado, here are some recent sketches:

I love when my scanner scans pink. Last week it was green, don’t know if you noticed. But alas its time to fiddle around with the settings again. While I’m knee deep in gamma and CMYK nonsense, enjoy the sneak peeks! TTFN