Anonymous Ramblings from a Strange Weirdo

Busy

2011-07-02T18:54:00.002-06:00

Summer seems to be set in full-swing now. The hot lazy days have begun & I've decided to start a full-fledged story/short graphic novel, mildly based off of my Skeleton Blues comic. I don't know much of the details about myself, but it's going to be a dark gothic-style tale taking place in 19th century.

I'm also going to be working on a mini-comic for a zine this September. It's going to be dementedly ridiculous to the extent my morality lets me draw.
Around last week I found, to my surprise, a pack of canvas panel at Wal-Mart (of all places) for probably 3 bucks so I'm going to be trying those out for a series of paintings I'm starting to work soon as well.

Busy, busy, busy; as a Bokononist would say.

Also, The Flaming Lips are finally coming to my town. Upon fainting, I promptly bought tickets. I'M EXCITED.

Italia

2011-06-17T16:05:00.000-06:00

I'm back from my trip to Italy. I've seemed to have left my heart there, as well as the keys to my luggage. Luckily one of the hotels I was staying at had some pliers I could break the locks with.

I took around a thousand pictures, 400 of them I'm suspecting to be blurry.

I'm planning on going back there to study abroad in college.

Here's a picture:

Skeleton

2011-06-07T11:41:00.000-06:00

After around six months of production, I've finally come up with a good description for my Skeleton Blues comic.

"It's classic slapstick cartoon humor mixed with obscure pop culture regurgitation and watered-down surrealistic absurdity."

Well

2011-06-06T22:45:00.000-06:00

Last November I said I was going to revitalize this blog and start posting art again. This was obviously a complete and total lie, seeing as how I haven't updated since January.
I blame tumblr; it's much more user-friendly when it comes to posting art (conartdoodles.tumblr.com).

Regardless of this, I've made the decision to turn this into more of a "multi-purpose" type of thing. Photos, daily life events, the occasional sketches, writings, pseudo-intellectual ramblings.

Anywhooooo, I'm leaving for Italy and Spain this Wednesday for eight days and I'll be keeping a daily sketch journal and taking loads of pictures, many of which will most most likely end up on here.
I'll be back on the 16th.

Until then, I'll be sleeping.

Mouse

2011-01-15T16:19:00.000-07:00

Deranged little mousey mouse

Born on the Bayou

2011-01-15T12:25:00.000-07:00

Continuing with the 60's music theme

Lucy In the Sky

2011-01-15T08:38:00.001-07:00

Insert Beatles reference here.

Chicken Animation

2011-01-02T19:01:00.000-07:00

I've been getting into animating lately. First, since I have no money, I was using a free program called Pencil which turned out to be pretty disappointing. But I found another Plastic Animation Paper which downright awesome.

Here's a short animation test I did in the Pencil program.

Bears

2010-12-18T18:31:00.000-07:00

I get the weekend off from doing stuff so I doodled some bears being bears

Badness

2010-12-01T10:39:00.000-07:00

Exciting news for me, I got a comic published in a local magazine! I won the Boise Weekly's Bad Cartoon Contest and now I get to draw 51 more comics for a year!

I'm so darn excited my spleen could explode!
Boise Weekly 9th Annual Bad Cartoon Contest

Evolution

2010-11-25T00:15:00.000-07:00

I've been playing a lot of Pokemon lately so I drew a comic

Revival

2010-11-10T18:36:00.000-07:00

I'm back! To get the reviving of my blog off to a good start I present to you... Naked ladies!

Queen

2010-07-23T21:28:00.000-06:00

I decided to post this old doodle I did a few months ago to make up for my lack of not posting more stuff than I think I should be. And with the new found advice that I recently got from one of my favorite artists, Phil McAndrew (http://www.philintheblanks.com), I'm going to stop focusing so much on creating a certain style and getting a good & successful comic going, I'm going to practice on honing my overall drawing skills and practice more on drawing comics so I can get better at making them. His advice made me realize that I'm getting way too ahead of myself in trying to become a successful artist and I need to slow down a little (Which means I'm going to be drawing waaay more drawings though)

In other news, I'm thinking about doing something new with this blog. I already know very few people read it, which isn't really a big deal to me, but I feel like it's getting a little old & stale. I'm probably going to do one of three ideas with it:

I keep posting random little drawings and pictures on this blog and create another blog on blogger that's more for more personal drawings & thoughts (or vice versa)
I keep posting little drawings and pictures (both random & personal) on this blog and I wipe the dust off of my old livejournal account and start up a dinky little journal comic just so I can practice making comics & gives people a better representation of my life instead of the little one panel drawings I do on this blog right now.
I just quit posting on this blog altogether and start fresh on a new blog (or on livejournal) and get a journal comic thing going.

The second choice sounds the best to me which I'll probably end up doing on a weekly basis (if I ever figure out how to manage time efficiently Anyways sorry for the long post, it's done now.

Doodlings

2010-07-17T15:52:00.000-06:00

Some recent doodlings & junk.

Mark Hamill Caricatures for a Friend

2010-07-05T23:12:00.001-06:00

Firecrackers

2010-07-03T19:28:00.000-06:00

Hello, it's been awhile. What's new with me? ooooh you don't need to know stuff like that, silly child. Just kidding. Anyways it's 4th of July weekend and I hate to be a party-pooper, but I'm not really a fan of fireworks anymore. I guess they just lost their "magic." I blame the teenagers consistently lighting them off all the time, trying to light themselves and other objects on fire. Other than that, I have a comic idea going and I've been doing some character models and I'll start writing a script in a week or so; as soon as I get my light box built...

Austin's Awesome Cartoons

2010-06-23T23:49:00.000-06:00

A couple of awesome cartoons from my good friend Austin Bair!

Cake

2010-06-19T13:37:00.000-06:00

I enjoy messing with people's posts on facebook. Apparently so does my other friend.

Cookies

2010-06-18T13:50:00.000-06:00

I drew the cookie monster because there's probably other stuff I should be doing before I go to the Psychedelic Furs concert...

Magnetic Rainbow Design

2010-06-15T23:48:00.000-06:00

My threadless.com design submission! http://www.threadless.com/critique/70231/Magnetic_Rainbow C'mon and vote vote vote vote!

Not Very Fun

2010-06-14T18:17:00.003-06:00

Being the idiot I am, I bought a Bamboo Fun tablet instead of a Intuos4 tablet. It would be perfectly fine if I could afford Photoshop CS5 or Illustrator or CorelDraw instead of having to resort to their freeware ripoffs I currently use. Looks like I need to scrounge up 400 dollars...

Newishness

2010-06-11T23:35:00.000-06:00

I updated my blog look once again. I feel like this one's going for a "punk" theme. Guess it's time to break out the ol' Black Flag LP, take off your shirt and go punch somebody. Anyhoo, I doodled a drawing originally by Egon Schiele, who was an amazing artist whom I recently discovered.

Wild Red Dancing

2010-06-05T13:13:00.000-06:00

A few drawing I've done recently. I especially like how the red portrait of myself turned out, being that I was only doodling in Corel.

B-Day

2010-06-03T14:56:00.001-06:00

Yep... Today be my birthday. This day 17 years ago I was born into this world to wreak havoc upon civilization's sanity.

Pool

2010-05-05T19:53:00.001-06:00

Drew this in class a couple days ago.

Doodles

2010-04-18T11:34:00.000-06:00

Recent sketches & stuff I've been doing on the computer lately

Hair

2010-04-11T12:57:00.001-06:00

I got a much-needed haircut today. Problem is the barber girl cut it shorter than I intended it to be. I look weird now, I haven't had my hair this short since 5th grade...

Exhausting

2010-04-10T12:12:00.000-06:00

Sorry for not updating in awhile, it's been an exhausting week and a half... My lack of sleep is starting to affect my ability to remember to update anything other than Twitter.

Acid Mothers

2010-04-01T19:50:00.002-06:00

I added a song by Acid Mothers Temple to the side. They're awesome, from Japan, and most of their songs are over 20 minutes.

Update: Crap, it's only 30 seconds... The actual song is 68 minutes long. Click on it to listen to the full thing.

Alien Clay

2010-03-25T18:36:00.002-06:00

Yep...

Punk

2010-03-20T11:35:00.000-06:00

The things you see at some thrift stores...

Sorry

2010-03-18T07:21:00.001-06:00

Sorry I haven't updated in so long, homework's been a killer... I'll post a picture later today hopefully.

Clerk

2010-03-07T21:11:00.000-07:00

A very very tall clerk snuck up behind me today at the store today. I was afraid he was going to body slam me...

Wiggly

2010-02-27T14:08:00.000-07:00

I have no idea what this even is, but I'm pretty sure it's awesome.

Peanut Butter

2010-02-20T23:32:00.000-07:00

Yeah... This is what my personality's been like for the past two days, I really don't know why though, I think I'm in a slump or something

Newness

2010-02-15T23:05:00.001-07:00

Sorry, no picture this time, but some BIG news though! As you can already tell, I've updated the look of my blog, which is in fact the first time since its inception last October. I got really tired of all the blueness... I made a new logo too. Awesome.

True

2010-02-12T21:15:00.001-07:00

Comic about something that happened to me today. This is the reason why I hardly ever go to the bathroom at school...

Drawing

2010-02-08T17:33:00.002-07:00

Soooo, I've been consistently working on a picture for the past to days. I've gotten little sleep, broken a pencil, drank a large quantity of coffee, and had to start over twice, but I think it's coming together pretty well... I just need to learn how to paint well in GIMP...

P.S.
The thing next to my head is smoke from the pencil if you couldn't tell.

P.S.S.
The drawing I'm working on is a surprise

P.S.S.S.
I'm still working on it...

Top hat

2010-02-03T18:31:00.001-07:00

So today at school, while walking to lunch, a kid wearing a leather trench coat, camouflage pants, and a top hat ran by me mumbling something about japanese cartoons... He looked like a vampire Harry Potter with a goatee... There's some odd people at my school.

Fight

2010-01-31T15:04:00.001-07:00

I would describe this drawing, but I'd be breaking the first two rules...

Blue

2010-01-29T18:35:00.001-07:00

I've been feeling a bit down lately... Which I guess explains the blueness of this blue picture... Believe me, I wish I wasn't because I hate self-loathing. Drawing seems to helps though, and twinkies... Lots of twinkies.

Update: I feel less blue now... More of a light turquoise...

Guitar

2010-01-27T18:27:00.001-07:00

I don't understand why my school bans mp3 players yet they allow this buffoon to bring his guitar and play the same 3 terrible songs over and over...

*That should say "keeps bringing his guitar" Sorry for the grammatical error.

P.S.

Sorry I haven't posted in so long, I would say I've been busy but that'd be a lie...

Super

2010-01-17T18:22:00.000-07:00

I drew this guy recently... He's jumping at you, so watch out.

Tests

2010-01-13T18:31:00.000-07:00

I'm only half way done with them and I've already exceeded my capacity of testing and schoolwork...

Benedict

2010-01-11T21:02:00.000-07:00

Doing a history report on Benedict Arnold makes me hungry for Eggs Benedict... Anyways, I've been reading too much Hark! A Vagrant lately. So much historical humor, only half of which I get... http://www.harkavagrant.com/

Creepy

2010-01-11T05:21:00.000-07:00

It was freakin' scary...

Hip II

2010-01-09T14:48:00.000-07:00

I saw a Hipster walking down the street the other day texting on an old Blackberry, how ironic.

Handy

2010-01-06T22:11:00.000-07:00

I seem to be gazing into the beauty that is my hand

Cleverbot

2010-01-03T09:15:00.004-07:00

Cleverbot and I have such odd conversations.

Mullet

2010-01-03T08:08:00.000-07:00

I really need to get my haircut, I'm starting to grow a long, flowing mullet...

Lionel

2010-01-01T15:03:00.002-07:00

First post of the year! Anyways, I was just testing out my markers I got for Christmas. Yes I know, he looks Mexican...

New Year's

2009-12-31T16:49:00.000-07:00

Happy New Year's, another decade done and gone. Can you believe that only ten years, paranoid conspiracy theorists and new age weirdos across the world were sitting in their cellars holding shotguns preparing for Y2K? Anyways, I'll probably be doing nothing other than watching the annual Twilight Zone marathon and making bad jokes about how I haven't done anything since last year (i.e. shower, brush my teeth, eat, drink)

Dentist

2009-12-28T21:14:00.000-07:00

I've always found going to the dentist very awkward. There's always a person inches away from your face staring at you...

Facepaint

2009-12-26T20:24:00.000-07:00

Some people are just really strange...

P.S. Painting camouflage is really annoying.

P.P.S. Happy Boxing Day

Artsy

2009-12-24T21:20:00.000-07:00

So I rented two animated foreign films "Waltz with Bashir" and "Fear(s) of the Dark" I do enjoy the animation, but they got really boring and I fell asleep halfway through Waltz with Bashir... Since now I'm experiencing an "art film overload," I'm watching the Hangover to cancel it out.

Wormy

2009-12-22T12:26:00.000-07:00

Watch out... He gonna shoot ya.

Manly

2009-12-20T14:59:00.000-07:00

I think he was holding a shopping bag too...

Sketch III

2009-12-19T19:42:00.000-07:00

Sketch II

2009-12-19T19:38:00.000-07:00

Sketch I

2009-12-19T19:34:00.000-07:00

Rough sketches of a comic I'm working on

Radiohead

2009-12-17T17:07:00.000-07:00

Get it? Radiohead?

Flower

2009-12-16T17:42:00.000-07:00

I have such odd dreams...

Sleeping

2009-12-14T18:00:00.000-07:00

I got to bed at around midnight last night and I woke up at 4:30... I ended up falling asleep in three of my classes. Had some crazy dreams in Biology...

Pearhead

2009-12-08T21:37:00.003-07:00

Look! It's a brand new portrait of myself! I know, I'm beautiful.

Afro

2009-12-07T22:40:00.000-07:00

I predict that afros will come back in style very soon...

Gum

2009-12-04T19:16:00.001-07:00

There's a janitor at my school named Willy who is completely awesome. He's probably the coolest janitor I've ever met. Anyways he gave me a piece of gum and it was awesome.

Button

2009-12-01T21:27:00.000-07:00

It's true, he's just downright adorable.

Working

2009-11-28T20:11:00.004-07:00

I've been trying to work on my comic all day, but I've had a lot of distractions so it's currently unfinished. I'm trying to finish before my Saturday deadline, which I most likely will not make... Oh well, I guess I'll be up until 1 o'clock working on it again...

P.S.
Yes, that is a grammatical error in the picture but I'm too lazy to fix it right now.

P.S.S.
I just got the comic up, go to it, it involves bread.
http://rentalcarrepair.thecomicseries.com/

Consumerism

2009-11-27T14:57:00.000-07:00

So today is Black Friday or what Adbusters calls Buy Nothing Day, the day they tell you not to buy anything (obviously). I usually don't join in the great consuming fun for two reasons: One, I'm not too fond of large screaming crowds of people all hyped up on Starbucks. And two, I have no money to spend, nor do I have a job to earn money. So instead, I just sit in my pajamas until 3 o'clock watching indie movies and eating turkey sandwiches.

Nerves

2009-11-26T18:36:00.001-07:00

So I have a pinched nerve in my back, which makes my legs and feet hurt... It is extremely annoying...

Thanksgiving III

2009-11-26T11:51:00.002-07:00

He has returned...

Turkey

2009-11-25T21:41:00.004-07:00

Since tomorrow's Thanksgiving, I felt like drawing a turkey... Well at least a head...

Staring Contest

2009-11-24T23:39:00.000-07:00

Seriously, he had extreme focus skills...

Snow

2009-11-22T09:35:00.000-07:00

Woke up to snow this morning...

Webcomic

2009-11-21T22:47:00.001-07:00

My webcomic is finally up! Took me long enough... http://rentalcarrepair.thecomicseries.com/

Possibilities

2009-11-20T23:43:00.000-07:00

Vampires

2009-11-20T22:20:00.000-07:00

Alright, Twilight completely ruined both vampires and werewolves for me. They used to be cool, now they're lame... Not even real vampires... I'm afraid to say anything bad about it at school though, my friends and I have almost gotten lynched on multiple occasions...

Sleep

2009-11-19T22:36:00.000-07:00

I've been extremely tired all day... So very tired...

Wednesday

2009-11-18T20:30:00.000-07:00

I recently upgraded to Windows 7 and I have yet to install my tablet driver so you get this wonderful masterpiece of a picture today instead.

P.S.

Wednesday is the worst day of the week so I have decided to boycott it.

Corn

2009-11-15T19:27:00.001-07:00

Behold, him and his almighty kernels of deliciousness.

Comic

2009-11-15T11:14:00.001-07:00

Yes, I am currently working on a new webcomic right now and so far I only have a few rough drafts, the title, and the banner. Picture up above is the first version I have of the banner, I'll probably change it later though.

Update: I gave up on that idea, now I'm working on a new one which I think is a lot better... No title yet...

Mermaid

2009-11-15T10:57:00.001-07:00

Of course I have things to do and places to go, but I rather draw pictures of mermaids...

Vegeta II

2009-11-14T20:25:00.000-07:00

I drew him as carrot...

Vegeta

2009-11-14T20:06:00.001-07:00

I don't watch Dragonball Z, nor am I a vegetarian or vegan. His name just reminds me vegan... and vegetables... I should have drawn him as a carrot...

Mustache II

2009-11-14T16:37:00.003-07:00

I was so close to buying it...

CSS

2009-11-13T22:15:00.000-07:00

I've been listening to a lot of CSS lately... Their music is quite addicting...

Shark

2009-11-12T20:23:00.000-07:00

Shark Man!

Mustache

2009-11-12T19:46:00.001-07:00

Manly mustache!

Ants

2009-11-11T21:27:00.000-07:00

Just a doodle I did while bored...

Hip

2009-11-10T18:45:00.000-07:00

What I'd look like if I were a hipster. The picture itself is so ironic, it's not.

Beard

2009-11-09T16:53:00.000-07:00

I haven't shaved in a few days and I'm already growing a beard... The situation has become a bit hairy. BaZing!

Cockroach

2009-11-08T10:15:00.000-07:00

Listening to a lot of Modest Mouse so I felt like drawing a cockroach... His name shall be Steve.

Bored

2009-11-07T11:25:00.001-07:00

I always hate being bored...

Rap

2009-11-06T23:28:00.000-07:00

I'm pretty sure this is what I would look like if I ever got into hip hop music.

Portrait

2009-11-06T22:02:00.001-07:00

Finally got a default logo for the blog... And yes, that is the expression I always have on my face.

Misconceptions

2009-11-05T16:59:00.001-07:00

I you ever look up my username, you need to which ones are actually me and which ones are not so we do not have any misconceptions about me... I have never, nor will I ever write for urban dictionary... Those people are idiots, I'll just stick to editing punctuation errors on wikipedia articles.

P.S. Emphasis on the extra exclamation marks.

Fifth of November

2009-11-05T16:39:00.002-07:00

I'm a big fan of V for Vendetta and Alan Moore. Especially his awe-inspiring beard.

Skinny Jeans

2009-11-04T18:38:00.000-07:00

As much as I'm embarrassed to say it, I wear skinny jeans and they are very comfortable. But every time I put them on, I realize I would never be able to outrun a zombie while wearing them. That's why I never wear flip flops... You can never be too careful.

Birdie

2009-11-03T20:41:00.000-07:00

I just felt like drawing a Twitter bird...

Vests

2009-11-03T17:22:00.001-07:00

One of the things I was thinking about in science class today...